Also I don't know where else to say this but is anyone going to watch Joe Biden's innaugaration today?

 

 

Watching it now. Just started snowing in DC

Edited January 20, 20214 yr by common sense

semi-related but I keep thinking about the saying that the '90s really began with the fall of the Berlin wall and ended with 9/11 ... I think the 2010s began with the recession and ended w covid.

Edited January 20, 20214 yr by dhwhore

Very short 00s then. But I generally agree.

Ha, that kind of syncs to my weird theory that Moby's “Go” was the beginning of the 1990s (fall of U.S.S.R. etc.) and the second 'Belle Époque'..

 

..and Animal Collective's “My Girls” (which has a similar sort of vibe to that video ) signalled the 'end' of the 2000s after the GFC, caused in part by the property market collapse

 

I just want

Four walls and adobe slats

For my girls

 

Yeah I remember the awful Soham murders, I was in France for much of that period so I just remember the French news being weirdly dominated by British news that summer (2002). : (

I think the first major news event I had some awareness of at the time was the Nato lead operations in Kosovo. We were still an active military family at the time so of course simple wee child me was concerned daddy was going to be sent away. The fact that my dad was an engineer in the RAF and so would have got no closer to the action than either Cyprus or a RAF airbase in Germany, if even leaving the UK at all, was not something my small mind could even begin to understand.

 

 

Few other good examples already of major events for me as well being Brexshit, 7/7, 9/11, Diana, Jill Dando, Holly & Jessica and so on. To add a Scottish flavour, 2014 will always be a landmark event for me, especially in terms of opportunity cost, and as well the Glasgow Airport bombing and the resultant, exceeeeeeedingly Scottish "I kicked a flaming terrorist in the balls and broke a tendon in my foot" headlines after. Not a single soul here could even begin to know the attackers names, even if we were asked "what was the name of the first attacker who was called john smith", but everyone of about 10 or older when it happened can name Smeato.

 

Covid is obviously a huge and ongoing horrid event, but in terms of my own selfish personal impact on my life then it doesn't top Brexshit for me. That utterly ripped my heart out and caused me to make changes to my life - notably that I still live in the EU.

Yes, I would say so. Other news events would be 9/11, the Soham murders, 7/7, Michael Jackson passing away and so on.

 

 

the manchester bombing

 

can't think of anything else that's effected my mental health more than that and im sure some people on here will have read what ive said at the time about Martin

the manchester bombing

 

can't think of anything else that's effected my mental health more than that and im sure some people on here will have read what ive said at the time about Martin

but btw guys

 

any of your responses to this important t thread, im free to me be messaged if u need to talk about anything always x

Edited January 20, 20214 yr by jakewild

Yes, I would say so. Other news events would be 9/11, the Soham murders, 7/7, Michael Jackson passing away and so on.

 

 

 

Yes, Jacko dying was huge too.

I think given the passing of the 100,000 mark in the UK also makes it feel like the biggest news story of my lifetime, because what else has caused so much loss of life before? :(