9/11 was a huge news story in the UK. It was on the news every night for weeks in the immediate aftermath and we all understood that the events would have a global effect for decades to come. However, I've spoken to people from the middle east who had never heard of 9/11.
Hi its paul from UK, you asked what the rest of the world thought of 9/11... Trust me the world felt for you all when it happened. Love your channel. 👍
I was at work on 911 doing IT support for a Telecommunications Company most people never came in and we where on a skeleton crew. Spent most of the day supporting remote workers who were afraid to travel into work and all meeting were cancelled. Most of the pubs and restaurant that had a TV was full watching the events. Many believed if it is happening in the US it will happen in the UK next as London/UK was use to bombings from terrorist groups like the IRA. It was a very surreal day.
Glad you both took Micky's joke in the context it was meant and didn't throw a wobbler. I was in the City of London (the financial district) and remember a workmate saying 'I'm not sure if this is some sort of joke, but apparently a plane has hit the world trade centre' (of all the sources he could have been getting his news from, it was the chat section of the West Ham United supporters club website!) we all tried to check the news websites (It would have been about 14:00hrs in the UK) and the internet wasn't working - for anyone. Nor were mobile phones and the office phones were patchy. It was a quite a big office, a few thousand people, and just round the corner on our floor there was a big flatscreen with all the market news, FTSE, NASDAQ, DOW etc and they'd flipped it onto BBC News 24...just in time for us to see the second plane hitting. For a split second, we thought they were replaying it but the North tower had smoke pouring out, and now the South tower did too. I had previously worked for Cantor's in the London office and the whole staff in the North Tower were wiped out, including my old boss who'd worked in London for a few years. People were crying, everyone was stunned and furious with 'the perps'. I would have been 21 years old then and I can still remember it as clearly as if it were yesterday. Of the 3000 or so murdered on that day, about 70 or so were Brits, and I think that remains the largest number of Brits ever killed in a terrorist attack - more so than the 7/7 in London. RIP to all (other than the scumbag terrorists). For the Americans in London for work, and the tourists who were stuck due to all the flights being grounded, The Queen ordered that the US National Anthem be played outside Buckingham Palace at during the changing of the guard the next day. ruclips.net/video/gE8ZvcgM1MM/видео.html
I'm in the UK I was at secondary school when first plane hit we got sent home , I lived round corner when I got home the 2nd plane hit live on the news
I was a superintendent at a large golf complex in 9/ 11 in England. We were all devastated. A week later we stopped all golfers everyone in the clubhouse, all staff and had a minutes silence in sympathy.
In the UK, I think we were so sympathetic about 9/11 but also a little bit jaded too as there had been quite a few IRA terrorists bombings for many years. I remember when we lived in Germany as my dad had been posted there and we went on school trips we had the squaddies checking the underneath of the school buses with mirrors for bombs and it just seemed normal to us while we waited.
I was the same born in 1980 my dad was in the RAF posted to germany in 83 to 86 i can remember at 4 years old dad teaching me how to check the car for bombs and he made it into a game for me. It was a bit harder for my family as my dad has a cousin buried at Wegberg cemetary who was killed in a IRA shooting in the late 70's. and later on during our second posting to germany my mom little brother and i barely survived a car bombing when they blew up half of the NAAFI. I joined the British Army in 1997 and was stationed in Germany at the same base my dad was at and where i went to High School when 911 happened i did 1 and half tours in Afghanistan my last tour was cut short after i was Shot in the stomach in an ambush in 2003 it led to me leaving the Army.
A few bombs in England are a drop in the ocean compared to the scourge of British misrule in Ireland over many centuries. Read some history ffs ! Funny how colonisers call people who rebel against them , terrorists. They never question why these people people are fighting against them.
When the 11th of September happened my Unit was in Sierra Leonne training their government forces. Less than a month later, the 6th of October we were in Afghanistan, serving along side your SEAL's, Delta Force, Green Beret's and most importantly lads from the U.S. 10th Mountain. Out of all the initial U.S. forces, the 10th were the only ones who realised that it got cold in the mountains, especially at night.
I was 16 and at work behind a counter, serving customers, when this old man came in the shop and said there has been a terrorist attack on the twin towers it wasn't until I finished work and went home and it was on the news live and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Absolutely terrible my heart went out to you lot! It really did
To put it in perspective. Jo Moore - a special adviser to Tony Blair actually sent an email on September 11th saying that it was 'a good day to bury bad news'
I was at Hampshire Fire & Rescues Headquarters in Southampton having a medical & fitness test when 9/11 happened, I was waiting to be called through and was watching it all unfold on TV in the waiting room. It all just felt so unreal. Great reaction guys, I love your love for Mickey, he is comedy gold. Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
6:13 Surely you mean you _'couldN'T care less?'_ 🤣 For all we know...despite of your protestations, this was an unconscious attempt to tell us you REALLY care about shoes! 🤣
67 fatalities on 9/11 were UK citizens. I still remember watching the second plane going in after I came home from school, at that point we had no idea what was going on. My Mum was telling me that it could of been a pilot mistake but after the second plane, it was obvious something horrific was going on. Was 9 years old at the time & still remember how that day played out. It really changed the world as we know it today. I remember hearing that certain buildings in London were evacuated because they didn't know what was going to happen next after 3 planes were hitting 3 US landmarks in such a short period of time & then the 4th plane not reaching its target. It was scary, we didn't know when a safe point would come. Made everyone paranoid across the world. I remember the next few days on the news, seeing many people from across the US volunteering to help people stuck under the rubble of the destroyed WTC plaza. It lifted many spirits & I remember hearing about the royal guard at Buckingham palace played the US anthem for the stranded US citizens that couldn't get home because of the airport security. (clip might be on RUclips somewhere) But yeah, I loved this video & happy you reacted well of Micky's situation of this moment which makes a funny story but doesn't take away the serious & sensitive topic of what was unfolding.
You looked confused about Mickey having "The Flavour". It's when a guy pops out for a couple of pints with every intention of going home, but quickly gets to the point where the beer tastes amazing and he can't help but talk himself into 'just one more'. Before he knows it, he's had 7 'just one mores' and is drunk as a skunk.
11:51...The face off a man truely impressed....a man took back too childhood when he first saw spiderman handling buisness...the face off true respect... wishing one day he could be batman too.. living in the bat cave with wonder women and gordon ramsey on stand by...a face off happyness... being masked by a face off shock...for self preservation...but its not shock...its respect...love...the love off a younger brother...a look saying "Mickey if you ever need me too do any household tasks just ring me and i will be on the first flight too the U.K..😂
😂Classic and Jodi was a bit classic with the sorry I didn’t hear you joke in the intro 😂 you got to admit Nick timing was impeccable.. 🤣 Classic. I like this Micky Flanagan’s clip, I love them all. My favourite comedian of all time. I see him in a café in Brighton once, I heard he’s voice in a crowded room. Un-mistakable Micky ✌🏽😂
I was at work on 9/11 but it was on tv in our break room I remember walking in from doing a job and seeing the image (only the first plane had hit by then) my initial reaction was Holly shit some air traffic controller is in deep shit right now!
Great post...although risky, sometimes 'gallows' humour can be funny if done carefully, even with the events on the 9th of November 2001. Keep the posts coming😀
We Brits were devastated on 911,make no mistake, 95% of our country are with you now,and always will be. Stay safe and let’s both look after each other. Ps,loved your reaction!
I was in the exact same situation as Micky the day 9/11 happened. I was 19 and went out pubbing and clubbing with my mates instead of meeting my girlfriend. I got home at 2am absolutely smashed and she gave me a proper earful. We slept with the TV on and woke up the next day as 9/11 was going down. All was brushed aside and forgotten. Surreal times.
I think that why Americans see 9/11 as such a huge event was because they hadn't experienced any attack on their country in modern times on that scale before. As others have mentioned, people in the UK, for example, had faced attacks from the IRA for decades. Of course, many other countries had, and still do, face attacks on massive scales. I guess it is what you are used to, and then when something changes, the people are very shocked.
