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there's a lot of sirens, and it is greys inn rd.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Gondon?

I want to live in Gondon.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

Blimey, i got the bus from Borough to Grays Inn Road on Saturday, wonder if it's the same number of bus.

― leigh (leigh), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:41 (twenty years ago)

yeah, probably just one, leigh. (hohoho, i slay me)

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:43 (twenty years ago)

false alarm, according to bbc -- just a small fire on a bus.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:56 (twenty years ago)

christ, if they sealed off the roads in glasgow every time there was a small fire on a bus ...

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

Move along please, nothing to see here...

― Danperryismus (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

small fire, like power surge?

― g-kit (g-kit), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

New security alert in central London

Staff and agencies
Tuesday August 2, 2005

A fire on a double decker bus in central London caused busy roads to be closed in the King's Cross area this afternoon.
Police closed Gray's Inn Road, Euston Road and parts of Pentonville Road after smoke was seen coming from the Number 205 bus.

A suspect package was found on the bus, but CCTV pictures showed the vehicle's windows were intact.

"There was a small fire on a bus and it seems there was a bag found as well. Nobody was injured," said a spokesman for London Fire Brigade.

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A spokesman for Scotland Yard spokesman said: "We had reports of smoke coming from a double decker bus on Gray's Inn Road."
Emergency services were called to the scene but were stood down after initial investigations by police.

Eyewitnesses said the cordons were being lifted in the area and traffic was returning to normal.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:14 (twenty years ago)

p.s. fire on a bus is hardly a "false alarm"!!!!

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

Also, if I was on a bus and it was on fire, I wouldn't be stopping to pick up my bags. I'd be the hell out of there.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

given that it takes a while to empty a bus, you'd have time to pick up yr bag.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:21 (twenty years ago)

Just out of interest, are any London-based people making special travel arrangements for Thursday? Planning to avoid public transport?

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

it's a possibility.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to work dressed up as a US rapper.

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Which one, Tha Trademarc?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

I'm pretty sure there's stuff going on that the police aren't telling us about, vis a vis other terrorist cells

― Vicious Cop Kills Gentle Fool (Dada), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 14:59 (twenty years ago)

Just out of interest, are any London-based people making special travel arrangements for Thursday? Planning to avoid public transport?

Why would someone try to do something on the one day of the week people now expect something most to happen? Blufferama.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:03 (twenty years ago)

it's to catch out those who thing lightling doesn't hit three times

― ken c (ken c), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:10 (twenty years ago)

have you got a cold?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Blufferama.

But it might be a double bluff, or a triple bluff. Anyway, I know I'd sure as hell be walking if I were in London on Thursday. It would be worth it just to avoid the Israelization of the network that's sure to be happening that day.

― Momus (Momus), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Superstition - nearly as bad as religion for dictating irrational behaviour!

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone commented on the footage we saw on TV last Saturday of the arrests made in West London? It was amazing stuff, the masked armoured policeman trying to entice 'Mohammed' out of his flat - suddenly a shirtless boy peeks around the corner bizarrely not terrified by policeman with big dog saying 'go inside!' is then joined by another shirtless boy - there was even a brief glimpse of shirtless father. Afterwards they were talking to camera and the Dad grinning sheepishly looked and sounded almost stoned and unaware of the scale of it all, his kids also beaming while saying how 'scared' they were. Classic or mentalism?

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

Thursday's tubes are going to be very quiet, I'm sure.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

I'll be travelling exactly the way I always do.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:25 (twenty years ago)

fully clothed and moving forwards eh? that's showin' em.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

Martin - go to work unclothed. That way the terrorists won't know if they've won or lost and might thrown in the towel.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

walk backwards into freedom from terror

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

works for yer man in the Oval Office.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

the terrorists may at least throw Martin the towel, or whip him with it, high school locker room jinx style.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

If Sky News had live coverage of that, they could go pay-to-view.

― Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:37 (twenty years ago)

Good way to entrap the enemy.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Tuesday, 2 August 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

This forum is obsessed with Martin in the nude.

Some people apparently jumped from the top deck of that bus.

Very heavy police presence this morning. I had to quickly decide whether it would be more suspicious to walk straight through a big group of them or to walk round them. I chose the former. So for a brief moment I was surrounded by BIG BUTCH MEN.

No reason not to use the tube tomorrow, unless instructed otherwise. Although thank you for alarming us, Momus.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:02 (twenty years ago)

The bus was deserted again this morning. I like it when the bus is deserted, it means I get to sit in comfort.

― Masonic Boom (kate), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

wtf???

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:30 (twenty years ago)

BBC News website speculates on Blair's retirement: "Commenting on the reports, a Downing Street spokesman said: "This issue is the last thing on the prime minister's mind. He is totally focused on the threat currently facing this country."

He's doing a really great job. The threat, which wasn't there at all when he took office, is getting bigger all the time. So big that when a spokesman means "The PM is getting on with his job" he says "The PM is focused on the threat".

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:31 (twenty years ago)

I wish that had read:

BBC News website speculates on Big Brother: "Commenting on the reports, a Downing Street spokesman said: "This issue is the last thing on the prime minister's mind. He is totally focused on the threat currently facing this country."

― Alba (Alba), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:38 (twenty years ago)

i'm not sure what point momus is making. who out there though tony blair could operate as a backbencher!? he's gladstone through and through.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:42 (twenty years ago)

The threat, which wasn't there at all when he took office

I can hear the neoconical reptiloids howling from here

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:43 (twenty years ago)

i love the new 'omg this is costing so much $$$' angle in the press. 'course it can't go on forever, but there have been curiously few articles about the cost of maintaining an army in iraq.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

i'm not sure what point momus is making.

I'm making the point that "focusing on the threat" has now replaced "running Britain fairly and efficiently" as the raison d'etre of the government. And that "focusing on the threat" might well mean "creating the threat". Maybe the retired Blair can turn the EU or the UN into big "threat focus groups", devising new threats for us all to focus on?

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

"running Britain fairly and efficiently"

Did they ever say that?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 07:58 (twenty years ago)

"The PM is focused on the threat"

aren't they all on holiday for the whole of August?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2005050000-2003410036,00.html

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:00 (twenty years ago)

since 2001 blair has pretty much abandoned domestic policy. there is a threat, momus, don't be a menk.

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

i don't think Momus is denying that there is a threat.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

"Maybe the retired Blair can turn the EU or the UN into big "threat focus groups", devising new threats for us all to focus on?"

what's he implying here then?

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:10 (twenty years ago)

that it's 1984?

― g-kit (g-kit), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:15 (twenty years ago)

I don't see what's so hard to understand, N_RQ. In countries like France and Germany there is currently no major terrorist threat from Islamists. That's because of the foreign policy of these countries: they did not participate in the Iraq War. Tony Blair put British citizens in the front line of George Bush's "international war on terror". It was a deliberate policy choice he made. Harold Wilson chose (very wisely) not to enter the Vietnam War. Blair could have followed suit. Because he didn't, indigenous 2nd gen Islamist Britons, previously peaceful, are turning into suicide bombers, Israelization is happening in Britain, and even Blair's spokesman is now forced to use phrases like "Tony Blair is focusing on the threat" when he means "business as usual".

― Momus (Momus), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

Tories not at all desperate for ambulance-chasing votes

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:19 (twenty years ago)

David Davis is Kilroy and I claim my five pounds.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 3 August 2005 08:21 (twenty years ago)

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