It must be frustrating to be one of the people responsible for the bombs in London. A couple of days later, and the British response can be summed up by an elderly lady at morning tea saying, "Please, you call that a bombing? I've had a bad pot of tea that caused more horror."
It's been good to see. The attacks were not on the scale of September the 11th, but when they were first reported, the media were stepping easily into the narrative that allowed them to push that. In Australia, our media followed the same pattern in response to the Bali Bombing on October the 12th. Now that I've seen the British response, which has been nothing short of admirable, I think we missed something by not getting up and saying, "Come on, you call that an explosion? I've opened warm beer than caused more damage."
It's Saturday night. I'm writing academic words. It's like pulling teeth out of my mouth with tongs that have rusted black and flake with every movement. Thank you for asking.
(EDIt: Image removed this morning because it bored me.)
It's been good to see. The attacks were not on the scale of September the 11th, but when they were first reported, the media were stepping easily into the narrative that allowed them to push that. In Australia, our media followed the same pattern in response to the Bali Bombing on October the 12th. Now that I've seen the British response, which has been nothing short of admirable, I think we missed something by not getting up and saying, "Come on, you call that an explosion? I've opened warm beer than caused more damage."
It's Saturday night. I'm writing academic words. It's like pulling teeth out of my mouth with tongs that have rusted black and flake with every movement. Thank you for asking.
(EDIt: Image removed this morning because it bored me.)
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It's like a Rorschach. You can use it as a way of seeing into people's psyches.
Some speculative writer I am.
But I'm really just pulling that out of my ass...
even if it is most likely a tree, like you said.
I saw one response on a blog along the lines: "I mock the jihadis. Call that a terror attack? More people died of wasp stings today than by those bombs. More people were run over. Come on, the IRA landed a mortar bomb next to Number 10 and they didn't even have laptops or mobile phones."
And there's that great quote from an old chap at the time of the IRA bombings: "I've been bombed by a better class of bastard than this and survived." Memories of the Blitz run deep.
But in fact, a lot of people demonstrate the same thing. The Americans I saw interviewed after 9/11 weren't freaking out or cowering. And they have weather which makes the average terrorist attack pale into insignificance, but you don't hear them banging on about it much.