Had a discussion the other day, with my brother. It ended up in top 10 strong, global moments.
Rules:
- Large scale, so not your baby being born.
- Instant events, so not the coming up for instance TV or the IT revolution.
- Stuff you saw on telly, in the paper, something that touched you in some way or other when it was happening. So in your lifetime.
My top so far... haven't made 10, in no particular order
1. 9-11
2. Fall of the Berlin Wall
3. Challenger
4. Chernobyl
5. Tiananmen square, the single chinese guy with the groceries in front the line of tanks - http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tiananmen+square&search=Search
6. The tsunami
Runner-ups, for me, was, for me first time watching real war on telly, the bombing of Baghdad in the first Gulf War. Also, some strong stuff from Balkan. One that touches me, but is out of my lifetime:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRYPbiyhPLs&mode=related&search=
Watching Purley in that clip is... I don't have words for it.
So... what's yours?
that's only 6:blink:
1. Moon Landing(watched it live)
2. Death of John Lennon(I listened to the radio interview, went to bed, and woke up to the radio news)
3.11th Sept. (I was plastering a m8's bathroom when his mum rang and said "turn on the TV"
4.Winston Churchills funeral(watched it live)
5.Death of marc Bolan(women drivers)
6.My Aim is True(Elvis Costello) a present from a soon to be gf
7.Death of Jim Clarke(racing driver & British Hero)
8.metric currency introduced(240 pennies to the pound:blink:)
9.Louise Browne born(1st IVF baby) The fact that she was ginger nearly scuppered the whole program.
10.Maggie Thatcher getting kicked out by her own Party.....Priceless:D
*This list is not exhaustive
btw, that Purley clip has left me very emotional.
It was very upsetting then, but when viewed through the lens of time, and compared to the cameraderie of the teams of today, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6932086.stm)I really do despair:sad:
The top 10 biggest large-scale instant-type moments in your life
In no particular order..
1. The birth of my children
Quote from: Blunt;200173btw, that Purley clip has left me very emotional.
It was very upsetting then, but when viewed through the lens of time, and compared to the cameraderie of the teams of today, (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/6932086.stm)I really do despair:sad:
Exactly. Same here. After reading a book of racing history, it seems F1 (and other types of racing) has completely lost the gentlemanship and comraderie in favour of tough battles for being better than the rest.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;200176The top 10 biggest large-scale instant-type moments in your life
In no particular order..
1. The birth of my children
Hm, to that one I would then cite my first post again:
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Rules:
- Large scale, so not your baby being born.
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Quote from: Blunt;200170that's only 6:blink:
Yes, I have only been able to come up with 6 :) hence this part of top post:
Quote from: delanvital;200168[..]
My top so far... haven't made 10, in no particular order
Quote from: Blunt;2001721. Moon Landing(watched it live)
Ahhh, very envious of everyone who saw this. Would have been a spectacular site to witness.
Well here are some very "important" moments so far in my life, (although not all are
global). No particular order.
1. Being invited to sit in the cockpit of a 747-200 when I was 8 whilst my dad was flying it.
2. Earthquakes in Islamabad, (Early 06).
3. Tsunami.
4. Recent floods in Karachi.
5. Taking my first flight.
6. July 06 Bombings.
Those are just some off the top of my head.
Quote from: delanvital;200178Hm, to that one I would then cite my first post again:
I defy anyone to say that children is not a large scale event, even if you wish to exclude it!
TL.
Quote from: TeaLeaf;200187I defy anyone to say that children is not a large scale event, even if you wish to exclude it!
TL.
Large-scale as in having an impact on many people, perhaps across borders, global broadcasting - a larger scale - a more global impact as the top post begins with :)
Quote from: Exodus;200185Ahhh, very envious of everyone who saw this. Would have been a spectacular site to witness.
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6. July 06 Bombings.
Yeah, being a space buff all my life, watching the moon landing would be awesome.
And yeah, the bombings for a brit must be on the list. I guess for us in DK it had an impact as well, but after 9/11 and Madrid and such I guess everybody was expecting it to happen again somewhere and being in DK it sort of distanced it a bit. What about the death or funeral of Diana? IMHO too hyped, but nonetheless quite an emotional strong happening, watching so many ppl taking part in it.
Quote from: delanvital;200189Yeah, being a space buff all my life, watching the moon landing would be awesome.
