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Inappropriate Responses

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Evil Scientist

13:09 / 08.07.05

(chuckles) Nice one Reid.

There are one thousand and one celebrities on the Scientologist Frequency.

Bill Posters

13:10 / 08.07.05

This has to be the most innapropriate response ever. This chap'll get lynched!

Whisky Priestess

13:17 / 08.07.05

I should bloody well hope so. What a wanker! Imagine if one of Girls Aloud had said the same right after 9/11!

I'm glad I've never heard of him and his dodgy boy band, and I hope never to hear of him again.

Evil Scientist

13:18 / 08.07.05

Now a statement like that takes balls, balls as big and inappropriate as a rhino at a wedding.

He is the God of Inappropriate Responses.

Ganesh

13:19 / 08.07.05

Ahh, Omarion again. I trump your inappropriateness, Bill; I've linked to him in the main 'Explosions' thread.

paranoidwriter waves hello

13:20 / 08.07.05

Praise him.

Mind you, sounds to me like someone in his press agency has it in for him. That can't be deliberate on his part, can it? I really hope the answer's "no".

Char Aina

13:29 / 08.07.05

i have already sent emails to all my friends asking them to wank over a protective sigil on my behalf.
while i realise i was not actually in london at the time, i hav been there and even have a picture of nottinghill carnival on my wall.
in the madness, i wonder if anyone has thought of me in my hour of (distinctly lacking) need.

Gypsy Lantern

13:54 / 08.07.05

I might light a candle for Omarion.

A black candle, dressed in "don't be such a twat" oil, and with the words "fuck off you stupid bastard" carved into it.

Benny the Ball

15:02 / 08.07.05

"He was in London for Saturday's Live 8 show, his publicist Shana Gilmore told Reuters from Los Angeles. Asked why anyone should pray for him, Gilmore said, "He wasn't hurt or anything, but just the fact that he was there and all that.""

That is one of the best quotes ever.

Just the fact that he was there and all that

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:28 / 08.07.05

Just watching 'London Tonight' on ITV. (The slime-ball that is) Aleister Stewart is standing before a flat screen TV displaying an outline map of London highlighted in red with the words "Target London" (the "O" is like a rifle sight). Is it me or does that not quite work? Sounds like ITN are encouraging terrorists rather than a catchy phrase which sums up the whole affair (e.g. "Ground Zero", or "9/11"). Inappropriate?

grant

16:37 / 08.07.05

Fox News out-Omarions Omarion

Popular newscaster Brit Hume: "My first thought when I heard - just on a personal basis, when I heard there had been this attack and I saw the futures this morning, which were really in the tank, I thought, 'Hmmm, time to buy.'"

This kind of thing is not what I set up this thread for -- I was hoping for some personal, human reactions in the form of weird humor or odd inner monologues. But still... inappropriate? Yes, it is.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

16:40 / 08.07.05

Okay, can I say that's disgusting?

ibis the being

18:14 / 08.07.05

outline map of London highlighted in red with the words "Target London" (the "O" is like a rifle sight). Is it me or does that not quite work?

Ha, I had the same thought last night while watching a Primetime Live special about the bombings. Their graphic had a backdrop of vague Union Jack-iness, with an outline map of London situated in crosshairs. Wha??

To add to the weirdness, host Diane Sawyer sat in front of a London skyline backdrop, though she was in New York.

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

19:23 / 08.07.05

Have been perusing the well-meaning but a little odd We're Not Afraid. The "DON"T PANIC. WE'RE NOT AFRAID. NO FEAR HERE. WE *LOVE* YOU LONDON" message did seem a little at odds with the general (quoted elsewhere) "We're going to sort this mess out, go to work and then go down the pub" attitude I've heard from those who are actually in London.

So the site itself isn't inappropriate. What is inappropriate is my response after reading through it and thinking But the quality of the photo-shopped messages of support is so poor...

Mourne Kransky

19:57 / 08.07.05

And the Dutch for We're Not Afraid would seem to be Wij Zijn Niet Bang?. Charming.

Olulabelle

21:27 / 08.07.05

Half of me thinks that Google's little black ribbon is lovely, and the other half thinks its slightly innapropriate given that sooner or later they'll have to take it down, which will signify that at that point they presumably feel the world has returned to normal and we should stop talking about it.

Is that a weird thought?

