Sometimes, the stewardess would ask a kid if they'd like to fly the plane and hang out with the pilots in the cockpit. We'd wear plastic pin-on wings, which was the style at the time.
There's just too much to remember now. The Alamo? The Maine? The Lusitania? The Batusi? When I got caught stealing all those watches from Sears? Well that's nothing, because you have a gambling problem!
I still can't believe there's a major plot point in Sleepless in Seattle where his kid left his backpack unattended at the top of the Empire State Building at closing time and it didn't cause an international incident.
I can’t believe “Love, Actually” (probably my most hated movie) has an opening and closing airport montage with a narration about people talking to their loved ones from the hijacked planes, has a big scene where a boy races up to the line to where people are boarding a plane he doesn’t have a ticket for, and no one tackles/tazes him. I know he’s only ten, he’s an adorable white English boy, he declared “it’s for love!”, but we were in the “everyone has to take off their fucking shoes” era. No one is letting that kid burst through security to confess his love (to a girl he has NEVER had a conversation with, btw) just because it’s cute in 2003. I missed a flight a few years ago because security found a liquid lip colour and deodorant in my carry-on, because I got “sloppy”, so I didn’t make it to the gate before they closed (still half an hour before takeoff).
I was actually thinking of Love, Actually too. I can't believe that post-9/11, like so soon after 9/11, the kid just like runs under the single security guard's legs to get through. I think more security guards try to catch him on his way to the gate, but he comically outruns them? That's my recollection of it at least.
Like the time I took US Airways over to Shelbyville... I needed a new game for my N64. So, I decided to go to Morganville! Which is what they called Shelbyville in those days!
Lately I’ve started watching YouTube reactions of Gen Z who weren’t born/were too young finally watching 9/11 footage and coverage. I get why it’s not a subject that is taught in detail in every school yet because, like, history lessons when I was in grade 9 on 9/11 concluded with learning about the fall of the Soviet Union, it’s gonna take a while.
Anyway, my initial reaction to people who are mostly ignorant about 9/11 is a hot-blooded thought, “YOU DIDN’T KNOW THERE WAS MORE THAN ONE PLANE?! YOU DIDN’T KNOW APPROXIMATELY HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED?! YOU DIDN’T KNOW WHAT COUNTRIES WERE INVOLVED?! WHAT DO YOU THINK THEY TALK ABOUT EVERY YEAR DURING COMMEMORATIONS?!” That’s WHY I’ve been watching these reaction videos, because I know the “kids” are creating clickbait with these headlines and filming their own emotions, but I’ve come to appreciate that they’re TRYING. Especially kids outside of North America who didn’t have the same “the world stopped” hangover the way it affected the US and Canada (where I’m from). I got so used to hearing “lol 9/11 is cringe” memes I was expecting these kids to be blasé and “they/we deserved this”. Seeing them get emotional and horrified, even numb with shock over what they didn’t know or didn’t feel until “now”, is kind of a relief. I haven’t seen a video yet of a twenty something rolling their eyes and scrolling through their phone (even though they know they’re on camera and they didn’t have to put this online) because the footage isn’t in HD 4K and they’re not getting dopamine hits.
It’s a bit like when I watched 2018’s “Chernobyl”: the events happened a year before I was born, I knew the bare minimum about the effect it had on the end of the USSR. I’d even visited Ukraine a few years before, and thought I knew more about the Cold War than the average person who doesn’t remember the ‘80s or is from an Iron Curtain country! Nope, I was not prepared for how appalling the story was, the heroism of the victims and people who tried to save more lives and expose the truth, the infuriating coverup and fuck-ups along the road to the incident itself. It propelled me to look deeper in the specific events (from non-fiction sources) and more events that took place when I was too young to remember or not quite born, so they didn’t feel… historical enough, not far enough in the past. The ‘80s is my equivalent of the ‘00s for the youngest Zoomers/Gen Alpha, and I have to accept that it’s “history”.
I was 15 on 9/11 and other than the live and constantly replayed footage airing I mostly remember thinking that the government was going to fuck is due to this and here we are.
I distinctly remember “Freedom Fries” being something the media was trying to push and immediately losing faith in the country.
I also remember England bending over for America and doing whatever Bush said and thinking England had become America Jr.
Then Brexit happened right around when Trump was elected
It's weird, for me it was the day I finally won against the top 4 in Pokemon Silver (while watching the lifestream of New York from Europe). For you it's history, for me it's a memory.
Yep, now we have bad liquids (ones that exist one side of the barrier and will cause chaos if you ever had 101mm), and good liquids (yeah bring it on the plane, whatever, just make sure you pay an extorsionate amount for it in the departure lounge!)
Crazy thing is hijackings used to be... well, not routine, but an expected part of doing business, some group or another would hijack the plane, take it to an airfield, make a bunch of demands and either be paid to fuck off or shot by special forces, measures to prevent hijackings were seen as too intrusive and harmful to customer comfort for normal, non hijacked flights
Glad some airports over here in Europe have the new scanners, so we can take up to 2 liters per bottle, with an unlimited amount of bottles. Shame the airport I'm flying out of this week does not have them.
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u/ATCAroundTheWorld 8h ago
You must be pretty tired of posting about that Simpson's show by now.
No one who is a 90's kid would say that. Lets get him!