Where Were You 9/11/01?

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Considering what low standards TSA has in hiring its personnel, if I were running a terrorist organization I would have a number of members infiltrate TSA, who would “overlook” bombs and weapons in the bags and on the persons of other members passing through security checkpoints.

The security measures are always cobbled together to prevent the last attack, not the next one. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And if there’s one thing terrorists have, it’s will. [/quote]

Beware the silent black helicopters.

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I was in my office and we started watching it on the TV in our conference room shortly after the first tower was hit. We assumed it was a terrible accident at the time. My partner started talking about the time a plane hit the Empire State building back in the 40s or 50s which made us all think more along the lines of accident instead of intentional.

Then the second plane hit and I knew immediately what was going on. I did no work that day. I sat in the conference room all day long watching the TV. We ordered delivery for lunch and just stayed there until time to go home. On the way home I listened to coverage on the radio. When I got home my wife was doing what I had been doing all day, she was sitting in front of the TV unable to speak much or look away or do anything else. We discussed how our world would never be the same. She was 7 months pregnant with our twins at the time, our first children. We talked about how we had both thought about them all day long and what kind of world they would grow up in. That was probably the saddest day of my life. I have waited around now for 12 years for the next attack. I am sure it will be something worse. Make no mistake, it isn’t a matter of if, but when.

About two weeks after 9/11 I has a guy come into my office who was charged with Assault. He is an electrician. He had been doing some electrical work in the ceiling of a local convenience store on 9/11. The Arab who owned the store was watching the coverage on TV. He got on the phone and called some of his Arab buddies and was laughing it up pretty good with them about the attacks.

My client came down out of the ceiling and beat the living shit out of the guy. I represented him pro bono and was proud to do it. The officer who arrested him felt like crap about it. The Arab guy was at the hospital and couldn’t give much of a statement at the time because his mouth was wired shut and he couldn’t write much in English. My client did what he was supposed to do in most instances and did not give a statement. If he had told the cop what had happened from the time he got there he would have not been arrested. The case was dropped at his preliminary hearing. The prosecutor, arresting officer and several attorneys shook my clients hand as we left the courtroom. Several of the people in the courtroom waiting on cases to be called applauded when the case was dismissed. It was awesome. I will never forget that guy just like I will never forget the attacks.

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Wonder if that story would have gone down the same if the convenience store owner had been a Black Muslim.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole.

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[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Considering what low standards TSA has in hiring its personnel, if I were running a terrorist organization I would have a number of members infiltrate TSA, who would “overlook” bombs and weapons in the bags and on the persons of other members passing through security checkpoints.

The security measures are always cobbled together to prevent the last attack, not the next one. Where there’s a will, there’s a way. And if there’s one thing terrorists have, it’s will. [/quote]

Yeah dont get me started.

If I wanted to fuck things up, I really, really could…

Planes?

Please…

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
Be aware of your surroundings at all times, same as off a plane. And if you can’t find ten things to use as a deadly weapon on a typical airliner, you are simply not using your imagination. [/quote]

Sorry, but this is worth its own topic, or at least further explanation. I want to see a list, should be fun as hell, lol!

Are we limited to just what is at our seat, or anything on the plane or in one of the overhead stowage areas?

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An example of just how tasteless you can be if you really put your mind to it.

For the terminally literal-minded, no this is not a real Subway ad. It was in The Onion.

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[quote]Varqanir wrote:
An example of just how tasteless you can be if you really put your mind to it.

For the terminally literal-minded, no this is not a real Subway ad. It was in The Onion.[/quote]

Wasted potential.

A little more homoerotic innuendo and you could have picket lines consisting of gay rights activists and social conservatives.

Which would of course be awesome.

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This was not in the Onion, the Garlic, or even the Kumquat!

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup.

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[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

I think 185k is a very, very, very conservative estimate.

Just imagine a foreign power shutting down your sewage systems, your water treatment facilities and health care system.

It would all be so terribly interesting, so incredibly fast.

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[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

I think 185k is a very, very, very conservative estimate.

Just imagine a foreign power shutting down your sewage systems, your water treatment facilities and health care system.

It would all be so terribly interesting, so incredibly fast.

[/quote]

It is, but I can’t find very reliable numbers on the total deaths as a result of this war; further establishing how few fucks people give about it.

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[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

I think 185k is a very, very, very conservative estimate.

Just imagine a foreign power shutting down your sewage systems, your water treatment facilities and health care system.

It would all be so terribly interesting, so incredibly fast.

