Liverpool terror attack

KS55 said:
Look up the US Psychological Society definition. (Hope I've got the title correct). A phobia is a defined mental disorder. The stretching to include prejudice is precisely what I object to about the word's use.
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Sorry this is just daft. It's like saying levantine arabs can't be antisemites because they are also semites, or "I'm not homophobic because I'm not scared of homosexuals but I still like giving them a good hiding".

Words can have different definitions besides the "common sense" obvious one that one might assume.

In my first year of my degree I can remember a lecturer stating that using dictionary definitions for essays was wrong and it was correct to refer to definitions in subject source materials.

If you need extra incentive to consider why you are wrong, maybe ask yourself why Onslow is liking your post?
 
The Northern Baptist said:
I’ll hold off before I send him my £20. The video shows no heroics, literally a taxi pulling up at its destination and a bomb going off before the taxi had even come to a stop.
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You don't have to send him fuck all.
He will be suffering from this ordeal for a long time so a bit of financial help to release the burdon would be more than welcome for him and his family.
 
KS55 said:
I do wish people would stop using the term "islamophobia".
It is a made up word designed to suggest that people who are opposed to Islam are irrational or suffering from a mental sickness which indeed a phobia is.
I am opposed to all theistic religion on the grounds that it is a blot on humanity and does significant harm. I am not, however, phobic. My objections are seated in logic and evidence not on irrational fear.
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Not just an irrational fear, a “phobia” or being “…phobic” is having an extreme irrational fear.
 
hammocity said:
I can “trump” that, October 2001 just after 9/11, I’m in Barcelona on a golf trip with a group of friends. We are at El Pratt Golf Club and as we walked into the club a very stressed official told us we need to go into the bar and wait for our tee time. We go in there and a Swiss guy say “you guys with the President?” Na, we’re just a few todgers from Ashton. Anyway, a drink later and and me and my mate go to the office to get our handicap certificates which were being faxed from our home GC, Bill Clinton, surrounded by Security walks through the double doors dressed in a Hawaiian shirt, yours truly sticks out his hand and says “pleased to meet you Mr President” he shakes my hand and says “no problem”, his “people” made some dubious hand motions of their own and I was probably half a second away from being shot dead if my motive was anything other than a greeting.
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Nice story mate, but I'm sure @Prestwich_Blue will be along shortly to give a story of meeting another minor celebrity to blow you out of the water :)
 
Police say they think that the intended target was the women's hospital. I reckon it might be one of those incel nutcases.
 
Fode N The Hole said:
Nice story mate, but I'm sure @Prestwich_Blue will be along shortly to give a story of meeting another minor celebrity to blow you out of the water :)
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Funnily enough.....

I saw the very same Bill Clinton in the Starbucks on the corner of Mount Street & Peter Street in 2006 when he was at the Labour Party conference at GMex. Was a little unexpected to put it mildly.

Unfortunately me and my colleague had to go to a meeting but with all his security, and the fact it isn't a big place, there wasn't much room anyway.
 
Just seen the video of the explosion.
Lucky there weren't more people walking around or lot more could have died.
 
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