What's that supposed to mean?
Not sure you've grasped the nature of sarcasm either. Not sure the nature of modern jihadism has much time for the nature of either thee or me, so please let's just forget the oneupmanship and get on with it. I'm on limited broadband (yeh, and patience) so wtf are you on about? AFAICT yer modern jihadi is typically a petty criminal recruited in jail and focused on a goal. Which likely involves glory and maidens.
mate , you've just literally said what I've been trying to put into words for the last few hours, more than anything of this type ive ever experienced has made me feel , so dis-heartend with the world, angry and emotional , been on the verge of tears this last hour.
targeting kids ffs
It's probably a natural instinct as you say, to try to 'get a grasp', make sense of the senseless thing. But speculating on why that particular crowd means trying to imagine your way inside the mind of a young man for whom blowing himself to bits and taking a bunch of strangers with him seemed the logical thing to do.
Discounted sarcasm as thought lowest form of wit beneath this thread. See I was wrong. Oh well.
That maybe cos we aren't a French speaking country!
That's enough patronising projection from you for me today, thanks. I think there's more pressing things to talk about right now.
I would have been on the far side of where you were standing. Amazed to see so many people there, we couldn't get close enough to hear the speakers.
Oh fuck off PM.
At least it's later than page 6.
My Facebook has been deactivated for several months, but if Twitter is anything to go by it tends to be people having "I <3 MCR" (as first wheeled out during the 2011 riots) as their avatar. I was toying with having the city's coat of arms on as my avatar but didn't get round to it. Bees (being a symbol of the industriousness of the city) are also popular, such as this:
Or it might just be a moment's anger expressed on the internet amongst friends. And that's fucking it. No wildly extrapolated "this is where it will lead" theories needed.
That sounds weirdly creepy to me
The best bit was when we were all chanting "MAN-CHEST-ER!". But there was definitely a diverse mix of all kinds of people there, which is to be welcomed, especially considering what a cosmopolitan city we live in.I ambled up about half an hour before the start and the square was already full.. At the end I realised all the streets around had filled up too, never seen that square so full even at new year, took me ten minutes to shuffle out again, when I was struck by the number of foreign accents around, Spanish, Americans, Germans.
Your side was the gobbiest I must say.
Nutty jihadis for you. I maybe went OTT in characterising their fetishism.
What poem? Do you have a link?
Read the thread ffs
eh? If it's on a link I can't read it.
You're one of the best posters on urban. But from my pov you're looking for a scrap, I don't know why. We don't seem to disagree. Let's move on in amity but speaking less French.Oh fuck off PM.
I'm usually ad idem with you but this time I'm twirling my finger in my ear and saying Quoi? At least can't we agree that this is an atrocity, and - tentatively - that the atrocity was targeted? Targeted at girls who were enjoying music and the pleasures of being young in their bodies?
Oh great, we're doing the predictable urban entropy thing.
And, yanno, I think we mostly agree on the important things: the man who did this was an unmitigated shit and he deserved to die.
You need to listen to and watch it
