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Copied straight from Yobbo, these:

A Letter To The Terrorists, From London

What the fuck do you think you’re doing?

This is London. We’ve dealt with your sort before. You don’t try and pull this on us.

Do you have any idea how many times our city has been attacked? Whatever you’re trying to do, it’s not going to work.

All you’ve done is end some of our lives, and ruin some more. How is that going to help you? You don’t get rewarded for this kind of crap.

And if, as your MO indicates, you’re an al-Qaeda group, then you’re out of your tiny minds.

Because if this is a message to Tony Blair, we’ve got news for you. We don’t much like our government ourselves, or what they do in our name. But, listen very clearly. We’ll deal with that ourselves. We’re London, and we’ve got our own way of doing things, and it doesn’t involve tossing bombs around where innocent people are going about their lives.

And that’s because we’re better than you. Everyone is better than you. Our city works. We rather like it. And we’re going to go about our lives. We’re going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we’re going to work. And we’re going down the pub.

So you can pack up your bombs, put them in your arseholes, and get the fuck out of our city.

Then:

I have a prediction to make, that tomorrow we’ll find out whether Britons are, still, in fact, Britons. Many years ago I was working in The City and there were two events that made travel into work almost impossible.

The first was a series of storms that brought down power lines, blocked train routes and so on. Not surprisingly, the place was empty the next day. Why bother to struggle through?

The other event was an IRA bomb which caused massive damage and loss of life. Trains were disrupted, travel to work the next day was horribly difficult and yet there were more people at work than on a normal day. There was no co-ordination to this, no instructions went out, but it appeared that people were crawling off their sick beds in order to be there at work the next day, thrusting their mewling and pewling infants into the arms of anyone at all so that they could be there.

Yes, we’ll take an excuse for a day off, throw a sickie. But you threaten us, try to kill us? Kill and injure some of us?

Fuck you, sunshine.

We’ll not be having that.

No grand demonstrations, few warlike chants, a desire for revenge, of course, but the reaction of the average man and woman in the street? Yes, you’ve tried it now bugger off. We’re not scared, no, you won’t change us. Even if we are scared, you can still bugger off.

“We’re going to take care of the lives you ruined. And then we’re going to work. And we’re going down the pub.” — that sums it up.

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[found the first myself, and the scond from Lancerlord]

london 2012

LONDON!!!!!!

French bird on telly said “we will be back, it was just a battle, not the whole war.”

Well, er, I think it is over dear, and if it was a war …..

Quote from a BBC reporter about Paris:

“This is a country that really needed a boost - their economy is in a mess, their politicians are unpopular, and quite frankly they’re very unhappy.”

Oh yes indeed Mr Chirac!!!! Thanks for coming!

tsunami

Just heard over the thing that there is a tsunami heading towards the west coast of America…

Anyone know if its true??? 200 miles off the coast?

UPDATE: There was an earthquake, and intially a tsumani warning, but now it has been cancelled:

…THE TSUNAMI WARNING AND WATCH STATUS IS CANCELED FOR
CALIFORNIA - OREGON - WASHINGTON - BRITISH COLUMBIA - AND
ALASKA…

EARTHQUAKE DATA
PRELIMINARY MAGNITUDE - 7.4
LOCATION - 41.4N 125.6W - 85 MILES NW OF EUREKA-CA.
300 MILES NW OF SAN FRANCISCO-CA.
TIME - 1851 ADT 06/14/2005
1951 PDT 06/14/2005
0251 UTC 06/15/2005

A SMALL TSUNAMI WAS OBSERVED AT THE FOLLOWING SITES
WATER LEVELS REMAIN NORMAL AT ALL COASTAL SITES. NO WAVE
BEEN DETECTED.

EVALUATION
NO TSUNAMI DANGER EXISTS FOR ALASKA - BRITISH COLUMBIA -
WASHINGTON - OREGON OR CALIFORNIA. HOWEVER SOME AREAS MAY
EXPERIENCE SMALL SEA LEVEL CHANGES. AS LOCAL CONDITIONS
CAN CAUSE A WIDE VARIATION IN TSUNAMI WAVE ACTION THE ALL
CLEAR DETERMINATIONS MUST BE MADE BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES.

blogger murder

Has this been in the news over here in HK? HK siblings murdered in New York.

A young Queens woman — who’d been involved in a heated love triangle — and her teenage brother were bound in duct tape and brutally stabbed to death in their home Thursday night, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.

The bodies of Sharon Ng, 21, and Simon Ng, 18, were discovered in their bedrooms about 9:40 p.m. Thursday by her boyfriend, whose name was not revealed by police.

The coppers caught the killer with the help of the guy’s last journal entry.

gervais is back

Ricky Gervais Back At Xfm.

Xfm can exclusively announce that multi award-winning uber-comedy duo Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant are returning to the airwaves to host their Saturday afternoon show once again on 104.9 Xfm.

Yes, indeed, we are proud to reveal that the mighty Ricky Gervais and the Stephen Merchant will be returning to Xfm on Saturday May 28 alongside their producer turned sidekick Karl ‘The K Man’ Pilkington for a six week run.

If you haven’t listened to the shows, and I hadn’t until recently, you should. Utter brilliance. Look out for them on your favourite Bittorrent site. Pilkington is hilarious.

seoul bankers face ban

In a move that has rocked the Korean investment banking industry, the Financial Services Board (FSB) announced yesterday that it would place onerous new restrictions on client entertainment - by limiting alcohol consumption.

The move came on the heels of a new report that reckoned 68% of bankers in Korea were still partially inebriated between the hours of 8am and 11am. The report suggested that Korea’s financial services industry was only 82% as productive in the morning hours as in the afternoon.

Foremost among the regulations is an alcohol restriction that will limit bankers and their clients to 10 units of alcohol per night. “That’s clearly not workable,” said one local banker on the condition of anonymity. “That’s only three glasses of wine, a double whisky and a beer. The evening will be over by 10pm.”

Moreover, the regulations specify that no member of the financial services community will be allowed to drink what the Koreans call ‘bombs’. A ‘bomb’ is a shot of whisky poured into a glass of beer and downed in one.

“Bombs are particularly dangerous,” said the FSB official. “They are normally drank in karaoke bars and seem like a good idea at the time, but before you know it you have drank four, it is 3am and you can’t even pronounce your own name.”

Ahem, the new regulation comes into force today. That’s the 1st of April …….

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