Where were you when... thread (Megamerge)

plein de force

i was in my bed asleep, i was only 4 or 5 so i can't really remember that much

Indubitable

How am I supposed to know? I only remember important things.

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Camping in Wicklow...

Apanachi

Was in The Black Forest on a health Spa. Couldn't sleep so I turned the radio on, then there was a newsflash saying that the car had just crashed and that Dodi was dead but Di was still alive, but in a bad way, so that woke me up even more, stayed tuned and heard shortly after that she had died, when I got up for breakfast that morning no-one in the resort had heard the news and thought I was joking about her being dead.

Ticktactoe

In bed, sleeping and when I awoke was told by my sister. I fell back asleep again...

I would have been 16 I think, was in bed and remember my mam running into me hysterical, shouting "princess diana is dead" my big sister jumped out of bed and the two of them cried watching the news....

UpCork

I was 13 then. I remember waking up on the Sunday morning and my Mum saying Princess Diana had died. Remember watching Sky News for ages after that. We had relations home from America at the time and were supposed to be 'entertaining' them for the day, so we had planned a trip to the country. The radio was on the whole way down in the car.

It's strange how people were glued to the television sets/radio etc. My family were not a fan of 'royalty' at all, yet Diana seemed to have attracted so much attention.

Micilin Muc

yogy wrote: »

Googling..."Dead Princess Diana Jokes"

Two weeks before its launch?!!

LoanShark

I woke up with a nice hangover, You know the kind you get when your nearly 18 after spending the night drinking in one of Dublins Fine drinking establishments..

My brother rang me to tell me..I think I watched tv for about 5 mins, and then went back to suffering in silence..

I then went to see U2 in Lansdowne Road (For all you youngsters, Its now the Aviva Stadium)..I remember Bono going down on his knees in the middle of the stage and four pictures of Diana coming up on the stage and He sang ONE..

Kiera

Celebrating finishing school in Santa Ponsa aged 17.

Abrasax

Living in a tiny village in the north of Holland, on an amphetamine bender, playing computer games and, in our speed-addled stupor, we managed to further upset the bearer of the bad news, an Englishman with royalist leanings, by completely taking the piss.

owenc

Watching bbc news and then it came on.

Pacing Mule

Wow what a memory jog :eek:

I was in a tent / on a campsite in Oxford. Woke up that morning to literally see people walking around in disbelief and crying. Was a very very strange situation to be in. It may not have been a 9/11 level of catastrophe in hindsight but at the time I think it had a similar effect of shock / distress on the UK public.

owenc

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

Wow what a memory jog :eek:

I was in a tent / on a campsite in Oxford. Woke up that morning to literally see people walking around in disbelief and crying. Was a very very strange situation to be in. It may not have been a 9/11 level of catastrophe in hindsight but at the time I think it had a similar effect of shock / distress on the UK public.

Why would they be crying they aren't related to her and don't know her (i know its bad when people die and all but why did people make such a fuss especially in ireland whenever she was in a foreign country to them)

who the fug

yogy wrote: »

Googling..."Dead Princess Diana Jokes"


..

Did you have a time machine?

Pacing Mule

owenc wrote: »

Why would they be crying they aren't related to her and don't know her (i know its bad when people die and all but why did people make such a fuss especially in ireland whenever she was in a foreign country to them)

I really don't know but genuinely 30%-40% of the people that morning were shedding tears. It was early morning and everyone was heading for bath / shower rooms and as each new person arrived it turned into a kind of vigil around a radio one guy had with him.

I didn't understand the tears myself - felt sad that she had died / that anyone had died and was a bit uncomfortable in the crowd tbh.

stovelid

In the land of Innocence, Caring And Feeling, but since that fateful night dragged me brutally from that idyll, well, I don't think I've ever really managed to find my way back to that place again.

Goodbye People's Princess xxxxxx

owenc

Pageant Messiah wrote: »

I really don't know but genuinely 30%-40% of the people that morning were shedding tears. It was early morning and everyone was heading for bath / shower rooms and as each new person arrived it turned into a kind of vigil around a radio one guy had with him.

I didn't understand the tears myself - felt sad that she had died / that anyone had died and was a bit uncomfortable in the crowd tbh.

