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by fonken monken uk

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by gadgetgirl

you know, you've had me in a pleat of giggles most of this afternoon! I haven't got a scrap of work done!

And yes, I do giggle. And it's called a pleat, cos I literally fold over in a giggling fit. Think Muttley's laugh from Dastardly and Muttley, and you got it!

Gotta go home now, but think on this for me - how do I avoid the withdrawal symptoms I know I'm going to get from being away from this board for 2 weeks? Leave starts on Friday...and I'm getting the shakes just thinking about not get my daily fix.....!

nnnnn...nnnn...nnnniiiitttteeee.....

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by jck

show me yours and I'll show you mine!!!

hahaha...more innuenndo for the masses!!! ]:)

by Member 25348569

At 12:00 today everyone trooped out of offices all over London to participate in a two minute silence in memory of the dead.

It was a very strange and very moving experience as we all stood on Southwark Bridge, six deep in places, in total silence. I could see that all of the other bridges were similarly packed. A couple of confused tourists tried to weave their way through, realised what was happening and then joined us.

Neil

by gadgetgirl

Website constructed as the result of one persons small idea, and has grown beyond belief.

Some of these are funny, some silly, some heart wrenching, some forthright.

http://www.werenotafraid.com/

and I heartily agree.

We're not afraid

GG

by hal 9000

That Great Dane towering over the little dog in the Gallery 1 has good reason to be afraid.

I used to breed Great Danes and I know what they can fit in their mouths that little thing wouldn't even touch the sides on the way down it it antagonized the Dane. :D

We had something similar many years ago where the little dog would run up and down the fence barking its head off at one of the Danes. After about 3 hours of this the Dane just walked over the fence and part way sallowed the stupid little dog who came out covered all in slobber and it retreated back until it had dried off and then the stupid little thing was back at it again. When it got too much for the Dane he would just walk away and go inside to get away from the brain dead animal. ;)

But it's now been 1 week and you already know who done it. While I don't think Tony Blair is on the right track with his idea of deporting those who incite things like this {he should just hand them over to a band of soccer hooligans and tell them that they support the opposing team.} At least progress is being made and I hope that London and its people never have to go through anything similar again.

Col ]:)

by jellimonsta

Hey Neil, what have you seen happening in regards to the fresh bombs today? I hope they strings those b@stards up by their nutz!

by Member 25348569

Leaving aside that you've got the date backwards - and you should know better, 21/7!! - it seems to be a bit weird.

They sent a few emails around where I work but, because our plasma screen is broken, we couldn't get the full update that we had last time. People I spoke to just didn't seem to be bothered.

We don't know the full story, yet. Unexploded? We're not sure.

More news when I get it...

Neil

by oz_media

Here is an interesting link to BBC's reports on how the Muslim factor is being dealt with.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4693845.stm

By reading some of the links, you get a really good idea of how others are viewing these attacks and how they are looking to address/change the radical Islamic teachings.

by hal 9000

In the POMs as you irritate them and they come up swinging. :)

Those fools yesterday only seem to have strengthened the resolve of the POMS by what I've seen reported here. :^O

Just by the way GOD was supposed to be within 100 feet of one of the blasts last week and he was only prevented by a computer glitch which held him up. So who keeps saying that Computers are a Health Hazard? :D

Col ]:)

by jellimonsta

Col, do you mean Guru of DOS? Or actually God???

If it is God I am a little disappointed!... We were supposed to play Frisbee golf and He told me He was washing His hair (seems it's quite long) :)

by oz_media

He was trying his hand with a new local last time I emailed him.

But he lives a LOOOONG way from London (by British terms of a long way of course), in Canada it would be a suburb with a Skytrain getting you there in minutes.

As for the YUK, I would love nothing more than to see him return and take it over again. Then I wouldn't have to listen to you bitch and mispost once a week. ;)

What do you expect from me anyway? I'm not even in the top ten anymore, I'm a mere newbie now, demoted.

by jellimonsta

I was waiting for you to give me heck over the date! :)

I think I would rather it was just a bunch of copy cat nutz as opposed to further attacks by an organized terrorist network.

Who ever it was, they suck!

by fonken monken uk

to dwyerm etc, if you dont like my tags, get your arse on a 747, get your self to the west midlands and then BITE ME!

Sorry, but I really think your leader is a (to vary Neils commen) f*cknut, and furter more, all the board members of any company he once CEO'd will no doubt agree with me. Dont like it ? Well thats a shame. But waht you going to do? Stop people having feelings?

And all these people thinking no-one ever got subjected to a terrorist attack before, thats just loody silly. As someones already exampled on here before, I myself have had to remind my US colleagues that the UK was gripped for decades by the acts of the IRA. Strange how that never dawns on those who take everything on CNN (or other appropraiate so called 'news') as gospel.

Sorry, rant over. Mate of mine was caught in the tube this morning when that chap got shot. He's really rather shaken by it

by fonken monken uk

I actually heard someone on Radio 4 mention this this morning. Spains level of risk has dropped right down apparently sicne they withdrew troops from Iraq. Aint that strange.

But yeah, get the clerk out of here, toating all his hatred around. And give the man a razor wil you, no gentleman should ever leave his lodgings without appropriate groomings. Await the rise of the anarcho-dandyist!

by hal 9000

And he mentioned that he might be making a come back to TR.

