Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news...
Count is three buses, two tube stations so far. No body count.
The mobile networks are all down, and I can't get hold of Harriet or her brother (who is here for work experience).
They're on a bus somewhere.
I am not happy...
The networks are starting to come back up mate, get on a landline and call your mother.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
Still having troble with Orange phones - last I know she was heading into Soho about an hour ago.
I think its Kings Cross, Russell Square and Liverpool Street, at around nine o'clock.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
My girlfriend, not my mother...
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
I've heard Edgeware and Aldgate as well, along with some central buses.
Take it you're okay?
Jesus, Old Street as well.
I'm ok, I took a day off.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
Hurrah, they're okay!
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
good news grim, good news
everyone else from london here and ok?
Good news Grim.
I just heard something about Swindon and Brighton. Dunno if its just a security precaution or not.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
anyone heard from sal? or jeff?
just un-lurking to say i'm ok, as is everyone i know in london... i hope it's all over now.. (its jeff btw)
Thats gonna close down the Underground for weeks or months.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
Another explosion has been reported but not confirmed near Liverpool Street a few minutes ago.
I would imagine there will be quite a few controlled explosions today.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
True, true.
Also just reported is Arab sources saying Al Qaeda (or however you spell it) is taking credit for all this - suprise.
glad to hear you guys are ok
I hope the others call in too.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
Good job they were considerate enough to wait until after the Olympic committe had made their choice =]
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
i think hanni is in france now, she was doing the holiday thingy soon
and not taking her laptop
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
The Blair is on telly right now, and looks
far too worried...
Yeah, he didn't exactly fill me with confidence there.
Posted by
Grim..., around July 2005:
And has told us nothing.
Thanks, Tony!
It's ok though, Him and that c**t Ken Livingstone are on their way back.
Posted by
Gobbo, around July 2005:
oh everything will be just dandy then with Tony in town...
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
just heard from sal who is safe and ok
Posted by
Gobbo, around July 2005:
apparently a group calling themselves "Secret Organisation al Qaeda in Europe" has claimed responsibility.
"Secret"
that's not very bloody secret, now is it
not only are they unbelievably arrogant fucking fuckers who i'd love to get my hands on, but they're as thick as pigshit
Posted by
Gary, around July 2005:
Bastards.
Christ on a fucking bike...
This is bizarre. Hope everyone is OK, I've managed to get in contact with most people.
I'm so glad my g/f is in corfu, otherwise she would have been on her way to work this morning...
shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit.
Wonder how many people died? The Beeb is saying at least 2, US news channels are saying 45...
they've evacuated terminal 3 now.
They just shot a suspicious package in Brighton station.. about 50m from my pub i work in.. turned out to be a plain old leather suitcase but they had the robot and came in to borrow dustbin bags to put all the bits of suitcase in..
yay rosie and doc are ok too, and percies peeps
vic have you heard anything from sul ?
or is he not in london ?
flickr connects mobilephone-photographer with journalist:
www.flickr.com/photos/pevee...
I haven't heard anything from Sul, but my phone was destroyed a while back and i've lost his number.
Nine in the morning is too early for him to be out and about though.
if you DO hear from sul, can you ask him to drop me a line? not heard nowt from him for ages
I hope you are all OK. I am so sorry this has happened.
Posted by
Gobbo, around July 2005:
Funny how there is so much being reported about the London bombings, but in Pakistan 3 trains have crashed killing about 120 people and I bet it gets mentioned on the news tonight and that will be the last we hear of it.
How much do you think Pakistan hear about UK train crashes?
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
how many people in rawanda hear about UK train crashes?
oh ffs. And nobody over here heard about Rwanda, or Sierra Leone, or Sudan, or this Kenya thing going on at the moment.
Nobody here ever wrote or read anything about the Pakistan train crash. Or the Iranian earthquake, or the Turkish earthquake, or the explosion in North Korea that wiped out a whole village.
Someone told me something bad happened in Indonesia on boxing day, I never heard anything about it though, must just have been mentioned on that nights news and never mentioned again eh?
Posted by
Brock, around July 2005:
I stubbed my toe last Thursday. None of you fuckers made a fuss about that, did you?
Bastards.
Posted by
WarHead, around July 2005:
Call me perverse, if you like, but I have more interest in news about my own country than I do about others. I also have more interest in news about my region than my country, my city than my region, my town than my city, etc.
So my interest in the news is on a sort of sliding scale relating to how much it's likely to affect me directly. This is not to say that I have
no interest in news from around the world, it's just that I'm human and therefore have human frailties. I have only so much time in my life to devote to digesting news.
