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Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Sandwich on January 05, 2005, 04:19:02 am

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4146153.stm

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Bobboau on January 05, 2005, 05:59:49 am

/*stops doing stuff*/

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: aldo_14 on January 05, 2005, 05:04:07 am

Noted.

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Jetmech Jr. on January 05, 2005, 05:33:22 am

...

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: vyper on January 05, 2005, 05:38:17 am

*waits for 1200GMT*

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: diamondgeezer on January 05, 2005, 06:54:06 am

Predictably, our lot ****ed it up. I tried, but it's hard to hold a silence when people are yelling "oi, why are you day dreaming when we've got work to do"... :blah:

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Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Janos on January 05, 2005, 09:56:03 am

I was taking a dump and missed the entire thing. I guess I didn't shout and pant too much, so I kinda did it. :)

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Taristin on January 05, 2005, 11:34:20 am

Janos... I wish there was a hell, just for people like you. :blah: :p

1200GMT was, what? 7:00am EST? Sorry, then, I slept through it.

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Blaise Russel on January 05, 2005, 11:45:42 am

It was decided that our school would be incapable of holding a three-minute silence for, well, three minutes, so we condensed it down to one.

Not even that, actually, since I suspect it was more of a forty-seconds of silence. Tsk.

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: pyro-manic on January 05, 2005, 12:37:41 pm

I'm not sure about this at all. Three minutes is too long - we only have two minutes for sixty million war dead... A silence, fine, but a minute. That's the standard length, and that's what I stuck to.

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Fineus on January 05, 2005, 01:05:31 pm

I don't think it's the length of time that matters really. It's the fact that you're supposed to be remembering the event and taking a minute out of your own selfish life to remember what others have been through (unless of course, you've been through it yourself).

(Note: no insult intended to anyone here, no particular distinction made against anyone either. Just the point in general).

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: Grimloq on January 05, 2005, 01:53:22 pm

when did this happen? i missed it methinks. meh... TBH, ive never heard a 'moment of silence'. at my old school there literally never was any silence that i remember. same with at home...

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: vyper on January 05, 2005, 02:06:58 pm

I took the three minutes to reflect on the fact that the three female tsunami survivors ITV kept showing were hot.

Title: 3 minutes of silence for tsunami victims at 1200 GMT
Post by: beatspete on January 05, 2005, 04:51:17 pm

I forgot.  I was on a bus travelling alone so i probably didn't do/say anything.