# London Terror Attacks **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 7, 2005, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439 "2005-07-07T10:21:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/161 "2005-07-08T22:09:50Z")
Yep- in an awful way, this is vindication for Blair. But, since I think he has a conscience, I doubt he is happy about the method or the results. IOW, I don’t think he is sighing relief or chortling with glee. (whereas I can easily see Rove et al high fiving one another over 9/11, but that’s irrelevant to the thread). I find the whole “be safe” thing so strange anyway. Everyone spouts it, but then complains about the lines, the wait and the security checks at airports-so much that aren’t they(USA) gonna put in place some kind of list for those who travel frequently, and once you’re on it, no more lines for you? And then, of course, the terrorists will find a way around that and do this again… I don’t have any answers, really, but I do think we need to fundamentally reassess how we conduct business, foreign policy and look at the ways in which culture is trasmitted globally. I don’t mean cowtow to these morons, but something must change for more safety to be had. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/162 "2005-07-08T22:26:43Z")
> [@World Eater](#): > > So if AQ was behind this attack, then logic suggests that Britain should get their people out of Iraq and focus their resources on going after them right? I was being general, not refering to AQ but to ‘terrorists’. And I’m not saying britain _shouldn’t_ pull out of iraq, just that it won’t. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/163 "2005-07-09T01:49:39Z")
Apparently, this comment has been making the rounds. > [@](#): > > To quote an old Londoner who lived through the blitz and got caught up in the Canary Wharf explosion: > “I’ve been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!” > > “We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we’re still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs.” > > “They did their worst, and they managed to disrupt our transport network and get fatalities in the low double figures. That happens on a fairly regular basis anyway, you twits. What’s your next trick - a fiendish weather control device which makes it rain on a bank holiday weekend?” > > “The stupid buggers blew up a bus right in front of the British Medical Association, meaning there was a building full of doctors right there - I don’t call that good planning…” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![gum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bbe5ce/32.png) [@gum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gum)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/164 "2005-07-09T07:59:51Z")
I love it. 😃 Thanks, **Tuckerfan**. ---
**Author:** ![Martha\_Medea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/43a26b/32.png) [@Martha\_Medea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martha_Medea)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/165 "2005-07-09T08:30:02Z")
> [@](#): > > “The stupid buggers blew up a bus right in front of the British Medical Association, meaning there was a building full of doctors right there - I don’t call that good planning…” Not to mention the Aldgate East tube bomb, just down the road from the East London mosque. ---
**Author:** ![GomiBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b2d939/32.png) [@GomiBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GomiBoy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/166 "2005-07-09T13:24:44Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > Apparently, this comment has been making the rounds.😃 I love England sometimes… My ex was sitting around her office, near Liverpool Street, unable to leave the building due to a threat of a bomb in the building next door (which turned out to be fake). So what did her cow-orkers do? They organized a piss up and started cracking bottles of beer and wine they had around the office. She didnt’ manage to get home until 3 am after hooking up with some other friends in Central London who did the same thing! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/167 "2005-07-09T16:14:34Z")
> [@GomiBoy](#): > > \So what did her cow-orkers do? They organized a piss up and started cracking bottles of beer and wine they had around the office. She didnt’ manage to get home until 3 am after hooking up with some other friends in Central London who did the same thing! 🙂 The thought that your average London company has enough bottles of liquor around the office for an impromptu piss-up doesn’t surprise me at all, for some reason. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/168 "2005-07-09T16:32:55Z")
I just want to add that, despite that little dust-up our two countries had back in the late 1770s, British folks are among the finest and most admirable folks on earth in the face of adversity. I saw a [political cartoon](http://cagle.slate.msn.com/news/LondonBombing/10.asp) that shows Hitler, still reeking with the flames of Hell, telling a terrorist, “Bombing London will get you nowhere.” Lots of other cartoons on that site as well, with several excellent Winston Churchill references. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/169 "2005-07-09T17:20:23Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > It took just a few hours; today Rush Limbaugh was blaming this on liberals and the French. > > I love it when I get to drive in the USA. There’s nothing that can get your mind off reality like conservative talk radio. I’ve said it before, I say it again. Fuck Rush Limbaugh. With a chain saw. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/170 "2005-07-10T06:16:44Z")
> [@Selenus](#): > > I don’t pray either, also agnostic. And I’m not Muslim by birth; Druze. I was speaking as an Arab, and someone who grew up in Jordan with regular Koran classes at school. We were taught a good interpretation of Islam. None of that ‘kill the infidels’ horseshit. We were taught about people of the book, that deserve equal treatment. My Muslim friends would agree with every word I said, and would join me in one big FUCK YOU. As will this Muslim. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439/171 "2005-07-10T08:00:09Z")
I was at a party yesterday: one of those there hasn’t heard from a relative and fears the worst. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/london-terror-attacks/311439.md?page=8)