Houses of Parliament in lockdown

[Magic]

:drool:

IT'S ALL KICKING OFF. :rave:

[Yevrah]

Jesus.

[Jimmy Floyd]

If (as it appears) it's a low rent terrorist attack, it's properly thick as shit attacking one of the best defended buildings in the world.

[Magic]

Why go for that in London I don't get it. Surely thousands of packed together unprepared Chinese tourists is a far better target for body count?

[Pepe]

Sounds like fuck all.

[Offshore Toon]

Why go for that in London I don't get it. Surely thousands of packed together unprepared Chinese tourists is a far better target for body count?
Yeah, but nobody would care. I doubt that'd even be newsworthy in China.

[Jimmy Floyd]

A mate of mine works there so you do worry. His MP has just tweeted though so he's probably OK.

[Magic]

Yeah, but nobody would care. I doubt that'd even be newsworthy in China.

It is. They love those sporadic knife attacks that kill hundreds. What isn't newsorthy is a lift murdering half a shopping centre, a playground ride killing 30 children or a rushed mother ploughing in to a half marathon in her Chery.

[Offshore Toon]

It is. They love those sporadic knife attacks that kill hundreds. What isn't newsorthy is a lift murdering half a shopping centre, a playground ride killing 30 children or a rushed mother ploughing in to a half marathon in her Chery.
Isn't that Japan?

I always think back to this story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15331773) which I think sums them up as a country.

[Magic]

No.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Kunming_attack

[niko_cee]

Maybe old Marty really did have his finger in the dyke, so to speak.

[Bartholomert]

If (as it appears) it's a low rent terrorist attack, it's properly thick as shit attacking one of the best defended buildings in the world.

But the symbolism !

[Byron]

My boss is a member of the House of Lords, so he's in the basement trying not to sweat to death at the moment.

[Gray Fox]

One dead so far, but given what greets you on twitter when you click the hashtag, I know it's definitely more than one. I'd expect 5+

[Lewis]

I like to think I would get involved if I was near enough not to be under the car, but mainly because of the promo-cutting opportunities when the shove a microphone in your face.

'You know something, brother, if the filth weren't too busy monitoring Twitter...'

They would cut me off before I got to Enoch 3:16, but still.

[Magic]

How long before the YESTAPO hijack this and say 'pity it wasn't a Tory lol!'. Disastrous cunts.

[John]

I've already had one on Facebook celebrating that 'Westmonster' was getting what it deserved. Immediately deleted.

Regardless of what else happens or who it turns out was responsible, I think we can all agree that it's a tragedy this fucking knob wasn't run over.

https://i.gyazo.com/cd29122160e0ff4ec57da22364acc47a.png

[Baz]

Good job England are away tonight.

[John]

https://i.gyazo.com/3445310904a2d0dd68fba12fd650e0a1.png

:D

Apparently deleted when they realised why that 'hashtag' was trending.

[Magic]

Copper died. :(

I bet this probably results in a shitload more armed ones.

[Bartholomert]

If (as it appears) it's a low rent terrorist attack, it's properly thick as shit attacking one of the best defended buildings in the world.

What a world we live in where a few deaths due to radical Islamic terrorism can be waved away and dismissed as 'low rent'

[Offshore Toon]

I've seen it used as a point of pride that our police officers don't need to carry guns, but I'd get behind it, especially in high risk areas.

[Lewis]

The attacker has a shaved head, so, without wanting to speculate, this was more than likely Brexit-motivated.

[Boydy]

I've seen it used as a point of pride that our police officers don't need to carry guns, but I'd get behind it, especially in high risk areas.

There are armed police at parliament.

[Offshore Toon]

There are armed police at parliament.
I'm assuming the bloke that got stabbed multiple times wasn't armed, though, so clearly we need more armed officers.

[Lewis]

lol the attacker died.

[phonics]

I'm assuming the bloke that got stabbed multiple times wasn't armed, though, so clearly we need more armed officers.

French police officers are armed and still get stabbed. What's your solution then?

[Lewis]

My friend messaged somebody they know in London who they haven't seen for years, and now they're meeting up. Every cloud.

