Inappropriate Responses

07:07 / 09.07.05

Yes, I thought that was a bit off. I'm British, and am fairly pissed off that people are trying to kill us (presumably) because of the actions of a guy I didn't vote for either.

grant

11:45 / 09.07.05

He and his current bunch of bastard chums will be retired to mansions in Palm Beach,

Connecticut. I won't have him that close to me.

16:28 / 09.07.05

My friend who was quite close to one of the explosions commented how her mind was hyper-sensitive and making links like crazy immediately after the realisation of what had happened actually dawned on her. I found that fascinating and completely appropriate.

However, I'm tired, unemotional and my mind is making many links which may or may not be inappropriate. For example, anyone notice / remember the date of this thread? Is Benny the Ball psychic? It was his 100th thread....Hmmm... Reminds me of all the artists whose work just before 9/11 could be seen to almost pre-echo the event.

(Oh, and if anyone's keeping tabs on my posts [ahem], I know I promised a few minutes ago in another thread to not let my fingers touch the keyboard again today, but I typed this with my highly dextrous monkey toes, so there! I'll stop now,... I promise.)

Olulabelle

19:00 / 09.07.05

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

Sorry. I should have written 'most Americans' or something.

But he does represent you.

heimdallr

19:48 / 09.07.05

Most inappriate thing I heard was my local radio station asking people to text in, saying how the bombings affected them. I mean, I live in NW Norfolk, for chrissake I really thought hard about catching the 43 bus home... not! Hearing people saying yeah we gotta carry on as usual, not let those bastards win, and the mope and whine about Thursday. Got into trouble at work for saying that if it was in Iraq we would'nt give a shit, so whats the bloody difference???

Ganesh

20:55 / 09.07.05

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

I suspect the vast majority of Americans (and certainly the disparate components of the American media machine) only care about national events - or, at least, events which significantly impinge upon American 'national interests'. In other words, our own little terror atrocity is of negligible importance.

HCE

22:52 / 09.07.05

"But he does represent you."

I'm not baby Jesus, but this does make me want to cry.

ONLY NICE THINGS

23:08 / 09.07.05

Horribly inappropriate, but... there was panic on the streets of London, then panic on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself...

Anyone in Dundee, Carlisle or Humberside may want to run down to the safety of the town now or nowabouts.

Ganesh

23:09 / 09.07.05

I suppose that, despite our own individuality, we face a small measure of shame/responsibility-by-default for our nationally elected representatives. Blair's a tit. Bush's a tit.

Other than that, I guess there are population surveys, in order to obtain a gross, general view of what one nation thinks about the world outside its borders...

23:19 / 09.07.05

Haus, I can't remember the exact wording, but:

"... take me any-whay-er ... [we can] even go to Birming-um 'cauz eye don't care-A!" (cue drums)

23:23 / 09.07.05

"... I'm truly sorry, but it's sounds like a won-der-ful th-ing ..." (The Smiths)

Olulabelle

23:35 / 09.07.05

Horribly inappropriate, but... there was panic on the streets of London, then panic on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself...

Haus. You are exceptional. Nothing about any of this should really be making me laugh. But that really, really did.

Nightclub Dwight: If a person becomes President, then what that person says is supposed to represent what the people of that country think. I realise that often factually it's not actually the case, but politically, in this instance specifically with regard to the Kyoto agreement and climate change, he does. I'm sorry for you that that's the case, but he does.

Tryphena Absent

23:51 / 09.07.05

Horribly inappropriate, but... there was panic on the streets of London, then panic on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself...

And let's not forget Morrissey wrapped himself in that flag on the cover of the NME... I know who I blame for all of this. Julie Burchill.

Never or Now!

00:07 / 10.07.05

You remember whassisface...? Er... that guy what done write "Walden" - Thoreau I dun think. That fool done stop paying taxes. Crazy guy seemed to think that depriving the Gvt. of its financial means to fight a War was the way forward?!?

as opposed to marching blinginglty blingfdling 1234 we dun wun no f**king war ooooooo dear.

Liger Null

00:25 / 10.07.05

Horribly inappropriate, but... there was panic on the streets of London, then panic on the streets of Birmingham. I wonder to myself...

Funny, that was the song going through my head when I heard the news. So was this one:

London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared - and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard,you boys and girls
London calling, now don't LECTURE us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the reign of that truncheon thing

Liger Null

00:46 / 10.07.05

"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."

That may be so, but according to the BBC, he was meters away from the first blast-or so he claimed.