Here in the UK I remember being at work that day and a colleague came to my office and told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. It wasn't until I got home in the evening I saw the footage and the realisation of what had happened. My boyfriend had gone into work at 2.00 pm and saw the live scenes on television and asked his friend "what film is this?" He replied "No, this is actually happening".
My late husband and I (in the UK) sat and cried our eyes out at the footage of 9/11. It hit everyone hard. It was the scale of the thing. As others have said, we were (sort of) accustomed to bombings by the IRA, but this was so huge and so unexpected.
Great reaction as always. 911 will never be forgotten and this sketch brings back the memory and the sorrow. As you say, there are things so terrible that a night out with the boys, not such a big deal when you think about the horrors people suffer
ITS NOT COMPULSARY TO WATCH MICKY FLANNAGEN.. DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE WORLD DIDN'T MOURN WITH YOU... OF COURSE WE MOURNED.. EVER THINK OF HOW MANY OF THE FIREMEN WHO SADLY DIED WERE OF IRISH DESCENT.. R I P.
Great Reaction, as usual. As a single Guy, let me tell the Guys, one solid TRUISM.If a Woman breaks a plan or agreement then(as far as they are concerned) it is only a petty thing and a sweet smile and "sorry" will suffice and there is no need for you, hereafter known as "The Man" to ever mention it again HOWEVER if YOU have the audacity to change anything, without their agreement or permission, then all hell WILL break loose as the Lady will ALWAYS ALWAYS give you one or a list of reasons why you can not do that. A food change will mean they will say they are famished and HAVE to eat, AS PLANNED and there will be a different reason for every change of plan that you make. lol
I was in work on the day of 9/11. as I'm from Ireland it was mid afternoon, I was cleaning up our canteen after the lunch break and had my usual talk radio station on when normal programming was interrupted with the horrifying breaking news, when I got home I watched Sky news till late into the night. 24 hour news channels where a fairly new thing in the UK and Ireland too at the time too. In hindsight, the really scary thing for me was that I had only been in the States 3 weeks before 9/11 to visit a friend in North Carolina, and I took a domestic flight from Dulles Airport to Releigh Durham. and flight 77 would be hijacked from Dulles only 3 weeks later. that fact still haunts me to this day. may they rest in peace
911 for us in the UK was awful, as everyone says we all know exactly where we was and what we was doing, me i was standing in the office looking at a wild fox out of the window, such a horrible time especially for you guys, great review.
Yeah remember it well.. watching it on cnn here in the UK.. remember seeing the second plane strike live.. Will stay with me my whole life.. I was 18 I think
Just to let you know that 9/11 was a huge story in the UK. I was working for an American clothing company back then Based in NY, and within minutes of the news breaking my mobile phone was red hot with relatives and friends checking to see if I was alright. The owner of the company also rang me to tell the staff that if anyone wanted to leave to check on friends and family, they were free to take the rest of the day off. This was a huge clothing company, and I had enjoyed my time working with our American friends, but from that day I got a new perspective on my relationship with the Americans. We all bonded together, and I felt as though I had a completely new Family. Without exception I was welcomed into their homes as a friend, and even though I am now retired I am still in touch with some of my "New Family"
I remember i was on n8ghtshift in the UK. I went home amd watched a bit of sky news. I woke up about 2.30 PM , and the news was on with 9/11. I was still sleepy thinking i must have turned the news to a movie before i fell asleep. I started changing channels, then shocked, i realised it was the news and woke up pretty quick. It was surreal. I had scheduled to go to NY for that Christmas and new year on holiday. I was going to cancel, the thought we had to go as we can't give in to terrorrism.We walked past the ruins, and saw that there was a viewing platform looking over the fence of the ruins.i didn't partake as i thought it was ghoulish, and steered clear. We queued to go tobTimes Square for NYE. The police cordons were very strict as you can expect. It took over an hour to get in. Everyone seemed reasonable with cooperating with the police. I would like to go again, but with all the anti police going on, and crime going unpunished, i won't be back in America any time soon
I was in France on 9/11 on holiday with the family. We had been before but this day started to get odd and very unusual. Gendarmes were suddenly everywhere. As we drove past them, with GB on the back, they took great interest. It wasn't until we returned to the cottage we discovered the terrible destruction in the states. It was all in French but we could see it was a terrorist attack. Even though we are British we were in utter shock. It was a very sad day.
l am in the uk, that day l had just got home from taking my kids to school l put the tv on and could not believe what l was seeing, l sat down in shock. My heart broke for all those people and their loved ones.
I was working nightshift in Australia and I will never forget not only the world had changed forever but the sadness for those who lost their lives and the sympathy for their families and friends. Columbine was horrid aswell. So many lives changed for all the worst reason.
I was home alone and put the tv on, it was on every channel. I did that horrified transfixed thing you do, when you cant quite believe its real. Same reaction to Grenfell, those poor people, their families, the emergency workers/ fire fighters risking life and limb.. :(
UK here, when I first heard about it, it was on the radio at work. They announced that a plane had hit the WTC, but they didn't clarify anything about it, my initial thought was recalling a fairly recent story to that time where some dingbat had crashed a little Cessna into a tower block, and my thought was that someone had done that again. You know, like a guy had been doing one of those tourist flights or something like that, and something went wrong and then bop, or that it was maybe a foggy day and there was some confusion about where Newark or La Guardia was. It was only about an hour or two later someone had set up a TV in another department that it began to be a lot more serious. My main abiding memory from that day and then the day after, was that it was that it was becoming clear that it was terrorist related and roughly who had done it, and you just knew that things were going to kick off in a big way and that it would indeed change the world due to the effect America does have on the rest of us. It really hit home the next day when I was going to work and waiting at the train station, and some kids were there on their way to school looking at the newspaper coverage and in their youthful ignorance were being jovial and light hearted about it, and it aged me quickly as I found myself thinking, that they had no idea about what the world is in for. Whilst the reaction to it was by some knee-jerk, and it did get used far too easily by businesses as a scapegoat to hide failure, the world really hasn't been the same since*. (*Although it really went to hell in a handbasket when they demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet, the world has definetly not been the same since, not to mention Harambe)
Everyone who was around and old enough to understand that day will never forget where they were or what they were doing when they heard. I was fast asleep in my apartment in the republic of Ireland where I had been living and working for about 3 years at the time, I worked a permanent night shift so I was quite 'peed off' by being woken up by my friend phoning me from his work asking if I had my TV on, I 'politely explained' to him that he knows I work nights and knows I would be asleep, he said "put it on now" I asked what channel? he said "it doesn't f-ing matter trust me just turn it on" I turned it on just as they were either showing a replay, or just in time to see the second plane go in, imagine going from fast asleep to seeing that within less than a minute, I actually said to him "WTF, is this a movie?" he said "no I think world war three just started" There were indeed many hundreds of people from every corner of the planet caught up in that horror, over 200 of my fellow Brits lost their lives, and I believe there were also hundreds of innocent Muslim men and women murdered too. ANYWAY, change of topic, I have a great one for you, 'Tommy Tiernan' an Irish chap, his stand up is brilliantly funny, he's been around for ages, in some of his early videos he looks barely out of his teens, and these days he is a father of several has a greying beard and is going bald, he has also appeared in Father ted (as the suicidal priest) and 'Derry girls' and many other things, I rate him as up there with Micky Flanagan. thank me later.
It was plain at the time that 9/11 would be extra traumatic for Americans as you weren't used to such horrific organised terrorism occurring on your home soil
Talking about how the world saw 9 11, there's a very good and apt bit of comedy by a British comedian about the killing of Bin Laden, with a UK take on how some Americans saw that. The video is called 'Stewart Lee - Osama Bin Laden' on the channel 'Jimmy Lee'.
I remember 9/11 happened when I was about 13 or so. Had a morning shower and Mum banged on the bathroom door saying America had been attacked by planes. My Dad at the time was an international pilot so we freaked out a bit. Then I couldn't believe the footage on TV that was on.
