Significant event

[cheeky101]

Hey people! what do you consider to be the single most significant event of the last 10 years and why? In my opinion i would probably say the fall of the twin towers as this lead to war, controversies about religion, terrorist activity.

What about you guys?

thanks!

[snappythe3rd]

personally the dunblane massacre, I kow it's not answering your question, but it devastated the country.

To think your children weren't safe....

[snappythe3rd]

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1990-1999/Story/0,6051,112749,00.html

Nothing more to say....

[snappythe3rd]

apart from this quote

A governor at the school, Gerry McDermott, said he had comforted a distressed teacher, Stuart McCombie, who had rushed to the gymnasium after the shooting. "Stuart told me they were looking up at him with their wee eyes, slowly changing colour as the blood drained from their faces and they died in his arms. He said the room was just awash with blood.

[Oneeyedvic]

Personally significant - the fact that labour got back into power despite all the lies and deceit - it inreased my cynicsm with the general public.

 

Globally significant - would go along with you cheeky - the twin towers for pretty much the same reasons - as well as raising the profile of civil liberty degradation.

[stellaqueen]

yes, twin towers was devastating, how about the Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004?

[january_bug]

So we mean the most significant event globally?

Nationally, I'd have to say Labour's election in 1997, although Dunblane does deserve a mention (or three I suppose! :-p)  A close second would be 7th July - the first major terrorist attack on England for at least 5 years (someone correct me, I haven't time to check my facts).

Internationally I think the Twin Towers and Katrina, for showing the vulnerablility of the USA, and especially the former for truly demonstrating that money can't buy you safety and hapiness.  Obviously also for the consequences cheeky mentioned. 

[surfer mike]

OH 9/11 without a doubt!!!!

Personally I could say labours election in 97 and list the reasons why i was glad to see the back of the tories, including corruption, abuse of power, lies deceit, selling arms to tyrants like saddam without telling parliament, oh gawd there's too many to list ...but then that would just give one or two carte blanche to turn this into yet another evil blair iraq thread, which would be a shame..but then if i didn't mention it, they'd still bring it up sometime, so what the heck...

[january_bug]

True true mike!  Oh, and just to clarify, I didn't mean tha tI was happy about the election victory necessarily (might have been, might not!) just that politically, the fact that we've had them for 8 of the last 10 years makes it seem pretty significant to me!

[Oneeyedvic]

mike - lucky there has been no corruption, abuse of power, lies, deceit or selling weapons to tyrants since 1997 then.

Postings like that is why I feel disillusioned with politics.

[surfer mike]

A lot less lies and deceit that preceded the previous 18 years...

Postings like mine make you disillusioned!!!

Its about opinions mate we all have them and they vary as regards the issues, its called democracy. 

Disillusioned is the most overused word in politics.

It'll be used again when the next government [probably a tory one] will get elected..

[loudickson71]

death of pope JPII. Oh no wait. Just got replaced by another nazi.

[Haggisdj]

.. the death of Thatcher, or was that just a good dream ??

[metagirl]

I would say twin towers, but actually its George W Bush getting elected in 2000 that has made the most impact.

Also, the dollar falling below the Euro. And staying there.

[qapmoc]

On the subject of terrorism,  2986 people died on 9/11 in the twin towers, sad yes.  But in the USA on average each year 42000 persons die in road accidents and the number of seriously injured is even higher.    Seems to be that terrorism is just a excuse to get the population to let you do what you want around the world.

[Aschenbach]

It's telling that people have thus far chosen almost exclusively negative examples such as disasters and terrorism. I don't think the event which has led to the most death should automatically be the deemed the most significant.

Perhaps the rough draft of the human genome announced in 2000 will, in the future, prove to be more significant than how much spin the government of this small island puts on events. Alternatively, the G8 Summit and consequent aid/ debt cancellation could significantly change life in Africa.

The significance of Newton or Darwin's theories was not fully understood until decades after publication.

[Fatty]

Is this a question you happened to find on an application form? Think it rings a bell since I need to answer the exact same question!

Anyway...cheating's good as long as you get away with it! I'd have to say that it was when I managed to eat four Big Macs on the trot.

[CherrySoda]

yes it is on the application for Rainey Kelly Campbell! I am trying to think of something original to write for that....who else is applying for that on here!?