Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:42 (six years ago) link
think the police have confirmed it's a terrorist act, as far as live news feeds are concerned.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:47 (six years ago) link
If it's a bomb, it's the world's worst - based on the reports at the moment (noise, flame, heatwave), it sounds like a chemical reaction, some bloody painter reckoning he can carry these two things in the same tub with some cardboard between them or such.
ooh, is this why you're not allowed to take tins of paint on buses?
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
Must admit I hadn't thought Parsons Green would be high up on the list of potential targets for an ISIS operation
busy as hell at rush hour though
― Cyndi Larper (stevie), Friday, 15 September 2017 09:57 (six years ago) link
it still looks more like the doings of a hapless art student rather than a terrorist.
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
such a fine line
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:05 (six years ago) link
i guess we just call everyone terrorists now to even the score with the daily mail
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
Checklist:
* Did you feel terrified?* Did somebody do a thing?
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:07 (six years ago) link
i guess there might be an inncocent explanation for it, but why would you carry a bucket inside a bag?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
if I stopped to ponder the actions of everybody I saw on public transport
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
maybe if it had a hole in it xpost
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:08 (six years ago) link
or maybe they'd bought the bucket. like when you buy a bag and put it in your bag
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:09 (six years ago) link
Or they might need the bag for something else later.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:14 (six years ago) link
Yes, maybe carrying one unwieldy bucket on the tube wasn't enough inconvenience for them and they were going to pick up another one
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
There's one photo that shows what appear to be fairy lights coming out of the bucket and Twitter has been quick to point out this report:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-40046773
― groovypanda, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:33 (six years ago) link
Bit soon, Lidl. Bit soon. 😳 pic.twitter.com/xyfmgwasRs— Flappy of Quack (@jesuiscanard) September 15, 2017
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
I lolled
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 10:53 (six years ago) link
The blast, on an eastbound District Line train from Wimbledon, is being treated as terrorism, police said.
The Metropolitan Police said it was too early to confirm the cause of the fire and the station, which is above ground, has been cordoned off.
maybe I'm stupid or naïve but why is it so important to decide whether it's a terrorist act or not before you even know what's caused the bang?
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
cos they want to catch the perp asap?
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:17 (six years ago) link
oh god
Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:20 (six years ago) link
Calling incidents terrorism before they've actually determined what happened seems to be what they do now. There might be stuff they aren't telling us though. Oh fuck off and die, Trump.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:25 (six years ago) link
Isn't Scotland Yard's Inspector Lestrade in contact with Sherlock Holmes anymore or what?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:27 (six years ago) link
how do we know Trump's twitter account isn't run by a bot?
i'll stop playing faux naïve and just ponder whether there aren't systemic and political (small p) reasons that encourage this rush to judgement too
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:28 (six years ago) link
if your department's brief is counter-terrorism you kind of have a subliminal but vested interest in keeping the importance of your department in the public eye
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:29 (six years ago) link
have they apprehended anyone here?
― ||||||||, Friday, 15 September 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link
Sky's 'reporter on the scene', Mark White, was in the pub the other night watching the Celtic v. PSG game, so he's used to horrific incidents.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:42 (six years ago) link
May fucking loves those Cobra meetings, they give her a chance to project the pretense that her battered party and parliamentary authority still actually counts for shit.
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 11:48 (six years ago) link
if this is terrorism tho it's obviously the work of an elaborate and highly-trained network
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 11:50 (six years ago) link
I bet ISIS will be looking at the state of that explosive device and marveling at the UK Jihadis levels of expertise and finesse, so much!
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
it's reassuring in some small way i guess that there are still cack-handed terrorists out there
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
xp hey all they've said is terrorist, it could be an extreme right wing officer in the British Army or anything
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:14 (six years ago) link
aye, true. But when you've been brainwashed Manchurian Candidate style, certain trigger words control how you think!
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
why MC Tunes never released an album called The Mancunian Candidate is beyond me
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
mc tunes why hast thou forsaken us
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:23 (six years ago) link
I'd breathe more easily if he were still around
― Cheds Baker (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:24 (six years ago) link
Tunes still lives in Manchester.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:25 (six years ago) link
goddammit i walked right into the setup for that 'joke' from nv, what a chump
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:28 (six years ago) link
mc tunes vs islamic state - tunes splits the carrier bag
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
lol! I saw MC Tunes at the Sheffield Octagon in about '90. He had a battered looking face that exuded much wear and tear, but not much wisdom. I'm not sure if he has got the answers! I can remember him saying "Fuck the Babylon" a few times tho!
― calzino, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
much better xp
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:30 (six years ago) link
BBC and NYT are reporting it was an improvised explosive device w/ a timer -- any reason to think it *wasn't* terrorism?
― Mordy, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
― calzino
she really needs to give up on the "COBRA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA" slogan though.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:41 (six years ago) link
yikes; be safe London
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:46 (six years ago) link
tbf some people have weird hobbies ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:49 (six years ago) link
I shd finish that Tunes poll some day
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
Before a terrorist kills you.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
on current stats that gives me a few thousand years, I like those odds
― be the cringe you want to see in the world (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link
BBC News quite happy to just put LONDON TUBE EXPLOSION as the ticker headline giving no sense of scale (sure they won't be the only ones though).
― nashwan, Friday, 15 September 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link
LONDON BUCKET FIRE
― here's how **takes sip of duck urine** economics works (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 15 September 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link
too many foreign terrorists in our game, young brits don't get a chance. of course if your name was abu bakr sam al-ardici you'd be given the top job.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 15 September 2017 13:03 (six years ago) link
A Conservative councillor has apologised after a tweet was posted from his account which mocked the Liverpool terror attack.The tweet, sent by Paul Nickerson, who is an Conservative councillor in East Riding in Yorkshire, included an image of the taxi on fire after the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday.But an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had been superimposed and made to appear to be walking towards the flaming wreckage of the car.
The tweet, sent by Paul Nickerson, who is an Conservative councillor in East Riding in Yorkshire, included an image of the taxi on fire after the explosion that occurred outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Sunday.
But an image of former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had been superimposed and made to appear to be walking towards the flaming wreckage of the car.
some of those with advanced Corbyn derangement syndrome find this kind of meme extremely hilarious. I should add in the shopped pic Corbyn is holding a wreath, presumably for his dear friend Emad Al Swealmeen.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 12:58 (two years ago) link