londons_burning_londons_burning sab get the engines get the engines fire! fire! fire! fire! pour on water pour on water ... 050707 ... DannyH My girlfriend was evacuated from King's Cross after the first bomb went off, started walking towards work then heard the bus bomb go off in Tavistock Square. She's four months pregnant. If we hadn't taken a few extra minutes getting out of bed this morning she and my child might not have made it home. 050707 ... tessa london bridge is falling down falling down falling down london bridge is falling down my fair lady iron bars will bend and break bend and break bend and break iron bars will bend and break my fair lady 050707 ... Doar holy shit DannyH. i just heard about this on my way into work. i really don't know what to say, except it's good to hear that you and yours are safe. . 050707 ... emmi it's so strange to think i was on that exact bus in russell square just yesterday. i live near liverpool street, i've heard ambulances going past my flat every 2 minutes. i'm not sure how i should be feeling. i don't think i want to live here much longer. 050707 ... unhinged so many near misses 911 happened almost four years ago and there's no end in sight anywhere in the world. yes, dannyh i'm very glad your girlfriend and your baby are ok. shit...everett. and i don't have any idea where in london he was living. shit. *sigh* 050707 ... . Repeat We're OK. Takes more than a bunch of crazed amoral cunts to bring us down. Come and meet us face to face if you dare. Even if you don't, we'll still face you down you worthless bastards. 050707 ... fa take the key and lock 'em up my fair lady 050707 ... anne-girl ahh what happened? what happened? *runs for google news* 050707 ... you know its true My most sincere condolences go out to the British people. May you be strong through these awful times. While Thursday’s attacks can never be justified under any circumstances we must think about the reason of why they have occurred. Only though serious thinking and most importantly, through action can we prevent such fucking mess from happening again. The world is at war, England is at war, but the reason for this war is not a valid one. The reasons for this war are evident to anyone with half a brain; the reasons for this war are oil, greed and a total disregard for human life. Yet, the war goes on and no one is doing anything to stop it. Thus, the war has spilled into our homes. Those responsible for what happened in London are scum, true, their actions can never be justified, terror is not a solution to anything. However, one must look at things from an objective point of view to make any sense of them - however hard this may be. Place yourself in the Middle East, in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and watch as you country, your people, your possessions, your family, are killed, burned and destroyed right before your eyes, with the only hope that you might be the next. The perpetrators? Self-proclaimed heroes, who say they come to “liberate” you but in reality come only to steal from you and to humiliate you by calling you a terrorist. What then? Who is the real terrorist? And why? Americans, British people, do whatever you can, whatever lies in your power to stop your diluted leaders from continuing this savage, pointless war that has claimed the lives of so many innocent people, and that will continue to do unless you claim responsibility. ! 050708 ... nomme) boadicea 050708 ... DannyH A million of us marched on London. A million. There's only 60 million in the whole of the UK. They ignored us. We knew this was coming and we face it now not with anger but with resignation. If I'm honest the most common feeling in London right now is "It could have been worse." There's almost a sense of relief that it's finally happened. 050708 ... . If it's war, then once it's a war, fuck the reasons. We can argue about that later. They want to wage war? Then we stand up to them and give them war. 59 million (at least) of us didn't march on London. No, I don't know what to make of that either. Millions of people in the Middle east, in Iraq and in Afghanistan don't want to terrorise or murder us. Fuck those who do. 050709 ... oldephebe Yeah but the thing is..this..law enforcement, the media in it's role as interpreter, provocateur and reinterpreter of the news, of the actions of a minority of muderous radicals who happen to be merely racially/ethnically related to a much larger group, an aggrieved and marginalized people's who though morally are entitled to thier legitimate feelings of distrust/contempt/disenfranchizement of the West's at times amoral agendas and concepts of Raison D'etat the meaning of objective and highly nuanced and or highly stylized and when i say stylized I am referring to stylized as a unique culturally created and or informed argot/modus/style of expression. ... 050709 ... oldephebe what i mean to say is although they are aggreived they are identified not by thier faith or just thier ethnicity..there is a quantifiable link, a constituency in the realm of fact, they are aggrieved because they have been the marginalized, pejoratively misrepresented, thier reticience and or what could seem like ambivelence or qualified and circumspect animadversions should not be equated enmasse to constitute nor is it an expression of some kind of defacto culturally and or ethnically sanctioned of such obviously moral reprehensible acts. ... 