Liverpool terror attack

west didsblue said:
Unless you live in a bungalow.
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Ah but there aren’t just steps in a house are there?

Think about it. You spend ten years living in a bungalow and then head into a building with steps and the lift is broken. Your time in a bungalow has made you soft, you’ve forgotten how to safely traverse them.

It may be more dangerous for bungalow dwellers in the long run.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
The one I've seen doesn't make it clear, although I'm not saying you're wrong. This part of what is a dreadful atrocity foiled, isn't that important though, the best result is the driver now Ok and out of hospital, and the bomber now resembles a dropped pie.
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Agreed. Amazing he survived and one more sick bastard out of the way.
 
SWP's back said:
Ah but there aren’t just steps in a house are there?

Think about it. You spend ten years living in a bungalow and then head into a building with steps and the lift is broken. Your time in a bungalow has made you soft, you’ve forgotten how to safely traverse them.

It may be more dangerous for bungalow dwellers in the long run.
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If you can't traverse stairs and you're able bodied, it's your fault.

If you get blown up by a terrorist, it's not your fault.

Thus, whilst you may be more likely to fall down stairs your own personal responsibility factors in. It's our intelligence agencies job to prevent attacks and track potential terrorists and their ilk properly so they don't cause harm to normal civilians. We know where they are most likely to originate from so we should target our resources accordingly, thus leaving the rest of the population free to carry on as they are.
 
The driver was very lucky indeed as he was inside when it went off. It looks like thankfully it didn't detonate fully so giving him that chance to escape.
 
It is a bit like a Blackburn Rovers shirt in the 80s/90s, an advert for Perspex..
 
Ancient Citizen said:
That's not what I'm hearing, he was outside, just in time.
I'm not saying you're wrong and I'm right, just that the reports,
including the mayor's, confirm this.
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You’re going to feel a right numpty when you see the footage everywhere, including on here.
 
The Northern Baptist said:
The bomb went off with the driver still inside the vehicle. I’m holding off before hailing the driver as a hero. I’m sure they’ll be a go fund me set up for him though very soon…
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Was done yesterday

David Perry: GoFundMe page set up for heroic Liverpool taxi driver who locked suicide bomber in his car

At the annual Remembrance Sunday memorial, Liverpool fell under an alleged terrorist attack, which was fortunately thwarted by taxi driver David Perry.
www.sportskeeda.com www.sportskeeda.com
 
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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