Manchester Arena incident - many reported dead

[JTG]

Awful to wake up to.

Two nights ago I was watching Iron Maiden in Birmingham. Bruce giving his usual speech about not giving a shit what race, creed, colour or religion you are when you come to a show. Talking about being able to switch off the outside world and the lunatics therein for a couple of hours spent with friends and like minded people having a good time. That's why they do it, that's why we do it.

Gearing up for a summer of working big shows now, first one on Saturday. This is going to be interesting.

 

[Pickman's model]

This was posted on twitter hours before the attack and picked up by 'civilians' who monitor these nutjobs. Glad the security services also monitor them as closely.

Sarcasm. The lowest form of wit. Doesn't suit you.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This was posted on twitter hours before the attack and picked up by 'civilians' who monitor these nutjobs. Glad the security services also monitor them as closely.

Account now suspended

 

[Schmetterling]

I think I'm going to be scared when sirens start from now on. That's how I knew something horrible had happened. Like I live in Manchester centre I'm used to sirens but they just didn't stop.

That's what I remember from the London bombings.

 

[DexterTCN]

What sickening news to wake up to. Hope the numbers don't rise.

 

[Grace Johnson]

That's what I remember from the London bombings.

I'm sorry to hear that

I hope you were able to deal with it ok? The underground must have been scary as fuck afterwards.

 

[wiskey]

Buzzfeed rundown on some of the false rumours so far:

This Is Some Of The Fake News Circulating About The Manchester Arena Blast

"The Daily Express later updated their story with a new headline denying the original claim about a gunman."

instant news really irritates me, take a second or two to check facts

 

[Ranbay]

You have to be careful with them tweet times also, as they look different depending where you are.

 

[Schmetterling]

I'm sorry to hear that

I hope you were able to deal with it ok? The underground must have been scary as fuck afterwards.

I was unscathed. Worked at The Royal London then.

 

[Pickman's model]

That's what I remember from the London bombings.

Remember the fluff coming down outside Hackney town hall from bishopsgate

 

[rekil]

You have to be careful with them tweet times also, as they look different depending where you are.

Yeah this gamer prick posted this around midnight

Spoiler: gamer prick

But by not being logged in, my screenie shows yesterday afternoon. Deleted now after a few people had a word apparently.

 

[Schmetterling]

Remember the fluff coming down outside Hackney town hall from bishopsgate

You mean debris?

 

[Pickman's model]

You mean debris?

Yeh, it was insulation stuff coming down like rain

 

[Grace Johnson]

Yeh, it was insulation stuff coming down like rain

That sounds really disturbing. It's mad how little pieces of imagery like that stay with you. Like the scene itself if quite inert really but when you know the significance of it it just chills the core of you. Horrible

 

[Schmetterling]

Yeh, it was insulation stuff coming down like rain

Bloody hell!

I haven't read the entire thread; are we - our fellow Urbs in Manchester - all ok?

 

[Tom A]

I watched the whole thing develop last night - texted my mother when I first heard the news (before the police had said there was fatalities, and hoping upon hope that it was just a balloon or something as some initial tweets had said) since she would have otherwise had been in hysterics. Ever since the London bombings, and moreso after the spate of attacks in continental Europe, I have thought it would be a only a matter of time that a British city outside London would be targeted, and more likely than not it would be Manchester, with its "second city" status and all. I could still hear sirens and helicopters from around 1.30am as I tried to put it out of my mind and get to sleep. Still shocking to hear of such senseless loss of life so close to home.

 

[Flavour]

Terrible. No words. So many children.

 

[Dogsauce]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe. Can't think of the mindset that sits there and carefully assembles something like this.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe. Can't think of the mindset that sits there and carefully assembles something like this.

NYT had something a year or so back showing the trend away from complex operations requiring logistics support, towards stuff a motivated loner or small but isolated group can do using an 'open source' concept, but which becomes an action on behalf of Daesh or whoever on the basis of a Facebook post.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Utter fucking bastards. Little kids dancing.

And this

Spoiler: gamer prick

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You'd think that would spell the end of his chances of getting employed by anyone, ever. But I just know somebody somewhere will see that and think "Hmmm, this guy's really good at creating content". What a world.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe. Can't think of the mindset that sits there and carefully assembles something like this.

Like the doctors plot of '07, where they tried to attack clubbers on haymarket and then attacked Glasgow airport

 

[Tom A]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe. Can't think of the mindset that sits there and carefully assembles something like this.

Trying to recall this now - if we are talking about Islamists then it might have been the 2005 London bombings, otherwise Anders Brevik.

NYT had something a year or so back showing the trend away from complex operations requiring logistics support, towards stuff a motivated loner or small but isolated group can do using an 'open source' concept, but which becomes an action on behalf of Daesh or whoever on the basis of a Facebook post.

The thing is Daesh will happily claim responsibility for any Islamist-motivated attack, regardless of scale - even if the perpetrator was acting without any orders or guidance from them.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Just numb really. Kids on a night out.

 

[Pickman's model]

Trying to recall this now - if we are talking about Islamists then it might have been the 2005 London bombings, otherwise Anders Brevik.

Do you so soon forget events in Germany last year?

 

[Athos]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe.

Last month, in St Petersburg.

 

[Pickman's model]

Last month, in St Petersburg.

Yeh, true

 

[Tom A]

Do you so soon forget events in Germany last year?

I remember a stabbing and people being mown over in a truck there - don't remember any bombs though. Anyway try not to be so condescending at this sensitive time.

 

[bimble]

It's heartbreaking looking at twitter this morning. I'm seeing desperate tweets of people looking for missing children. It's overwhelming.

Yes, this.

 

[pesh]

It's been stabbing, guns and lorries for a while, can't remember when the cunts last used a bomb in Europe. Can't think of the mindset that sits there and carefully assembles something like this.

Paris 2015

 

[Steel Icarus]

Brussels 2016. Sadly Manchester very much not without precedent