07-07-2005 23:35									#361
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp In a perverse sort of way, I'm almost glad it's us that's been hit (assuming these things are almost inevitable- and right now I feel like they are). It's seemed inevitable for years, and I couldn't help feeling a sense of something close to guilt when the US, Spain and Bali got hit while we didn't. It felt like we were getting away with something. In some ways, it feels like we're more closely united now. Almost as if we've taken a bullet that might have hit some other place. That doesn't stop me wishing it hadn't happened though.

In a strange way, the only terror in these attacks is the terror of whether or not it's going to happen. After it's happened, the terror is gone

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	07-07-2005 23:36									#362
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quote: Originally posted by Tuberski In a strange way, the only terror in these attacks is the terror of whether or not it's going to happen. After it's happened, the terror is gone ACK!

we hope.

	07-07-2005 23:39									#363
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I should add,

Except for the people directly involved in the attack.

ACK!

	07-07-2005 23:42									#364
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT I, for one, hope and pray that every Londoner here is OK. Have we had a check-in/roll-call yet?

700+ casualties is less than a 10000-1 chance of being involved, I think we need to get a sense of proportion here...

	07-07-2005 23:42									#365
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Still, that's a better chance than before the blasts, yes?

	07-07-2005 23:49									#366
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I'd take those odds over the odds for cancer any day...

	07-07-2005 23:57									#367
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Hello.

I'm OK, as are all the people I work with. I've spent the last five hours walking home from the site of the bus bomb (my office is a stone's throw from Russel Square)

My thoughts? I think London got off pretty lightly compared to to what could have happened and has happened elsewheres. The fact that transport was completely f***ed is nothing more than an inconvenience that even the RMT hits us with every so often.


And PH is over in Wembley I believe, ferrying his co-workers home after they got stranded in Dartford.

	07-07-2005 23:59									#368
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nm.

	08-07-2005 00:02									#369
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin The fact that transport was completely f***ed is nothing more than an inconvenience that even the RMT hits us with every so often.

Yeah AQ is nothing compared to the RMT...

	08-07-2005 00:06									#370
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Good to hear both you and Provost are okay, Dauphin.

	08-07-2005 00:22									#371
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My sympathy goes to all who knew some who got hurt...

	08-07-2005 00:28									#372
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quote: Originally posted by MOBIUS Yeah AQ is nothing compared to the RMT...

Well you wanted a sense of proportion.

	08-07-2005 00:30									#373
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quote: Originally posted by Dauphin Well you wanted a sense of proportion.

Yeah, would you rather a 10000-1 chance of being blown up up AQ - or a year of travel on the underground free from strikes by the RMT...

	08-07-2005 00:33									#374
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I think you meant a year free from strikes, and an AQ attack, or a year with strikes, and free from an AQ attack.

	08-07-2005 00:43									#375
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London Hope everything turns out all right.

	08-07-2005 00:45									#376
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It makes sense for the terrorists to strike at the Coalition in Iraq. Al Qaeda has fighters in Iraq trying to take control of the country, to set up an Islamic state there that they could use as a base for further operations. And the less forces in Iraq for them to fight, the better for them.

	08-07-2005 00:45									#377
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quote: Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp In a perverse sort of way, I'm almost glad it's us that's been hit (assuming these things are almost inevitable- and right now I feel like they are). It's seemed inevitable for years, and I couldn't help feeling a sense of something close to guilt when the US, Spain and Bali got hit while we didn't. It felt like we were getting away with something.

No. Nothing at all can justify a monstrosity like this. You did not do anything to deserve it, nor did the US, Spain or Bali.

Anyway, you guys have all my sympathy and respect in these terrible moments. I am so horrified that this has happened again.

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quote: Originally posted by Ben Kenobi I think you meant a year free from strikes, and an AQ attack, or a year with strikes, and free from an AQ attack.

And a year free from pedants too...

	08-07-2005 00:51									#379
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"There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted? The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail? I say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human hearts, look back to what we've done and they will say "do not despair, do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if need be-unconquered." "

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I hope that now UK will stop accepting muslims and will even expel some muslims from UK.

	08-07-2005 00:52									#381
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quote: Originally posted by MOBIUS And a year free from pedants too...

You shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction.

	08-07-2005 00:53									#382
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quote: Originally posted by muxec I hope that now UK will stop accepting muslims and will even expel some muslims from UK.

That would be demonstrating the same weak traits as the bomber.

	08-07-2005 00:53									#383
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quote: Originally posted by muxec I hope that now UK will stop accepting muslims and will even expel some muslims from UK.

I would be polite but please. Shut the **** up.

	08-07-2005 00:54									#384
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quote: Originally posted by muxec I hope that now UK will stop accepting muslims and will even expel some muslims from UK.

How very considerate of you to volunteer to be the first one banned.

	08-07-2005 00:54									#385
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quote: Originally posted by muxec I hope that now UK will stop accepting muslims and will even expel some muslims from UK.

I hope you **** off and die...

Aren't you an Israeli? Figures...

	08-07-2005 00:55									#386
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I hope that now ACS will stop accepting racists and will even expel some racists from the forum.

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quote: Originally posted by MOBIUS Yeah, would you rather a 10000-1 chance of being blown up up AQ - or a year of travel on the underground free from strikes by the RMT...

Well my point was that the fatalities and injuries are my only concerns. The effect on the state of the transport network is unimportant in comparison.

	08-07-2005 00:56									#388
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quote: Originally posted by FrustratedPoet You shouldn't start a sentence with a conjunction.

And what are you going to do about it...?

	08-07-2005 01:02									#389
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Condolences to all our British posters and their families. Has everyone been heard from?

	08-07-2005 01:04									#390
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Provost is OK- he's posted on Counterglow.