HCE

01:21 / 10.07.05

"If a person becomes President, then what that person says is supposed to represent what the people of that country think. "

Elected President. I do see what you're trying to say and think it would be valid even for somebody as repellent as Reagan. The distinction between becoming and being elected is pretty important, at least to some of us here.

02:17 / 10.07.05

He and his current bunch of bastard chums will be retired to mansions in Palm Beach,

Connecticut. I won't have him that close to me.

Oh hell no. They're not going anywhere near my parents, sibs, and nephew. He can fuck off back to Texas.

I suppose that, despite our own individuality, we face a small measure of shame/responsibility-by-default for our nationally elected representatives. Blair's a tit. Bush's a tit.

Fine. Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher. -sulk-

Less searchable M0rd4nt

02:57 / 10.07.05

"Back" to Texas? How about "back to Maine and take your plastic Goodoleboy act with you"?

04:11 / 10.07.05

Fine, whatever, anyone who'll take them can have them, how about that? Wait. That's still us. Fuck.

08:01 / 10.07.05

I think having a fight between American and English 'lithers is at least a TINY bit inappropriate...

Benny the Ball

09:08 / 10.07.05

No, it's alright Stoaty, it's become an inter-US fight, all trying to offload the bushes into their distant neighbours backyard!

Surely Bush, W will go and live in Springfield?

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:19 / 10.07.05

Nah, America should be more like the Waltons and less like the Simpsons.", according to his daddy.

So he'll be retiring to Walton Mountain.

I'm also not particularly wanting to blame all Americans for the actions of Bush. Lord knows I didn't give a mandate to my current leader, and the many atrocities he is perpetrating. He is the elected representative of my country, he's not my representative.

And, as dwight points out, in the case of this current administration, the distinction between 'voted for' and elected is a significant one.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:21 / 10.07.05

I suppose that, despite our own individuality, we face a small measure of shame/responsibility-by-default for our nationally elected representatives. Blair's a tit. Bush's a tit.

Yeah, I can also see that. In that, certainly no-one else bears responsibility, even by default, for these people.

Goodness Gracious Meme

13:23 / 10.07.05

But to get back to the question at hand, are the Americans here all okay with Bush retiring to Walton's Mountain. I'm sure he'll be very happy there.

(and my memory of the Waltons is dim, but surely it wasn't a really a mountain? Like, snow-capped peaks and stuff? Though that *does* sound like the perfect retirement spot for GWB)

14:36 / 10.07.05

I think having a fight between American and English 'lithers is at least a TINY bit inappropriate...

I was kidding. But sorry if it looked like I was just being a dick.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

15:21 / 10.07.05

Oh, don't worry. There was a lot of it about, not just you, and on re-reading, I don't think anyone meant anything by it. I think I'm in full-on conciliatory "no! no-one must fight EVAH!!!" mode at the moment, so, y'know...

unheimlich manoeuvre

15:32 / 10.07.05

Fine. Thatcher Thatcher Thatcher. -sulk-

She said her name THREE times! You know what that means.

...

There does seems to be anti-american sentiment at work and amongst random people I've spoken to recently. Blair being a lapdog, British people dying in a US war. Usual stuff I suppose but more so.

20:57 / 10.07.05

As we were talking about songs earlier, Omarion is covering Shaggy: That statement saying pray for me? It wasn't me.

21:10 / 10.07.05

Like I typed earlier:

"Mind you, sounds to me like someone in his press agency has it in for him" (and Reuters judging by that Yahoo article; would have been easy to ignore a record label's press release on a day that, no?)

Either that, or he's a little cockroach and is scurrying around, desperately trying to find a dirty corner to hide in.

21:19 / 10.07.05

Having never heard of the guy, part of me thought it was a joke in the first place (hey, you only get taken in by the midget/lion fight story ONCE, y'hear?)

Just came back from the pub (where, y'know, I occasionally go once in a while) where a friend said "have you noticed a lot of Union Jacks flying everywhere since Thursday?"

"No", says I.

"Nah, me neither. Good, that, isn't it?"

And how right he was.

21:22 / 10.07.05

A midget had a fight with a lion? Cool. Who won?

And I agree about the Union Jacks. To quote Banksy:

"Those who wave flags don't deserve to own them" (or something like that!)

Olulabelle

22:31 / 10.07.05

But sorry if it looked like I was just being a dick.

You didn't sound like that. You sounded like you were kidding. Don't worry.

Ganesh

22:39 / 10.07.05

Of course, one of my earliest posts on this the 'Explosions' thread was

I think it was Horigal on the tracks.

which, in retrospect, is kinda inappropriate.