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Re: London is being bombed
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Well I guess thats all opposition to ID cards and similar measures effectively eliminated then.
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Well a lot of the political fallout will depend on who (exactly) did it. Obviously general anti-Islam sentiment will probably increase, and more generally people will demand the police have "sweeping new powers" or something similar, but the devil is in the details.
If it's "illegal" immigrants then no doubt that'll put pressure on the government to ID card everyone.
If it's asylum seekers then people will be encouraged to take "a tough line" there, perhaps deporting anyone who isn't successful in their asylum claim after 10 seconds or something.
If it's naturalised citizens of the UK then no doubt we'll get something about "the lost generation of British muslims who hate freedom!!!".
Etc.
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7 Jul 2005, 14:41
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Re: London is being bombed
im hearing 40-50 ish dead (so far)
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Well I guess thats all opposition to ID cards and similar measures effectively eliminated then.
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do you think if we bothered telling them that in the long term the government can damage british society far more than a bunch of crackpot extremists and that i doubt whoever did this 'stood out' enough for id cards to be effective in the time they took to carry the bombs to their targets, they'd listen?
ive stopped watching the news now, ill watch the bulletins later but i don't need 5 news stations picking over the bones with reporters reporting that they don't really know anything.
ps nice to know everyones safe (hopefully) <3
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7 Jul 2005, 14:46
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Re: London is being bombed
This might mean another wave of crusades against "terrorist nations" depending on who what where etc
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Re: London is being bombed
Hearing from people at Canary Warf they're being told suicide bomber thing is a hoax. Don't know what to think at the minute.
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Re: London is being bombed
Transport Latest;
- Tubes and Docklands Light Railway suspended for the rest of the day.
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- Buses in Zone 1 still suspended. Buses outside Zone 1 operating with reduced service.
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7 Jul 2005, 14:51
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Re: London is being bombed
I'm alive, thankfully.
I'd usually have been quite near to Edgeware Road station since my shop is just around the corner, but the stabbing kept me off work.
Contacted as many people as I can, seems all of my friends are ok and werent caught up in things, but things could have been a lot worse.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Ragnarak
Hearing from people at Canary Warf they're being told suicide bomber thing is a hoax. Don't know what to think at the minute.
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Looks like it, Google News shows no reports from other news services.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Rids
I'm alive, thankfully.
I'd usually have been quite near to Edgeware Road station since my shop is just around the corner, but the stabbing kept me off work.
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i never have before and never will again
laugh this hard at a stabbing
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Re: London is being bombed
ay,
What's Blair doing heading to London anyway?
Didn't he learn how to react from Bush 4 years ago? And if he hadn't been paying attention, he had Bush right there to help him out. All you've got to do as a leader in a time of crisis is completely disappear for days. Make no appearances, even if just a live video feed (though you can release bin-Ladenesque video every day or so as long as it doesn't say anything more definite than "bad may have occurred, and we may have people who are trying to determine if that is the case"). Reappear once everything has settled down, and take credit for everything that happened in your absence, and make damn sure to have a photo op with every single person involved in the search and rescue. Then make a speech strongly denouncing EVIL and you're set for life. Yes, it's tough being a leader, but now that someone's already shown the way...
PS: Did you all realize this means we have to stay the course on Iraq
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That we're winning the war on terrorism?
Cuz that's what I'm going to hear for the next few weeks. Over and over and over and over and over.
PPS: I have some friends in London right now (as I'm sure you all do). Feel a little dirty hoping the dead are other people's friends and families (as opposed to mine).
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7 Jul 2005, 15:16
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Re: London is being bombed
Bush made a speech shortly after the 9/11 thing iirc, wasnt he in a school somewhere?
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7 Jul 2005, 15:20
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Re: London is being bombed
Every single thing said by a "leader" at a key moment will be criticised by someone anyway. Wasn't the Gettysburg Address lambasted in the press at the time as a bad speech? (not comparing the two of course)
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Re: London is being bombed
Going on the train home now. Laters.
