#59

While the English thought they had already won the tournament, the Dutch just shrugged and proceeded to the next round. No big deal.

#60

One year later …

#61

But the public reaction to Diana’s death was the 1st moment I thought “hmmm maybe this country really is broken”

#62

i was in a chalet in sunparks and watched the outright misery of two dutch families in that final whistle - it certainly seemed like a big deal

#63

Is this a football thread thing?

#64

I was at the game. As soon as we found out the score in the other game it was, “OK who are we playing next?”

#65

I suppose I forgot briefly that you aren’t a football thread person when you posted about football…

#66

The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin back in '95 takes some beating, considering what it ushered in - death of the Oslo Accord, 25 years of right-wing politics, second intifada etc. Remember watching it on TV (other than 9/11, the most shocking thing I’ve ever seen live on TV) and even at such a young age I was aware of an ominous foreboding descending.

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#67

Existence is suffering, life is pain, the very moment the cursed day star glanced towards this mossy rock was the beginning of all the bad times.

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#68

When did the first tory slither out of the beast before eating his (it was definitely a he) umbilical and looking for poor people to oppress?

On a personal note probably that Dutch goal against England at euro 96.

#69

We were pretty much fucked once atoms started forming I reckon (380,000 years after the Big Bang)

#70

In fourteen hundred and ninty-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue

#71

My Chemical Romance fan in your teenage years?

#72

Not at all, have I accidentally quoted them??

#73

No idea. Just a very accurate ‘emo’ quote.

#74

Oh, well that’s alright.

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#75

I hated it for what it’s worth. We’re some good McDonald’s tie ins though

#76

1998

#77

about that era when most mosr pcs you logged on to had xp instead of 98

#78

Vietnam