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I'm hoping not to stagger my journey home, but speed all the way to SE19 on an express-type bus wiv da missus and da baby. This may not be possible in the circumstances.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

Get Chris drunk, he'll do it.

"YR MY BEST FREIND"

xpost

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:26 (twenty years ago)

I'll be in the Angel on St Giles if you think my funny face would amuse her.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

It amuses me and I am a steel hearted robot.

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

My face just made her cry.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

Are we talking about Colettes mum still?

― Raston Warrior Robot (alix), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

I wasn't but others may well have been.

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Just cycled home:

Not liking the new pedestro-cyclo utopia that Totenham court road has become as pedestrians are not aware of cyclists. TCR buses running up and down southampton road as far as I can see, some 30s laid up in charlotte st but some things seem to be running, lots of people walking home.

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

Are Pam and Ava coming up this way, then? If so, I would like to say hello.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

(Yes, I believe they're coming into the office. Let the cooing commence.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:42 (twenty years ago)

edandsuzy i am gonna be in your manor around 7ish. i will wave up at your window.

― emsk, Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

x-post
will there be cooing tomorrow?

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Oh good. I will take my time.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

anyone want to take my mom out for a drink?
-- colette (a2lett...), July 21st, 2005 4:24 PM. (a2lette) (later)

go on colette, do it

take your mama out all night.

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Is the Tube totally shut down then? I might just stay here and work until it gets dark... I've got about enough sitting on my desk.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:57 (twenty years ago)

Totally mystifying police press conference on Radio 5 right now.

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

no comment
no comment

― Adam In Real Life (nordicskilla), Thursday, 21 July 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

"I can neither confirm or deny anything except to say the tubes are busy as fuck and I can never get a copy of the Metro."

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

(I don't know whether Pam & Ava will be coming to the pub; we're not going to Brentwood.)

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Why bother holding this press conference? Insulting rubbish.
The Tube is not totally shut down. Red Ken says check his website.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Looks like Central and Northern lines are running. But don't take my word for it. (As if you would.)

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Is the Tube totally shut down then? I might just stay here and work until it gets dark... I've got about enough sitting on my desk.

if not matt you can always do some of mine..

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:06 (twenty years ago)

http://www.redken.com is looking really swish!

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

ken's new hairdo is stylish, if a little feminine

― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

"stagger my journey home" sounds like some cod-folk nick cave song

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

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

WTF?

― Si.C@rter (SiC@rter), Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

i got the northern line going north from morningtown crescent about 5.30. i was the first guy. they all knew. i was there. er, yes, but anyway, it was running. dunno if it ran south tho.

― Enrique, naked in an unfamiliar future where corporations run the world... (Enri, Thursday, 21 July 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

my friend got it southbound hampstead-e&c at 4.

...bit late with this info, arent i?

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 21 July 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

Is anyone else just waiting for someone - Ian Blair, The Sun, whoever - to announce that the bombers didn't have enough explosives to mount "proper" attacks because the police recovered the explosives from that car at Luton railway station, thus linking the two attacks together AND proving that the police thwarted this week's attempt?

― James Mitchell (James Mitchell), Friday, 22 July 2005 00:12 (twenty years ago)

I'm so glad you guys are all OK. And I hope you all got home (or to a pub) safely with your 'staggered commute' and whatnot. (;

― lyra (lyra), Friday, 22 July 2005 00:53 (twenty years ago)

"stagger my journey home" sounds like some cod-folk nick cave song
-- Amateur(ist) (amateuris...), July 21st, 2005.

(snigger)

― piscesboy, Friday, 22 July 2005 01:32 (twenty years ago)

The legendary resilience of Londoners does seem to involve an awful lot of going to the pub.

Tube was fine this morning. I am fed up of avoiding it.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

A good song about legendary resilience

― Ed (dali), Friday, 22 July 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

gee... they haven't caught any of them?

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

Good grief. (When Marco told me about this yesterday after I got back from Venice I thought he was joking.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:16 (twenty years ago)

I think the most likely situation is that they are using an old batch of acetone peroxide, maybe the same batch as before, which has degraded in the meantime, rendering it less dangerous. It could be oxidation, loss of one of the ingredients, gain/loss of moisture or whatever - a slight change in composition could change the amount of energy needed to set it off.
Another possibility is that they tried to make some without the chemist who fled to egypt, and lacked the skill to synthesise it correctlt.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

Ned I really think you should stop coming to England dude.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:56 (twenty years ago)

I thought old explosicves just became "unstable", not unusable. Or does that just apply to commercially available/stealable explosives? But I don't understand anyway.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 22 July 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Ned I really think you should stop coming to England dude.

That wouldn't be fun, though!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:01 (twenty years ago)

blair's response to this was shit. in one sense, yesterday was 'as bad as' two weeks ago: there is more than one crew of psycho bombers out there, and there could easily have been bloodshed again. blair's chummy 'we all know why' thing can go eat a dick. they don't do this to 'scare' us, they do it to kill us. i've argued that iraq wasn't the sole cause for this but god knows blair has made some bad decisions, and is of course a proven liar. he should at the very least acknowledge that by going to war he made this more likely. that wouldn't actually weaken the case for war one bit; what's really weak is the lying.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)

it seems incredible that all four seem to have got away.

― stirmonster (stirmonster), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:08 (twenty years ago)

Wait on--Ned in London = Bombs
Ned coming to London again = more bombs

('cept obviously since he's only trying to come to london this time, not actually there yet--he's not gone the full extent I.E THE BOMBS DIDN'T QUITE GO OFF!! OMG ETC)

Just sayin' like.

― tissp! (the impossible shortest specia), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:12 (twenty years ago)

Some mention that the Police have shot someone suspected of being a bomber at / near Stockwell tube here at the office?

No confirmation on any websites I've seen yet though, so take it with a pinch of salt I guess for now...

― MattR (MattR), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:46 (twenty years ago)

They're talking about this now on 5 Live.

― NickB (NickB), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

Girl in my office phoned in, she was at the tube station where the shooting took place

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

... what are the chances of that happening?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

Especially as there's only 5 of us in the office!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:51 (twenty years ago)

one in X (where X is number of people in london).
i guess.

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:52 (twenty years ago)

this has happened. wonder if it is one of 'the four'.

― N_RQ, Friday, 22 July 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

and if so, i hope they shot him in the BALLS

― g-kit (g-kit), Friday, 22 July 2005 08:53 (twenty years ago)

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