9/11. I was in our office on that beautiful day when around 2pm one of my technicians radioed in that a plane had crashed into a tower. We put in a radio for more news. Then a second plane went in. The office was in shock. This is Liverpool UK. I wanted to immediately fly to New York to help with the rescue effort. Then a building collapsed. Then the second one collapsed. The 50+ people in our office felt such a loss. And do helpless. Those people in the towers were doing exactly what we were doing in our office, and outside, a beautiful sunny clear day yet… they weren’t going home. It was very emotional and devastating. We felt we’d lost friends. Very sad.
I was on my way back from lunch in London when 9/11 happened. There was a big crowd outside our office in Hanover Square (behind Oxford Circus) watching Sky News on the big screen TV in our reception area window. I watched the second plane hit thinking initially that it was a replay of the first plane. Everyone was very concerned for our US "cousins". A tragic day. There wasn't much work done that afternoon. We were a joint US-UK company following a massive merger of two similar major companies on either side of the pond, so 9/11 was particularly poignant for us and it resulted in heightened security procedures in case other US-related companies were targeted.
I'm in the UK, and the planes hit in the afternoon here. I'd worked in the morning and was home by the time it started. A neighbour said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre or something, I turned on the TV and watched it pretty transfixed for the rest of the day. I saw the second plane crash live. At first I thought I was just watching a replay of the first crash, had a moment of confusion when I realised the other building was on fire too, and then I knew I'd just seen a second plane crash live. Don't think the newsreader had even realised what had happened to begin with
When 9/11 kicked off, I was at work struggling with a project and when I saw all the other workers crowded around a TV watching some action movie, I was angry that they were slacking while I was struggling. It never occurred to me for a moment that it was real. When I got home and watched the news, that's when I discovered that reality really is stranger than fiction.
I was watching it live on bbc tv. Everything just stopped I phoned my family and was soon at their house. Yeah it was mega. Still in other areas and countries people cheered. That's the way of the world.
The best moment was when the BBC predicted building 7 collapsing, remember, the 3rd building that didn't get hit by anything, the one that held all the evidence about the missing money Donald Rumsfeld announced he was looking for on 9/10, yeah the one most people don't know about.
I think when it comes to rules for teachers in the UK it all depends on either which area you're from or the governing body for the school. For example, the high school I went to in Pontefract, West Yorkshire called Carleton High School and for ages the teachers didn't have as much of a filter as they do now, but we liked the sarcastic teachers. Then it was bought by a school governing body (we call them Trusts) called Pontefract Academies Trust, and from there all the rules changed. They owned all the high schools (Years 7-11/Ages 11-16) and primary schools (Years 1 or reception to year 6/Ages 5 or 3 if there's a reception to age 11) in Pontefract and they wanted the rules for students and teachers to be the same across all the schools and all of a sudden the teachers were acting differently and handling things differently. So in the UK it does depend, but more and more independent schools are being bought by Trusts and having to change how they act. I'm now 20 and love watching your guys' videos in the breaks I have doing my university assignments. Keep them up, and I hope yous reach the 100k goal soon.
OMGosh, so funny! Edgy... but funny! I remember 9-11 from a general UK person's perspective. At work people were saying. No way, that's insane. Like it was a joke or something. More staff saying. Yeah yeah they are all in on some kind of bad taste joke. Then work collegues started going out into the street up the road to the store with the TVs on in the window. And Wow. Like a nightmare. It was all the news was the whole day. It was so dreadful. So yep, maybe in some areas it didn't affect as much, but in my town it was as if it happened to London. And please don't forget we had our bo mm ings (
Lol the phrase "happy as a pig in sh1t" is an old and popular one in UK. Means exactly what it says lol another is "Happy as Larry". We've no idea who Larry is but we know he's at level of happy thats to be considered enviously desirable 😂 Re 911. It brought our nation to a standstill. It was as devastating to us as if it had happened here in London. We stood with you in the grief and the horror. It is however in our nature to find light in darkness and humour is the medicine of our nation. So naturally, our comedians all have some skit or another in their stand ups about it.
We had booked flights to LA, and internal flights to Vegas a few months before 9/11. They grounded all flights in and out of the US when it happened, so we thought our trip wouldn't go ahead. However, flights were allowed from the UK the day before our trip, although we were told the security would be really tight at the airport over there. When we arrived, the security didn't seem any different than in Europe. But we were told that before 9/11, in the States, you could walk on to flights without any checks.
I was working at a library in Sweden that day, Americans started coming in saying “something is happening back home, we need to see what is happening”. Helped them find a TV. Shocking images flooded our brains. It was awful.
In sth London me & some pals were having a pint early doors when the 1st plane hit & they turned the tv up,it took us 5 minutes to comprehend but then the 2nd,many hard men who I’ve known since my youth wept in horror & Itl stay with me forever the shock that rippled thru our community,god bless the victims souls
The movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and specifically the part that focuses onthe events of the day and the aftermath, pretty much sums up ow the rest of the world view 9/11. I think America is the only country that doesn't accept it was an inside job.
Re 9/11, At that time we had endured 30+ years of terrorism which caused the deaths of around 3,500 people much of which had been funded by Americans, but we were still on your side.
I was in America on Holiday on 9/11 and our flight home was the first one out of Atlanta - and I was outside the terminal having a smoke, and when the Bloke next to me realised I Was English - he said to me " Now we know how you English feel " unrelated though. my mum called me to make sure I was ok - 9/11 the following year - she died
I recently watched an archived broadcast from CBS on YT, live as the events of 9/11 unfolded and posted (with the caveat that I'm a Brit) about where I was when I saw the beginning and how tragic it was etc etc. And a reply intimated the same query you had. I responded. Well, I can only speak of the UK (and VERY likely all Commonwealth countries). Yes, it was FULL 'live' coverage. But I imagine Ireland and all other European countries also. And tbh, I always thought the globe as a whole as well, to some extent at least. The US is something of an importance to the globe for better or worse, no? Though tbf, 3,000 civilians being murdered in any country in a matter of a couple of hrs (not to mention the targets and the _modus operandi_ employed). It's bound to make world headline news. 😢 In summary, we overwhelming felt your pain. Truly tragic and truly evil.
On 9/11 all i was thinking about,was getting my gear ready and saying my goodbyes.Where ever the USA goes the UK follows...Same values..God bless all those who died.
His teacher stuff is covered in the "comedy store" videos (part 1 or 2). He was a school teacher briefly, but a while ago. Glad the 9/11 bit didn't offend you or anything, we all felt for you guys in the US here in the UK when it happened. Forget-To-Get-The-Card-Card is another video with his wife similar to this.
At the time I was working as an electrical engineer for a company working for commercial premises (shops, banks etc) that day I was working in a shop called dixons, a TV audio store so basically tvs wall to wall. It came on after the 1st plane and we started watching, it didn't take long before people in the street and adjacent shops some of their staff were coming in to watch it in the shop. When the 2nd plane hit I said they're under attack, one woman laughed at me so I explained that what were the chances of that happening once was remote but 2 about 30 mins apart that's an attack. I used it as an excuse when my boss wanted to know why the job wasn't complete that day, I told him the shop was shoulder to shoulder and heel to toe with people it was impossible to do my job. I knew it was an "oh fuck!" moment attacking America like that, America the country their reaction with their gun ho attitude, whoever is responsible is gonna face some serious shit and America isn't going to care who they piss off or tread over to get to these people. I got that from the pearl harbour attack and the way the entire country was split over what was going on in Europe about getting into a war, after pearl the attitude was war. ✌️🇬🇧
9/11 was one of the most shocking days in my life and it was the same for all British people. I remember couple of the old ladies put up an American and British flag in the shop Window to show solidarity.
