Yeah, I know what you mean man; my entire house relocated to the pub at about half two & I've been drinking ever since. I fear I've not exactly processed the events of the day yet. London (and I guess Britain) is never gonna be quite the same again. This was our 9/11.Kid_Eternity said:
July 2005 London bomb blasts: UPDATES AND NEWS ONLY - NO DISCUSSION
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Didn't get round to it, a couple of mates came round and we just sat and talked all evening.Louloubelle said:
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
God, I should of gone for a drink but just didn't want to go out, felt much better hanging at home with mates. Yeah, didn't really want to say that but its kinda true although not becuase of the death toll or because of how Blair et al will use it but because of the emotional effect.nosos said:
That's it, the emotional effect. If the bus was blown up by a suicide bomber - as seems likely - it's gonna take me a while to get my head round that fact: a suicide bomber blew up a bus a few minutes walk from a house on a road I walk down every day. At the moment it all seems so gloriously & painlessly abstract but I doubt that will last.
nosos said:
Considering I've lived in Euston since I was born and was outside only a street away from Russell Square when it happened it's perhaps even more of a shaker for me. My ears are still ringing from the sound of the explosion and I regularly take the number 30 bus route all the time!
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
I was just drawing my curtains and saw the sky flash white for a second
anyone else see it?
I'm in Camden facing south
I didn't hear anything
it was just like a lightning flash, only there's no storms
*don't think I imagined it- would anyone be so silly as to let off a firework at a time like this?*
anyone else see it?
I'm in Camden facing south
I didn't hear anything
it was just like a lightning flash, only there's no storms
*don't think I imagined it- would anyone be so silly as to let off a firework at a time like this?*
Mrs Magpie
On a bit of break...
Train? I often see flashes like that at night from electrified railway lines.
tangerinedream
Density of Sound
I'm glad it seems all the people on here are ok. I've never met 99.99% of people but it was seriously wierd looking at the news today and I instantly thought of people from here just doing there normal stuff.
It's been a strange old day at work, I spent most of my time talking about the IRA to the students, trying to explain that terrorism isn't a new invention and that the British can cope better than the americans because of the last 30 years, they didn't remember anything about the Warrington/Manchester/Canary Wharf etc etc (not to mention the many many incidents in N Ireland) - It's been quite a wierd day, I feel old.
It seems very remote all of this in Fleetwood, but I've just got the bus back from the pub, and looking at the pictures of the bus that exploded on the BBC site, it is chilling. I very much empathis with an earlier post about why do these people try to kill every day people. - Why don't they pick on the leaders or the powerful. It seems to just give the governemt more power and keep the normal person scared.
I hated Blair for refering to all Muslims as distinct from 'us' - watch his speech - he does, why? He looks like he needed this like a hole in his head, he looks so old.
Anyway that's not important now, I'm glad everyones ok, I'm sorry people suffered what must have been a nightmare and something like this reminds you how real life is, and how the posters are real. I hope tomorrow is easier for all the London people.
It's been a strange old day at work, I spent most of my time talking about the IRA to the students, trying to explain that terrorism isn't a new invention and that the British can cope better than the americans because of the last 30 years, they didn't remember anything about the Warrington/Manchester/Canary Wharf etc etc (not to mention the many many incidents in N Ireland) - It's been quite a wierd day, I feel old.
It seems very remote all of this in Fleetwood, but I've just got the bus back from the pub, and looking at the pictures of the bus that exploded on the BBC site, it is chilling. I very much empathis with an earlier post about why do these people try to kill every day people. - Why don't they pick on the leaders or the powerful. It seems to just give the governemt more power and keep the normal person scared.
I hated Blair for refering to all Muslims as distinct from 'us' - watch his speech - he does, why? He looks like he needed this like a hole in his head, he looks so old.
Anyway that's not important now, I'm glad everyones ok, I'm sorry people suffered what must have been a nightmare and something like this reminds you how real life is, and how the posters are real. I hope tomorrow is easier for all the London people.
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
well I don't hear any sirens so I suppose it can't have been anything important
time I went to bed
what a horrible day
time I went to bed
what a horrible day
Badger Kitten you are extremely brave and I wish you a good recovery from all of this, you did well 
clandestino
no llevar papel
a nuclear strike on mecca...that would really sort everything out
Well if it's any consolation, a businessman in Colorado that I have dealing's with for ages, joked that "Bush is talking about nuking Saudi Arabia!" - then went on to say how he hated the way that Bush and co. have have reactionary, revengeful "feel good" answers to problems...
Not the exact words of my American friend, but a quick summary of his sentiments.
Mind you, alot of what he was saying was about his mistrust of Texans!
Not the exact words of my American friend, but a quick summary of his sentiments.
Mind you, alot of what he was saying was about his mistrust of Texans!
wiskey
Albatross Admirer
so i've finished work thank god. i think that will be (hopefully) one of the hardest 14hours of my life.
i cant sleep, i dont really know what to do with myself now. i'll roll a spliff that should help.
i think the most upsetting part of my night was watching the horriffic pictures on the television as we had new 24 on in the control room, and i sit right in front of the TV. for 14 hours i've absorbed other peoples shock and confusion through a never ending series of news reports, i've watched a man describe his experience on the bus as people were 'splattered' with glass time and time again. its burned into the back fo my head. this was only made worse by some bloke at the BBC having the bright idea to intersperse london footage with pictures from previous explosions around the world, i would look up and see a building in rubble and think 'god here we go again'.