[Bartholomert]

French police officers are armed and still get stabbed. What's your solution then?

Maybe less get stabbed than they otherwise would because they are armed. It lowers the incidence regardless of the base level of occurrence.

[phonics]

There's been 4 deaths in the last 13 months from stabbing of a police officer in France. There's been 4, including this one, since 2003 in the UK.

[Jimmy Floyd]

The great thing about the UK (and why attacks such as this cost 4 lives rather than 40) is that you just can't get hold of guns.

Parliament has loads of armed police but then the moment they shoot the bloke first, the entire human rights establishment and political left would have come down on them for brutality or whatever the current term is. You can't win.

[Bartholomert]

There's been 4 deaths in the last 13 months from stabbing of a police officer in France. There's been 4, including this one, since 2003 in the UK.

Did you not understand the point I tried to argue?

Maybe if the French weren't armed there would have been 8 deaths...etc

[phonics]

Yeah, when looking for the stats above it seems most who die are either shot or run over.

edit: This is literally the first death of a police officer since 2015 which I found interesting. He was run over by another police officer. The one before that was run over by a suspect. The one before that had a heart attack while chasing after a suspect which is a bit lol.

[Pepe]

Or maybe there would only be 2. Or maybe we would all turn blue.

[phonics]

Did you not understand the point I tried to argue?

Maybe if the French weren't armed there would have been 8 deaths...etc

Which isn't the point Offshore is making, whereby a gun would have prevented the stabbing.

[Disco]

Martin with the easiest troll ever here, just ignore him.

[Shindig]

What;s annoying is we're usually good at taking the attackers alive.

[igor_balis]

My bezzy works there, he's still stuck there. He's just really bored.

[Shindig]

Okay, bum rushing MPs who have been locked up for the day and then asking them for insight is the most retarded thing I've seen a reporter do.

[Raoul Duke]

Sounds like a couple of mentalists. I still think one day someone's going to steal a bus and cane it down Oxford Street at high speed.

Apparently it's one year on from Brussels :sherlock:

[Yevrah]

Mentalists of an Islamist persuasion?

[Magic]

One was a hate preacher.

[Jimmy Floyd]

One attacker. Channel 4 news claimed it was Abu Izzadeen, and have now retreated from that viewpoint, which just about encapsulates the depths to which reporting has now sunk.

[Shindig]

Okay, a lot of outlets are reporting that, :moop:

[John]

He wouldn't have been much of a preacher if he wound up having to take his Corolla to Westminster with a kitchen knife.

[Giggles]

Of course it was that shower of cunts. Why is nobody allowed say it these days? Is it that vital for the whole fucking world to be seen as PC?

[Yevrah]

Of course it was that shower of cunts. Why is nobody allowed say it these days? Is it that vital for the whole fucking world to be seen as PC?

It's important not to jump to conclusions Giggles and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS remember that even if one of the cunthood was responsible, it has nothing to do with Islam.


Of course it was one of the shower, one doesn't even need to bother checking these days.

[Max Power]

The geezer that killed an MP wasn't Muslim. But he was sadly a lone wolf with mental problems. Sad.

[Magic]

Of course it was that shower of cunts. Why is nobody allowed say it these days? Is it that vital for the whole fucking world to be seen as PC?

You're saying 1.7 billion people are a shower of cunts?

I'd agree.

*gif of nuclear bomb*

[Magic]

The geezer that killed an MP wasn't Muslim. But he was sadly a lone wolf with mental problems. Sad.

All snackbars are mentally ill.

[CJay]

Why are these kind of kitchen knife attacks not more prevalent? They're easily concealed and there are a lot of semi-important people - the likes of MPs, or as in this case a policeman, who could be easily targeted by such an attack. I 'get' that they want to take out groups of people, but consecutive single or dual stabbings would be pretty terrifying I reckon.

[Max Power]

All snackbars are mentally ill.
"All religious people are mentally ill my good sir..."

*tips fedora*

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why are these kind of kitchen knife attacks not more prevalent? They're easily concealed and there are a lot of semi-important people - the likes of MPs, or as in this case a policeman, who could be easily targeted by such an attack. I 'get' that they want to take out groups of people, but consecutive single or dual stabbings would be pretty terrifying I reckon.