I was 16 and had just got back from my first day of Sixth Form and choosing my courses and sat down and just turned the tv on and the news had coverage on the first plane hitting and everyone thinking it was a terrible accident, when the second plane hit my heart sank knowing it was deliberate. I spent the next few days fixed to the TV. On another point I think the UK react differently to terrorism and attacks as the UK’s history is being invaded from the Roman’s, Normans, up to world war 2 with the German bombings then the IRA. I remember so often as a child having to leave an leave the city centre as there was an IRA bomb threat, think Brits very much live by Keep Calm and Carry On.
On 9/11 I was nursing a serious hangover, It was about 2pm UK time (Still in bed!)and had radio on when 1st plane hit so went downstairs to see if on tv which it was, Like most people still thought it was a terrible accident then 2nd plane hit and immediately realised this was deliberate act and probably Terrorists, I watched transfixed for the next 8-10 hrs as events unfolded, When plane struck the Pentagon I honestly thought this is WW3, I'm not a Conspiracy nut but I will never believe the official narrative regarding the way this happened and the precise way the towers came down way too many unanswered questions for me, Tragic day for America and all the victims of this attack (67 British Citizens perished btw) Full Respect to NYPD & NYFD for their sacrifice, A terrible day indeed 🇬🇧❤🇺🇲🙏
My opinion on the events of 11th September 2001 are that it was obviously bad, but that people in the US also placed far too much significance on it. It is far FAR from the worst thing to ever happen, the number of deaths wasn't that high either (although in modern US history I can understand why a generation or two would feel it was). But compared with Hiroshima and Nagasaki... which were attacks solely on civilian populations.... I've never considered it to be the single worst act of terrorism. The Blitz in London by the Germans for that matter, far worse (but sustained rather than a single act). So yeah, I always feel the US took it too much to heart, rather than just rebuilding. Also the additional security at airports as a result of it haven't stopped a single act of terrorism, just slow everything down.
I think the difference was America never had major terrorrism, so they were a bit unprepared. Growing up in the UK, we weren't as outraged as we were used to the IRA on the news.
It’s a weird one in a way. While I understand they were civilians the USA nuked it was to get Japan to surrender at the end of the Second World War The British and the USA jointly did the Dresden bombing where something like 25000 mainly innocent civilians were literally evaporate due to the way we deliberately did the bombing. It might have been on a smaller scale death scale to the two nukes, but it’s often been said that in many ways it can be seen as having a very similar affect. I don’t think we can realistically compare what my country (England), the USA or for that matter any other countries action in ww2 as any sort of justifiable reason for placing too much emphasis on what happened in 9/11, different times and the USA homeland hadn’t seen something like 9/11 in most people’s living memory. There are in my opinion some reasons why people might want to look deeper into the overall cause for the terrorists actions and I firmly believe that a lot of the military action taken by us and the USA was a knee jerk need to be seen to be doing something action, that did far more damage to global stability ending up with a much more dangerous planet as a result. If you look into the global military players, USA, Russia, uk, France etc etc, since Ww2 (way before ww2 really) we have acted like total bullies around the globe, invading here, invading there, usually for some sort of financial gain etc. Maybe, just maybe had these countries not treated other countries with such contempt, 9/11 would never have happened as the USA and other countries wouldn’t have been hated by so many others. Obviously the events of 9/11 were unseen in modern times in western countries and obviously it was a very sad and tragic day. But, the one thing that really gets me is when they say how tragic it is that 2996 people died that day(obviously it is tragic, please bear with me) That year alone 29,573 people were killed in the USA by guns, that equals 2464 a month. Since that year, death rate has always been higher, most years climbing on the previous year, when we get to 2021 the figure is 48,830 or 4069 killed every month, that’s 1073 more people every single month than died in 9/11 But if someone mentions 9/11 to discuss it or say their opinions on it, most usa people don’t want to hear it, don’t we realise how many people died that day, yet many of these same USA folk won’t hear a word said against their right to bear arms, when at the time that amendment was made, a single shot musket was the common weapon yet many Americans try to argue that the right to bear arms gives them the right to have say an uzi. A three year old could use their common sense to say it was obviously written when they had no knowledge or thought of modern guns. So to me yes 9/11 was a very very tragic event, but the average (yearly total gun deaths divided by 12) monthly death rate has steadily been climbing every month since and it appears this is somehow irrelevant to half the population It’s as though those peoples lives that day really matters but sod the 4096 killed every month, they don’t matter
Born & schooled in the UK. In my last year at school which is 15 years of age in the UK. a pre-English test. I'm basically dyslexic so I copied the girl next to me word for word. Week later the results were in and he handed the test papers back out. The grade I received was FD which is bad A being good. The girl I copied got an A-. So I went up to the teacher and asked him how come I got FD and the girl who I copied from got an A-. He gestured with his finger for me to come closer and he whispered in my ear. I knew you was copying FD stands for F#%king disgraceful..😅😂😂😂😂
9/11 mainly impacted the worlds security at airports and the strictness in searches and security questions. There was also a small time in the early/mid 2000s where people would see someone who fit the “description” of what one of the hijacker’s looked like, and it would put people on edge massively. It was a tragic day in history that didn’t go a miss for the rest of the world.
Can anyone answer this lifelong question, especially,in this age of Equality? Why aren't Men ever the Owner of said "Doghouse" and why do Men NEVER send their Women into the "Doghouse? " Is it because all Women are perfect at all times. As a very wise 60+ brilliant Woman said to me "A successful relationship depends on the man deferring and indulging the Woman"....VERY TRUE,in my lifelong experience.
Stewart Lee on 9/11 and Osama Bib Laden might be worth a watch to contrast Micky’s reference. I love Micky’s stuff and Stewart Lee is a genius. But he doesn’t take prisoners.
Can't speak for others you guys but I was in the office that day and the first person picked up on what was happening... over the next few minutes word filtered around, at which point just about everyone was watching in absolute total silence and disbelief. Not much work got done that day 😞
9/11 was a huge news story in the UK. It was on the news every night for weeks in the immediate aftermath and we all understood that the events would have a global effect for decades to come. However, I've spoken to people from the middle east who had never heard of 9/11.
Hi its paul from UK, you asked what the rest of the world thought of 9/11... Trust me the world felt for you all when it happened. Love your channel. 👍
Absolutely I think we all felt for you
I was at work on 911 doing IT support for a Telecommunications Company most people never came in and we where on a skeleton crew. Spent most of the day supporting remote workers who were afraid to travel into work and all meeting were cancelled. Most of the pubs and restaurant that had a TV was full watching the events. Many believed if it is happening in the US it will happen in the UK next as London/UK was use to bombings from terrorist groups like the IRA. It was a very surreal day.
Exactly horrific. Never forget that day
Her Majesty showed what we felt here in the UK.
Glad you both took Micky's joke in the context it was meant and didn't throw a wobbler. I was in the City of London (the financial district) and remember a workmate saying 'I'm not sure if this is some sort of joke, but apparently a plane has hit the world trade centre' (of all the sources he could have been getting his news from, it was the chat section of the West Ham United supporters club website!) we all tried to check the news websites (It would have been about 14:00hrs in the UK) and the internet wasn't working - for anyone. Nor were mobile phones and the office phones were patchy. It was a quite a big office, a few thousand people, and just round the corner on our floor there was a big flatscreen with all the market news, FTSE, NASDAQ, DOW etc and they'd flipped it onto BBC News 24...just in time for us to see the second plane hitting. For a split second, we thought they were replaying it but the North tower had smoke pouring out, and now the South tower did too. I had previously worked for Cantor's in the London office and the whole staff in the North Tower were wiped out, including my old boss who'd worked in London for a few years.
People were crying, everyone was stunned and furious with 'the perps'. I would have been 21 years old then and I can still remember it as clearly as if it were yesterday.
Of the 3000 or so murdered on that day, about 70 or so were Brits, and I think that remains the largest number of Brits ever killed in a terrorist attack - more so than the 7/7 in London. RIP to all (other than the scumbag terrorists). For the Americans in London for work, and the tourists who were stuck due to all the flights being grounded, The Queen ordered that the US National Anthem be played outside Buckingham Palace at during the changing of the guard the next day. ruclips.net/video/gE8ZvcgM1MM/видео.html
Greg Davies was a teacher. He tells a great story on Graham Norton's show about his time as a teacher.