After call after call to suspect packages from croydon to barnet by about 2am a weird calm settled over the room, we accepted nothing would happen overnight and it became a waiting game until we could hand over to the day shift. not that we wouldn't stand up to whatever happened, but all of us are emotionally wiped out and mentally drained. the officers, extra staff and volountary services left gradually until it was just my watch left, and we looked at each other, realised its just us and continued as normal.
The 999 calls coming in ranged from the life threatening to the ludicrous. but the ludicrous ones were generally people who believed their 3wk old sore throat was life threatening. you cant help people like that. we had an inordinate amount of psychiatric patients and two rapes on my sector which is pretty much unheard of (i've only dealt with 2 in the last 2 years). i dont know if the general stress on the situation has got to people.
the only anger i've seen all night was a reaction (by all staff) to the man (i dont know who he was) who was quoted as saying that the emergency services took too long entering the tunnels to help the victims. we learnt lessons at 911, the emergency services ran into that and not enough ran out again.
everybody runs away from a disaster, the emergency services run towards it.
i joined the service knowing that london would be the victim of a terrorist attack at some point. i personally believe we as a city came off lightly, i also believe this may not be the end. we've known it was coming, it was just a case of when. people on the tv were quoted as saying that they would move jobs, never get on a tube, never visit london. thats a pity. i've lived in london all my life with the threat of terrorist attacks from the IRA or others, it happened then, its happened now.
to anybody who lost a loved one my deepest condolances.
i think i might not open the paper i just bought. i cant take any more today.
i've finished my spliff
goodnight
wiskers
i cant sleep, i dont really know what to do with myself now. i'll roll a spliff that should help.
i think the most upsetting part of my night was watching the horriffic pictures on the television as we had new 24 on in the control room, and i sit right in front of the TV. for 14 hours i've absorbed other peoples shock and confusion through a never ending series of news reports, i've watched a man describe his experience on the bus as people were 'splattered' with glass time and time again. its burned into the back fo my head. this was only made worse by some bloke at the BBC having the bright idea to intersperse london footage with pictures from previous explosions around the world, i would look up and see a building in rubble and think 'god here we go again'.
After call after call to suspect packages from croydon to barnet by about 2am a weird calm settled over the room, we accepted nothing would happen overnight and it became a waiting game until we could hand over to the day shift. not that we wouldn't stand up to whatever happened, but all of us are emotionally wiped out and mentally drained. the officers, extra staff and volountary services left gradually until it was just my watch left, and we looked at each other, realised its just us and continued as normal.
The 999 calls coming in ranged from the life threatening to the ludicrous. but the ludicrous ones were generally people who believed their 3wk old sore throat was life threatening. you cant help people like that. we had an inordinate amount of psychiatric patients and two rapes on my sector which is pretty much unheard of (i've only dealt with 2 in the last 2 years). i dont know if the general stress on the situation has got to people.
the only anger i've seen all night was a reaction (by all staff) to the man (i dont know who he was) who was quoted as saying that the emergency services took too long entering the tunnels to help the victims. we learnt lessons at 911, the emergency services ran into that and not enough ran out again.
everybody runs away from a disaster, the emergency services run towards it.
i joined the service knowing that london would be the victim of a terrorist attack at some point. i personally believe we as a city came off lightly, i also believe this may not be the end. we've known it was coming, it was just a case of when. people on the tv were quoted as saying that they would move jobs, never get on a tube, never visit london. thats a pity. i've lived in london all my life with the threat of terrorist attacks from the IRA or others, it happened then, its happened now.
to anybody who lost a loved one my deepest condolances.
i think i might not open the paper i just bought. i cant take any more today.
i've finished my spliff
goodnight
wiskers
Badger Kitten
oof
Wiskey, huge thanks to all the ambulance staff today, and all the emergency services, will post that on another thread too.
john x
Well-Known Member
Loki said:Just heard on BBC Breakfast.... some hotels so much as tripled their prices to take advantage of trapped commuters. How cynical and greedy can one be to take advantage of people caught up in this
I think you will find that this is a non-story.
Hotel room prices, like airline tickets fluctuate over a huge range depending on demand, from heavy discounting in slack periods to top dollar when demand is high.
Yesterday, demand was high and the prices probably reflected that.
john x
coventrycityfan
New Member
According to the papers they are saying a Islamic Group from the Midlands could be responsible
coventrycityfan
New Member
Evacuation at Euston Station Talksport are reporting
Louloubelle
Well-Known Member
coventrycityfan said:
any suspect package will be taken very seriously now
I've always asked people "who does this belong to?" if there's an unnattended suitcase or bag on the tube, but I've lways felt a bit embarrassed, people have often seemed apathetic or embarrassed too
perhaps a good thing to come out of this is that it reminds people to be vigilant and to take unnatended packages and bags seriously
I'd rather be held up while police check out an unnatended bag than live in an environment where people don't bother to raise the alarm
coventrycityfan
New Member
Problem at Liverpool Street- Looks like another evacuation