Parsons Green Tube station - Terror threat level raised to 'critical'

[Voll Blau]

1 hour ago, GaelicFox said:

2 pages 

 

thats all ? 

 

Wow ... we really are in trouble as a society 

Yeah a 50 page thread of hysterical speculation featuring sporadic use of the phrase "so-called religion of peace" on a Midlands-based football forum would have been really helpful to the Met's operation.

[Alf Bentley]

57 minutes ago, Jon the Hat said:

Yes I was thinking it might have been aimed at Victoria, which is a bit shit given I work there, and arrive by train.  I am not there today mind you, and would have been clear by the time that tube got there anyhow.

 

Strangely enough, that shows just how unlucky you have to be to get caught up in such an attack - a good reason not to allow these tosspots to terrorise us.

 

You were a lot closer than most to getting caught up in this one, but still quite a long way off. There will have been, what, more than 10 million people in London today, the vast majority nowhere near being affected.

A few thousand will have been around Victoria or whatever the target was. A few hundred on trains near the explosion. A few dozen on that particular train. Terrorists mainly do this stuff to create fear - and we must deny them that achievement.

 

I started thinking in terms of such odds recently after coming close to getting caught up in a horrible incident a couple of months back. I was walking home across Victoria Park, Leicester, at about 11.30 pm, heard a male voice shouting raucously across the park, which put me on my guard. but I saw and heard nothing more. The next day, I heard that a young woman was in a coma after suffering a life-threatening attack in the precise place from which I'd heard the noise and about 10 minutes after I'd walked through. I contacted the police but didn't have any useful information for them - and the voice that I heard shouting might well have been some other innocent bloke larking about. Last I heard, a teenager had been charged with attempted murder and rape - and the woman was out of a coma but still recovering from serious injuries...... I was exceptionally close to that horrible incident, yet still so far away from it for my testimony to be of no relevance.

[GaelicFox]

1 hour ago, Jon the Hat said:

Well, no one thankfully has been killed or seriously injured, there is no information about a suspect out there.  What is there to say?

Potus has said more than we have 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Potus has said more than we have 

That's because he's a fvcking moron

[EastAnglianFox]

6 minutes ago, Emilio Lestavez said:

That's because he's a fvcking moron

 

You say that but what id give to have a political leader come out and say what most are thinking without being more concerned about offending the apologists.

[leicsmac]

11 minutes ago, Emilio Lestavez said:

That's because he's a fvcking moron

Who is messing with an ongoing criminal investigation.

 

3 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

You say that but what id give to have a political leader come out and say what most are thinking without being more concerned about offending the apologists.

If it was in any way helpful then I'd agree, but see above.

 

Also, I'd also love to know what "most are thinking" and how this knowledge is arrived at.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, EastAnglianFox said:

 

You say that but what id give to have a political leader come out and say what most are thinking without being more concerned about offending the apologists.

He's not concerned about offending 'apologists'. He's concerned about lack of Twitter interaction on his timeline rather than, you know, not butting his nose into police operations.

 

Not the first time either, remember the Manchester bombing?

[Guest MattP]

24 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Potus has said more than we have 

His tweet was absurd, he was either making stuff up or releasing confidential information to the World.

 

Ridiculous for a man in his position. 

[GaelicFox]

1 hour ago, Emilio Lestavez said:

That's because he's a fvcking moron

Leader of the free world 

[GaelicFox]

38 minutes ago, MattP said:

His tweet was absurd, he was either making stuff up or releasing confidential information to the World.

 

Ridiculous for a man in his position. 

Man in his position can do what the feck he wants 

 

scary and true 

[Strokes]

2 hours ago, GaelicFox said:

2 pages 

 

thats all ? 

 

Wow ... we really are in trouble as a society 

Yeah if it was a white supremacist nazi attack, it would be atleast 4 pages by now. 

[Guest]

19 minutes ago, GaelicFox said:

Leader of the free world 

Not mutually exclusive.