Doesn't he just lol
And Romesh Ranganathan (was a teacher)👍
There do seem to be quite a lot of comedians here who used to be teachers and hated it :)
he tells several in his stand ups
With Jodie Foster, Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling as guests. Still extremely funny after watching it many times😂
I'm in the UK I was at secondary school when first plane hit we got sent home , I lived round corner when I got home the 2nd plane hit live on the news
I was a superintendent at a large golf complex in 9/ 11 in England. We were all devastated. A week later we stopped all golfers everyone in the clubhouse, all staff and had a minutes silence in sympathy.
lol…..it was your Goverment folks.
In the UK, I think we were so sympathetic about 9/11 but also a little bit jaded too as there had been quite a few IRA terrorists bombings for many years.
I remember when we lived in Germany as my dad had been posted there and we went on school trips we had the squaddies checking the underneath of the school buses with mirrors for bombs and it just seemed normal to us while we waited.
I was the same born in 1980 my dad was in the RAF posted to germany in 83 to 86 i can remember at 4 years old dad teaching me how to check the car for bombs and he made it into a game for me. It was a bit harder for my family as my dad has a cousin buried at Wegberg cemetary who was killed in a IRA shooting in the late 70's. and later on during our second posting to germany my mom little brother and i barely survived a car bombing when they blew up half of the NAAFI. I joined the British Army in 1997 and was stationed in Germany at the same base my dad was at and where i went to High School when 911 happened i did 1 and half tours in Afghanistan my last tour was cut short after i was Shot in the stomach in an ambush in 2003 it led to me leaving the Army.
A few bombs in England are a drop in the ocean compared to the scourge of British misrule in Ireland over many centuries. Read some history ffs ! Funny how colonisers call people who rebel against them , terrorists. They never question why these people people are fighting against them.
Im from uk , Was in florida on holiday when 9/11 happened . Iwas 21 years old watching it live on the news , was scary 😞
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When the 11th of September happened my Unit was in Sierra Leonne training their government forces. Less than a month later, the 6th of October we were in Afghanistan, serving along side your SEAL's, Delta Force, Green Beret's and most importantly lads from the U.S. 10th Mountain. Out of all the initial U.S. forces, the 10th were the only ones who realised that it got cold in the mountains, especially at night.
Thank you!
Thank you
I was 16 and at work behind a counter, serving customers, when this old man came in the shop and said there has been a terrorist attack on the twin towers it wasn't until I finished work and went home and it was on the news live and I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Absolutely terrible my heart went out to you lot! It really did
To put it in perspective. Jo Moore - a special adviser to Tony Blair actually sent an email on September 11th saying that it was 'a good day to bury bad news'
I was at Hampshire Fire & Rescues Headquarters in Southampton having a medical & fitness test when 9/11 happened, I was waiting to be called through and was watching it all unfold on TV in the waiting room.
It all just felt so unreal.
Great reaction guys, I love your love for Mickey, he is comedy gold.
Keep up the great work. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
9/11 was awful. I watched it live and I will never forget or forgive that terrible day.
6:13 Surely you mean you _'couldN'T care less?'_ 🤣
For all we know...despite of your protestations, this was an unconscious attempt to tell us you REALLY care about shoes! 🤣
67 fatalities on 9/11 were UK citizens. I still remember watching the second plane going in after I came home from school, at that point we had no idea what was going on. My Mum was telling me that it could of been a pilot mistake but after the second plane, it was obvious something horrific was going on. Was 9 years old at the time & still remember how that day played out. It really changed the world as we know it today. I remember hearing that certain buildings in London were evacuated because they didn't know what was going to happen next after 3 planes were hitting 3 US landmarks in such a short period of time & then the 4th plane not reaching its target. It was scary, we didn't know when a safe point would come. Made everyone paranoid across the world. I remember the next few days on the news, seeing many people from across the US volunteering to help people stuck under the rubble of the destroyed WTC plaza. It lifted many spirits & I remember hearing about the royal guard at Buckingham palace played the US anthem for the stranded US citizens that couldn't get home because of the airport security. (clip might be on RUclips somewhere)
But yeah, I loved this video & happy you reacted well of Micky's situation of this moment which makes a funny story but doesn't take away the serious & sensitive topic of what was unfolding.
You looked confused about Mickey having "The Flavour".
It's when a guy pops out for a couple of pints with every intention of going home, but quickly gets to the point where the beer tastes amazing and he can't help but talk himself into 'just one more'. Before he knows it, he's had 7 'just one mores' and is drunk as a skunk.
11:51...The face off a man truely impressed....a man took back too childhood when he first saw spiderman handling buisness...the face off true respect... wishing one day he could be batman too.. living in the bat cave with wonder women and gordon ramsey on stand by...a face off happyness... being masked by a face off shock...for self preservation...but its not shock...its respect...love...the love off a younger brother...a look saying "Mickey if you ever need me too do any household tasks just ring me and i will be on the first flight too the U.K..😂
I was crying so hard in the UK on 9/11 😢 we are cousins but that made us closer X your pain was ares x love u USA ❤❤❤
😂Classic and Jodi was a bit classic with the sorry I didn’t hear you joke in the intro 😂 you got to admit Nick timing was impeccable.. 🤣 Classic. I like this Micky Flanagan’s clip, I love them all. My favourite comedian of all time. I see him in a café in Brighton once, I heard he’s voice in a crowded room. Un-mistakable Micky ✌🏽😂
I was at work on 9/11 but it was on tv in our break room I remember walking in from doing a job and seeing the image (only the first plane had hit by then) my initial reaction was Holly shit some air traffic controller is in deep shit right now!
Great post...although risky, sometimes 'gallows' humour can be funny if done carefully, even with the events on the 9th of November 2001. Keep the posts coming😀
What happened on the 9th of November? 🤔
American dates are the other way it's September 11th.
We Brits were devastated on 911,make no mistake, 95% of our country are with you now,and always will be. Stay safe and let’s both look after each other. Ps,loved your reaction!
I was in the exact same situation as Micky the day 9/11 happened. I was 19 and went out pubbing and clubbing with my mates instead of meeting my girlfriend. I got home at 2am absolutely smashed and she gave me a proper earful. We slept with the TV on and woke up the next day as 9/11 was going down. All was brushed aside and forgotten. Surreal times.
Excellent auto-generated subtitles for this one. "Welcome back to porn reviews" ! 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Made my morning here. 👍
What a lovely couple you both are,funny,honest,decent and enjoyable,keep going guys.love from the UK.
I think that why Americans see 9/11 as such a huge event was because they hadn't experienced any attack on their country in modern times on that scale before. As others have mentioned, people in the UK, for example, had faced attacks from the IRA for decades. Of course, many other countries had, and still do, face attacks on massive scales. I guess it is what you are used to, and then when something changes, the people are very shocked.
Here in the UK I remember being at work that day and a colleague came to my office and told me that a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre. It wasn't until I got home in the evening I saw the footage and the realisation of what had happened. My boyfriend had gone into work at 2.00 pm and saw the live scenes on television and asked his friend "what film is this?" He replied "No, this is actually happening".
My late husband and I (in the UK) sat and cried our eyes out at the footage of 9/11. It hit everyone hard. It was the scale of the thing. As others have said, we were (sort of) accustomed to bombings by the IRA, but this was so huge and so unexpected.
Great reaction as always. 911 will never be forgotten and this sketch brings back the memory and the sorrow.
As you say, there are things so terrible that a night out with the boys, not such a big deal when you think about the horrors people suffer
ITS NOT COMPULSARY TO WATCH MICKY FLANNAGEN.. DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE THE WORLD DIDN'T MOURN WITH YOU... OF COURSE WE MOURNED.. EVER THINK OF HOW MANY OF THE FIREMEN WHO SADLY DIED WERE OF IRISH DESCENT.. R I P.