Because there are very few people disturbed enough to do such a thing and a large percentage of those (of the terrorist variety at least) get picked up before they do it.

[phonics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7jEeRtXUAAD-lb.jpg

They've withdrawn the story so hard you can't watch Channel 4+1 at the moment :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's stunning to think how many things you would have to do wrong for that to actually go out. Surely it has to get past lawyers as well as any kind of normal editorial procedure. Not to mention somehow sourcing a completely bollocks story in the first place.

[Kikó]

The bloke they said it was is serving a two year prison sentence apparently.

[Magic]

Should we do the whole Phil thingy signing for Chelsea or whatever it was on SSN but on sky news and make it Abu Hamza related.

[phonics]

Channel 4 being sued for libel by an Islamic extremist will be quite a day in the Mail newsroom.

[phonics]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7jHhu6WkAAud7R.jpg:large

lol.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not sure if the bigger lol comes about if it was or wasn't him.

[Offshore Toon]

French police officers are armed and still get stabbed. What's your solution then?
Yeah, fair enough, might as well send them out naked since there's nothing we can do.

[niko_cee]

I found the PM's statement about this to be slightly unnerving. I think it was the repeated use of the term "the terrorist". Seemed very Orwellian.

Guns are never going to stop this sort of thing completely. There are always going to be victims before any armed copper realises he should be shooting someone.

Unless it's a Brazilian electrician running for a train, natch.

Whilst it's tragic that the policeman died, the alternative scenario where anyone approaching in a slightly loonified state is shot dead is far worse.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unless it's a Brazilian electrician running for a train, natch.

Whilst it's tragic that the policeman died, the alternative scenario where anyone approaching in a slightly loonified state is shot dead is far worse.

Precisely the point about guns, if this was dear old Jean Charles and his drug dealing self struggling to control his motor, crashing into a fence and running towards the police in panic, and they (each armed to the teeth) unloaded thirty rounds into him no questions asked, is that a better situation for the public than what happened here? I don't think so.

[phonics]

tbf the Conservatives have been looking for a cheap fix for the mentally unwell.

[niko_cee]

Care in the Community mate.

[Offshore Toon]

If he's running at the copper with a knife in his hand then yeah he probably should get thirty rounds no questions asked. Just because they have a gun doesn't mean they're going to start shooting dead underage smokers.

[phonics]

At least some people are taking away the right things from this incident. Julia Hartley-Brewer for instance, has learnt that hitting people with cars can hurt them.

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[Spikey M]

They're always 'mentally ill' aren't they? I mean, of course they fucking are, they'd have to be to consider doing such a thing, but what they also (nearly) all are is highly religious and usually of one particular faith. It speaks volumes that the likes of 'The Beeb' see fit to pile this shit at the door of people with mental health issues rather than, you know, the part of the individuals life that actually motivated the attack.

[Magic]

#pray4smiff

[Shindig]

Whilst some attention towards mental health would be super, it'd just result in more meds being prescribed. Our problem is not exactly a mental health epidemic but our blanket response to it.

[Disco]

Yeah, the last thing sick people need is medicine.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They're always 'mentally ill' aren't they? I mean, of course they fucking are, they'd have to be to consider doing such a thing, but what they also (nearly) all are is highly religious and usually of one particular faith. It speaks volumes that the likes of 'The Beeb' see fit to pile this shit at the door of people with mental health issues rather than, you know, the part of the individuals life that actually motivated the attack.

You can't go around saying Islam is to blame, because that alienates whole tranches of entirely innocent people.

They should be narrowing it down to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

[Bartholomert]

They're always 'mentally ill' aren't they? I mean, of course they fucking are, they'd have to be to consider doing such a thing, but what they also (nearly) all are is highly religious and usually of one particular faith. It speaks volumes that the likes of 'The Beeb' see fit to pile this shit at the door of people with mental health issues rather than, you know, the part of the individuals life that actually motivated the attack.

Why do people choose to be willfully blind?

http://oi67.tinypic.com/2lbgcqo.jpg

[Boydy]

Is this being blamed on a 'mentally ill individual'? I thought that was reserved for white terrorists like Dylan Roof or 'Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain'?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Why do people choose to be willfully blind?

