they made us watch a space shuttle blow up on tv in 2nd grade

1/6/2008 9:32:23 PM

Fuckin public school education.

1/6/2008 9:40:17 PM

don't go to the moon

1/6/2008 9:41:22 PM

we've lost less d00dz goin to the moon than just driving around the parking lot

1/6/2008 9:42:13 PM

i remember when i flew in a space shuttle once, they showed us what to do pre-flight in case the shuttle was going down in space

1/6/2008 9:42:41 PM

1/6/2008 9:43:19 PM

They made me watch it in Kindergarten.

I hadn't thought of that, but damn that was one traumatic day. I've always hated flying and that might be why.

I feel bad for my teacher too, how do you deal with pulling 30 kids out of lunch to make them all cry?

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 9:45 PM. Reason : ]

1/6/2008 9:45:09 PM

1/6/2008 9:45:26 PM

you know why i hate flying?

because i'm not one of you fucking midget people and can't afford first class, that's why

1/6/2008 9:48:13 PM

its definitely not reasonable fear, except for the fact that i was like 7 when i saw it and it kinda stuck.

the funny thing is that i still would prefer a drink before i get on an airplane

also i would much rather climb in a shuttle than an airplane. yummy

1/6/2008 9:49:59 PM

I was afraid of flying until I took these:

1/6/2008 9:55:09 PM

aha, on a related note, this thread made me realize why I think it's OK to murder white women

we watched the OJ verdict in 6th grade

1/6/2008 9:55:21 PM

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 9:56 PM. Reason : PS: If you need a rape vic, you've got my cell. ]

1/6/2008 9:56:11 PM

oh lawd

1/6/2008 9:59:27 PM

i think i used to keep up with too much news. i can remember flying into DC and being scared we were gonna drop in the river. also scared of flying off a couple runways without actually taking off.

i think at some point i decided that its ok to be involved in a disaster

(watch me get in wreck and die in the morning)

1/6/2008 10:02:56 PM

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"i can remember flying into DC and being scared we were gonna drop in the river. also scared of flying off a couple runways without actually taking off."

Sounds like you were keeping up with the movies.

Flying was easier for me when I was an atheist. Last flight I took as a Christian and the wheel was thumping on takeoff, I almost broke out with sweat from praying so hard on the landing. Didn't make a scene or anything, just closed my eyes and did it all mentally, but it was quite an ordeal.

To clarify, I was born and raised atheist, and converted to Christianity at 20.

[Edited on January 6, 2008 at 10:07 PM. Reason : .]

1/6/2008 10:04:05 PM

i gotta get up at 530 so i cant stay up all night arguing over what movies i watched. but i just watched team america 3 weeks ago or so

and anyone who happens to know me or happens to have touched my pee pee off this site knows that i dont watch movies at all.

plus tons of shit has crashed into the potomac river or whatever. and i think thats the one you see under you coming into dc

1/6/2008 10:15:03 PM

Well, hire someone to perform fellatio in first class. That should cure it.

1/6/2008 10:17:36 PM

Quote :

"They made me watch it in Kindergarten."

Not me

1/7/2008 3:02:21 AM

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"they made us watch a space shuttle blow up on tv in 2nd grade "

1/7/2008 3:03:19 AM

they never made us watch the shuttle blow up in school

1/7/2008 3:04:22 AM

I was born because that space shuttle blew up.

I was born very early the next morning (early labor, docs said I was 4-6 weeks early but mom thinks it was more like 2 and the docs were off on their predictions).

That hangs over my head every birthday and I think about it the night before. It's not really a bummer though, it's just sort of odd. It's also never affected my fear of flying because I definitely know I'm not getting on a spaceship when I get on an airplane.

I won't be hopping on a spaceship any time in the future though.

^ You and I are both too young to have watched it in school. I got to watch PETA videos and videos about peak oil though. Farmington Woods was a very odd elementary school in the 90's...

[Edited on January 7, 2008 at 3:08 AM. Reason : ]

1/7/2008 3:08:18 AM

Hahah, you're a shuttle-blowup baby.

1/7/2008 11:09:10 AM

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"they made us watch a space shuttle blow up on tv in 2nd grade"

youngin

1/7/2008 11:14:21 AM