Hammer and Pickle
7:23 Sun Nov 12
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Oi ARE YOU LOOKING AT MY BAG?
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13 Brentford Rd
7:22 Sun Nov 12
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Well written that Chim, was like an excerpt from Taxi Driver, I wanted to read more.
Budding author!
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bruuuno
7:21 Sun Nov 12
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Chim - it sounds like you knew it was his bag and were just looking for a barney. Why didn't you just say excuse me mate is that your bag? Before poking around in it.
You're like my old man - he watches people parking in the hope that he'll see then bump into the car behind which will then give him an excuse to go out and have a go at them
English people are such cunts
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chim chim cha boo
7:12 Sun Nov 12
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I've seen both sides of an 'incident' in Stratford.
A couple of years ago I was going through Stratford station when an alarm went off and an automated voice kept saying 'please evacuate this station immediately'.
I walked out of the station and almost nobody took a blind bit of notice of the alarm.
A lot of people with headphones on and middle-eastern types with burkas and children who either couldn't understand English or were a bit thick (or both) just wandered in seemingly oblivious to their probable demise.
A while ago I bumped into one of my favourite type of people- the middle class 30-something who'd really like to assert himself but is too much of a coward to do so. I also think he was trying to show the girl he was with.
The two of them were sitting together on a half-empty bus with a big bag of shopping on the seat behind them. I got up and peered into the bag and the twat stood up jumpily and said in a loud, impolite voice 'CAN I HELP YOU?' I think he thought I was going to steal his shopping or something.
'Oh, that's your bag is it?' I said (feeling a bit put-out at this cunt's aggressive stance).
'YES. It IS. WHY'?
''Don't you read the papers? What kind of fucking tool puts his bag on the seat behind him leaving it unattended? Do you not know that there are people around who want to blow buses up? Put the bag on your lap or by your feet. Is this your first time in London or something'.
'There's no need to get aggressive though, is there?' He said.
I thought about trying to say that it was HIM who started getting aggressive and I was just reacting, thought about talking more about the IRA experiences in the 80's etc but I just said 'pick your fucking bag up' which he did.
I was sat slightly behind him and I could see his neck go all red and he looked around with the slightly jerked movements of a bloke trying to contain himself. The girl he was with just looked out of the window. I could well imagine the next conversation starting 'well Miles you were the bigger man to walk away from that oik'.
So many cunts out there and so few bullets...
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Northern Sold
7:07 Sun Nov 12
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Ha ha ha... classic episode
"are you alright down there"??
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DOUBLE COBBS BOB
6:46 Sun Nov 12
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What's happening now? We're having it! Now, are we all agreed on what the fire bell sounds like? Yes.
Splendid.
Well, now that's settled, we'll have the fire drill, which will commence in exactly 30 seconds from now.
Thank you so much.
What are you doing? I mean, are you just going to stand there? Well, what do you suggest? Well, couldn't one or two of you go in the bar and a few in the dining room? Use your imagination! Why? Well, this is supposed to be a fire drill.
There's only a few seconds.
Right, right.
Well, stay where you are because obviously if there was a fire, you'd all be standing down here like this in the lobby, wouldn't you? Don't know why we bother.
We should let you all burn
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Northern Sold
6:26 Sun Nov 12
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This type of thing does not happen at lakeside ESSEX.... different gwavy that;s why...
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kirok1
12:28 Sun Nov 12
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Does Mr Moon not enter their building?
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1964
12:26 Sun Nov 12
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They search us lot on the way into the Taxpayers Stadium so shouldn't they be searching everybody entering Westfield shopping centre.
Silly??
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Side of Ham
11:41 Sun Nov 12
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Westfield Stratford City is a hot bed of our multicultural society hence you will struggle to find enough stiff upper lipped people who can remember that kind of thing let alone abide by it.
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1964
11:31 Sun Nov 12
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Surely the security staff or whoever discovered the 'small fire' needed to asses the risk better. Was it really necessary to set off the whole shopping centre alarms, shut shutters and panic everybody?
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, but they need to look at perhaps some better training or fire processes as besides scareing the shit out of everyone people could have been injured in the so called stampede.
Fact of life in the UK now us old gits got used to it with the IRA in the 70/80s but the new generation are newly coming to confront it.
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CanningTownWA
11:06 Sun Nov 12
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I think it's hard to criticize people especially women and children for reacting. My wife was in a shop there and all the alarms went off people were all running and then the manager got instructions to bring the shutters down and lock every one in. Without information how do you know what's going on and who would be surprised if something did happen especially at Stratford it looks to me that is a place waiting for someone to have a go at.
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Westham67
2:43 Sun Nov 12
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Emergency alarms going off for minor incidents are dangerous when there is a real emergency people will think nothing has happened again
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Vexed
2:38 Sun Nov 12
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The British public are a pathetic bunch these days. The terrorists have won, well done you pansies.
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Bungo
10:24 Sat Nov 11
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David L 10:06 Sat Nov 11
Didn't some of the IRA prisoners in the Maze have a sort of tentative go at producing the effects of that back in the 70s?
I always thought the best way to have dealt with that would have been to put them into special tanks, into which all the sewage coming out of the whole prison was directed.
Might have had a re-think once they were literally up to their necks in it?
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Lily Hammer
10:07 Sat Nov 11
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"Don't Panic!" is the rule for the whole galaxy, not just big cities. And don't forget to never leave home without that towel, either.
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David L
10:06 Sat Nov 11
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Fifth Column 7.55
Can you imagine the damage that would be caused by a shit bomb? Shuddering at the thought of it, and there'd be the stink as well. Fuck getting caught up in one of those
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Hammer and Pickle
10:04 Sat Nov 11
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Do you feel offended by being denied the right to panic. Miike?
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Takashi Miike
9:54 Sat Nov 11
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no, you're not allowed to panic. its part & parcel of living in a big city
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JohnnyL
9:51 Sat Nov 11
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Fifth ... it was complete panic with a lack of information and misinformation. My wife have to handle having one girls in tears and the other in shock - and in the panic was briefly separated . People were convinced it was terrorism and they were too scared to get the tube home.
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Hermit Road
9:48 Sat Nov 11
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Fifth,
You mention that trait of the stiff upper lip. What is the biggest change down your street that might account for the loss of that sort of British trait?
I can think of two main factors that would explain the change in the street I grew up in.
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