08-07-2005 01:05									#391
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I've not heard about East Street Trader, but he's been gone for some time.

	08-07-2005 01:05									#392
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I am back. Needless to say my trip took one hell of a lot of time having travelled to the far side of London - it took me over 5 hours. I was hoping to get back across to a central area in time to give Dauphin a lift but it looks like he arrived back pretty much when I arrived back. Pretty shocking stuff...I've heard about it all day on the radio although I don't actually work in Central London so was only indirectly affected by it.

It seems odd how a city of the size of London seeming so eerie in some ways.

And let's not jump down UR's throat about the early flippant remark - no one had any idea about what had happened at that point.

And I don't think Stew's remark was particularly offensive either, it's just a more crude way of saying what others have said, we will recover from it very quickly and get back to normal.

	08-07-2005 01:09									#393
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I must say though Dauphin, C. London to Orpington is one hell of a walk - I've done New Eltham to London Bridge and I thought my legs were going to drop off afterwards...I'd have thought you could have probably got as far as New Cross or Hither Green (or maybe Lewisham) and caught a train?

	08-07-2005 01:14									#394
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Dauphin, when were you on the public transport? by how many minutes did you miss Death?

	08-07-2005 01:19									#395
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I realised that his route would not have brought him into danger - the closest he would have got is the bus (he walks from Charing Cross to his job) and I very much doubt he would have ventured up to Russell Square...

	08-07-2005 01:20									#396
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Papa Lazarou could have done with getting some of his hair mussed, though.

	08-07-2005 01:22									#397
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I'm blessed to be living quite close to where I work in Islington, and the first I heard about this was when I was walking to work and bumped into some colleagues who told me about the explosions, and when I got in to the office was told this was because of power surges and that some people had phoned in to explain they'd be late, and there were others whom we hadn't heard from. Everyone calling in was advised to go home. About this time the phones were badly affected,so parents were distraught about not getting through to their children's schools.

So everyone was a little distracted this morning, and one meeting was postponed because we'd only be talking about what was going on outside, rather than work.

We had a radio on in my section all day tuned to radio London to listen to updates. Everyone was really shocked about the bus explosion, I guess because the damage was more visible, because it seemed to escalate the attack, and because the buses were so full with people evacuated from the underground. Plus when a friend of mine came in after eleven she told us that she'd been on the bus in front after getting out at Holburn.

We are told that it was always a question of "when", not "if", but having had "it" now doesn't mean there won't be a repeat tomorrow.

	08-07-2005 01:39									#398
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I realised that his route would not have brought him into danger - the closest he would have got is the bus (he walks from Charing Cross to his job) and I very much doubt he would have ventured up to Russell Square...

Actually I often go via Bank (then get the Central line) if I can catch the fast train to Cannon Street in the morning. I didn't go via Charing Cross this morning either, I actually caught the train to Blackfriars.

quote: I must say though Dauphin, C. London to Orpington is one hell of a walk - I've done New Eltham to London Bridge and I thought my legs were going to drop off afterwards...I'd have thought you could have probably got as far as New Cross or Hither Green (or maybe Lewisham) and caught a train?

As you may be aware I often make long walks so it wasn't overly onerous on my pins. I could have got a train or a bus, the reason I didn't was congestion (I was walking faster than the traffic and I physically couldn't get on to the train). By the time I got to Bromley I thought I may as well walk the rest anyway.

	08-07-2005 01:42									#399
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Has DrSpike posted at all? He gets the Central line to work on the way in from somewhere in the east of London.

	08-07-2005 01:44									#400
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I thought he lived in North London? (Wood Green?)

	08-07-2005 01:47									#401
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You may be right. Either way he's posted within the last hour.

	08-07-2005 01:56									#402
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I must say, it's heartening that politics has *mostly* been kept out of this thread. And that there appear to be no Poly casualties.

	08-07-2005 01:58									#403
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Andeven if there had been any, I wouldn't have bought in those after all that happened. I mean we had like 3 casualties in 7 years, and one of them has already returned to the living.

	08-07-2005 02:20									#404
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Hopefully East Street Trader is ok, he posts once in a while...

Has el freako posted? Is he in London?

Augh. Hopefully all that will happen, has already happened...

	08-07-2005 02:24									#405
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el freako posted earlier on in this thread and no, he is in Bristol...

	08-07-2005 02:33									#406
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Not only did the terrorists kill many people in London, but they probably also managed to get the G8 not to talk about Africa, the debt and whatnot which might have actually helped the lives of other people. Killing people and timing it so they can wreck as many lives as possible everywhere else

	08-07-2005 02:38									#407
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Shocking! I just found out

My heart goes out to UK and especially Londeners.

There's locations of bombs...

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	08-07-2005 02:44									#408
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That's a pretty long span of time for the different bombs, almost 50 minutes separates the first from the last.

I wonder why they were spaced out so...

	08-07-2005 02:46									#409
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I was in central London using all kinds of public transport yesterday morning... if I'd had my job interview today instead of yesterday, things could have been very different. I feel very sad for those who didn't make it or were hurt.

	08-07-2005 02:46									#410
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Indeed, many a whatif's out there.

I work just off Theobald's Road.

	08-07-2005 02:50									#411
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A horrible day for London, especially after getting the Olympics the day before.

One theory is that the bus bomber (i think we should assume suicide bombers until proven otherwise) was intended for a Tube station, but got sidetracked for whatever reason.

	08-07-2005 02:53									#412
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the bus was probably his secondary target.

	08-07-2005 03:01									#413
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quote: And a year free from pedants too...

Well, I'd take a year without strikes over an AQ attack anyday. :

	08-07-2005 03:07									#414
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quote: I wonder why they were spaced out so...

Someone earlier posted, well, many people on that bus were those who had been evacuated from the subway and still needed to get to work, so they got on the bus--maybe this was intended.

	08-07-2005 03:09									#415
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Thankfully I was off work due to the birth of my second child..

As a father, my thoughts are with the children, who's parents will not be returning home this evening..

	08-07-2005 03:16									#416
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****... mother****ers!

We know you Brits will bounce back... Godspeed:

	08-07-2005 03:18									#417
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The US flag on base was at half-staff today too.

	08-07-2005 03:20									#418
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Authorities in London have done very well under the circumstances from what I can see.

	08-07-2005 03:27									#419
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It could have been worse. So far the mortality rate is only one quarter that of Madrid.

	08-07-2005 03:28									#420
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Mortality count or mortality rate as in dead among wounded?