I do believe the French won the Hundred Years War, Lloydy. As a half-Taff, half-Jock, your ignorance is forgiven
Trafalgar is interesting in that we teach it that we won and the Frenchies teach their kids that they won cos the old one-eyed cockney ****er died in battle.
I thought everyone knew Lloyd was a Welsh name? Don't worry, I've got a bit of Williams in me. I'm 1/16 Welsh
It's a sad day to mourn all those who lost their lives in the worlds worst ever tragedy. RIP, never forgotten.
I'm not doubting the impact in had on the modern world, but our coverage of it is ridiculous. Do the American media take time for us when 7/7 (or one of the many other awful events we've been through) comes around? Everytime something bad happens over there everybody here goes ****ing mental to show their 'compassionate and caring nature'. Yeah, alright, feel bad for them, you'd have to be a heartless bastard not to, but don't keep digging it up every year. If anything, it's showing the terrorists that they've succeded, because we're still bummed about it and it still angers us. Incidentally, the War on Terror (as the media call it) isn't a war. The dictionary defines war as: "A state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state."
It was sad day and a despicable act, but worlds worst tragedy? Shows what a decade of media saturation can do.
I'm not asking for a tribute every year. But this year, it's fair to say, is pretty significant. But a decade on, whether you liked to think it or not, that event has shaped our nation more than any other thing that's happened since. 7/7, the second Iraq war and the last Afghan conflict wouldn't have happened without the World Tade Centre attacks. A lot was made about the 7/7 bombings at the time, by the way.
It's not media saturation. This happened on American soil which immediately multiplies the magnitude a thousand fold. The Al Qaeda could level London with a few nukes, killing millions, and it still wouldn't be as devastating an event world wide. New York lost their 2 biggest sky scrapers!
I know, but it's the way we remember these events. I don't know how many Americans take a moment to remember those who died in 7/7. The World Trade Centre events did shape our world, but no more so that WW2 or the invention of the Internet. And it's hardly the world's biggest tragedy when you consider The Holocaust, Hiroshima or Chernobyl. It's just relative to what you've experienced in your lifetime.
In my opinion, the biggest disaster in my lifetime was the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake/tsunami on Boxing Day. 300,000 confirmed deaths. Everyone seems to have forgotten that...
A natural disaster, and an unfortunate occurance that hasn't had any major impact since. 9/11, the bomb on the US Embassy in Nigeria, the Russian school massacre and 7/7 were premeditated and shows what man is capable of. These were miles worse.
I do get where you are coming from, but just because it was a natural disaster doesn't make it any less worse.
