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[Urist Targaryen]

You are obviously not thinking deeply enough. Charlemagne wouldn't have formed the Holy Roman Empire if the regular Roman Empire didn't collapse. And why did the Roman Empire collapse? Because it was attacked by foreign barbarians terrorists during a period of internal destability. Thus terrorism caused 9/11. Checkmate, atheists.

Recently heard an argument that the fall of the Roman Empire was mostly related to disease. Without the Justinian plague, Rome would never have been reduced to the point where a few barbarians could walk in and claim the place. Y. pestis is actually responsible for 9/11.

[Bumber]

You are obviously not thinking deeply enough. Charlemagne wouldn't have formed the Holy Roman Empire if the regular Roman Empire didn't collapse. And why did the Roman Empire collapse? Because it was attacked by foreign barbarians terrorists during a period of internal destability. Thus terrorism caused 9/11. Checkmate, atheists.

Recently heard an argument that the fall of the Roman Empire was mostly related to disease. Without the Justinian plague, Rome would never have been reduced to the point where a few barbarians could walk in and claim the place. Y. pestis is actually responsible for 9/11.

And thus God/evolution was to blame. Checkmate, atheists and/or theists.

[mainiac]

Recently heard an argument that the fall of the Roman Empire was mostly related to disease. Without the Justinian plague, Rome would never have been reduced to the point where a few barbarians could walk in and claim the place. Y. pestis is actually responsible for 9/11.

The Frankish kingdom already ruled France before Justinian was born and long before the plague...

Rome lost control of the west because Majorian was betrayed by the Senate.  And why did they want him dead?  Because he was a christian and they were pagans.  Checkmate secular pagan infidels.

[Bauglir]

god fucking dammit cain

[i2amroy]

Recently heard an argument that the fall of the Roman Empire was mostly related to disease. Without the Justinian plague, Rome would never have been reduced to the point where a few barbarians could walk in and claim the place. Y. pestis is actually responsible for 9/11.

The fall of the Roman Empire was one of those things where the reason it fell basically comes down to all sorts of different shit all hitting the fan at once. No one thing could really be said to have "caused" the fall of the Roman empire, it was only through the combination of several of them hitting it together that they managed to topple it.

[Xantalos]

...honestly I'd forgotten all about it. I probably won't remember it tomorrow.
Sure it was a bad thing that all those people died and those buildings got wrecked, but ... it was 14 years ago. There's a memorial in New York. Not to be blunt, but I don't see why such a big deal's made out of it. For those who had family or friends there I can understand that it was a traumatic event and such, but for it to be all over the news and the internet... I dunno. I never see any other violent attack brought up without fail every year. Columbine, any of the various subway bombings, I'm pretty sure there was a thing in Japan where some guy put toxic gas in the whole system and killed a few thousand people, or if you want to give extreme examples Hiroshima/Nagasaki, though for all I know they're memorialized on a day in Japan.
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People die in terrorist attacks and stuff all the time. Dunno why this one's made such a big deal of.

[Reelya]

They did commemorate Hiroshima in the USA:



http://conelrad.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/atomic-cake-controversy-of-1946.html

The above was actually an official US armed forces get-together to commemorate the bombing with a festive cake.

Being a bit meh about 9/11 remembrance isn't on the same level as jumping up and down and baking happy-twin-towers-day cakes.

[Sheb]

A couple month ago we did have a 9/11 celebration party, but it was mostly because we just happened to have two of those laying around.

[Bohandas]

What kind of cake was it? And how did they get it in that shape? Is there a recipe?

[Frumple]

Usually that sort of construction in confectioneries takes wiring and/or cardboard (/plastic/etc.) as support, iirc. Similar methodology to getting hair to stand up straight and/or in odd shapes. It's not really terribly difficult, it's just unlikely all of the cloud was edible.

[BigD145]

Tissue paper gets the best effect when making clouds.

[SirQuiamus]

*snip*

...and 2 milliseconds later these people were vaporized by a shockwave of superheated cream.