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Re: London is being bombed
I remember thinking Guile's speech in streetfighter 2: the movie was awesome at the time. And the Freedom! speech from Braveheart generally went down well. A lot of people enjoyed Churchill's WW2 speeches although I dont really understand why since although some extracts are undeniably great ("this will be our finest hour!"), when you actually listen to an audio of him delivering the speech as a whole it's kind of dull.
I have quite a lot of mp3s of various speeches from history, some of them are pretty
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Rids
I'm alive, thankfully.
I'd usually have been quite near to Edgeware Road station since my shop is just around the corner, but the stabbing kept me off work.
Contacted as many people as I can, seems all of my friends are ok and werent caught up in things, but things could have been a lot worse.
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I was actually on the suspended train by there...heh....lucky to have dodged it tbh.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Bush made a speech shortly after the 9/11 thing iirc, wasnt he in a school somewhere?
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Yep, Michael Moore really exploited that in Farhenheit 911.
He was reading some book to a group of kids and just kept going. (Apparently)
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Re: London is being bombed
Oh, I misread your post. If you just mean that at least one person will complain even if most people approve, then thats just a specific application of the First Law of Internet Forums ("everything posted on an internet forum, no matter how stupid or how brilliant, will be supported and condemened by at least one person").
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7 Jul 2005, 15:39
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Re: London is being bombed
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I have quite a lot of mp3s of various speeches from history, some of them are pretty
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So do i
The greatest speeches of the twenteith century, if you listen to them you realise how much you've only become used to the sound bites taken from them, for instance mlk's 'i have a dream speech' starts pretty boringly.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Nodrog
Bush made a speech shortly after the 9/11 thing iirc, wasnt he in a school somewhere?
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you're right.
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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Every single thing said by a "leader" at a key moment will be criticised by someone anyway.
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noone criticized anyone for anything for months after 9/11.
there was a very strong push towards 'let's blame this on the mass murdering bastards' (which i approved of)
[edit]maybe airport security got frowned on
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Re: London is being bombed
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he was in a florida elementery school when it happened. from there he got on a plane.
no speech.
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He did give a speech; I remember watching it. It was obviously impromptu and only a minute and a half (and Bush is not a good public speaker to begin with), so maybe that's why you forgot it.
You can see the text and listen to the audio here.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Tactitus
He did give a speech; I remember watching it. It was obviously impromptu and only a minute and a half (and Bush is not a good public speaker to begin with), so maybe that's why you forgot it.
You can see the text and listen to the audio here.
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i found out about the attacks at 9:35ish.
and went home.
and watched tv for 48 hours straight.
you know news people just repeat the exact same shit over and over and over again if they don't find out anything new?
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7 Jul 2005, 16:05
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Re: London is being bombed
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Wasn't the Gettysburg Address lambasted in the press at the time as a bad speech? (not comparing the two of course)
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Yep - and it was almost never given. Lincoln was invited, more or less as an afterthought, to give an address four and a half months after the battle had taken place.
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7 Jul 2005, 16:06
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Re: London is being bombed
Police say 33 confirmed dead and only four explosions now
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Re: London is being bombed
they reckon it's more than 33 now. Don't know how high it'll rise.
I can't see it going over 100 though.
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Re: London is being bombed
according to BBC atm more than 33 dead and 180 in hospital with varying degrees of injury
also: according to the coppers in the press conference thats just been on the BBC, there was nothing happening at canary wharf
although also according to the BBC heathrow terminal 3 has been evacuated
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by roadrunner_0
according to BBC atm more than 33 dead and 180 in hospital with varying degrees of injury
also: according to the coppers in the press conference thats just been on the BBC, there was nothing happening at canary wharf
although also according to the BBC heathrow terminal 3 has been evacuated
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7 Jul 2005, 17:27
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Re: London is being bombed
The BBC have gone back to "at least two" dead.
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Re: London is being bombed
im suprised they aren't just saying 'more than 1', for all the definate info they appear to have.
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Re: London is being bombed
I have been watching fox news on the bombings.
Best. Sitcom. Ever.
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Re: London is being bombed
By the way, should you be at the G8 summit the French for "Did you bomb us?" is:
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Est-ce que vous nous avez bombardés?