*shit picture*

What sort of grotesque logical leap have you, or the author, made between 5 and 6?

[Spikey M]

It seems to be the go to postion following any attack these days. Certainly after the German and Paris ones. They went as far as saying 'they weren't even that religious'.

[Spikey M]

What sort of grotesque logical leap have you, or the author, made between 5 and 6?

???
Profit
Refugees

[Lewis]

It's important not to jump to conclusions Giggles and ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS remember that even if one of the cunthood was responsible, it has nothing to do with Islam.


Of course it was one of the shower, one doesn't even need to bother checking these days.


I recently found out that 'Coulter's Law' (named after Ann Coulter, but I don't know whether she came up with it) states that the longer it takes the media to identify an attacker the less likely they are to be white and/or Christian.

[Bartholomert]

Is this being blamed on a 'mentally ill individual'? I thought that was reserved for white terrorists like Dylan Roof or 'Death to Traitors, Freedom for Britain'?

Mentally ill is a medical term. You can be mentally ill and commit an attack, or you can be an exceedingly rational, emotionally balanced, true believer in a religion/ideology and commit an attack in the name of God/Nazism. There's a meaningful, scientific difference. Being religious or a Nazi isn't a per se mental illness.

[Shindig]

I'm with mert. Which is why we should issue a travel ban on six mostly-muslim countries.

[Spikey M]

Not good enough. We need to Madagascar the shit and close down everyrhing.

[Giggles]

Merts picture pretty much nailed it.

[Magic]

Lol so I forgot my auntie lived in London and she's moaning saying 'thanks for asking if I'm ok'.

[Yeldoow]

You can't go around saying Islam is to blame, because that alienates whole tranches of entirely innocent people.

They should be narrowing it down to this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement

Exactly.

I don't recall there being the same kind of general anti Irish or general Catholic blaming when it was the IRA blowing things up 25 years ago.

[Magic]

Jesus Christ if those cunts consider Wahhabism to be derogatory...

My suggestion was to eradicate Wahhabism too. :D

[Magic]

Exactly.

I don't recall there being the same kind of general anti Irish or general Catholic blaming when it was the IRA blowing things up 25 years ago.

Ever been to Glasgow m8

[Giggles]

Exactly.

I don't recall there being the same kind of general anti Irish or general Catholic blaming when it was the IRA blowing things up 25 years ago.

Lol. Didn't you just start locking people up at random back then? Forcing confessions, etc.

[Yeldoow]

Lol. Didn't you just start locking people up at random back then? Forcing confessions, etc.

I meant among the general population.

[Boydy]

There was plenty of anti-Irish sentiment back then.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Probably more if anything. No blacks, no dogs...

[Magic]

There was plenty of anti-Irish sentiment back then.

How the fuck would you know?

[CJay]

How the fuck would you know?

:cab:

[Magic]

Sorry he was barely alive and also lived in Ireland. So how is that a direct channel in to the feelings of the people of the mainland UK?

[Jimmy Floyd]

How do you know anything that happens outside run down districts of Dundee? Because you read about it.

[Giggles]

There was plenty of anti-Irish sentiment back then.

Back then? I don't think it ever went. Put it this way, if/when something similar to yesterday happens here then most of the general UK public will be dancing in the streets.

Also, Boydy may not be Irish but I'd imagine when he goes over to the mainland most people would see him as Irish. I've found they don't make the correct distinction.

[Magic]

Of something that happened in the past, out of context, written with an agenda, no doubt?

Stuff like this is definitely a 'you had to be there' thing.

[Henry]

Merts picture pretty much nailed it.

By banging on about immigrants, when it wasn't an immigrant? What does that nail?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Back then? I don't think it ever went. Put it this way, if/when something similar to yesterday happens here then most of here and the general UK public will be dancing in the streets.

Also, Boydy may not be Irish but I'd imagine when he goes over to the mainland most people would see him as Irish. I found they don't make the correct distinction.

