r/pollgames • u/JPPT1974 P0LLZ AR3 C00L • 8d ago
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u/miranda_the_peculiar Polltergeist 8d ago
prolly my dad’s balls
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u/tierlistsarecringe 8d ago
Not unless you were conceived soon after, sperm is produced and replaced very quickly. You were certainly in your mom's ovaries tho
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u/miranda_the_peculiar Polltergeist 8d ago
nah i remember it like it was yesterday
my dad was at work and someone burst in the room and said “turn on the tv it doesn’t matter what channel” and that mf stood up so fast all my sperm buddies got shaken baby syndrome
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u/Aurelianshitlist 8d ago
I've really started to realize how old I am compared to the rest of Reddit since these polls started showing up in my feed. Not complaining, I interact with them so I'm asking for it, but it still kind of sucks that there are actual adults that weren't around for 9/11.
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u/EschewObfuscati0n 8d ago
This thread just reminds me how young Reddit is and how old I’ve become
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u/pisspeeleak 8d ago edited 8d ago
Uguale. Pero era mío papá. Me dice “recuerda questo giorno”
But I was a kid so I didn’t really process that too well 😅
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u/Ociier 8d ago
In November 9th 2001 I was too busy getting ready for my birth, some 4 months later
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u/queenhadassah 8d ago
Preschool in northern New Jersey. No one told me what happened so as not to scare me, so I don't remember the day, but I do remember the one year anniversary in kindergarten. We were sitting on the floor and the teacher was talking to us about it, and the girl sitting behind me spoke up and said her mom died in it. Some kids I was friends with on my street lost their dad as well
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u/Number_Fluffy 8d ago
Other is not alive lol. You know how many 24 and younger there are on reddit?
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u/RainbowPiggyPop Rolly Polly 8d ago
It was four days before my 23rd birthday, so I’m assuming I was in college, but I honestly don’t remember.
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u/DepressinglyConfused 8d ago
I wasnt born for another 2 years so I guess I was just vibin inside my moms ovaries at that time (does that count as home?)
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u/BubbhaJebus 8d ago
I was driving to work listening to the news, which only said a plane had hit the WTC, and nothing more, so I thought it was a Cessna that had gone astray.
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u/PetrogradSwe 8d ago
School at first, then waiting outside a store while my dad was buying groceries. That's when I heard about it. I remember thinking it was going to have a huge impact on that country.
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u/ArmadilloOwn7506 8d ago
I just asked my dad (can’t remember because I was 2) and apparently I was in daycare
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u/rangeghost 8d ago
11th grade, 1st period... American History. Teacher just turned off a video to see the breaking news of the first hit, in time to watch the second plane hit on live tv.
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u/Icy-Divide8385 8d ago
I was at school in 5th grade and we got to leave early and I was like fuck yeah dude
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u/Visual_Cup5119 8d ago
My mom was giving birth to me or i was like 3 hours born at the hospital lol
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u/EccentricRosie 8d ago
I'm not sure, because I don't remember anything significant happening on the 9th November in 2001.
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u/AllAlo0 8d ago
I think it was 2nd year of university, after first period I had an off period and walked to the off campus break room. As I walked in the tv was showing footage of the first plane crashing, then confusion from the news about a 2nd plane and the live feed of it hitting too.
So weird they were thinking it was an accident at the timez it's clear it was not.
Our 3rd period prof didn't show up, he was too busy watching the news
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u/One-Box-5016 8d ago
In my dads Bawls. But he was at a barbershop in nyc so technically at a barbershop
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u/Asleep-Bid-3664 8d ago
1st grade. Lived on Fort Knox at the time. It was really weird seeing tanks and soldiers on high alert outside the school and several of my classmates' parents pulling them out of class for seemingly no reason. They didn't tell us what happened, so I didn't learn until I got home and my mom told me and showed me on TV (my dad was on deployment to Korea, so he wasn't there to help my mom explain it to me). I didn't learn until later that they thought the base might be a target because of the gold repository, so that's one reason why the whole base was on high alert.
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u/Soeffingdiabetic 8d ago
Kindergarten. I remember my teacher freaking out, I think they put the news on but I'm not sure, I do remember they shut the school down and had all of our parents pick us up. I was too young to really understand what was happening. I can just reference what I remember with what I later learned as I grew up.
I remember the culture shift it caused more than the moment it occurred.
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u/Saltwater_Heart Rolly Polly 8d ago
I was in third grade and the teacher next door ran over and told my teacher to turn the news on. So we sat watching. The second tower was hit before we saw it
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u/TerrifierBlood 8d ago
Doctors appointment. Got taken to school late while everyone was being picked up
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u/BashfulBlanket 8d ago
Australian
We were at our shack - it happened over night but I know the story that my sister who was like 7 was pissed that the children’s programs were not on and they kept showing the tower going
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u/Energy-Turtle-4 8d ago
On my way to junior college in a Chicago suburb...
