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Triplets

13:50 / 11.07.05

Terrorists = the trolls of the real

paranoidwriter waves hello

14:21 / 11.07.05

It's just astounding to me how differently London has reacted, compared to New York. NYC was defiant, but shocked out of their minds, and staggered by the scope.

Yes, but as you mentioned, the scope was different. I suspect that if (say) Canary Wharf or the Centre-Point had been razed after impacts from aeroplanes, the reaction here would have been very different. As Tom typed earlier in this thread, the scale of the damage and the death-toll in London was (fortunately) proportionally low.

Jub

15:54 / 11.07.05

Do come.

Considering not coming is like not flying incase the plane crashes. London is unique.

There's over 7 million people who live in London. Then there's all the tourists. There wasn't an exodus from London because it's still one of the best places to live in the world.

sleazenation

16:04 / 11.07.05

If anything, Thursday again reminded me how much I love London...

Tryphena Absent

16:31 / 11.07.05

The difference between the attack on the Twin Towers and the bombs on the tube is that it was possible to pull all of the uninjured people (and the injured) out of the underground system and treat them. If it had been a situation where people were visibly dying from the after effect and were cut off from the emergency services then the reaction probably would have been coloured by hysteria.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:14 / 11.07.05

I am in total agreement with sleaze. (On this subject, anyway. We may have differences over comics, but that's not the poin).

As has been said, the scope is the thing... I don't really think you can compare England's reaction to this to America's reaction to the Twin Towers.

I do, however, think you can compare the reaction to America's reaction to Oklahoma. I still think we come out better, but it's not quite such a huge... THING who does or who doesn't.

I totally love London, though, and especially since Thursday. (Even though, as I've just outlined in the URGH FUCK thread, it has its VERY down side).

Fuck, I've only lived here, what? fifteen, sixteen years- and it feels more like home than anywhere I've ever lived. Sometimes it astounds me how much I love it. Like now.

Alex's Grandma

17:17 / 11.07.05

If that's the Elbow Room in Islington, you have my extreme sympathy.

Alex's Grandma

17:20 / 11.07.05

(The above in reply to Evil Scientist, should have clicked 'refresh,' I am the worm man, etc)

Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns

17:48 / 11.07.05

Like Copey said, "LONDON IS HARD AS FUCK", I mean i tried to beat the shit out of London once and i'm really fucking tough, but London still beat seven bells of shite out of me. It's fuckin nails.

So don't worry, unless of course you're coming over to start on London? Which you shoudn't 'cos it's a reet feckin' rock ard bastad.

Best of luck

Mourne Kransky

07:04 / 12.07.05

Just been listening to an American attaché squirm on a hook as he tried to explain this on the Today programme.

THOUSANDS of American servicemen based in Britain have been banned from visiting London because of the terrorist alert...

Evil Scientist

10:07 / 12.07.05

I have no idea where the Elbow Room is, I have a spectacularly poor memory for the location of things. Which is why I often wake up in South American countries after a night of carousing.

But where-ever it is I have reasonably happy memories of it. I don't really care if the tubes are still slow, it's the principle of the thing. Also, it's for a friend's birthday so should be good.

Bill Posters

15:12 / 12.07.05

THOUSANDS of American servicemen based in Britain have been banned from visiting London because of the terrorist alert...

shame, really - they would have been so welcome...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:35 / 12.07.05

'tis a bit pissy, really... when will mR Tony realise the big guy doesn't actually give two shits about the little guy he dragged into the fight?

And what kind of signal is that sending? Civilians in London are harder than the US military? I mean, it's flattering and all, but still...

paranoidwriter waves hello

16:51 / 12.07.05

I have no idea where the Elbow Room is

Careful, the last I checked there were two: one on Chapel Market, Islington; one in Shoreditch. Hope that helps.

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