21:45 / 08.07.05

Also interesting that it's only Google UK doing that. Can't be bothered to make the 'Murkans think of something other than our own affairs, I suppose...

Olulabelle

22:10 / 08.07.05

It's only Google UK? Wow.

*About turn:* Now I feel all affronted.

I read in the other thread that it doesn't really feature in the American news. What would have to happen for it to be a big deal?

Scrubb is on a downward spiral

22:13 / 08.07.05

It features in the US news here inasmuch as it relates to American things. The Los Angeles Times had an article about the new mayor of LA going into the metro system here to reassure Angelenos that they were all safe.

Liger Null

22:25 / 08.07.05

I heard on NPR this morning that former mayor of New York and current Bush-buddy Rudy Guilliani was in the London area around the time of the blasts.

Coincindence? I think not.

Olulabelle

22:42 / 08.07.05

He may not have been because he was in Harrogate at the Local Government Conference the day before, which is way up the other end of the country.

Mourne Kransky

22:44 / 08.07.05

What would have to happen for it to be a big deal?

It would have to happen in the U.S. And God would have to be mentioned every thirty seconds.

Olulabelle

22:46 / 08.07.05

It features in the US news here inasmuch as it relates to American things.

I don't understand this American sentiment. 9/11 was all our news talked about for weeks, and the same with the Madrid bombings. Do you think it's because we are an island that the UK media seems to cover international news so widely? Or do the American's only really truly care about national events?

Olulabelle

22:48 / 08.07.05

Ah. There's my answer. Thank you Xoc.

Morpheus

22:58 / 08.07.05

Rudy Guilliani was in the London area around the time of the blasts.

But was he reading to young school kids at that time? And where the hell is that girl in Aruba?
Fox news.
News Flash...REM postponed. I thouht my way of life was not going to change.

ibis the being

23:07 / 08.07.05

Do you think it's because we are an island that the UK media seems to cover international news so widely?

No.

Or do the American's only really truly care about national events?

Yes.
(Not proud of it.)

Mourne Kransky

23:22 / 08.07.05

I think George said it upfront before Gleneagles when he said "Kyoto would have fucked up the U.S. economy". He knows how that will play everywhere else in the world but he doesn't care, they're not Americans. Sadly for him, and for his folks back home, the US will be a big loser when the climate warms a little more. All those lush midwestern cornfields will fail and it'll be John Steinbeck time again. But why should this billionaire son of privilege give a shit? He and his current bunch of bastard chums will be retired to mansions in Palm Beach, counting their wads of military-industrial complex cash.

Mourne Kransky

23:23 / 08.07.05

Sorry, that was probably all threadrot. Alcohol is a terrible drug. And cheap champagne is a killer.

Olulabelle

23:34 / 08.07.05

It's not threadrot, it all ties in to the same thing - Americans (political and societal) certainly appear not to give too much of a flying fuck about things which they perceive not to directly affect them. (Or maybe it is threadrot, but I'm going to answer anyway.)

Drive a big SUV, don't worry about climate change. Because they can fix all that with 'emissions technology'. I just don't understand how they can actually believe it. Regardless of Bush and his oil baron compadres, do the American public really think that climate change is a 'long term issue' not immediately of concern, and that 'human causation is negligible'?

unheimlich manoeuvre

23:37 / 08.07.05

Xoc - only threadrot in that it is appropriate.

grant linked to - Fox News out-Omarions Omarion

because it bears repeating.
Fox News employs war profiteers! How unethical?

Saint Keggers

23:45 / 08.07.05

My first response as I woke up was: Oh. Eh, You'd have to expect it sooner or later. Then I switch the tv channels and got really mad: Fred Durst was spewing the first music of my morning!!

Baz Auckland

23:46 / 08.07.05

...it actually suprised me yesterday when I turned on CNN, and they spent the whole time talking about 'will this happen here?', with little mention of London itself. (except for the hastily created 'London Terror' graphic)

It's awful to see every paper here have the obligitory article or 3 about 'Could Toronto be next?' 'Canada is next!' and 'We're next, so we better join the US in Iraq'. I'm assuming a lot of local US/Canadian papers are the same... blech.

Is this propaganda?

Fox News employs war profiteers! How unethical?

You'd think so, and yet, two won the election.

Sorry, that was threadrot.

HCE

03:16 / 09.07.05

Why are you saying 'Americans' like we voted for him? Better aim with the vitriol, please.

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