050709 ... not complicated what the fuck is this person talking about??? i appreciate the use of "proper” language as much as the next guy, however i think you use some words that are completely unnecessary...simple is better – they usually teach that in schools. i would suppose that you want most people to understand what you write…no? whatever, i agree with what that “you know its true” person said. 050710 ... DannyH The door opens...you step in...the door closes. You go into the tunnel. It's easy. You do it every day. This is how we go to work. Of course, we were expecting that extra heartbeat weren't we? Let's try to be cool. Let's not scan the carriage like it would make a difference... 050710 ... its true though Im wow vagueness and turgidity is all it takes for you to become incensed. ouch have i commited some kind of crime/capital offense? feel free to adress me as oldephebe ouch. paralized by paralaxis 050710 ... oldephebe check back saaay around 8:00 pm tomorrow, then when i'll have some free time to address your concerns. I don't like the coat you put them in but the point the undrlining, undergirding of your concern is not w/o validity. 050710 ... oldephebe check back saaay around 8:00 pm tomorrow, then when i'll have some free time to address your concerns. I don't like the coat you put them in but the point the undrlining, undergirding of your concern is not w/o validity. 050710 ... oldephebe check back saaay around 8:00 pm tomorrow, then when i'll have some free time to address your concerns. I don't like the coat you put them in but the point the undrlining, undergirding of your concern is not w/o validity. 050710 ... misstree from what i've seen, i have a whole legion of wheelbarrows of respect for the people of london for handling the attack as well as they did. no screaming hysterics, no war cries, but, "well, sheeit," and back to the day. (or should that be, "oh, bother.") terrorism is only effective if you live in terror because of it. 050711 ... not complicated oldphebe: i don’t believe that you have committed a crime/capital offense i did not become “incensed” by your use of crappy words i was only expressing the frustration you post caused me. don’t take it so hard please. you may continue to write whatever you like, be it vague and what not. this is blather don’t forget – smile thanks. i’ll be busy clipping my toe nails at 8:00 – sorry. 050711 ... oldephebe that was a clever however insincere it's cool. i hope you've sheathed your ego and conscience for confronting your true and what i believe to be a regrettable nature...wich is though in this millenial nihilistic and sadistic age pretty much normal. ... i have a heart and it is full and it is that sensitivity that keeps me from using my tongue as a thoughtless lash when i am perhaps not in the most "acepting" state of mind. ... I'll still post it though. If only for claitys sake. ... 050711 ... see claritys sake suicide_as_performance_art 050711 ... oldephebe should be "I hope you succeeded in sheathing your ego and conscience from confronting your true nature..." ... As I've said before. We here in these times, the millenial post-post modern age are beyond being morally fatigued and morally exhausted. So we applaud ourselves for clever depleted sardonic postures and drape them over garishly insincere rhetoric. Post-modernism has informed the culture in that we have constructed these sadistic/sardonic/depleted/ironic mechanisms of expression as a means of constructing an alternate and more desirable "reality" and impose that over social transactions that used to require empathy and understanding..but the modern age has spawned a peoples who simply reject the notions of compassion and empathy because it requires too much. Enlightened Humanity is seen as an unpalatable and injurious, irrevocably injurious divestment of personhood. We beleive it costs us too much to be human. ... 050711 ... u24 again... ish. but not quite. 050721 ... . damn... twice... gah... (has nothing to say) 050721 ... 3rd ? 050721 ... national hero damn shame. I like London. 060525 ... FA113N London Bridge is falling down Around my ears. I am surveying walls Inside my head, Taking a sledgehammer To the dry wall, And too many things Pour out. I have remembered: Being forced against A gravestone At seven. Laying broken in the rain At ten, calling over A fence For help from strangers. But I cannot remember A whisper that upset you, Or how you came To kiss me. London Bridge is breaking down Into scattered memories, And I am forgetting your face, It is too much For my thoughts to Wrap themselves around. I have never been To that station before, But now it taunts me In the map in my mind. I have forgotten: How I got to the platform, I vaguely remember A kind man. The next thing I knew, I was at my station, In the toilet, Staring at myself In a mirror Which had no answers. London Bridge is rising up Into my thoughts, And I cannot sleep. London is burning London is burning A hole in my sheets 130125 what's it to you? who go blather from