Great Reaction, as usual. As a single Guy, let me tell the Guys, one solid TRUISM.If a Woman breaks a plan or agreement then(as far as they are concerned) it is only a petty thing and a sweet smile and "sorry" will suffice and there is no need for you, hereafter known as "The Man" to ever mention it again HOWEVER if YOU have the audacity to change anything, without their agreement or permission, then all hell WILL break loose as the Lady will ALWAYS ALWAYS give you one or a list of reasons why you can not do that. A food change will mean they will say they are famished and HAVE to eat, AS PLANNED and there will be a different reason for every change of plan that you make. lol
I was in work on the day of 9/11. as I'm from Ireland it was mid afternoon, I was cleaning up our canteen after the lunch break and had my usual talk radio station on when normal programming was interrupted with the horrifying breaking news, when I got home I watched Sky news till late into the night. 24 hour news channels where a fairly new thing in the UK and Ireland too at the time too. In hindsight, the really scary thing for me was that I had only been in the States 3 weeks before 9/11 to visit a friend in North Carolina, and I took a domestic flight from Dulles Airport to Releigh Durham. and flight 77 would be hijacked from Dulles only 3 weeks later. that fact still haunts me to this day. may they rest in peace
911 for us in the UK was awful, as everyone says we all know exactly where we was and what we was doing, me i was standing in the office looking at a wild fox out of the window, such a horrible time especially for you guys, great review.
Yeah remember it well.. watching it on cnn here in the UK.. remember seeing the second plane strike live.. Will stay with me my whole life.. I was 18 I think
Just to let you know that 9/11 was a huge story in the UK. I was working for an American clothing company back then Based in NY, and within minutes of the news breaking my mobile phone was red hot with relatives and friends checking to see if I was alright. The owner of the company also rang me to tell the staff that if anyone wanted to leave to check on friends and family, they were free to take the rest of the day off. This was a huge clothing company, and I had enjoyed my time working with our American friends, but from that day I got a new perspective on my relationship with the Americans. We all bonded together, and I felt as though I had a completely new Family. Without exception I was welcomed into their homes as a friend, and even though I am now retired I am still in touch with some of my "New Family"
The Uk lost over 60 people on 9/11. In fact there’s a memorial garden in London for the victims.
I remember i was on n8ghtshift in the UK. I went home amd watched a bit of sky news. I woke up about 2.30 PM , and the news was on with 9/11. I was still sleepy thinking i must have turned the news to a movie before i fell asleep. I started changing channels, then shocked, i realised it was the news and woke up pretty quick. It was surreal.
I had scheduled to go to NY for that Christmas and new year on holiday. I was going to cancel, the thought we had to go as we can't give in to terrorrism.We walked past the ruins, and saw that there was a viewing platform looking over the fence of the ruins.i didn't partake as i thought it was ghoulish, and steered clear. We queued to go tobTimes Square for NYE. The police cordons were very strict as you can expect. It took over an hour to get in. Everyone seemed reasonable with cooperating with the police.
I would like to go again, but with all the anti police going on, and crime going unpunished, i won't be back in America any time soon
fantastic reaction, never saw this vid before, you seemed to understand bits i didnt even get myself and im british lol
I was in France on 9/11 on holiday with the family. We had been before but this day started to get odd and very unusual. Gendarmes were suddenly everywhere. As we drove past them, with GB on the back, they took great interest. It wasn't until we returned to the cottage we discovered the terrible destruction in the states. It was all in French but we could see it was a terrorist attack. Even though we are British we were in utter shock. It was a very sad day.
You was in France?, I'm so sorry it must have been terrible. It's not where you want to be at the best of times!
l am in the uk, that day l had just got home from taking my kids to school l put the tv on and could not believe what l was seeing, l sat down in shock. My heart broke for all those people and their loved ones.
I was working nightshift in Australia and I will never forget not only the world had changed forever but the sadness for those who lost their lives and the sympathy for their families and friends. Columbine was horrid aswell. So many lives changed for all the worst reason.
I was living in adelaide on 9/11 and waking up putting tv on was craziest thing I've ever seen. took a while for it to sink in that this wasn't a joke
I was in dry dock Singapore skiving in my cabin instead of working. A day forever burnt into my memory.
I was home alone and put the tv on, it was on every channel. I did that horrified transfixed thing you do, when you cant quite believe its real. Same reaction to Grenfell, those poor people, their families, the emergency workers/ fire fighters risking life and limb.. :(
Looking through the huge amounts of reviews. Have you reviewed Hale + Pace, Harry Enfield and Chums, The Fast Show. I have others to recommend.
Do yourselves a favour (if you haven't already) watch one of his stand ups from start to finish.
Love your channel guys. 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
UK here, when I first heard about it, it was on the radio at work. They announced that a plane had hit the WTC, but they didn't clarify anything about it, my initial thought was recalling a fairly recent story to that time where some dingbat had crashed a little Cessna into a tower block, and my thought was that someone had done that again. You know, like a guy had been doing one of those tourist flights or something like that, and something went wrong and then bop, or that it was maybe a foggy day and there was some confusion about where Newark or La Guardia was. It was only about an hour or two later someone had set up a TV in another department that it began to be a lot more serious.
My main abiding memory from that day and then the day after, was that it was that it was becoming clear that it was terrorist related and roughly who had done it, and you just knew that things were going to kick off in a big way and that it would indeed change the world due to the effect America does have on the rest of us. It really hit home the next day when I was going to work and waiting at the train station, and some kids were there on their way to school looking at the newspaper coverage and in their youthful ignorance were being jovial and light hearted about it, and it aged me quickly as I found myself thinking, that they had no idea about what the world is in for. Whilst the reaction to it was by some knee-jerk, and it did get used far too easily by businesses as a scapegoat to hide failure, the world really hasn't been the same since*.
(*Although it really went to hell in a handbasket when they demoted Pluto to a dwarf planet, the world has definetly not been the same since, not to mention Harambe)
Everyone who was around and old enough to understand that day will never forget where they were or what they were doing when they heard.
I was fast asleep in my apartment in the republic of Ireland where I had been living and working for about 3 years at the time, I worked a permanent night shift so I was quite 'peed off' by being woken up by my friend phoning me from his work asking if I had my TV on,
I 'politely explained' to him that he knows I work nights and knows I would be asleep, he said "put it on now" I asked what channel? he said "it doesn't f-ing matter trust me just turn it on" I turned it on just as they were either showing a replay, or just in time to see the second plane go in, imagine going from fast asleep to seeing that within less than a minute, I actually said to him "WTF, is this a movie?" he said "no I think world war three just started"
There were indeed many hundreds of people from every corner of the planet caught up in that horror, over 200 of my fellow Brits lost their lives, and I believe there were also hundreds of innocent Muslim men and women murdered too.
ANYWAY, change of topic, I have a great one for you, 'Tommy Tiernan' an Irish chap, his stand up is brilliantly funny, he's been around for ages, in some of his early videos he looks barely out of his teens, and these days he is a father of several has a greying beard and is going bald,
he has also appeared in Father ted (as the suicidal priest) and 'Derry girls' and many other things, I rate him as up there with Micky Flanagan.
thank me later.
It was plain at the time that 9/11 would be extra traumatic for Americans as you weren't used to such horrific organised terrorism occurring on your home soil
The balance of privacy/freedom flew away
Talking about how the world saw 9 11, there's a very good and apt bit of comedy by a British comedian about the killing of Bin Laden, with a UK take on how some Americans saw that. The video is called 'Stewart Lee - Osama Bin Laden' on the channel 'Jimmy Lee'.
I was in tears and total shock to watch 911 on the TV and still upset
I remember 9/11 happened when I was about 13 or so. Had a morning shower and Mum banged on the bathroom door saying America had been attacked by planes. My Dad at the time was an international pilot so we freaked out a bit. Then I couldn't believe the footage on TV that was on.
