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London Bombings (Originally: Tube warning after 'bang' heard)

God, Fred Phelps is an ass... I mean, I knew that already, but he managed to top himself again.

Methinks there's a special place in his hell reserved just for him.
 
Jaffa Cake said:
I saw this on the news this morning – it's absolutely disgusting. The hotels doing this should be named and shamed.
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I agree. TV reporters should try and corner the hotel managers in their offices and ask them why they're exploiting other peoples - their own countrymen - misery and unfortunate circumstances :(
 
evil_santa said:
London was very quiet today, the Central Line hardly had anyone on it, it was like traveling on a weekend.
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i took the 55 bus twice today, it and the central london streets were a lot less crowded than they were at this time last week.
 
garybUK said:
But 11th September was what ???? a 1000th of what happened during WWII in many cities over England and Germany, I know different circumstances but the people didn't give up then either.
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Before you misunderstand me can I just clarrify I was only talking about terrorist acts not those under war time conditions (and yes I realise someone in some advisory role clarrified 9/11 as an act of war but you know what I mean). Germany got, ironically, blitzed during the war by British, American, Canadian etc forces. Britain, especially London also had it bad during the war hopefully we will never have to discuss events like that ever again.

When I mentioned attack by planes I meant solely in the way they were used on the World Trade Centres and the Pentagon not in the way they were primarily used over London and cities during the first and second world wars to drop munitions.
 
Lacero said:
He probably means code Orange alert, or a High state of danger.
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No, I mean AMBER, that's why I typed it.

It is basically what most people would call orange alert, but the UK Gov aren't most people.

It's one step down from a confirmed direct threat apparently.

It was strange that they waited 24 hours to up the security status.
 
skunk said:
What fight? We're just minding our own business.
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Yah, I wondered about that comment too. What fight? That almost sounded like some token, canned inspirational phrase or something... ah well, I guess the thought was there... ;)
 
I've found some really great quotes about the londoners dealing with the terror attacks over the past few days.

some of them contain some mild profanities..but dont sound the same with them blanked out, so i've posted them on my blog:

http://www.asif786.com/?p=38

they're all kinda comedic..nothing political :)
 
Ugg said:
Yeah, but the US' was more horrible is sadder according to you. Why is it that people need to say, "we had it worse"? I find it sickening that anyone could belittle the UK at a time like this. After 9 11 everyone was a New Yorker, now it seems that nobody could care less about the UK. Brit Hume was more concerned about making money on the stock market, Rush said this was nothing to worry about, phelps wished more people had died, etc.

I guess Americans' true colors really come out when somebody's disaster isn't as disatrous as ours was. That is very sad.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/4664317.stm
 
Warbrain said:
They wouldn't be sued by the state. They would be sued by consumers and then possibly fined by the government.
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In North Carolina, the Attorney General has routinely sued and shut down businesses that gouge consumers after disasters like hurricanes
 
asif786 said:
I've found some really great quotes about the londoners dealing with the terror attacks over the past few days.

some of them contain some mild profanities..but dont sound the same with them blanked out, so i've posted them on my blog:

http://www.asif786.com/?p=38

they're all kinda comedic..nothing political :)
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I love the fact that tea solves everything. :cool:

Keep a stiff upper lip, drink some tea, and dismiss these cavemen with good ol' British humor. :)
 
psycho bob said:
More bombs, well controlled explosions in Birmingham now. This is just going to get worse. The whole city centre has been evacuated :(
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Let's hope this is purely as a precaution.

Nothing on BBC World right now.....
 
BBC news 24 have it on the banner, I suspect the police will be blowing a lot of stationary objects up for a while, bombs or not. They used to blow abandoned cars up for fun in London during the IRA campaigns...

If it's a bomb, then intel is doing it's job or we got lucky, if it's not, then someone's shopping is toast.

Did someone mention tea? 2 sugars please.

(Yes, it's a British thing, the world might be in meltdown, but: Get the kettle on...)

edit: The police received a threat warning in Birmingham.
 
WinterMute said:
Did someone mention tea? 2 sugars please.

(Yes, it's a British thing, the world might be in meltdown, but: Get the kettle on...)
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:D

Great thing about the tea is that it can be found all over British society:
From cricket to football, from the Queen to Bottom.
 
asif786 said:
my god, pleeeease tell me you're talking about the tv show..right?

i thought i was the only person to ever watch that.. :D it was so stupidly funny hehe :)
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Ofcourse I'm talking about the tv show. :)

One of the few comedies which will actually get me ROTFLOL!! :D
Great stuff!
 
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