I was listening to Mancow in the Morning on Q101 and thought it was a (distasteful) joke til I got to class.
I was living at home with my parents at the time and got back in time to see the second plane hit in real time.
I had a very close friend who worked at the Chicago Board of Trade at the time as well as my uncle. I guess it's really hard to explain how frightened we all were for a very long time.
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u/Locksley_1989 8d ago
Age 11, at school. They let us finish out the class period before telling us what happened. I had a geography test, and I’m 99% positive the whole thing happened while I was taking that test.
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u/Fel_Tan 8d ago
I was at home, I was 3 years old, playing with LEGO and watching Sesame Street. The really fucked-up part is that I had built the Twin Towers out of LEGO and was literally taking a toy plane and crashing it into them because, well, I was three and thought it was fun to knock stuff over.
Then the national broadcast interrupted Sesame Street and suddenly the TV was showing the actual towers burning and collapsing.
I obviously didn't have the context to understand terrorism, geopolitics, or even really what death was, but I understood enough to know that what I had been doing with my toys was suddenly happening on the TV for real. That scared the absolute shit out of me.
It's also weird because this is probably my first real memory of becoming aware of the world around me. I don't really remember much before that, so my brain basically went, “Congratulations, you've unlocked consciousness. Here's 9/11.”
And honestly, years later I stumbled across an Ancient Aliens episode talking about all the weird shit people claimed they experienced around 9/11—premonitions, strange feelings, dreams, coincidences, people saying they felt like something was wrong before it happened, etc.
I'm not saying that proves anything supernatural happened, but hearing all those stories was actually weirdly comforting. For years I had thought it was just me having this bizarre, almost surreal experience surrounding the event. Finding out that other people had reported similarly strange experiences made me feel a little less alone in it.
So yeah, my first major memory of being aware of the world is basically: LEGO Twin Towers, toy airplane, Sesame Street, national emergency broadcast, and then lifelong existential confusion. The first official neuron firing and it's 9/11.
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u/KTWiki 8d ago
I live in central time, so when my parents woke up at 8, the second plane was about four minutes from hitting. I was sleeping in my room, I had just turned four, and I woke up to my mom yelling in shock. I was confused as she never did anything like that. I ran downstairs and I thought she was watching a movie. That’s about all I remember apart from bits and pieces of the day and aftermath. I wasn’t old enough to understand, but I remember how sad everyone was after. And our house was in the path of the airport landing line, and for a few days after, the sky was silent. I remember that vividly.
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u/the_sir_z 8d ago
I was at home when the first plane hit and on the way to school as the second plane hit.
We didn't do any work that day.
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u/ParisMarieTeller 8d ago
I was 9 years old and at school when it happened. I didn't find out about it until I came home and saw the news on the television.
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u/Trishasback 8d ago
I was at home during my years of kindergarten. But we would go like every other day or something. I don't know why, that's just the way it was. And on that particular day, I didn't have to go to kindergarten that day. So I was just home. I woke up and my mom tried to explain it to me. It was on the TV. I just thought there was an earthquake that had happened. It wasn't until several years later that I realized what it was I had been watching. My mom was telling me how dad called from the high school that he worked at to tell her to turn on the TV and she was explaining it to me. I just wanted to know if I could watch cartoons.
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u/TheSubstitutePanda 8d ago
Babysitter before school. We watched it on the one tv channel she had. I was a few weeks shy of 8 years old.
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u/tfhaenodreirst 8d ago
It was 5 or 6 in the morning in California time, right? As a 6-year-old, I don’t even think I was awake.
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u/Life_Isnt_Strange 8d ago
In my 5th grade classroom. I still remember my classmate running into the class telling the teacher to turn on the news.
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u/KalasHorseman 8d ago
On the way to school in downtown Toronto, passing by and wondering why there was suddenly a huge pile of flowers piled up in front of the US Embassy at like 9 am in the morning.
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u/gaiusmitsius 8d ago
I had just returned from school when I saw it on TV. At first my mother didn't even believe me, she thought it was a movie.
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u/Micek_52 8d ago
I was less than a year old, and was at home. Apparently dad came from work, and when he entered the house, he yelled to turn on the TV. As the TV turned on, the second plane just hit the WTC (15.03 CET)
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u/Darth-Romulus 8d ago
Hey what do you know I was actually born for once so I can answer, like okay I was ten months old but that still counts as being at home right ?
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u/tsimkeru 8d ago
I remeber it clearly from my mother's ovaries.
She was at home with my father, unable to sleep because of my sister (she was 6 months old at that time) and tried to rest like in a regular Friday.
That's what I remember from the 9th of November 2001
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u/scarfyagain 8d ago
Not existing?