9/11. I was in our office on that beautiful day when around 2pm one of my technicians radioed in that a plane had crashed into a tower.
We put in a radio for more news. Then a second plane went in. The office was in shock. This is Liverpool UK. I wanted to immediately fly to New York to help with the rescue effort. Then a building collapsed. Then the second one collapsed. The 50+ people in our office felt such a loss. And do helpless. Those people in the towers were doing exactly what we were doing in our office, and outside, a beautiful sunny clear day yet… they weren’t going home.
It was very emotional and devastating. We felt we’d lost friends. Very sad.
I bet that meal at the end of the story contained loads of “Humble Pie” for Mickey
I was on my way back from lunch in London when 9/11 happened. There was a big crowd outside our office in Hanover Square (behind Oxford Circus) watching Sky News on the big screen TV in our reception area window. I watched the second plane hit thinking initially that it was a replay of the first plane. Everyone was very concerned for our US "cousins". A tragic day. There wasn't much work done that afternoon. We were a joint US-UK company following a massive merger of two similar major companies on either side of the pond, so 9/11 was particularly poignant for us and it resulted in heightened security procedures in case other US-related companies were targeted.
I'm in the UK, and the planes hit in the afternoon here. I'd worked in the morning and was home by the time it started. A neighbour said a plane had crashed into the World Trade Centre or something, I turned on the TV and watched it pretty transfixed for the rest of the day. I saw the second plane crash live. At first I thought I was just watching a replay of the first crash, had a moment of confusion when I realised the other building was on fire too, and then I knew I'd just seen a second plane crash live. Don't think the newsreader had even realised what had happened to begin with
When 9/11 kicked off, I was at work struggling with a project and when I saw all the other workers crowded around a TV watching some action movie, I was angry that they were slacking while I was struggling. It never occurred to me for a moment that it was real. When I got home and watched the news, that's when I discovered that reality really is stranger than fiction.
I was watching it live on bbc tv. Everything just stopped I phoned my family and was soon at their house. Yeah it was mega. Still in other areas and countries people cheered. That's the way of the world.
The best moment was when the BBC predicted building 7 collapsing, remember, the 3rd building that didn't get hit by anything, the one that held all the evidence about the missing money Donald Rumsfeld announced he was looking for on 9/10, yeah the one most people don't know about.
In the UK we were shocked, worried and sad when 9/11 happened. I know i felt if that could happen in New York then it could happen anywhere.
I think when it comes to rules for teachers in the UK it all depends on either which area you're from or the governing body for the school. For example, the high school I went to in Pontefract, West Yorkshire called Carleton High School and for ages the teachers didn't have as much of a filter as they do now, but we liked the sarcastic teachers. Then it was bought by a school governing body (we call them Trusts) called Pontefract Academies Trust, and from there all the rules changed. They owned all the high schools (Years 7-11/Ages 11-16) and primary schools (Years 1 or reception to year 6/Ages 5 or 3 if there's a reception to age 11) in Pontefract and they wanted the rules for students and teachers to be the same across all the schools and all of a sudden the teachers were acting differently and handling things differently. So in the UK it does depend, but more and more independent schools are being bought by Trusts and having to change how they act.
I'm now 20 and love watching your guys' videos in the breaks I have doing my university assignments. Keep them up, and I hope yous reach the 100k goal soon.
Him not going home is considerate... it gave his wife a quiet night ❤ that's love
❤from North East England ❤️
OMGosh, so funny! Edgy... but funny!
I remember 9-11 from a general UK person's perspective. At work people were saying. No way, that's insane. Like it was a joke or something. More staff saying. Yeah yeah they are all in on some kind of bad taste joke. Then work collegues started going out into the street up the road to the store with the TVs on in the window. And Wow. Like a nightmare. It was all the news was the whole day. It was so dreadful. So yep, maybe in some areas it didn't affect as much, but in my town it was as if it happened to London. And please don't forget we had our bo mm ings (
Lol the phrase "happy as a pig in sh1t" is an old and popular one in UK. Means exactly what it says lol another is "Happy as Larry". We've no idea who Larry is but we know he's at level of happy thats to be considered enviously desirable 😂
Re 911. It brought our nation to a standstill. It was as devastating to us as if it had happened here in London. We stood with you in the grief and the horror. It is however in our nature to find light in darkness and humour is the medicine of our nation. So naturally, our comedians all have some skit or another in their stand ups about it.
We had booked flights to LA, and internal flights to Vegas a few months before 9/11. They grounded all flights in and out of the US when it happened, so we thought our trip wouldn't go ahead. However, flights were allowed from the UK the day before our trip, although we were told the security would be really tight at the airport over there. When we arrived, the security didn't seem any different than in Europe. But we were told that before 9/11, in the States, you could walk on to flights without any checks.
Re 9/11 I curious about all the New Yorkers who donated money to keep the I.R.A murdering and bombing, felt after they were victims of terrorism.
Crikey keep it light
@@splodge561 Yes, let’s ignore reality and live in Disney world.
He said he was curious about people though in other countries.
I answered. 😀😘
@@rickb.4168 we all live in reality, jeez, cut out the coffee.
@@splodge561 5th Gallon already 😂
@@rickb.4168 yeah sounds like it, why don't go and watch some videos of explosions or something to "keep it real " for yourself.
If you are curious, check out the band at Buckingham Palace, the day after 9/11.
That is a British pub 100000% in the evenings
Micky does allude to his time as a teacher in his stand up somewhere
I was working at a library in Sweden that day, Americans started coming in saying “something is happening back home, we need to see what is happening”. Helped them find a TV. Shocking images flooded our brains. It was awful.
In sth London me & some pals were having a pint early doors when the 1st plane hit & they turned the tv up,it took us 5 minutes to comprehend but then the 2nd,many hard men who I’ve known since my youth wept in horror & Itl stay with me forever the shock that rippled thru our community,god bless the victims souls
The movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and specifically the part that focuses onthe events of the day and the aftermath, pretty much sums up ow the rest of the world view 9/11. I think America is the only country that doesn't accept it was an inside job.
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Re 9/11, At that time we had endured 30+ years of terrorism which caused the deaths of around 3,500 people much of which had been funded by Americans, but we were still on your side.
I was in America on Holiday on 9/11 and our flight home was the first one out of Atlanta - and I was outside the terminal having a smoke, and when the Bloke next to me realised I Was English - he said to me " Now we know how you English feel " unrelated though. my mum called me to make sure I was ok - 9/11 the following year - she died
The more sarcastic the teacher in the UK, the more they're liked...
I recently watched an archived broadcast from CBS on YT, live as the events of 9/11 unfolded and posted (with the caveat that I'm a Brit) about where I was when I saw the beginning and how tragic it was etc etc. And a reply intimated the same query you had. I responded.
Well, I can only speak of the UK (and VERY likely all Commonwealth countries). Yes, it was FULL 'live' coverage.
But I imagine Ireland and all other European countries also. And tbh, I always thought the globe as a whole as well, to some extent at least.
The US is something of an importance to the globe for better or worse, no?
Though tbf, 3,000 civilians being murdered in any country in a matter of a couple of hrs (not to mention the targets and the _modus operandi_ employed). It's bound to make world headline news. 😢
In summary, we overwhelming felt your pain. Truly tragic and truly evil.
Perfect comment it's not the country it's the group of people
Best save of all time (group not country lol)
On 9/11 all i was thinking about,was getting my gear ready and saying my goodbyes.Where ever the USA goes the UK follows...Same values..God bless all those who died.
His teacher stuff is covered in the "comedy store" videos (part 1 or 2). He was a school teacher briefly, but a while ago. Glad the 9/11 bit didn't offend you or anything, we all felt for you guys in the US here in the UK when it happened. Forget-To-Get-The-Card-Card is another video with his wife similar to this.
Do Russell Kane! Both Apollo clips are worth checking out, they’re about 10 minutes.