What about the death or funeral of Diana? IMHO too hyped, but nonetheless quite an emotional strong happening, watching so many ppl taking part in it.
I was only 9 or 10 when when this happened, and had no idea of who she was. Obviously my mother did, and so I was upstairs and a news announcement came on exclaiming that Diana has died in a car crash. As it was on most channels I went downstairs and told my mom about this and she didn't believe me at first. So when she saw it on the news, she was horrified and I really didn't understand why. TBH I didn't know much about the queen, prince's/princess's at the time as I had just moved to UK from Pakistan. But watching the many documentaries/and news reports on her life after her death I soon realised why she so well respected.
I also vaugley remember the silence that was held for her, everybody on my street were in their houses and you could hear the regular noises around, but as the silence started, you could hear a pindrop. You honestly couldn't hear anything. I believe this was all over the UK too.
That was quite emotional I thought.
being a huge F1 fan myself, I was also shocked to see the Roger Williamson crash, the marshalls really got to me as they did nothing to help and rather watch the 'goings on' than to actually do anything :ranting2:, and seeing a despaired David Purley who tried his real upmost to save him is quite heart wrenching really!
The question you have to ask, if a driver saw another fellow driver in a similar situation nowadays, do you think any of them would stop to help them? I think not, or possibly only a small number would!
This was clip was posted a year ago on another (car related) forum, sorry if this is a bit repetitive, but thought the music used was quite touching:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1j_oEx1DkY
Love her or loathe her - I guess you need to stick the death of Diana somewhere on the list . It did have global impact.
For me - aged 12 -was the Falklands war and associated imagery - Simon Weston, The Belgrano, the ships returning home.
LOL @ Blunt and Louise Brown...... Have to say that it was an important day then and one which I never knew would become so poignant in my life 25 years later.
PEN
PS. And from a personal level? - Kids, for sure... First day at Boarding School. Attending the funerals of two friends. The Poll Tax Riots in 1990 and getting arrested outside the South African Embassy for protesting about aparteid - hmm who said getting elected to the Students' Union Executive was boring lol).
I was waiting for someone to mention the Falklands War :) It is on my dad's list (who's from '43) and he followed it in the news intensely. Others on his list includes the dog Leika shot into space (he said it has bigger impact that Gagarin), The Cuba Crisis, The search for a large, famous Danish ship going down (being Icelandic, he worked the trawlers until his twenties) searching for and picking up survivors, and finally, also watching a guy go under and drown as he fell off a trawler. Not all global either. If I then were to add some personal ones to the list as well, it would be
- Falling off a 500 meter cliff on a mountain in the Icelandic highlands. Spending what felt like ages to find a way to get 50 metes up without falling all the way down. Yes, an inexperienced mountain climbing idiot I was.
- Getting swept away in a river I was crossing, and after some kilometers downstream managing to get ashore after being bumped on underwater rocks quite a bit (idiot - sooo ditto).
- Passing my black belt exam in '98 and running high on adrenaline, waiting for the black belt "secret rituals" to take place. Quite bruised and hurting, but so happy and they could bring on whatever, I didn't care :)
Another major one for me would have been my trip to France to see the WWI battlefields and war memorials. The most shocking of all being the Somme. I'm sure other dMw members have been to these sites, but just walking past the huge numbers of graves/massive, towers monuments made in their honour.
If I remember right we went to a Canadian regiment memorial where a HUGE twin tower type statue had been placed, and you would walk down a long marble path towards it. That was a major experience for me. Just seeing the sheer size of the craters, and the conditions of the trenches. How close some of the allies were to the Germans, not but 100-200 yards away were their trenches apart.
Thinking of 9/11 I would have to add visiting Ground Zero 3 months after the event and seeing the 1000's of missing person flyers attached to the walls etc as having a big impact on us..
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Quote from: Penfold;200364Thinking of 9/11 I would have to add visiting Ground Zero 3 months after the event and seeing the 1000's of missing person flyers attached to the walls etc as having a big impact on us..
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Ahh, I am going to see this spot in February with a Business Studies trip to NY. Not too sure what I will think when I see it though. . . . .
Quote from: Penfold;200364Thinking of 9/11 I would have to add visiting Ground Zero 3 months after the event and seeing the 1000's of missing person flyers attached to the walls etc as having a big impact on us..
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What an experience. Must've been quite a moment.