Someone probably started crying and then that made everyone else cry, i was at a funeral and everyone was fine then this woman started crying and by the end the whole church was crying and i didn't even feel like crying it was so silly and i didn't even know the bloody person.

in my kitchen new there was something up cause the radio was only playin sad songs

ROCKMAN

Was living in 5th floor flat , which I could pick up an late night English chat show on my little radio , I remember because the minute the news broke the show was flooding with calls saying what a saint she was etc etc ,funny thing was only two weeks before the same chat show had a call in and 99 percent of the callers where calling her a disgrace and wanting her out of their country because of her affair with Dodi but fair play to the shows host he pull the callers on it .

Lando Griffin

At a house party until 8am, wondering where the hell the night just went, then off to early house till 10.30am then off to pub where we heard the news, 2.30pm back to house where house party was to see was there going to be another house party in the house that night. 3.30pm back to pub to see could we possiblally drink some more cos walking around outside during the day wasn't a great idea after all. 8.30 woke up in pub, went to bathroom washed face and hair had a few drinks while planning things like when were we going to the house where the house party was.

Sanjuro

Peppapig wrote: »

I remember I was about 6 sitting on the washing machine door, and was watching cartoon network and flashing white writing appears on the screen of every channel.

"Please go to Sky News! An incident has occured" something like that...

I was only 6!

I doubt that since it happened in the middle of the night, and it wouldn't flash something up suggesting you switch off their channel. Sounds very spurious.

Anyway, I was in bed, asleep and my mam came in and woke me up telling me the 'news.' I said 'okay' and went back to sleep.

owenc

Sanjuro wrote: »

I doubt that since it happened in the middle of the night, and it wouldn't flash something up suggesting you switch off their channel. Sounds very spurious.

Anyway, I was in bed, asleep and my mam came in and woke me up telling me the 'news.' I said 'okay' and went back to sleep.

Yes that does happen when i was in flordia we were watching a movie and it turned the tv off and back on and then went to this warning thing saying a tornado was a couple of miles off the coast.

AudreyHepburn

In bed asleep.

I was 11 at the time and I remember the next day sitting in my Granny's dining room eating lunch and the news was on. I remember asking my Granny was Diana ok because I was in school all day so I hadn't realised she was dead. My Granny said "She died love".

Even at 11 I knew how special she was and how tragic it was.

GavRedKing

I was in Salou on a family holiday, didnt really care TBH, i was about 12 at the time and on holidays.

owenc

Lando Griffin wrote: »

At a house party until 8am, wondering where the hell the night just went, then off to early house till 10.30am then off to pub where we heard the news, 2.30pm back to house where house party was to see was there going to be another house party in the house that night. 3.30pm back to pub to see could we possiblally drink some more cos walking around outside during the day wasn't a great idea after all. 8.30 woke up in pub, went to bathroom washed face and hair had a few drinks while planning things like when were we going to the house where the house party was.

Your nuts.

owenc

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

In bed asleep.

I was 11 at the time and I remember the next day sitting in my Granny's dining room eating lunch and the news was on. I remember asking my Granny was Diana ok because I was in school all day so I hadn't realised she was dead. My Granny said "She died love".

Even at 11 I knew how special she was and how tragic it was.

I think she died straight away, you must have a supersonic brain if you asked if she was ok when you didn't know she had crashed.

AudreyHepburn

Peppapig, hope you don't mind me using your idea! I remember this somewhat more clearly than Diana's death.

I was in school when the planes hit. I was 15 and in Third Year at the time.

I remember coming home and the towers had fallen at that stage. Honest to god when I walked in the door I thought my parents were watching a film but then Mum told me no two planes had hit the WTC in New York and another the Pentagon.

I'll never forget the first time I saw the clip of the planes hitting, it gave me shivers. Still does. I also remember finding it hard to sleep that night and getting shivers when planes went over head.

General Zod

arrived home after a night out and watched it break live. sat up for two hours then went to bed, and didn't watch TV or open a paper for a few days as it would be full of maudling crap.

AudreyHepburn

I think she died straight away, you must have a supersonic brain if you asked if she was ok when you didn't know she had crashed.

No I knew there had been a crash, I just didn't know she'd died.

And she didn't die at the scene, she died later in hospital.

General Zod

what happened on the 9th of November?

prinz

In bed asleep. Found out the next morning having breakfast from the radio.

easyeason3

In the hairdressers.
When I was finished I went into a pub to get some lunch & Sky news were showing coverage of the crashes.

