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Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

That's true, the front page of York Herald usually reads things like "York mother loses 12lbs" or "Cathedral closed due to bats"

Whereas when we lived in LA it was "ten die in downtown shoot-out" or "Crack dealer stabs mother in throat at mall"

I think I would rather live with the former than the latter, but YMMV eh?

Depends on how cheap you want to be able to buy crack readily at all hours ( and if you prefer a country that actually sells toothpaste).

Whereas when we lived in LA it was "ten die in downtown shoot-out" or "Crack dealer stabs mother in throat at mall"

Its the norm in LA. No longer news worthy....unless a pepperspray was used

CT GAMER wrote:Depends on how cheap you want to be able to buy crack readily at all hours ( and if you prefer a country that actually sells toothpaste).

Good point, we import toothpaste from overseas.

I got some from Saudi Arabia, but it tasted of dates? Maybe that's why we don't like brushing our teeth.


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Jihadin wrote:

Whereas when we lived in LA it was "ten die in downtown shoot-out" or "Crack dealer stabs mother in throat at mall"

Its the norm in LA. No longer news worthy....unless a pepperspray was used

It makes for better reading though, LA is never dull, I heard gun-shots on my first night at her moms house. She tried to pass it off as a car backfiring, but then a stray round fizzed through the patio and hit me in the knee.

You didn't karate chop her mom did you? Grabbed the lamp and try to engage the enemy down a smooth lamp side sight post? Flip the couch over and hunker down in you fighting position?

seriously though...still have that kneecap? or was a good crack on the bone amounting to verbal usage of the colorful sort?

It hit the shrapnel that was already lodged in there and ricocheted back outside, I lost track of it at that point.

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

May you live in interesting times.

Joey wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

May you live in interesting times.

Points for the reference!

Joey wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

May you live in interesting times.

Wo wo wo no need for curses.

Howard A Treesong wrote:

Jihadin wrote:

Like the AA guns to protect the city

Been a long time since I've seen an actual Anti Aircraft gun. What system are you refering to?

Okay they are using ground to air missiles. Still seems a bit rash to shoot down aircraft over the east end...

Why, who would miss East End?

I would...they film White Chapel there....think its the right location

Howard A Treesong wrote:It's all rubbish I'm sure. Like the AA guns to protect the city. What are they going to do, shoot passenger aircraft down over the City of Westminster? Are you fething serious????

Almost all the security work is being done by MI5 behind the scenes, this is partly a distraction measure and partly for putting on a show on the world stage.

Exactly. It's a show to reassure the USA.

It doesn't do any harm to have some soldiers around the place in case someone cuts up rough about the Zil lanes, but if you really want to stop car bombers and so on you need a few porters from Glasgow Airport.

Smeaton and co. ftw!

Kilkrazy wrote:...but if you really want to stop car bombers and so on you need a few porters from Glasgow Airport.

John Smeaton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smeaton_%28born_1976%29

Castiel wrote:

Joey wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

May you live in interesting times.

Points for the reference!

Pfffft! Easy. Book of the same name.

What are they going to do, shoot passenger aircraft down over the City of Westminster? Are you fething serious????

Yes, they are fething serious. If you have a passenger aircraft hijacked and starts heading towards a spot where tens of thousands of people have decided to hang out then a quarter million dollar missile, a passenger plane, and a few hundred on the plane and resulting splat on the ground on the ground is the path of least resistance.

SOFDC wrote:Yes, they are fething serious. If you have a passenger aircraft hijacked and starts heading towards a spot where tens of thousands of people have decided to hang out then a quarter million dollar missile, a passenger plane, and a few hundred on the plane and resulting splat on the ground on the ground is the path of least resistance.

I think he was meaning you would shoot down a plane over an extremely densely populated city, the seat of or financial institutions and government, during a massive worldwide sporting event?

Sure, as a last resort, certainly, but there are other measures that should, and probably will be, in place to prevent this kind of situation from ever happening.

Albatross wrote:

Castiel wrote:

Joey wrote:

CT GAMER wrote:

Rented Tritium wrote:Seems like a really convenient command center for security and things. Not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of it.

It's England,there isn't much else to talk about...

May you live in interesting times.

Points for the reference!

Pfffft! Easy. Book of the same name.

Isn't it also used in the HH?

What, the Horus Heresy?

mattyrm wrote:

It makes for better reading though, LA is never dull, I heard gun-shots on my first night at her moms house. She tried to pass it off as a car backfiring, but then a stray round fizzed through the patio and hit me in the knee.

The fact that I dont immediatly dismiss this as ludicrous probably says something...

Albatross wrote:What, the Horus Heresy?

Yes, I'm sure it was mentioned in one of the books

It's a Chinese proverb, although according to wikipedia it may be a western invention originally.