No one cares now. The most relevant Irishman in our national life is Graham Norton. If it wasn't for all the tinkers we'd see you as a small, happy nation of harp-playing funsters, clicking your heels as you head towards this week's pot of gold.

[Spikey M]

Back then? I don't think it ever went. Put it this way, if/when something similar to yesterday happens here then most of the general UK public will be dancing in the streets.

Also, Boydy may not be Irish but I'd imagine when he goes over to the mainland most people would see him as Irish. I've found they don't make the correct distinction.

Would they fuck. Nobody cares about Ireland anymore. Now, If the Scottish Parliament got attacked there would be some utter cunts loving it.

[Giggles]

Would they fuck. Nobody cares about Ireland anymore. Now, If the Scottish Parliament got attacked there would be some utter cunts loving it.

We'll see.

The British have a general anti-everyone mentality. We're just pretty high up the list.

[Lewis]

Ireland owes us money, so I'll be maintaining a low intensity seethe until the final payment is made.

[Giggles]

It's being paid back in electricity.

[randomlegend]

Put it this way, if/when something similar to yesterday happens here then most of the general UK public will be dancing in the streets.

:cab:

[Boydy]

How the fuck would you know?

My dad worked in England for a while in the seventies.

Also what Jim said.

[Disco]

What is it with the Celts thinking we give a shit about them? Proper small time thinking from the lot of them.

[Giggles]

I don't think you give a shit, I just think you generally despise us more than most other countries you have issue with (all of them).

[Disco]

We really don't.

[Offshore Toon]

I don't think people in the home counties hate anybody else in the UK, they just think they're better than them. That's why they're all pedos.

[Boydy]

'We don't care about you!'
<the mere mention of Scottish independence>
*foams at the mouth*

[Jimmy Floyd]

The Celt must know his place, that's all.

[Disco]

'We don't care about you!'
<the mere mention of Scottish independence>
*foams at the mouth*

Again, not really. The prospect of trawling through the same old shit is tiresome.

[Spikey M]

I think Scotland is generally disliked for their independance shit, Ireland is filed along side Wales in the 'We like beating you at sports' category, not a single fuck is given otherwise. I can't remember the last time I heard a negative comment about Ireland.

[Jimmy Floyd]

He's been named as 52 year old Khalid Masood, who had a five year old child, and a long criminal record for things like assault and GBH.

Slightly odd profile for a terrorist.

[Mazuuurk]

Yeah but ISIS, bro!

[Spikey M]

Isis claiming it as one of theirs too, but then they claim everything was them.

[Magic]

He's been named as 52 year old Khalid Masood, who had a five year old child, and a long criminal record for things like assault and GBH.

Slightly odd profile for a terrorist.

All the hallmarks of a paranoid schizophrenic and absolutely nothing to do with a dangerous, widespread doctrine drilled in to people from birth. Nothing at all.

[Disco]

I think you were drilled into at birth.

[Magic]

Well I'm currently easing my boredom at home (work) by watching people die in horrific car accidents so you may well be right.

[Adamski]

We really don't.

Don't ruin Giggles entire life by telling him the UK doesn't give a fuck about Ireland enough to hate them.

[Giggles]

Don't ruin Giggles entire life by telling him the UK doesn't give a fuck about Ireland enough to hate them.

And you a prime example of exactly what I've been saying. At least be consistent.

Anyway, I've already said there's a difference between giving a fuck and hating. Hating takes no effort. At least fucking read.

[Adamski]

And you a prime example of exactly what I've been saying. At least be consistent.

Anyway, I've already said there's a difference between giving a fuck and hating. Hating takes no effort. At least fucking read.

Where does despise fit into the hate/give a shit spectrum?

[Giggles]

Where does despise fit into the hate/give a shit spectrum?

The effort free section.

[John]

The extent to which Giggles thinks the world hates him and everything he's about will always be amusing to me.

How do you maintain the sort of passionate, all consuming hatred for something that would be required to 'dance in the streets' in response to it being blown up without giving any sort of a fuck about it, Giggles? Explain how that works and is possible and we can go from there.

[Giggles]

The extent to which Giggles thinks the world hates him and everything he's about will always be amusing to me.