You could hear a pin drop in a packed pub.

billymitchell

Berlin Zoo

Lando Griffin

I had just started a job in a shop that sold televisions.

prinz

In school, actually after school. The teachers decided not to tell anyone, but eventually the news started getting out. After that I got off early.

Abrasax

Sitting in Sarphati Park in Amsterdam when my friend got the call about the first plane.
We made it to a coffeeshop on Van Wou Straat in time for the first collapse.
There was just me and four Muslims in the shop at the time. Two were in delirious celebration, whilst the other two were both shocked and disgusted.
Surreal.

AudreyHepburn

General Zod wrote: »

what happened on the 9th of November?

Are you serious?

tc2010

Maths class in school

thebigbiffo

on the way back from a nightclub with a shed load of mates back to my gf's house. we were off our chops on yokes and it seemed a really big deal. we got more thrashed, stayed up all night watchin the news, got up the next day, got more thrashed...in fact, we were trashed that entire week till the funeral...nothing to do with the fact she was dead, just we were 17 and it was the start of our 'gap year' turned into a gap 3 years but anyway...

danniemcq

Working as airport security at Newark Airport but fell asleep for a while. Hope nothing happened

seamus

I was in Rome, sightseeing. It was a beautiful day in Rome and this was pre-smartphones and roaming wasn't possible on PAYG, so we had been out all day and were oblivious. I rang home at 8pm that night just to say hi and my mother was hysterical down the phone. They had thought that my brother could have been on one of the planes (he wasn't) and she was still a bit fragile even though they knew at that stage that he was safe.
It was a little bit frustrating because we were trying to watch TV in the hotel to figure WTF had happened, but they kept overdubbing GWB's press conferences in Italian. So we could only see the images.

Had to buy a US newpaper the next day (NY Times I think) to get some information.

Elessar

I was in school, out on the side of the pitch, forget what exactly I was doing. I remember it was a hot sunny day.

One of the lads came out of the school and told me the WTC had been attacked and that 50,000 people were dead! I was like WTF.

Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.

Sanjuro

I was watching Neighbours on my holidays from college. Was sitting there, in boxers and a dressing gown, a bowl of cereal on my lap. Was about to walk into the kitchen when BBC news came on and I sat watching the entire thing unfold for the next 3-4 hours. It was unbelievable. Especially since I had been in the WTC a mere 5 months previous.

Lemsiper

I was here posting in this http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055675490
thread :rolleyes:

Kintarō Hattori

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Are you serious?

You know he's joking........ right?

Anyway, I was asleep on the couch in the living room when my brother came running in and told me to turn on the news. This was just after the first plane had crashed. Sat there watching the news for most of the day.

danniemcq

AudreyHepburn wrote: »

Are you serious?

9/11/01 is November 9th for all us non yanks

You should have said September 11th attacks on America or been more precise in your original question. After all if there is a European terrorist attack on 9th November threads like this will get awfully confusing

Motley Crue

The day she died I was 12, we had just moved house a few weeks previously actually, and I came down to Breakfast to find my Dad watching the TV - which meant he was obviously not working that day and was perhaps starting a few days of nights....since we worked shift work....in any case, he told me that Princess Diana had died

A few weeks later we went over to England, to see some of my relatives in Manchester, and I'll never forget how my Aunt phrased it when my Dad spoke to her about Diana's death, she said "I just couldn't believe it when [my Uncle] told me...the fairytale had ended...."

easyeason3

Elessar wrote: »

I was in school, out on the side of the pitch, forget what exactly I was doing. I remember it was a hot sunny day.

One of the lads came out of the school and told me the WTC had been attacked and that 50,000 people were dead! I was like WTF.

Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.

Because maybe she knew someone working in the WTC. Maybe she knew someone flying to New York on that day.
Or maybe she just has a bit of humanity.

And I like the fact that now & again a newsreader on RTE can show a bit of emotion. It proves they're not just robots with wonky voices.

prinz

Elessar wrote: »

Then remember watching RTE Two news that night and one of the newscasters was almost crying. I mean jesus, it's not your country, where's your professionalism!! Idiot.

Ah yes because he couldn't possibly have had family or friends in New York :rolleyes: The same reason myself and some others got taken home from school when the news came out.