I see your arby's/chili's rib commercial or whatever (can't find it tbh), and raise you a "life's pretty straight without twisties" (timestamp 20:00)

timestamps below
  • 00:00-04:15 "boat people" (the Tampa affair, "children overboard", "the Pacific Solution", prelude to Operation Sovereign Borders)
  • 04:15-08:15 ansett airline collapse
  • 08:15-08:50 qantas airline strike
  • 08:50-11:15 ads
  • 11:15-11:50 jail break
  • 11:50-13:20 "local hero"
  • 13:20-13:50 a plane has crashed into the WTC
  • 13:50-15:45 Howard meets Bush, Murdoch in US. "Both of us have been forces for the expansion, and not the contraction, of democracy"
  • 15:45-16:15 mad cow disease in Japan
  • 16:15-17:50 man uses mobile phone to call for rescue
  • 18:00-20:15 ads
  • 20:15-21:55 CNN live cross
  • 21:55-23:15 finance
  • 23:20-25:30 a second plane has crashed into the WTC
  • EllenKelly [comrade/them]
    ·
    22 days ago

    I so vividly remember waking up the day after this and the morning cartoons we're not running and I was very grumpy about it

    • thirtymilliondeadfish [she/her]
      hexagon
      ·
      edit-2
      22 days ago

      I can still remember the PJs I was wearing. Too young to recall much more than that though

      also, who tf decided to put ren & stimpy on cheezTV lmao