What are the most....

[Brian Ellis]

1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. The horrors of war and violence and generally the humanity (???) responsible and participating. I still have vivid live memories of WWII, although we didn't have TV at that time, but I relive them whenever I see war in any form or any place on TV.

[G400SG16mb]

- Ignita McNaught saying "OH SH*T!" live on a BBCWorld newscast
- The second WTC tower being hit live
- The Gulf war interrupting normal programming
- Beslan

[Mcollector]

#1 (by far). The 1986 Challenger disaster. I worked in aerospace. What a generational dichotomy there was at work that day. It was the end of my innocence. The last thing I believed was pure was science and engineering. Haven't believed in anything but taking a good shit since then.

#2 (a pale second). The 2nd plane hitting the Twin Towers, and their collapse. I still want to KILL and DESTROY everything Arab/Muslim and the Middle East. The best counter to jihad is a WMD-tipped crusade. Reinstate Executive Order 9066, this time for Middle Easterners.

#3. Tie. Johnson's annoucement he would not seek re-election. The last helicopter leaving the embassy roof in Saigon.

#4. Dubya getting the last red state for enough electoral votes for a 2nd term, and me wanting to vomit.

#5. Illegal aliens flooding on foot through heavy freeway traffic at the border, like an infestation of fleas hopping off a dead host for a new one, or rats scampering through rising sewers or off a sinking ship.

[SitFlyer]

1 - 09/11/01
2 - 07/21/69
3 - 02/09/71
4 - 05/25/77
5 - 10/17/89

[az]

Off Topic:

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Originally posted by Mcollector
I still want to KILL and DESTROY everything Arab/Muslim and the Middle East. The best counter to jihad is a WMD-tipped crusade.

Oh yes! Let's start a vendetta and set half the world on nuclear fire! You did think as far as to notice that if you start a blood feud, you are no better than the idiots that did this, and you do realize that not every arab or muslim wanted to crash a plane into the wtc or is an Untermensch, just as not every american is <s>an idiot like y</s> a xenophobic warmonger.

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AZ

[TransformX]

Weird, TV plays such a minor role in my life I can hardly think of 'memoral TV moments', /shrug/.

[GNEP]

No particular order, and not 5 yet:

- Falklands war (was at an impressionable age) esp. the sinking of the belgrano

- Twin Towers getting hit (was in the treasury office at work - we have big TVs on the wall and market displays. FX and Money Markets went deathly quiet (we all knew someone in there somewhere). Thought it was an accident with the first one and so immediately emailed a muslim friend of mine saying "it was your lot wasn't it" jokingly. Then the second plane hit and I suddenly felt "oh shit I shouldn't have sent that email"

- the whole 1989 eastern european revolution thing which was amazingly not bloody.

- Steve Redgrave winning his 4th olympic gold medal and saying "somebody shoot me if I ever get in a boat again" and then 4 years later watching him win his 5th gold

will chime in with more when I remember them.

[breezer]

Leaving the mainly doom and gloom 'memorable moments from the above posts', this is a British perspective

#Torvil and Dean in the olympics
#bob at Live Aid 'Give us your F... money' on live tv
#Jooles Holland on live tv 'f..' when he hit a guitar on the tube.
#Diana funeral

in light heart
# British Bull dog beating the hit man at Wembley Stadium in Summerslam 198?
#England trouncing Germany 5-1
#Natalie Appleton in her four trials on Get me out of here (she quit the show on her fifth trial)

Breezer

[VJ]

- Twin Tower attacks
- Protest march in Spain after 11/03, protest march in Belgium regarding the Dutroux case
- Hiroshima footage (i.e. that girl running), Vietnam footage
- Images of Kobe after the earthquake
- Emergency landing of a hijacked boeing in the ocean (near the coast of the Comores, the plane had run out of fuel, tourist cameras filmed the landing, you saw boats rushing toward the plane); and the Concorde crash

There probabely are others, but these are the first that came in my mind...


Jörg

[az]

Originally posted by TransformX
Weird, TV plays such a minor role in my life I can hardly think of 'memoral TV moments', /shrug/.

I hear you

AZ

[EnglandJoe]

Originally posted by SitFlyer
You are a RACIST.
You need anger management help or.....

I don't think this makes him racist, although it seems that way at first. He's only hating through association. What it does make him is incredibly arrogant and stupid, and in need of a good education.

[Jon P. Inghram]

Originally posted by TransformX
Weird, TV plays such a minor role in my life I can hardly think of 'memoral TV moments', /shrug/.

Infidel! Really though, my TV is only used to play DVD's and, rarely, to watch local stations for severe weather info using a home-made antenna.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

Stop flooding my innocent thread before it has to be moved to the temp forum.

stay on topic you gits.

[VJ]

Originally posted by Lizzard[MPE]
Stop flooding my innocent thread before it has to be moved to the temp forum.

stay on topic you gits.

If only a moderator would do something about it...

Looking at what I posted, it appears quite negative. Still, I can't believe I forgot to put down Martin Luther King...
Also video of a monk who - as a form of protest - set fire to himself, but stayed in a meditation position as if nothing happend is something not to forget...

Of course, there are positive things too:
- moon landing (it still looks so magical) + mars landing
- rocket suit at the LA Olympics
but hey, the news is mainly negative...


Jörg

[cjolley]

The first Moon landing.*
The towers falling.
Nixon's resignation.

The ending of Bob Newhart's second show.
Chuckles the Clown.
The theme of Hill Street Blues. (does that count?)

Chuck

PS I'm only counting things I saw live.
That's why Challenger, and many others aren't on the list.

*One of my Great Grandmothers came to Oklahoma in a covered wagon in the 1800's and watched the moon landing on TV. That's a span of progress in one lifetime not likely to be repeated too often.