depending on where you live, it was likely that you weren’t that far removed from a family that lost someone in the towers. getting that kind of reaction from a group of people while you’re still trying to process the devastation, even weeks or months later, is pretty fucking tough to do. my wife’s neighbor was vaporized in the towers and i knew a girl in college who’s aunt was killed in the pentagon.

I’m sure it was tough. But you are overstating just how much the world was impacted by that event. Sure, being New York, pretty much every country in the world lost their citizens on those two towers. But nothing close to what Americans lost that day. I know it’s incredibly cold thing to say, but individual country’s grief level probably was directly proportionate to the exact number of citizens they lost. Therefore, you can’t expect everyone to have the same grief level. It’s important to reiterate that I am not condoning those players. All I’m saying is that incidents like this were isolated.

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Quit having such a self-centered view of the world. You guys seriously can’t expect rest of the world to drop everything a mourn just because thousands of Americans died on a particular day. Just as it would be ridiculous for a Syrian to expect Americans to cry a river every time Assad pillages another village.

depending on where you live, it was likely that you weren’t that far removed from a family that lost someone in the towers. getting that kind of reaction from a group of people while you’re still trying to process the devastation, even weeks or months later, is pretty fucking tough to do. my wife’s neighbor was vaporized in the towers and i knew a girl in college who’s aunt was killed in the pentagon.

yes, people can be assholes, and anywhere you go people are self centered b/c that’s their whole fucking world. so when someone starts saying shit about 9/11 as it’s happening don’t fucking say you Americans need to be less fucking self centered.

That would be fine.

/Fuck France

So it’s okay for you to wish harm on innocent civilians of another country, but you then turn around when others do the same to you?

My head hurts…..

That it wasn’t just an American incident. Yes we are horribly self centered in terms of the news – demand everyone pay attention to us but don’t give a fuck about the rest of the world – but that’s not an excuse for Brits being dicks about it. It was a big issue there, too.

It’s more of a “be a decent human being” thing than a nationality thing. But considering it was Chelsea players…

Like I said, those guys were drunk. Americans just happened to be in the same vicinity where they were drinking. I’m sure the average Brit felt appropriate amount of sadness over what happened that day. Contrary to Fox News talking point, overwhelming majority of citizens of other countries don’t wake up and say “death to America” before they begin their day. Yes, lot of people died that day. People from all over the world. But the grief will simply not be proportionate to what Americans felt that day. That doesn’t mean rest of the world don’t care about what happened that day.

Okay. Not exactly sure of the point that you are trying to make.

That it wasn’t just an American incident. Yes we are horribly self centered in terms of the news – demand everyone pay attention to us but don’t give a fuck about the rest of the world – but that’s not an excuse for Brits being dicks about it. It was a big issue there, too.

It’s more of a “be a decent human being” thing than a nationality thing. But considering it was Chelsea players…

68 Brits died in the towers. The British news makes a massive deal out of every individual British solider killed in the war on terror. British teenagers are the most reprehensible people on earth.

Okay. Not exactly sure of the point that you are trying to make.

If on that day, instead of America, it was the french that got attacked, they’d be making fun of them just as much.

That would be fine.

/Fuck France

Except if I’m hanging around with a bunch of Syrians, which is what Kaiser said was the case.

Those players were drunken louts. If on that day, instead of America, it was the french that got attacked, they’d be making fun of them just as much. They didn’t offend those tourists because they were Americans, they offended them because they were fucking drunk.

Quit having such a self-centered view of the world. You guys seriously can’t expect rest of the world to drop everything a mourn just because thousands of Americans died on a particular day. Just as it would be ridiculous for a Syrian to expect Americans to cry a river every time Assad pillages another village.

68 Brits died in the towers. The British news makes a massive deal out of every individual British solider killed in the war on terror. British teenagers are the most reprehensible people on earth.

slow day in the comments. every must be paterno’d out.

Friday

God Bless America.

/NSFW

Two of our greatest national treasures.

No, but you can contact the FCC and possibly have the broadcaster liable for a large fine

Not anymore. Courts ruled FCC cannot fine a network for a random utterance by an athlete or peformer. If it is scripted, then yes, but a field mic picking up players telling each other “fuck you” is not something the network can be sued for anymore. This just happened last month

Quit having such a self-centered view of the world. You guys seriously can’t expect rest of the world to drop everything a mourn just because thousands of Americans died on a particular day. Just as it would be ridiculous for a Syrian to expect Americans to cry a river every time Assad pillages another village.

Except if I’m hanging around with a bunch of Syrians, which is what Kaiser said was the case.

No, but you can contact the FCC and possibly have the broadcaster liable for a large fine

/NSFW

slow day in the comments. every must be paterno’d out.

Someone said it the other day, but as much crap as TBL gets about the content, for the comments to thrive it’s vital that posts go up at a regular pace. There hasn’t been a new post in over an hour and a half, and look what’s happened since then.

I would’ve gotten my curbing boots out if some pussy ass Brit was disrespecting America(Fuck Yeah!), in the aftermath of 9/11.

oddly enough security was confiscating all curbing boots at the time, so my wife couldn’t bring hers.

but they did play “proud to be an american” on the juke boxes quite often when this happened. odd it was on the juke in britain, but they added it since there were a lot of americans on that campus.

it was mostly college university kids who were drunk and trying to be assholes to the american students.

I would’ve gotten my curbing boots out if some pussy ass Brit was disrespecting America(Fuck Yeah!), in the aftermath of 9/11.