[/quote]

It is, but I can’t find very reliable numbers on the total deaths as a result of this war; further establishing how few fucks people give about it. [/quote]

The Lancet, tabloid that it is, had a guestimation out there.

The numbers were not well received.

Spreading lies since 1823.

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I hear Canadians don’t deal with terrorism because its too cold up there for their normal attire. Therefore, they stay away.

We just need more global cooling (lol global warming) and that will push terroristic acts further south.

Casualties of terrorism - unannounced, blatant attack on innocents, non-fighting people.

Casualties of war - war is declared, civilians die due to proximity - lest not forget those who join the force but still count as “civis” or are chest bombers, capable of evacuating.

I see a difference. If you know that your region is about to go to war, you have the choice to stay or try to leave. Yes, you’ll be a refugee, but you won’t be in the line of fire. If you are in a city, working and are attacked out of no where by an act of terror, you had no warning or chance for leaving. Terrorism is the cowards way of fighting. Look at the threats of killing the wives and children of politicians if we attack Syria… really? Big brave men gonna kill them some innocents, that’s some serious sack there.

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[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

No, I don’t care what you joke about, but there is a time and place for everything. Joking about 9/11 in a thread to remember those that died is in poor taste.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

No, I don’t care what you joke about, but there is a time and place for everything. Joking about 9/11 in a thread to remember those that died is in poor taste.

[/quote]

And when it comes down to it, thats what matters?

That it is all in good taste?

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

No, I don’t care what you joke about, but there is a time and place for everything. Joking about 9/11 in a thread to remember those that died is in poor taste.

[/quote]
It’s a bit too tart.

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[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

No, I don’t care what you joke about, but there is a time and place for everything. Joking about 9/11 in a thread to remember those that died is in poor taste.

[/quote]

And when it comes down to it, thats what matters?

That it is all in good taste?[/quote]

In this thread, yes. On the world stage or in reference to Iraq no.

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[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]orion wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:

[quote]usmccds423 wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]idaho wrote:

[quote]Varqanir wrote:

[quote]RyuuKyuzo wrote:
I was working as plane dispatcher at the time. I was actually on the phone right before the attacks happened trying to help some putz guide his plane to a safe landing. He barely spoke a word of english and I swear he must have been mixing up 99% of what I was telling him to do, so I gave up and ended the call on him.

2 minutes later, BAM, North tower gets hit.

I never found out what happened to that guy I was on the phone with, but I got fired the next day and honestly, for the life of me I still can’t figure out why. [/quote]

Hahaha. That’s hilariously fucked up.

It’s all right because you’re Canadian. Tell a joke like that here and even now 12 years later people will look at you with a vague expression of horrified distaste. “Oh my gawd how can you joke about that? That’s so insensitive.”[/quote]

No, its not funny, and, no, its not alright to joke about it. I lost a brother on that day. [/quote]

There ya go, Ryuu. See what I mean?

Idaho, I’m very sorry you lost your brother.

That said, Ryuu’s post was funny. Tasteless and insensitive maybe, but a lot of funny jokes are. It was like the Asiana Airlines crash that someone had erroneously (and jokingly) reported the pilots’ names as “Sum Ting Wong”, “Wi Tu Lo”, “Ho Lee Fuk” and “Bang Ding Ow”. This was racist, offensive, insensitive to anyone with a family member aboard that airliner, and irresponsible journalism.

It was also funny as fuck.

Life is tragedy, and life is comedy. All too soon, you will die, like everyone who has ever walked this planet, and everyone who ever will. Laugh at life, tragedy and all, or it will laugh at you.
[/quote]

Attached is another COMPLETELY TASTELESS example I saw on Tumblr yesterday. I hesitated to even attach it because it’s complete garbage, but a picture is worth a 1,000 words right.

The thing is some 12 year old Japanese kid probably put it together. I’d expect grown men and women to have a bit more common sense.
[/quote]

Gee mister, I’m real sorry I chapped your asshole. [/quote]

You are an inconsiderate prick.
[/quote]

Sure, but let’s get real for a minute. 3000 Americans died 12 years ago and you don’t want anyone joking about it. Since then, you’ve picked off about 185,000 Iraqis, 134,000 of which were civilians, and nobody cares (me included).

We’ve all got fuckin’ problems. Suck it up, buttercup. [/quote]

No, I don’t care what you joke about, but there is a time and place for everything. Joking about 9/11 in a thread to remember those that died is in poor taste.

[/quote]

And when it comes down to it, thats what matters?

That it is all in good taste?[/quote]

In this thread, yes. On the world stage or in reference to Iraq no.

[/quote]

Yeah, you’re right. Fuck the Iraqis.