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Re: London is being bombed
I can remember all of the pieces of shit on this forum that laughed and poked fun in the Sept 11 posts, I think I'll refrain and say something like "Today's events were unfortunate and I hope it doesn't get any worse."
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Re: London is being bombed
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I can remember all of the pieces of shit on this forum that laughed and poked fun in the Sept 11 posts, I think I'll refrain and say something like "Today's events were unfortunate and I hope it doesn't get any worse."
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I doubt you'd find many, if any, of those people still using these forums.
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Re: London is being bombed
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I have been watching fox news on the bombings.
Best. Sitcom. Ever.
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Do tell.
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7 Jul 2005, 17:50
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Re: London is being bombed
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I doubt you'd find many, if any, of those people still using these forums.
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Heh, now it's rare to see anyone AT ALL using the forums
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by Cuddley_Battleship
I can remember all of the pieces of shit on this forum that laughed and poked fun in the Sept 11 posts, I think I'll refrain and say something like "Today's events were unfortunate and I hope it doesn't get any worse."
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I imagine london itself will start producing jokes pretty soon.
I've already been giggling with people, including people who are definately not spies, about the spastic message produced by the group claiming responsibility and wondering if house prices might go down. Our dear leader is also a source of amusement.
You should never underestimate England. She is a curious country and few foreigners can understand her mind.
Comedy will certainly be the main weapon london will use to ignore this attack and get back to normal.
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Re: London is being bombed
To be honest a lot of the "9/11 NEVER FORGET !" posts deserved to be laughed at.
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Re: London is being bombed
The bombing of London makes me fell bad.
If it were Paris, I am sorry to say, it would make me feel smug.
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Re: London is being bombed
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If it were Paris, I am sorry to say, it would make me feel smug.
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If you were paris, i'd comment that you'd put on weight.
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Re: London is being bombed
there are bits of london i wish would get blown up ...
Paris is a beautiful city. it's just that the french wrongly occupy it.
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Re: London is being bombed
maybe we can swap the crap bits of london for paris.
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Re: London is being bombed
judge, now cudley battleship, the bombing is bringing them back!
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Re: London is being bombed
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judge, now cudley battleship, the bombing is bringing them back!
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Mabye if we blow up the trailer park in Hicksville, USA, DavinBrahm will come back and laugh heartily at our misfortune.
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Re: London is being bombed
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Mabye if we blow up the trailer park in Hicksville, USA, DavinBrahm will come back and laugh heartily at our misfortune.
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Didn't we already get a fake DavinBrahm for a while.
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Re: London is being bombed
The United States News is reporting that there are 37 dead, and over 700 injured O.o
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Re: London is being bombed
We were watching the news onboard my submarine today.
Hope none of you or your families or your friends are hurt.
"Get well soon, London."
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Re: London is being bombed
best bit of this whole thing I heard is a story from the pubs. the workers and so on, after being evacuated from the tube, went to the pubs to have a drink, and despite knowing this was a terrorist attack and so on, just carried on chatting about work, with the exception of the PM's speech, where they listened.
London will be back to normal by monday. that's two fingers up to the terrorists.
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I can remember all of the pieces of shit on this forum that laughed and poked fun in the Sept 11 posts, I think I'll refrain and say something like "Today's events were unfortunate and I hope it doesn't get any worse."
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Anything is a suitable source for humour, so long as it's funny. The problem is that most "poor taste" jokes aren't actually funny.
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Re: London is being bombed
Over 50 confirmed dead now.
Despite there being no current evidence of suicide bombers the front page of the Sun proclaims:
'Suicide Bomber on No. 30 Bus'
Full marks for not jumping the gun.
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We were watching the news onboard my submarine today.
Hope none of you or your families or your friends are hurt.
"Get well soon, London."
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Re: London is being bombed
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Originally Posted by All Systems Go
Over 50 confirmed dead now.
Despite there being no current evidence of suicide bombers the front page of the Sun proclaims:
'Suicide Bomber on No. 30 Bus'
Full marks for not jumping the gun.
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