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fire trucks have been going up cleveland st towards warren st.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

the uv lighting is kind of freaky, though.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

is it really true that you can't see your veins under UV light?

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i thought the uv ban was a bit much, we're all ginger you see, our veins are easily visible through our peely wally skin.

― bg (creamolafoam), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

i hereby vote for "fucking fanny fartface" to be adopted as an ilx meme!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

It's okay, I was worried bout the kitkats losing foil as the last few days I have been eaiting foil-wrapped kitkats. But then I realised after a discussion wit' the office that infact it's only 4-bar 'kats that have no foil. Mystery resolved.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Sky news now says armed police have gone back into that hospital.
and that they think the explosives on that bus may be the same as 2 weeks ago and not a nail bomb. But it hasnt gone off. When the 1st bangw as heard (detonators?) people were covered in a white powder type stuff (Acetone?)

I'm aware the white powder stuff is just waiting for a joke to be made...
but not from me.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

xpost Marcello seconded

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

the urban myth re: no foil in kitkats is that scummy junky scots using the wrappers to smoke bad drugs were such a problem that the foil packaging was banned

I thought my line way upthread about fighting drugs by banning bits of wrapping cellophane was a joke.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

www.bbc.co.uk is now reporting 2 men have been detained in connection with the tube blasts.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

white powder type stuff (Acetone?)

No, acetone is my favorite solvent. (ie nail polish remover)

I fear a backlast against chemists.

― marianna, Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

personally the true conniseur goes for 1-1-1 tri-chloro-ethane

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

It is actually a TRIANGLE pointing towards Crystal Palace.

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/maps_and_graphs/2005/07/21/london_bombs_july21_map3.gif

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

it's inverse masons

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

By "detained" I kind of hope they mean "beaten three-quarters to death over a three hour period by enraged commuters". Seems I *have* reached the anger stage after all :(

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

The Western Allies clearly need to stop trying to crumble the Kitkat and learn to suck tea through it instead.

Damn right. I tried to this with a chunky Kit Kat on a plane back from hamburg, and the width means you can't get any suction (missus!) so I ended up with it all over my face and hands (oo-er!).

The plane then began it's descent so I couldn't wash it off as the seat belt sign came on.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:36 (twenty years ago)

If you superimpose the other explosions' triangle, do you get a Star of David?

― Rum, Sodomy and the LAN (kate), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

RELAX. the sainsbury's imitation kit-kats, called double-take, do have foil.

― Britain's Jauntiest Shepherd (Alan), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

= The terrorists have not won

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

but the junkies have!

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Such is the price of freedom

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

The other explosions quadrilateral fits inside this one though.

The terrorists may not have won, but the Australians probably have.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

it's paper backed imitation foil and doesn't work for 'Have a Break' purposes.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

cnn headline news just reported that someone was "partially killed."

can anyone parse that? am i actually awake? please pinch me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

white powder type stuff (Acetone?)
No, acetone is my favorite solvent. (ie nail polish remover)

I fear a backlast against chemists.

They definitely said something like 'Acetone Peroxide'.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

By "detained" I kind of hope they mean "beaten three-quarters to death over a three hour period by enraged commuters".

Good point, Markelby. It really is time for torture to be legalised in the U.K. Surely in any civilised country potential victims should have the legal right to beat their potential assailants to within inches of their lives!

― Jane B., Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

UK schools have redefined 'fail' as 'deferred success', amst, so it's all making sense to me.

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

People in offices near St Paul's warned to move to back of bulding but I don't know which side of the building that means

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

'Acetone Peroxide'

that sounds like some brand of hair dye.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

how can anyone be partially killed?
one casuality.. not a fatality
meaning, injured. not killed

― dahlin (dahlin), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

It is actually a TRIANGLE pointing towards Crystal Palace.

http://www.homerize.com/framegrabs.php?img=1F09/fg_054.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

@text:222 lon intjw glbh LONDON BOMBINGS - URGENT
LONDON (AP) — Police spokesman reports that men arrested in connection with today's bombings found in possession of Sainsbury's "Double-Take" explosives.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

Curses. http://www.homerize.com/framegrabs.php?img=1F09/fg_054.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

Didn't someone upthread say US media reporting sbdy trampled to death in panic on tube?

― beanz (beanz), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

next time someone causes me to get a splinter or suchlike i'll accuse them of having "partially killed" me. likewise with anyone who serves me a beer.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:47 (twenty years ago)

"That hit the fractionally fatal spot!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:51 (twenty years ago)

maybe a dead leg or something.

i dunno if i'm comfortable discussing what partially dead means at the moment when it's related to someone who is currently apparently in this state.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

If they serve you a beer they are partially killing, partially lovin'.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

What'd I miss?

― OLD SPICE® CHEMTRAILS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (ex machina), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:52 (twenty years ago)

have they caught the wireman?

― N_RQ, Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

next time someone causes me to get a splinter...

"hey, rub your face against this old fence!"

― g-kit (g-kit), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

Sky says A suspect has been chased into Euston Square.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

Our building is fully open again.

― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

doh.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

Ahh now theyre saying it was a robbery. and nothing to do with the bombings.

In an area with about 2000 policemen. It beggars belief.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4704031.stm

Trains on two Tube lines are not running as drivers are refusing to work after security alerts on the network.

The Piccadilly and Bakerloo Lines are shut because of what London Underground is describing as staff action.

The Hammersmith and City Line is closed and the Northern and Metropolitan Lines are running with restrictions.

The Oval, Warren Street and Shepherd's Bush (Hammersmith and City Line) Tube stations remain closed after being evacuated shortly after 1230 BST.

Thameslink trains are not stopping at King's Cross, Farringdon and St Albans.

Midland Mainline trains are not running into or out of St Pancras because of an alert at St Albans station.

The Metropolitan Line is not running south from Baker Street. Moorgate mainline station is also closed.

Buses are operating as normal.

Police are advising people to stagger their journeys home due to the disruption on many lines.

― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Police are advising people to stagger their journeys home

official advice to GO PUB, marvellous there.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

(xpost)

Police are advising people to stagger their journeys home due to the disruption on many lines.

hoo, the joke potential in this sentence is too vast to contemplate.

seriously: what, they expect several million commuters to get together and work out a plan? "after you, old chap." "no, i insist. i couldn't possibly." etc.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I had almost forgotten about David Copeland until recently. What an 'orrible cunt.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

Jane B, you haven't been following ILX much over the last couple of weeks? Apologies for having vengeful thoughts about suicide bombers after one of my close friends was on the receiving end two weeks ago.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:08 (twenty years ago)

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