So You Heard Osama Bin Laden Was Killed... (Poll)
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A friend on ventrilo told me. He just got out of the army a couple months ago, and one of his friends who's still over there called him apparently. I googled it to make sure.
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Well, actually I heard it first on the forums. Then I went onto Gawker. And then I went to CNN.
Then my brother turned the TV onto NBC.
Then my brother turned the TV onto NBC.
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My friend sent me a message over Gmailchat. Then I came here to confirm.
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Got the news right here at Stardestroyer.net
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Facebook.
It was status after status after status. Hell, one person even sent me an IM about it. It got annoying, but after a while all these different jokes kept popping up and funny images about it.
I even suggested that they might want to switch the release dates of Captain American and Thor.
It was status after status after status. Hell, one person even sent me an IM about it. It got annoying, but after a while all these different jokes kept popping up and funny images about it.
I even suggested that they might want to switch the release dates of Captain American and Thor.
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Here. I heard Obama was asking for air time and I checked in at N&P at the appropriate time while chatting on AIM.
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I got a call from my brother about it 3 minutes before I got the news alert from CNN on my droid.
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I heard about it from a friend half way to our destination.
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I do have to say, I am looking forward to Jon Stewarts take on the whole thing.
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"The captain claimed our people violated a 4,000 year old treaty forbidding us to develop hyperspace technology. Extermination of our planet was the consequence. The subject did not survive interrogation."
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And I am looking forward to Maher's.
Some of you are kinda missing the point of this thread. I wasn't asking who told you first or how you first heard the information, but once you heard it, THEN where did you go to get your information.
Some of you are kinda missing the point of this thread. I wasn't asking who told you first or how you first heard the information, but once you heard it, THEN where did you go to get your information.
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Ditto.Lonestar wrote:Radio. I was driving into work.
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Well then I guess I got most of the information from the speech.Havok wrote:And I am looking forward to Maher's.
Some of you are kinda missing the point of this thread. I wasn't asking who told you first or how you first heard the information, but once you heard it, THEN where did you go to get your information.
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I first saw the news on the Youtube sidebar. There was the Whitehouse channel video of the speech, which I promptly watched. Then I navigated over here and started reading.
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I went from here to the big news sites - CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, etc.Havok wrote:Some of you are kinda missing the point of this thread. I wasn't asking who told you first or how you first heard the information, but once you heard it, THEN where did you go to get your information.
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I literally stumbled over the news. I'd logged onto the internet, happened to be on Google when I saw the notice that there was going to be a surprise presidential address that night and went to the C-Span website to get the live stream. They were running a rebroadcast of the day's Washington Journal programme to fill the time before the president's remarks when they flashed a caption at the bottom of the screen: "Reports confirm Osama BinLaden dead". My jaw just about dropped to the floor.
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Ok, i first got it on Deutschlandradio and then got it from Deutschlandradio as well. I had to drive 8 hours that day and got all my information from Deutschlandradio. That is Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur as I avoid all other channels because the others are crappy private channels which are infested with idiots, jingles and commercials.
When i got home i read spiegel.de and watches some clips about it on youtube which were from various American news channels IIRC.
When i got home i read spiegel.de and watches some clips about it on youtube which were from various American news channels IIRC.
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I was busy fucking your mom when I heard it on the radio.Havok wrote:I'm curious, in this new age of cell phone communication, where you turned when you heard the news?
The old horses? ABC, NBC and CBS?
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The internet?
Just social media? Facebook, Twitter, etc.?
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I saw some stuff on Facebook about Osama, so I then switched on the television to CNN and found out about it there.
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I actually found out about it by reading another news article on CNN - I saw the headlines for the increase in the state department travel warnings, and thought, "what stupid shit did the government do to piss people off now?" I had no idea what the fuck they were talking about when they were saying, "due to recent significant counter-terrorism action...."
It only slowly dawned on me, and then my jaw just kind of hit the floor.
It only slowly dawned on me, and then my jaw just kind of hit the floor.
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Read it here. I don't follow the news as much as I should, would take a lot of time I don't bother to waste. Never bothered to look it up much, as I don't care that much for it.
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I heard first from my Mum in the afternoon, laughed it off as I could barely believe it, then switched on the TV. The ugly bastard's face was plastered over the screen with words 'killed' 'Laden' 'Bin' and 'Osama'. Maybe not in that order, but I didn't care, I had to retrieve a spoon to scrape my jaw off the floor.
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Checked my facebook in the morning, saw a few mentions, checked the beeb....and the rest is obvious.
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Learned about it first from the Internet, listed to Obama's speech via live stream, then switched on Fox News to watch them squirm at having to report the truth.
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First from, off all places, a FF which mentioned it on the bottom. I then checked CNN.com.
After scrapping my jaw off the ground with a spatula, I hit Facebook to make the obligatory post, and saw all the requisite confirmatory posts.
After scrapping my jaw off the ground with a spatula, I hit Facebook to make the obligatory post, and saw all the requisite confirmatory posts.
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