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EDIT: Just pointing out that this post was made long before it was confirmed as intentional explosions.
Well, it has according to Sky News, the news vulture network. Huge red banners and claxons fill your eyes and ears whenever you skip past that channel. From a more reliable source (BBC News), I see there have been power surges and small explosions, which naturally have affected services.
This quote made me chortle:
"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke."
Obviously an out-of-towner.
Enjoy your day off work millions of Londoners!
Well, it has according to Sky News, the news vulture network. Huge red banners and claxons fill your eyes and ears whenever you skip past that channel. From a more reliable source (BBC News), I see there have been power surges and small explosions, which naturally have affected services.
This quote made me chortle:
"As I walked through the bus station I could see people lying on the ground, black, as if they'd been covered in smoke."
Obviously an out-of-towner.
Enjoy your day off work millions of Londoners!
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Dringo wrote:
> I'm gonna burn all those terroist scum's barns to the ground.
*sigh* What, from prison?
> I'm gonna burn all those terroist scum's barns to the ground.
*sigh* What, from prison?
I'm gonna burn all those terroist scum's barns to the ground.
Ah fair enough, that's new to me.
Goatboy wrote:
> Clazon wrote:
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
> -------
>
> Except that was linked to ETA and not some Middle Eastern group
Initially and wrongly, which is largely why the Spanish PM Jose Maria Aznar lost the election. It wasn't ETA's style, it was Al-Quaeda's, who looks like they carried out this too.
> Clazon wrote:
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
> -------
>
> Except that was linked to ETA and not some Middle Eastern group
Initially and wrongly, which is largely why the Spanish PM Jose Maria Aznar lost the election. It wasn't ETA's style, it was Al-Quaeda's, who looks like they carried out this too.
Light's blog-mate raised a good point - how many beered-up angry Englanders are going Mosque hunting later then?
If I were of any complexion other than Gor Blimey, I'd be at home barricading my windows from the inevitable retaliation from morons.
If I were of any complexion other than Gor Blimey, I'd be at home barricading my windows from the inevitable retaliation from morons.
Clazon wrote:
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
-------
Except that was linked to ETA and not some Middle Eastern group
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
-------
Except that was linked to ETA and not some Middle Eastern group
Light wrote:
> Four buses have blown up.
??
I'm taking it that's down to confusion of information.
> Four buses have blown up.
??
I'm taking it that's down to confusion of information.
Clazon wrote:
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
One faction has done so, whether truthfully or not.
> A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which
> would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
One faction has done so, whether truthfully or not.
Stolen from a friends blog;
Don't panic, he says, like a reject from Dad's Army. I admit it - I've spent the last hour sh!tting myself, and contacting people I know - although the networks are naturally pretty busy.
It looks like there are at least six tube stations that have exploded. Four buses have blown up. Suffice to say, there will be no public transport available today - and I reckon you'll be lucky to get a taxi.
An 'expert' of some description has said that these attacks are designed to create maximum disruption with minimum loss of lives. Indeed, the explosions must have been rather weak: I am no more than a couple of hundred yards from Edgeware Road tube, which was the target of an explosion, and I didn't hear a thing. Not even a minute tremor. There is no billowing smoke, and people are still walking up and down Edgeware Road. Plenty of emergency sirens, though.
The news keeps repeating the same snippets of non-information, while the newscasters are probing for the most salacious details. It's actually quite gratuitous. Most of their commentators have fingered 'Al Qaeda' or some confederate organisation with guilt for these attacks. Well, let's face it, the choices are pretty limited - either it's the Real IRA, or it's some group in the fashion of 'Al Qaeda', or it's some far right group - recalling a certain nail-bomber not so long ago. There's no point in jumping to conclusions, however - when the FBI building was blown up in Oklahoma, it was immediately blamed on some dusky Others, and it turned out to be some red neck crackers, one of whom had experience fighting in Iraq.
It is also vitally urgent to bear in mind that Muslims are going to be singled out even more for opprobrium and racist violence in the coming days and weeks. There needs to be an immediate reaction against this, and I hope and expect that Respect will be particularly hard on this in the areas where it is active.
Doubtless, these attacks will be used to justify some war or other, and ID Cards could well be a shoo-in with the public now, despite recent trends for support to fall.
So, yeah, my nose-bleedingly obvious advice is, don't panic, stay safe - and turn off the news, please, because they will tell you practically nothing new, and will offend every shred of decency that you have with their prurient search for gory details.
Right, I'm going to grab something to eat and call some more people.
Seems like good advice to me.
Don't panic, he says, like a reject from Dad's Army. I admit it - I've spent the last hour sh!tting myself, and contacting people I know - although the networks are naturally pretty busy.
It looks like there are at least six tube stations that have exploded. Four buses have blown up. Suffice to say, there will be no public transport available today - and I reckon you'll be lucky to get a taxi.
An 'expert' of some description has said that these attacks are designed to create maximum disruption with minimum loss of lives. Indeed, the explosions must have been rather weak: I am no more than a couple of hundred yards from Edgeware Road tube, which was the target of an explosion, and I didn't hear a thing. Not even a minute tremor. There is no billowing smoke, and people are still walking up and down Edgeware Road. Plenty of emergency sirens, though.
The news keeps repeating the same snippets of non-information, while the newscasters are probing for the most salacious details. It's actually quite gratuitous. Most of their commentators have fingered 'Al Qaeda' or some confederate organisation with guilt for these attacks. Well, let's face it, the choices are pretty limited - either it's the Real IRA, or it's some group in the fashion of 'Al Qaeda', or it's some far right group - recalling a certain nail-bomber not so long ago. There's no point in jumping to conclusions, however - when the FBI building was blown up in Oklahoma, it was immediately blamed on some dusky Others, and it turned out to be some red neck crackers, one of whom had experience fighting in Iraq.
It is also vitally urgent to bear in mind that Muslims are going to be singled out even more for opprobrium and racist violence in the coming days and weeks. There needs to be an immediate reaction against this, and I hope and expect that Respect will be particularly hard on this in the areas where it is active.
Doubtless, these attacks will be used to justify some war or other, and ID Cards could well be a shoo-in with the public now, despite recent trends for support to fall.
So, yeah, my nose-bleedingly obvious advice is, don't panic, stay safe - and turn off the news, please, because they will tell you practically nothing new, and will offend every shred of decency that you have with their prurient search for gory details.
Right, I'm going to grab something to eat and call some more people.
Seems like good advice to me.
Don't take this as a stupid comment, but it's the best way I can express my disbelief.
When I woke up this morning and saw the BBC news and pictures, I couldn't actually believe it. It just came across like that "what would you do" show that BBC put on before. Obviously it sank in pretty quickly...
A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
Oh and don't worry, I'm OK, just to quell your fears.
:P
When I woke up this morning and saw the BBC news and pictures, I couldn't actually believe it. It just came across like that "what would you do" show that BBC put on before. Obviously it sank in pretty quickly...
A fairly tangible link has been made to the Madrid bombings, which would suggest one faction or another of Al Quaeda was responsible.
Oh and don't worry, I'm OK, just to quell your fears.
:P
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