I'll leave it to him to fill you in when and if he returns but if we do get him back He will be constantly putting OZ in his place and having the Friday Yuk out on time. :D

Col ]:)

by hal 9000

No wonder you're no longer in the top ten you're out playing up like a second hand lawn mower all the time. :p

In winter the only time you get to go outdoors is to shovel snow off the roof so it doesn't collapse or from the driveway so you can get out of the place otherwise you're generally snowed in and playing on your computer. You're not even answering e-mails now. I suppose you don't have the time as you only have a few weeks per year to play. :^O

Do you really want me to start "Bitching" every week? I'm more than willing. :D

But then could you handle it? :)

Col ]:)

by oz_media

I know you were exaggerating but seriously, we only had a couple of ays of snow last year. Pretty much f-all, we had warmth and sun in late November.

I haven't had a month yet where I haven't been able to camping in a long time. Actually, you can camp year round the last few years, it's pretty cool, I haven't seen a bad winter in ages, not since I was in the interior anyway.

by levannah44

What the hell is going on in Britain? It's up to three bombing incidents now inside a fortnight! Neil, and all you other Poms out there, are you all OK? Why is Britain being targeted so many more times than the US? WHAT IS HAPPENING?

by Member 25348569

unless you know something that I don't. The latest incident was our police - who obviously don't have to deal with this sort of thing regularly - shooting (very dead! five bullets in the head) a Brazilian who was unfortunate enough to come out of a building that plainclothes cops had under surveillance, was dressed in an overcoat and ran into a station and onto a tube train when asked to stop.

I believe that some of the cops have had anti-suicide bomber training from the Israelis and this does sound like their uncompromising style! Unfortunately, this may hamstring the police as the civil liberties nuts are having a field day and demanding prosecutions.

The reason that we are having our own private pack of troubles is that we have our own home-grown second-generation muslims and, to be honest, we (non-muslims) have absolutely no idea of the way the minds of some of those guys work!

I suspect, though, had we not stupidly followed GWB into Iraq, there would have been significantly less justification and the current bombings may not have happened. But, then again, they might have.

We have seen interviews with people from the UK towns with a large muslim population and, if you close your eyes, you wouldn't be able to tell their colour or religion until you actually listen to what they have to say about their "muslim brothers" being killed in Afghanistan and Iraw. Never a mention of their "muslim sisters", though.

We've had a very large amount of "we condemn the bombings but..." and I don't know how we deal with that. No amount of border control or ID cards will deal with our own citizens who wish to murder us for reasons that we don't really inderstand.

Unfortunately if it goes on there will be a backlash and firebombed mosques and muslim meeting halls and it will all get worse. This will completely change our society and will benefit no-one. I've already seen - first hand - one case where a couple of white guys chucked a brown one off a bus for "looking funny" [b]and[/b] it hadn't stopped.

Not a happy city at the moment.

Neil

by levannah44

See what all this has done to my mind?? I can't even count anymore!

Seriously, I thought there was another incident in another city than London (Liverpool? Birmingham?) but maybe that was only a rumour or something.

I feel very sorry for the poor Brazilian guy who got shot, but when you've got a city on high alert, well, anything's possible. People start to jump if something just moves that shouldn't, let alone runs.

We had news footage here of our PM speaking to some of the survivors of the bombings who were Aussies, and even when they asked such blunt questions as 'was it because of our involvement in Iraq' that London was targetted, Little Johnny Rotten (naturally) side-stepped answering and bull-shitted some stupid reply as usual that it wasn't anything to do with Iraq. Ha bloody ha!!

The thing is, I can't see this business getting any less too quickly. The US, Spain and now you have copped it from these extremists, home-grown or otherwise, so it's on the cards that Aussie's next. I mean, Bali and other incidents in Indonesia were bad enough, of course, but you can bet your life, if it can happen in London, it can most certainly happen here in Sydney, or Melbourne, or Canberra.

We've got plenty of home-grown second, even third and fourth generation (from the Afghan camel drivers back in the 19th century) muslims living over here, and most of them are decent, peace-loving souls. My own niece-in-law is one; she comes from Lebanon, so I know. It's the other ones we've got to worry about, those few extremists who tar the rest as black as themselves when they start playing around with bombs.

So I really feel for you, Neil, you and all Londoners, all BRITS, let's be honest. I've got rellies over there too, in Hampstead.

Keep well, and continue to keep out of strife!

Gret

by oz_media

At least easier than getting immigrants across the pond and into North America. They have a MASSIVE Muslim populaton in the immediate area, it's like being a black cat in a coal mine, it's easy to go unnoticed. Most British have never held any 'fear' of Muslims in general, they work together, play together, go to school together, eat together, shop together etc.

In the USA and Canada, while we do have a large Muslim population, people do not seem as intermingled socially as they are in Britain, our Muslim communities stand out more against Western civiliation.

London knew they had terrorist groups building in the cities, they even suspected they were going to bomb the tube, they have merely been playing a waiting game. Prepared for the worst, knowledgeable of the threat but at the same time completely unaware of when, how and who. I guess in the USA they could have justifiably bombed the city into rubble and rid them of the threat.

I guess I see a couple of immediate reasons;
1) it's easier to blend in
2) it's close and convenient
3) the population is dense and the impact may be greater with a smaller effort.

They already have America walking on eggshells and looking over their shoulders in fear, thus achieving the goal of removing the sense of personal freedom and causing people to question thier safety.

by hal 9000

It was in Bingham but it was only Hoax where the Police had to clear the City Center just to be on the safe side.

Just another loony jumping on the bandwagon or maybe even some terrorist group seeing how long the response would take and what it would be so they could plan accordingly.

Col ]:)

by jck

any updates?

It's pretty much gone off the American press mainstream. Would like to know how things are happening over there.

Suppose I need to tune into BBC News tonight and find out.

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