What's the longest period of time a massive news story has past you by?

[Stat Brother]

The question occurs to me on the back of today's earthquake.
Although it's not too long, I didn't know till 4pm, and it would have been a lot longer had Wifey not told me. She couldn't believe I'd not picked up on it, esp as my mum is on a cruise in the region.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I was on a boat drunkenly knocking around the Norfolk Broads the morning the Queen Of All Our Hearts died.

So it was a good few hours after everyone else had woken up that we learned what had happened. On a good note, we were due to return home on the day of the funeral: got back from Norwich to Burgess Hill in less than two hours while the rest of the country stayed in and displayed- in many cases- wildly inappropriate levels of grief. So....every cloud....

 

[Notters]

I was on a boat drunkenly knocking around the Norfolk Broads the morning the Queen Of All Our Hearts died.

So it was a good few hours after everyone else had woken up that we learned what had happened. On a good note, we were due to return home on the day of the funeral: got back from Norwich to Burgess Hill in less than two hours while the rest of the country stayed in and displayed- in many cases- wildly inappropriate levels of grief. So....every cloud....

Hope you had your blue lights on!

 

[Bobby's Gull]

The tsunami that occurred on Christmas Day a few years back, completely passed me by for a couple of days ...

 

[sod1]

The question occurs to me on the back of today's earthquake.
Although it's not too long, I didn't know till 4pm, and it would have been a lot longer had Wifey not told me. She couldn't believe I'd not picked up on it, esp as my mum is on a cruise in the region.

i found out about 3pm while driving home from work, cant believe it wasn't the topic of conversation throughout the premises, considering there were about 400 people on shift !!

 

[The Large One]

About five days between John Peel dying and me hearing about it.

I was in Spain at the time, listening to Billy Bragg and thinking about John Peel.

 

[Everest]

The tsunami that occurred on Christmas Day a few years back, completely passed me by for a couple of days ...

I'm not surprised.
It happened on Boxing Day.

 

[severnside gull]

took about ten years to hear that we would be allowed to build a new stadium


then again, it was the best part of a couple of days before I heard that JFK had died (yeah I know everyone says "I remember exactly where I was when I heard....") because we were moving house and had no tv/radio etc until we had everything sorted.

 

[smudge]

9/11. I was on HMS Ark Royal, off watch just going to the gym, when one of the lads said, "Just heard a plane has flown into the World Trade Centre". I thought just a small plane with some nut job losing his marbles. Then a couple of hours later I went back down the mess to find it crammed with everyone glued to the tv. Only a couple of hours, but it had all happened.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I didn't hear about 9/11 for three hours after the planes hit as I was half way round Hollingbury golf course. We only found out when we walked into the pub afterwards, and everyone in there was silent and staring at the televisions at the footage of the twin towers collapsing.

 

[deletebeepbeepbeep]

9/11- probably for the whole afternoon. Some guy came in and told everyone but he stunk and looked like a mentalist so we ignored him. I didn't realise what had happened until I got home.

 

[Guy Fawkes]

took about ten years to hear that we would be allowed to build a new stadium


then again, it was the best part of a couple of days before I heard that JFK had died (yeah I know everyone says "I remember exactly where I was when I heard....") because we were moving house and had no tv/radio etc until we had everything sorted.

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[Barrel of Fun]

I didn't hear about the gunpowder plot for for almost 400 years.

 

[8ace]

It was a couple of days before I found out old moo head had disappeared

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Lewes flooding (despite living there at the time) I went to work in Brighton, leaving about 7.30 in the morning as normal going in by bus and when i left there was a little surface water at my end of town but nothing too unusual. (didn't hear any warnings or advice not to go to work before i left)

It wasn't until about 4 o'clock when someone said that Lewes had flooded so i left early to try to get back to be told the buses had stopped running and people were turning up from the train station saying the trains had stopped running and were looking for a bus back into Lewes.

Luckily i managed to get a train back (the last one they ran that day) and was surprised when i got back into Lewes to see the the London track completely submerged with the water level was upto the platform

 

[Guy Fawkes]

I didn't hear about the gunpowder plot for for almost 400 years.

Gunpowder plot - what was that ??

 

[Gully]

Gunpowder plot - what was that ??

...boom, boom!

 

[Brighton Boy]

when 9/11 happened i did not find out about it until i got to withdean for the league cup game with Suouthampton. I had been at college all day in lectures and when i got to the withdean their was a very somber atmosphere. A couple of mates told me the news and i was shocked but didnt really take it in until i got home from the game at about 10.45 and saw it on the news.

 

[Durlston]

Probably about two weeks when Alan Shearer signed for Newcastle in 1996 for a record fee at that time of about £15 million. I was in northern Portugal and there were no English newspapers anywhere.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Watergate - was in the wilds of nowhere somewhere in the Lake District and only heard about it 2 weeks later.