At the time I was working as an electrical engineer for a company working for commercial premises (shops, banks etc) that day I was working in a shop called dixons, a TV audio store so basically tvs wall to wall. It came on after the 1st plane and we started watching, it didn't take long before people in the street and adjacent shops some of their staff were coming in to watch it in the shop. When the 2nd plane hit I said they're under attack, one woman laughed at me so I explained that what were the chances of that happening once was remote but 2 about 30 mins apart that's an attack. I used it as an excuse when my boss wanted to know why the job wasn't complete that day, I told him the shop was shoulder to shoulder and heel to toe with people it was impossible to do my job. I knew it was an "oh fuck!" moment attacking America like that, America the country their reaction with their gun ho attitude, whoever is responsible is gonna face some serious shit and America isn't going to care who they piss off or tread over to get to these people. I got that from the pearl harbour attack and the way the entire country was split over what was going on in Europe about getting into a war, after pearl the attitude was war. ✌️🇬🇧
9/11 was awful for all. My sister’s friend from Dublin had a morning coffee with her sister, went to work, and was never seen again. Tragic.
9/11 was one of the most shocking days in my life and it was the same for all British people.
I remember couple of the old ladies put up an American and British flag in the shop Window to show solidarity.
I was 16 and had just got back from my first day of Sixth Form and choosing my courses and sat down and just turned the tv on and the news had coverage on the first plane hitting and everyone thinking it was a terrible accident, when the second plane hit my heart sank knowing it was deliberate. I spent the next few days fixed to the TV.
On another point I think the UK react differently to terrorism and attacks as the UK’s history is being invaded from the Roman’s, Normans, up to world war 2 with the German bombings then the IRA. I remember so often as a child having to leave an leave the city centre as there was an IRA bomb threat, think Brits very much live by Keep Calm and Carry On.
Frankie Boyle you reacted to a while back was a teacher for years before his comedy profession.
On 9/11 I was nursing a serious hangover, It was about 2pm UK time (Still in bed!)and had radio on when 1st plane hit so went downstairs to see if on tv which it was, Like most people still thought it was a terrible accident then 2nd plane hit and immediately realised this was deliberate act and probably Terrorists, I watched transfixed for the next 8-10 hrs as events unfolded, When plane struck the Pentagon I honestly thought this is WW3, I'm not a Conspiracy nut but I will never believe the official narrative regarding the way this happened and the precise way the towers came down way too many unanswered questions for me, Tragic day for America and all the victims of this attack (67 British Citizens perished btw) Full Respect to NYPD & NYFD for their sacrifice, A terrible day indeed 🇬🇧❤🇺🇲🙏
What people forget is 9/11,in terms of victims,was also britains largest terrorist attack.
Every cloud and all that
My opinion on the events of 11th September 2001 are that it was obviously bad, but that people in the US also placed far too much significance on it. It is far FAR from the worst thing to ever happen, the number of deaths wasn't that high either (although in modern US history I can understand why a generation or two would feel it was). But compared with Hiroshima and Nagasaki... which were attacks solely on civilian populations.... I've never considered it to be the single worst act of terrorism. The Blitz in London by the Germans for that matter, far worse (but sustained rather than a single act). So yeah, I always feel the US took it too much to heart, rather than just rebuilding. Also the additional security at airports as a result of it haven't stopped a single act of terrorism, just slow everything down.
I think the difference was America never had major terrorrism, so they were a bit unprepared. Growing up in the UK, we weren't as outraged as we were used to the IRA on the news.
@@gavintimson5940 There's that too yeah.
It’s a weird one in a way. While I understand they were civilians the USA nuked it was to get Japan to surrender at the end of the Second World War
The British and the USA jointly did the Dresden bombing where something like 25000 mainly innocent civilians were literally evaporate due to the way we deliberately did the bombing. It might have been on a smaller scale death scale to the two nukes, but it’s often been said that in many ways it can be seen as having a very similar affect.
I don’t think we can realistically compare what my country (England), the USA or for that matter any other countries action in ww2 as any sort of justifiable reason for placing too much emphasis on what happened in 9/11, different times and the USA homeland hadn’t seen something like 9/11 in most people’s living memory.
There are in my opinion some reasons why people might want to look deeper into the overall cause for the terrorists actions and I firmly believe that a lot of the military action taken by us and the USA was a knee jerk need to be seen to be doing something action, that did far more damage to global stability ending up with a much more dangerous planet as a result.
If you look into the global military players, USA, Russia, uk, France etc etc, since Ww2 (way before ww2 really) we have acted like total bullies around the globe, invading here, invading there, usually for some sort of financial gain etc.
Maybe, just maybe had these countries not treated other countries with such contempt, 9/11 would never have happened as the USA and other countries wouldn’t have been hated by so many others.
Obviously the events of 9/11 were unseen in modern times in western countries and obviously it was a very sad and tragic day.
But, the one thing that really gets me is when they say how tragic it is that 2996 people died that day(obviously it is tragic, please bear with me)
That year alone 29,573 people were killed in the USA by guns, that equals 2464 a month.
Since that year, death rate has always been higher, most years climbing on the previous year, when we get to 2021 the figure is 48,830 or 4069 killed every month, that’s 1073 more people every single month than died in 9/11
But if someone mentions 9/11 to discuss it or say their opinions on it, most usa people don’t want to hear it, don’t we realise how many people died that day, yet many of these same USA folk won’t hear a word said against their right to bear arms, when at the time that amendment was made, a single shot musket was the common weapon yet many Americans try to argue that the right to bear arms gives them the right to have say an uzi. A three year old could use their common sense to say it was obviously written when they had no knowledge or thought of modern guns.
So to me yes 9/11 was a very very tragic event, but the average (yearly total gun deaths divided by 12) monthly death rate has steadily been climbing every month since and it appears this is somehow irrelevant to half the population
It’s as though those peoples lives that day really matters but sod the 4096 killed every month, they don’t matter
I went to the same as Micky in the east end we all talk the same my partner after 30 years still can't understand the things I say
Born & schooled in the UK. In my last year at school which is 15 years of age in the UK. a pre-English test. I'm basically dyslexic so I copied the girl next to me word for word. Week later the results were in and he handed the test papers back out. The grade I received was FD which is bad A being good. The girl I copied got an A-. So I went up to the teacher and asked him how come I got FD and the girl who I copied from got an A-. He gestured with his finger for me to come closer and he whispered in my ear. I knew you was copying FD stands for F#%king disgraceful..😅😂😂😂😂
Just to clarify mickey did begin training as a teacher but never perused it as a career
9/11 mainly impacted the worlds security at airports and the strictness in searches and security questions. There was also a small time in the early/mid 2000s where people would see someone who fit the “description” of what one of the hijacker’s looked like, and it would put people on edge massively.
It was a tragic day in history that didn’t go a miss for the rest of the world.
He's doing a new tour at the moment so new material on route aswel
Can anyone answer this lifelong question, especially,in this age of Equality?
Why aren't Men ever the Owner of said "Doghouse" and why do Men NEVER send their Women into the "Doghouse? "
Is it because all Women are perfect at all times.
As a very wise 60+ brilliant Woman said to me "A successful relationship depends on the man deferring and indulging the Woman"....VERY TRUE,in my lifelong experience.
You saying about teachers my normal teacher in school used drink with my dad at the pub, every lunchtime and believe me it didn't do me any favours
People you need to understand how this comedy works.
Stewart Lee on 9/11 and Osama Bib Laden might be worth a watch to contrast Micky’s reference. I love Micky’s stuff and Stewart Lee is a genius. But he doesn’t take prisoners.
You sure it was a clothes shop and not a dry cleaners?
9/11 blew my mind. I thought it was all going to kick off ww3. I bought all the news papers and still have them. Etched in my memory for ever.
Can't speak for others you guys but I was in the office that day and the first person picked up on what was happening... over the next few minutes word filtered around, at which point just about everyone was watching in absolute total silence and disbelief. Not much work got done that day 😞
We in the UK were traumatised of the 911 desolation.