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is this country going a bit overboard in responding to the attacks?

Living in Gateshead does not in and itself make one a Geordie. I lived in Heaton and that didn't make me a Geordie. Also, they're only "hard" in the sense that they go out in January wearing the same clothes as they do in July.
 
Justin said:
Living in Gateshead does not in and itself make one a Geordie. I lived in Heaton and that didn't make me a Geordie. Also, they're only "hard" in the sense that they go out in January wearing the same clothes as they do in July.
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Pah. So she'll go out in a belt and boob tube in February but she won't come to London in July? That's just rubbish
 
Returning to my thoughts about our attitude to death earlier I’ve just realised something quite pertinent, I think.

At work, they’ve been spurred to collect emergency contact numbers for everyone and I’ve been reminded yet again that I ought to draw up a will. Some people would say that’s overreaction, but I’d say it’s more a timely reminder to take some steps to avoid complications in the event of one’s death. It’s just that in our day-to-day ‘don’t-mention-death’ lives we always push these things (which are entirely sensible and should be done) to the back of our minds.
 
I think so, probably depending on what sort of debt it is. I would like to see Loans Direct try and get a couple of grand out of my dad...you could sell tickets for that.
 
MrMalcontent said:
the aftermath of 11/9
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Post of the year. Reason being MrM is the only person in the entire world to have got the date of the WTC attack correct.
 
Pickman's model said:
in the aftermath of last week's horrifick attacks, it seems to me that this country's going a bit ott in its response. the establishment of memorial gardens and a europe-wide silence indicates some sort of dianafication of the event. now, if this was entirely unexpected, and we knew it was a one-off, then perhaps it would be fair enough. but when, as seems more likely, this is the first in an occasional series i feel that it's an exaggerated and foolish reaction.

i'm all for people grieving in their own way and for people to find some sense of closure as they will. but will there be the same response next time? or the time after that? frankly, the murder of fifty - seventy people - whilst never nice and always (hopefully) shocking - does not demand that everyone lose their sense of perspective. and that sense of perspective seems to me to be being lost.
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The cold state of the British has bordered on cruelty in comparison with the emotion and solidarity the Spanish displayed. It is as if the human significance of what happened had been annulled. Seen through the British media, London recovered its pulse the morning after the attacks and put forth an image of normalcy, even indifference... [In Madrid] Two days after the attacks, millions marched on the street in rabid pain. In the UK, no one has mobilized a march.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/07/08/internacional/1120832853.html
 
redrouge said:
Pah. So she'll go out in a belt and boob tube in February but she won't come to London in July? That's just rubbish
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:D :D


edit: johnny, you really don't get us, do you.
 
Johnny Canuck2 said:
The cold state of the British has bordered on cruelty in comparison with the emotion and solidarity the Spanish displayed. It is as if the human significance of what happened had been annulled. Seen through the British media, London recovered its pulse the morning after the attacks and put forth an image of normalcy, even indifference... [In Madrid] Two days after the attacks, millions marched on the street in rabid pain. In the UK, no one has mobilized a march.

http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2005/07/08/internacional/1120832853.html
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So everyone has to don sackcloth and ashes cos otherwise they don't care?

Utter bollocks.
 
i'd like to know what happened to coverage of the stop the war vigil held next to friends meeting house on Saturday.

lots of press were there with their great fucking cameras taking up room and yet i havent seen any mention of it. luckily i have pictures to prove it happened else i might start thinking i imagined it. thousands turned up - as is the pattern with our government and media - they have no shame in ignoring mass displays of public opinion.

that was probably the closest thing we will get to what the spanish did
 
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