This is just as well, because there's just too much damn news around these days and I really couldn't assimilate it all. Actually, there's always been too much news, it's just that nowadays we can tap into news from around the globe very easily, whereas when I were nobbut a nipper, it was all in black-and-white and live news was really only available on TV from within the UK or via rather dodgy 'wireless' reports from far-flung parts of the empire. Visual news from outside arrived some time later in the form of a film report sent by post or courier.
Shit happens everywhere, everyday, and I realised long ago that there's bugger all I can do about most of it. Life is depressing enough without giving me more bad news from around the globe than I can digest. I am sorry to hear about the Indian train crash, but that was an accident, and accidents happen. The London bombings were perpetrated deliberately and there's a good chance that more will follow. We've already had terrorist bombings in Manchester in recent times and I'd really like to hope that it won't happen again, but realistically I have to accept that it may. Anything that can help me to be vigilant and keep myself, my friends, family and colleagues alive is of interest to me. You may think that's self-centred, but as I said, I'm only human and one of our basic instincts is self preservation.
Brock, was your toe stubbing incident on local or national news? If it was national, I'm afraid I missed it. And I'm in a different news region, so if it was only reported regionally I wouldn't have had the opportunity to see it.
Posted by
ellipse, around July 2005:
well the whole point is that a numbers game is alwys irrelevant
just one person being killed by smeone else is wrong
Posted by
Gobbo, around July 2005:
They are flying the Dutch flag at half-mast across the road from here today.
here at work too, and two minutes silence at 13.00
We don't have a flag.
And also only remembered the silence thing at 12.15.
:/
I was working at the time, they announced it over the building tannoy though, but they didn't say when the end came so it ended up nobody said a word for about twenty minutes, it was bliss i tell you.
I heard on the news today that they are looking not only for anyone conected, but anyone who would have ENCOURAGED them to commit these terrorist actions.
I hope they go after the families of those responsible and bring them to justice. I feel that ANYONE who even
knows about the crimes prior to them being committed should be held
responsible and brought to
justice!
Posted by
WarHead, around July 2005:
Jeff, did you ever live in North Korea?
Um... yes. Go for the families.
Wow yeah, cos when a serial killer kills himself and cant be punished further, the parents and siblings are just as much to blame for the murders aren't they. Yeah they should all be hanged because of what their relative did.
That's justice
:/
hmm. pakistani people kill people on london trains. pakistani people kill people on pakistan trains.
hmm...
maybe pakistani people and trains just don't mix?
not that i'm trainist or anything.
but maybe we should just, you know, keep an eye out for suspicious looking trains. and, maybe, keep them in special compounds and houses, and maybe make them travel on their own special roads away from other vehicles. and force people to be carefully monitored and only allowed to meet trains in their special compounds if they get special permission from an official officer in a bullet-proof booth who has control over the special train-meeting chits. for the public safety. oh, please,
won't someone think of the children!
I think that if the families are too hard to go for, they should target innocent people living half way around the world. That'll show 'em!! Those families will 'fess up in no time.
Posted by
WarHead, around 15th July 2005:
I vote for friends and family
and anyone who knew them
and anyone living within a 500 metre radius. It'd be a a self policing system and a great deterrent.
the nuclear anti-terrorism option. i LIKE it!
apt nick there, WH, come to think of it
Posted by
WarHead, around 15th July 2005:
Don't read anything into that; I'd just been listening to War Head by Ryuichi Sakamoto when I registered on iamcal and needed a nic and that was was came to mind. Strangely enough, it's two of my real initials.
warhead is two initials?
...
WARren HEADingley?
Posted by
WarHead, around 15th July 2005:
Sorry, I meant just the 'W' and the 'H.'
Wren Hingley?
pleased to meet you
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
Wank Hard?
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
Wobbly Head?
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
Wooooo Hoooo?
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
Wasp Hitter?
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
Whistle Harder?
Wren: set the record straight, man
Posted by
Brock, around 15th July 2005:
(What the fuck? That doesn't work, Salty! There's to many bloody words, for a start.
Sheesh. Some people.)
Weistrasse Halternmeister?
(see? That's how it's done)
brock I think its Wooooo HOOAH
Posted by
WarHead, around 16th July 2005:
No one suggested Wang Hankford.
wow that comment sure did throw a bunch of gasoline on the fire!
too many for me to comment on them all... thankfully.
oddly, brock never mentioned:
Well Hung
not that he's sensitive, mind
Posted by
Brock, around 17th July 2005:
That's because we were trying to establish Pee Wee Wrinkles' names from his initials, not my name through reputation, monkey-fart breath.
Posted by
ellipse, around 17th July 2005:
and how did you become familar with the smell of monkey bottoms?
he keeps trying to snog me. pervert.
