Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2700 mails)

[Ben Rosenberg <red.kryptonite@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 7/8/05, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > To be honest, much of London is defiantly normal this morning - I work
> > about 300 metres from Aldgate, and you wouldn't know anything was
> > amiss.
> >
> > The general mood in London is 'stuff you, whoever you are' - terrorist
> > bombs have been a semi-regular part of London life for 30 years now,
> > so most people not directly involved are pretty much unfazed.
> >
> > The best reported quote was from a veteran of the Blitz: "I've been
> > blown up by a better class of bastard than this."
> 
>   Typical British understatement.  :)

Well, a Brit friend of mine sent this out on his mailing list
tonight.. he's a writer which is why he has a personal mailing list in
case it matters.. in any event this was his reaction.

--
This 7/7, 070705 shit is bugging the
fuck out of me.  Especially when it's
coming from Americans.  It's an
insult to the genuine disaster
suffered in New York, and it goes
against the general feeling here.
This isn't something to be enshrined.
It's something to leave behind.  It's
happened before, and it'll happen
again.  Don't expect us all to go
insane.  Most of us went to the pub.

For those following the details of
the thing: this was a real low-rent
operation.  The attacks were on the
most indefensible part of London --
the public transport.  The bus bomb
is indicative of small-scale devices
-- London buses are basically tin
and sellotape, and yet most of the
seats on the top deck, where the
bomb went off, were left intact.
There's photography of the upstairs
passengers standing up and looking
at the new hole in the bus.  The
pressure wave of the blast blew out
the sides and took the top off --
tin and sellotape meant that the
pressure wasn't contained in the bus,
which probably saved a few lives.
If you want to kill everyone on a
bus, you put the device on the
lower deck, not the top.  This was
crap terrorism, using devices they
obviously were not confident of
smuggling into Live 8 or even the
crowds that gathered for the
Olympic win.

Most people are still joking that
it was the work of the French.

Hell, probably so are the French.

--

Cheers to all and bless the dead.. may they rest in peace.

-Ben


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