How do you maintain the sort of passionate, all consuming hatred for something that would be required to 'dance in the streets' in response to it being blown up without giving any sort of a fuck about it, Giggles? Explain how that works and is possible and we can go from there.

It works by not casting it a thought until something like that happened, and then firing up the roflcopter when it did. Which would undoubtedly happen.

Most of the media would give the token lip service but the man in the street would be rejoicing.

[Disco]

You hate the Irish more than we do.

[Spikey M]

The idea that anyone hates the Irish is baffling to me. There probably isn't a nation about that is liked more world wide. They're seen as happy, clappy, craic loving people. Giggles is basically the pissy white bloke calling racism and sexism.

[igor_balis]

Most English people I know like the Irish, albeit in a slightly patronising "love the craic" way mixed in with some plastic paddiness. Though I'm educated and middle class so my mates aren't racist spastics, so who knows.

[Jimmy Floyd]

They've definitely slipped into a 'jovial neighbours across the sea, fiddle de dee, fiddle de dee' sort of a role now that Adams and McGuinness have hung up their balaclavas.

[Giggles]

They've definitely slipped into a 'jovial neighbours across the sea, fiddle de dee, fiddle de dee' sort of a role now that Adams and McGuinness have hung up their balaclavas.

Wrong country. They're some of your 'celts'.

[Lewis]

Damn right. British born and bred.

[niko_cee]

If it's any consolation I think one of the people non-fatally injured was Irish.

[Disco]

Roll out the fucking barrel!
http://i.imgur.com/OAnSFyp.png

[Giggles]

Roll out the fucking barrel!
http://i.imgur.com/OAnSFyp.png

Fackin Oirish caaants innit.

[Lewis]

That must have been what that street party earlier was about.

[Lewis]

Wahey!

[Disco]

Fackin Oirish caaants innit.

Is this your donkey sir?

[Mellberg]

Outside a handful of people in Birmingham and the gardener at No 10, no one would be dancing.

[GS]

Is the response to this not verging on a significant over-reaction?

[Lewis]

Godfrey Elfwick does it again (https://uk.news.yahoo.com/the-quote-that-sums-up-the-response-to-the-london-terror-attack-123005074.html). :lol:

[John]

:D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is the response to this not verging on a significant over-reaction?

I thought that. It's sad and all, but not worthy of foreign buildings being lit up as a Union Jack.

[Pepe]

#Diversitykills. :D

Not sure about over-reaction, it seems to have cause fuck all reactions over here.

[phonics]

At least some people are taking away the right things from this incident. Julia Hartley-Brewer for instance, has learnt that hitting people with cars can hurt them.

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http://i.imgur.com/utmKfE9.png

Hahahahahahahah

[Spikey M]

http://i.imgur.com/utmKfE9.png

Hahahahahahahah

What kind of fucking retard needs instruction on how to run peaple over? That said, those that do will now know how to find it. The Mail, The Terrorists friend...

[phonics]

The bigger question is how it took them two minutes.

[Lewis]

We haven't had a good MORAL PANIC for a while. Get Roy Whiting on Celebrity Big Brother and let's go again.

[Henry]

That headline only makes sense if the Daily Heil is pandering to older people who are suspicious of technology. But I have learned that there's at least a section of the readership that are quite young, being impressed as they are with the celebrity gossip section of said rag. They're just going to laugh at the foolishness.

[Magic]

That headline only makes sense if the Daily Heil is pandering to older people who are suspicious of technology. But I have learned that there's at least a section of the readership that are quite young, being impressed as they are with the celebrity gossip section of said rag. They're just going to laugh at the foolishness.

:lol:

[Dquincy]

What's worse?

A) 24 hour news channels
B) Terrorists
C) My posts

[John]

C is a subset of B so you can condense that question.

[CJay]

Some shooting incident went down in Lille a short time ago. No reports of deaths, though.

[Dquincy]

I feel under appreciated.

[Shindig]

Do you have an ISIS flag and a webcam?

[Dquincy]

I have a Liverpool scarf and webcam. Will that work?

[Shindig]

As good as.

[Giggles]

ISIS flag wouldn't be as offensive.

[Disco]

Timbo 2.0