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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:29 am
(March 23, 2017 at 6:08 am)Stimbo Wrote: That's what I was thinking. Lunatic drives a 4×4 through pedestrians to attack security around parliament with a knife. Hardly IRA levels of terror.
And yet it's something that can't possibly be prevented. It does it's intended job. To keep society on edge, to make politicians release even more restrictive legislation which in turn doesn't help in preventing yet another incidence of someone basically running amok with something that isn't even a weapon but a car.
Also one has to put something like that in perspective. In the newsfeeds I read every morning there was something on a shootout in Wisconsin. Just your regular shooter going over the edge, but the same amount of victims. The piece will be gone by Midday while this the Westminster attack will be all over the headlines and commented on for weeks to come.
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:33 am
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Trump fucking junior had a go at the London Mayor.
The shit doesn't fall far from the arsehole.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39361079
Can you imagine if a prominent Brit had had a go at the Mayor of new York the day after 9\11.
Fox news reported London was paralysed by the attack.
It wasn't. Life in London went much as usual with a couple of admittedly major routes roped off for obvious reasons.
Turns out we Brits aren't such pussies as Americans.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/fo..._hp_ref=uk
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:36 am
(March 23, 2017 at 6:33 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Can you imagine if a prominent Brit had had a go at the Mayor of new York the day after 9\11.
That's hardly comparable. But stones and glass houses come to mind in any case. Having a go at any given shootout in the USA would fit the bill more nicely. But then again, any Brit attempting that would be very busy trying to keep up.
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:39 am
Are the Trumps on a mission to piss off every single person on Earth personally?
(Rhetorical)
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:46 am
(March 23, 2017 at 6:39 am)Stimbo Wrote: Are the Trumps on a mission to piss off every single person on Earth personally?
(Rhetorical)
Are you suggesting they are the beginnings of wow bagger the ever living?
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 6:54 am
(March 23, 2017 at 6:46 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (March 23, 2017 at 6:39 am)Stimbo Wrote: Are the Trumps on a mission to piss off every single person on Earth personally?
(Rhetorical)
Are you suggesting they are the beginnings of wow bagger the ever living?
*gasp* It's 'Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged'.
Hitchhikians 24:7: 'And thou shalt not misquote the prophet Adams, as that is an abomination unto the Lord.'
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 7:06 am
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(March 23, 2017 at 6:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (March 23, 2017 at 6:46 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Are you suggesting they are the beginnings of wow bagger the ever living?
*gasp* It's 'Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged'.
Hitchhikians 24:7: 'And thou shalt not misquote the prophet Adams, as that is an abomination unto the Lord.'
Boru
You are correct. Although I did get the gist of his name, the essence if you will.
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(March 23, 2017 at 6:36 am)abaris Wrote: (March 23, 2017 at 6:33 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Can you imagine if a prominent Brit had had a go at the Mayor of new York the day after 9\11.
That's hardly comparable. But stones and glass houses come to mind in any case. Having a go at any given shootout in the USA would fit the bill more nicely. But then again, any Brit attempting that would be very busy trying to keep up.
Yes we could have a go at the US about mass shootings almost every day.
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 7:13 am
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The government take loans with an interest that can only be paid by taking another loan.
Africa, India, South America, Syria, Yemen are full of poor little kids that die everyday either by war, or by hunger.
Then, these governments that take loans that can't be paid, to make high heels for ladies instead of food for the hungry kids, invest in a technology called "atomic weapons" to make madness a reality and death by radiated inferno a truth, fear insane humans following the religion of stabbing called "Izam", never think about cutting support from the Muslim dictators who enrich the extreme thought.
Who funds ISIS?
What happened to the IRA?
ITA????
Al Qaeda????
Bin Laden????????????
Um um um am um
Sorry for those who had to die, because a psychopath was playing chess with their right to live.
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
March 23, 2017 at 7:15 am
(March 23, 2017 at 7:06 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: (March 23, 2017 at 6:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: *gasp* It's 'Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged'.
Hitchhikians 24:7: 'And thou shalt not misquote the prophet Adams, as that is an abomination unto the Lord.'
Boru
You are correct. Although I did get the gist of his name, the essence if you will.
Let there be peace amongst us.
(March 23, 2017 at 6:36 am)abaris Wrote: That's hardly comparable. But stones and glass houses come to mind in any case. Having a go at any given shootout in the USA would fit the bill more nicely. But then again, any Brit attempting that would be very busy trying to keep up.
Yes we could have a go at the US about mass shootings almost every day.
I recall that just after the horrific nightclub shooting in Florida, Trump Sr.'s first comment was, 'I called it.'
What a family of tools.
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RE: Shots fired outside the houses of Parliament.
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