"John of Aix" wrote in message
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Des wrote:
"George Saden" wrote in message
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Des wrote:
"Jack Jack" wrote in message
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Hi guys, I too live in London and when the bombs went off I said
"bad **** happens" like so many others must have said.

This is definitely a grim situation. Of course we are all shocked.
But at the same time maybe we should take a little break and be
less dour.

In the Blitz,

What's a Blitz?

A series of thousands of planes dropping tonnnes of munitions
simultaeously. London survived that, and put on an olympics 3 years
after the war. So these muslim ******s don't know what they're up
against here. We'll **** the lot of them.

Look, I'd be grateful if you saved the "dogged determination" and
"bulldog spirit" for the day that we're faced with some last-ditch
battle against overwhelming odds for the capital.

Lovely.

To summon up all
this excess verbiage simply because the little rash which in the 21st
century afflicts every major capital has arrived here, and not even
unexpectedly, is just plain silly. Yes, the deaths of fifty people in
such incidents is tragic, and the exploit ranks among one of the most
serious and bloody crimes committed in London in many years, but
please don't lose your perspective. Why? Because that's one of the
terrorist's intentions, that you lose your sense of proportion and
indulge in inflammatory language concerning innocent people
unfortunate enough to have been born into the Muslim faith.
Don't be the terrorist's surrogate. Don't indulge in comparisons
between this event and "London in the blitz", etc. If you are under
70 years of age you have no actual memories of that conflict anyway,
so stop wallowing in nostalgia for times you never experienced, or
only experienced second-hand. Be a genuine Londoner, the person you
really are, not some stuffed bulldog-breed with a Union jack on the
chest you saw once in a souvenir shop window.
The red London bus was an iconic target. Don't be an iconic victim.

Well said Des.

Aaarg sometimes I just have to agree with John - as I do on this one.