20 years since them slags smashed into the twin towers...

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I remember someone coming up to me and saying they'd crashed planes into the twin towers and knocked them down. I said 'What! at Wembley?'

They say you never forget the day you meet Bin Laden.


#neverforget

[Blumf]

I remember someone coming up to me and saying they'd crashed planes into the twin towers and knocked them down. I said 'What! at Wembley?'

Well bin Laden was a Gunners fan, so it's not inconceivable.

[beanheadmcginty]

Anybody else remember people referring to Osama Bin Laden as "Osram Bin Liner" for full comical effect? Or was that just a rural Kent thing?

[Dex Sawash]

Awesome Bill of Lading for me, Clive

[JesusAndYourBush]

Best terror attack in history

The Guinness Book Of Records site had a button under each record saying something like "break that record".
They also had an entry for something like 'biggest terror attack in history', and you can see where this is going... underneath it was a link/button labelled "break that record."

[idunnosomename]

There's some records they don't print anymore because they're getting dangerous, like world's fattest man or whatever. I suspect this has been retired for the same reason!

Also the one I posted earlier is in full here, including the guy hanging out on Brooklyn bridge, before managing to get a lift from a Peruvian guy and being in the crawl of traffic with two Japanese girls who were in one of the towers (the N, I think) with the radio on. It ends well before the N tower collapses (he probably takes the subway shortly after the end of the tape) but it's an amazing first-person document (and also some of the best footage of the progressive structural failure of the S tower)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxhZFaC7Nhc

[mothman]

Anybody else remember people referring to Osama Bin Laden as "Osram Bin Liner" for full comical effect? Or was that just a rural Kent thing?

There was a radio station I used to listen to in NZ whose morning show did a regular sketch called the Talibunnies, featuring Tanky-Wanky, Dipsymaniac, La-La-Land, Po-litical, and their esteemed leader, Osama Wheelie-Bin Over-Laden. It was actually funnier than it sounds.

[jamiefairlie]

of course they were up for demolition for the new stadium at the time, so not unreasonable

Also they were built on the site of a planned 358 m (Eiffel Tower is 300 m) tower, of which only the base was ever built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin%27s_Tower



Freaks my nut out. It was planned there because of the railway intersections and how many people would see it.

I had no idea, thanks for that I love this kind of alternative history.

[idunnosomename]

Imagine a slag slamming into that

[Goldentony]

the band, the Stray Cats, played on as the towers fell down

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There was a radio station I used to listen to in NZ whose morning show did a regular sketch called the Talibunnies, featuring Tanky-Wanky, Dipsymaniac, La-La-Land, Po-litical, and their esteemed leader, Osama Wheelie-Bin Over-Laden. It was actually funnier than it sounds.

Quite funny already to be honest

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I had no idea, thanks for that I love this kind of alternative history.

Me too.

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Imagine a slag slamming into that

Imagine a Cyclops standing over the tower with its cock out and then slowly lowering its urethra down over the spiky bit at the top, and continually pressing until it was gradually and fully widened.

[Blue Jam]

Anybody else remember people referring to Osama Bin Laden as "Osram Bin Liner" for full comical effect? Or was that just a rural Kent thing?

I'm not from Kent and I can still remember "Osama bin Liner" and "Osram bin Lightbulb".

[Goldentony]

There was a radio station I used to listen to in NZ whose morning show did a regular sketch called the Talibunnies, featuring Tanky-Wanky, Dipsymaniac, La-La-Land, Po-litical, and their esteemed leader, Osama Wheelie-Bin Over-Laden. It was actually funnier than it sounds.

"FACKIN BIN LADEN MATE HE'S FACKIN HEAPS WANKER"

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Would the plane make a different noise, I wonder.  Maybe leave a trail of flowers in the sky as it chugs towards its target

Can't imagine it would've gone down well with Osama Bin Laden if his masterplan was foiled by Walter the Softy

[JaDanketies]

Hey Mr Taliban Tally Me Banana

[Video Game Fan 2000]

The day irony died

[Goldentony]

a long long time ago
I can still remember
how we used to
stand around using irony correctly
before it turned into just meaning
something thats a coincidence

But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver

[idunnosomename]

Imagine a Cyclops standing over the tower with its cock out and then slowly lowering its urethra down over the spiky bit at the top, and continually pressing until it was gradually and fully widened.

that's september 13th's wank sorted

[mothman]

I had a conversation with my 11yo about 9/11. In a sign of the times, she'd learned about it... on TikTok.

https://www.tiktok.com/@looooo166/video/7006619389894184198

So I explained what it was all about, how and why it happened. How they used knives, and why it was that knives are still banned on planes to this day, how plane cockpits are much harder to get into now (I didn't mention GermanWings flight 9525, I'm trying to placate a child with an anxiety disorder after all). Most striking part was her asking if she could say "terrorist" or if it was a rude word...

[Gurke and Hare]

I was on NOTBBC in them days. My main memory take from it is someone complaining about that evening's episode of " Crossroads" being cancelled.

James M, possibly.

[steve98]

a long long time ago
I can still remember
how we used to
stand around using irony correctly
before it turned into just meaning
something thats a coincidence

But February made me shiver
With every paper I'd deliver,

[Blumf]

Most striking part was her asking if she could say "terrorist" or if it was a rude word...

Did you tell her to use 'cunt' instead?

[mothman]

She already knows that one, sadly.

[wrec]

There's Jeremy then there's his brother, "I, Ron S. Jeremy Irons"

I like the way Snori thinks

[Video Game Fan 2000]

Its ironic it happened on 9/11 if you think about it.

[The Dog]

The irony is that it didn't happen on 911, because there is no 91st of January. 

[Goldentony]

there's 9/11 going on out there and you're all stood around joking like a bunch of jackasses

[Video Game Fan 2000]

I've seen 20 9/11s now, its lost its edge.