 

Exhibit A

 

[Strokes]

1 minute ago, Emilio Lestavez said:

Not mutually exclusive.

 

Exhibit A

 

He is doing a good job tanning his face, what's your problem?  

[Buce]

24 minutes ago, Strokes said:

Yeah if it was a white supremacist nazi attack, it would be atleast 4 pages by now. 

Do we know it's not?

[Guest Col city fan]

I'm sure I posted after the London Bridge incident, that these terrorist attacks are becoming so commonplace now, it's almost expected.

None moreso than this one today. It's almost like people are saying...'oh well'....and then going about their day.

That's a scary situation.

[Webbo]

6 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

I'm sure I posted after the London Bridge incident, that these terrorist attacks are becoming so commonplace now, it's almost expected.

None moreso than this one today. It's almost like people are saying...'oh well'....and then going about their day.

That's a scary situation.

Why? 

[leicsmac]

10 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Why? 

Because we all should be really afraid and talk of something that is incredibly unlikely (as Alf elaborates on above) because that's not the intention of those who cause it at all, apparently.

[Guest Col city fan]

16 minutes ago, Webbo said:

Why? 

Because it is making people getting burnt, having limbs blown off, or being run over on purpose, commonplace.

It should never be considered commonplace. It should be considered abhorrent.

When people arent batting an eyelid society really is fooked.

[Guest]

37 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Because it is making people getting burnt, having limbs blown off, or being run over on purpose, commonplace.

It should never be considered commonplace. It should be considered abhorrent.

When people arent batting an eyelid society really is fooked.

It can be considered abhorrent without us all getting into a Diana about it.

[FoxesDeb]

39 minutes ago, Col city fan said:

Because it is making people getting burnt, having limbs blown off, or being run over on purpose, commonplace.

It should never be considered commonplace. It should be considered abhorrent.

When people arent batting an eyelid society really is fooked.

I would argue that society batting an eyelid is exactly what the terrorists want, and so by ignoring them we are showing them they will not defeat us. It will always be considered abhorrent for that is exactly what it is. But they should never be allowed to dictate to us how we choose to live our lives. 

[Guest Col city fan]

10 minutes ago, FIF said:

It can be considered abhorrent without us all getting into a Diana about it.

How?

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

How?

Because it is abhorrent and I'm sure we all think so but we don't need to whinge, cry and moan about it. You don't think any of us think it's not abhorrent do you?

[Guest Col city fan]

6 minutes ago, FIF said:

Because it is abhorrent and I'm sure we all think so but we don't need to whinge, cry and moan about it. You don't think any of us think it's not abhorrent do you?

That's not the point. My point was, sweeping it under the carpet as though it's 'just another time'. 

Which appears to be happening.

Youve just shown it there. Using the terms 'whinge, moan and cry' belittles it like it was  schoolkid in a playground.

I'm sure you'd whinge, moan and cry if it was, heaven forbid, your wife who was getting ploughed down by a terrorist in a white van?

No?

Or are you saying you'd take it on the chin because 'we shouldn't give in to terrorists'?

Bull-shite.

[Webbo]

1 minute ago, Col city fan said:

That's not the point. My point was, sweeping it under the carpet as though it's 'just another time'. 

Which appears to be happening.

Youve just shown it there. Using the terms 'whinge, moan and cry' belittles it like it was  schoolkid in a playground.

I'm sure you'd whinge, moan and cry if it was, heaven forbid, your wife who was getting ploughed down by a terrorist in a white van?

No?

We all know what's happened, its not been swept under the carpet. Panicking about it isn't going to achieve anything.

[Guest Col city fan]

3 minutes ago, Webbo said:

We all know what's happened, its not been swept under the carpet. Panicking about it isn't going to achieve anything.

I'm not saying 'panicking' is going to help. Of course it isn't.

But there almost seems an indifference to it.

And I do find that scary.