Saddest day ever

[EFM_Costello]

Just sitting next to my friend from Hong Kong and she just told me that one of the saddest day of her life was the 1 july 97 when hong Kong was handed over from her majesty the Queen to the evil empire of china.

 

My sadest day was Forest Green Rovers semi final ( and the 1st July 97)

 

What was yours

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Forest Green, and when The Queen Mum died, bless 'er.

 

 

[Big J R]

Princess Di's death and subsequent funeral !

[CANV EFM]

when beer went over a pound a pint

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Love split

Pint rise

Semi-final defeat.

 

None of this Di rubbish!

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Diana's death did actually make me feel really sad. 9/11 too.

 

Probably the two biggest news stories in my lifetime, I reckon.

 

 

[CANV EFM]

i thought di pegging it was mildly amusing.. i was in florida when it happened septics were genuinly upset fo r me .. i think they mistook my disapointment at having the t.v. in the bar switched over from the college football to the news as some kind of private grief.. i perked up tho when i realised that in 5 hours time the internet would be awash with di jokes

[pabird]

Pretty awful really but apart from losing family the saddest days must be the deaths of JFK & not so much the death but the state funeral of the one and only Sir Winston

For those old enough at the time of the JFK death the entire world appeared to stand still

I was in a pub in North London and believe it or not but on the announcement the vast majority finished drinking and went home

[CANV EFM]

9/11 was the big one in recent years.. and all live on t.v.

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Di's death was more of an annoyanace - I was doing a job that was a hourly paid so when we got the day off for the funeral, I didn't get paid. I was sick when she died and could only watch the tv for a couple of days. The radio only played panpipes, XFM was due to launch and didn't. Football was postponed

 

9/11 was just a battering ram into the world's biggest ego, on a grand scale of things (as in amount of deaths) it wasn't really that big! (more people will die in the DRO Congo today)

[YELLOW]

Totally agree EFMTFTV. Diana's death was really sad at first but then after a week of constant media coverage it got really annoying.

 

The thing that peed me off was on the day of her funeral all football matches were postponed even though the funeral finished at 1.30/2.00.

 

After 2.00 you could go to the cinema, a restaurant e.t.c but you couldn't watch a football match!

 

When the Queen mum died it wasn't even a state occassion. Nobody got a day off work, no sporting events were cancelled and let's face it the Queen Mum was far more important than Diana!

 

Diana's death was so overhyped it was unbelievable

[Northern Monkey]

The funniest thing about Di's funeral was that in my patch of st. albans there was a power cut just as the cortege set off for the abbey. I then had an entertaining few minutes sitting by my front window watching all the bods running up and down the road "Is your power off" they cried and then it seemed like a mini Le-Mans start as they all headed off looking for a Tv.

Then I got caught up at the M1 in the roadblock waiting for the hearse to pass. late for work I was and no one dared challenge my reason.

[pabird]

Diana!s death failed to make it mark on me 9/11 on the other hand was powerful stuff and probably an all time major TV event due to the "luck" of having a NYFD TV camera catch the actual fly-past

The JFK thing for people not of a voting age at the time may seem hard to understand

There really did appear to be a chance of the USSR & the USA aiming nukes at each other whilst at the same time the race riots world wide had taken off big time

JFK was widely considered to be "the man" if the world was to be saved from WW111 and bang in the middle of all the very real fear the man was gunned down in cold blood in a televised event

You can only describe the general atmosphere as close to panic and right in the middle of all this knee shaky stuff in another televised event the no 1 suspect was himself gunned down whilst flanked by some of the biggest American policemen available

Todays general public would have complained at the lack of commercial breaks

 

[Colin Zeal EFM]

Diana's death was sad. I'm not talking about the media circus - that was ridiculous. I'm just saying that a young woman, losing her life, is very, very sad.

 

 

[CANV EFM]

but no sadder than any young women losing her life.... people Qing up for hours to sign a book??? what is that all about!! half the country turned into fruit loops!

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

People used to say after signing the book "Oh well, we've done our bit"

Bollox you could of done your bit by not being so obsessed with the anerexic tart then the paparratzi w felt the need to chase her to satfisfy your lust for hello! magazine.

[SteveP]

I know this is bad taste, but...

 

VOLUME 32 ISSUE 07 — 16 SEPTEMBER 1997

 

Elton John Wows Mother Teresa Funeral Crowd With 'The Bitch Is Back'

 

CALCUTTA—More than 12,000 mourners were treated to a performance of "The Bitch Is Back" by Elton John at Mother Teresa's funeral Saturday. The delighted mourners, clapping their hands and swaying from side-to-side in time with the song's pounding, rollicking barrelhouse piano, joined John in singing the song's refrain, "Bitch, bitch / The bitch is back," dozens of times. "This is the perfect tribute to Mother Teresa," said Sister Nirmala, Mother Teresa's successor as leader of the Missionaries of Charity Order. "The bitch is indeed back with God." John, who sat next to Princess Diana at Gianni Versace's funeral and sat next to Mother Teresa at Princess Diana's funeral, was seated next to former Beatle George Harrison at Mother Teresa's funeral, fueling speculation that Harrison will perish next Tuesday in a fiery helicopter crash.

 

http://www.theonion.com

[CANV EFM]

bad taste dosen't register on this board

[SteveP]

Thats why I put it on <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

[Colin Zeal EFM]

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Di's death was more of an annoyanace

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the anerexic tart

He-heh! Last week when you fancied being a Godfather, you told me you were a Royalist!! <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />