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Amazulu Jul 7th 2008 7:43 pm

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Originally Posted by stevemich (Post 6546751)
Sticks with me too - it was my last day at work in central London before I left to come to Oz.

I would normally have been on the tube at Kings Cross to get to Oxford Circus at that exact time due to my train in from Huntingdon. However on that day I drove in to return my company car and witnessed all the emergency services going haywire as I drove along Embankment.

1 day earlier and things may have been significantly different. :unsure:


As for Isgraham - :thumbdown:

Funnily enough, it was one of the few days that I had driven into London too. I was due to drive down to a site in Hampshire and had driven into London to pick up some equipment. After the attacks, my boss thought it would be better if I didn't go to site and I stayed in the office. Having the car ended up as a blessing because, as you know, the train system was shut down. So I managed to get home fairly easily as the roads heading south were pretty quiet.

NedKelly Jul 7th 2008 7:45 pm

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I suppose you all know that the bombers relatives in Pakistan had a celebration.

"Relatives of Shehzad Tanweer, who is buried there, staged the feast to 'celebrate his life' and 'remember him as a martyr' on the third anniversary of the terror attacks which killed 52 people and injured many more"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rate-life.html

Amazulu Jul 7th 2008 7:51 pm

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Originally Posted by NedKelly (Post 6547052)
I suppose you all know that the bombers relatives in Pakistan had a celebration.

"Relatives of Shehzad Tanweer, who is buried there, staged the feast to 'celebrate his life' and 'remember him as a martyr' on the third anniversary of the terror attacks which killed 52 people and injured many more"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rate-life.html

Where's a Hellfire armed MQ-9 Reaper when you need one?

tassietiger Jul 7th 2008 7:53 pm

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Originally Posted by NedKelly (Post 6547052)
I suppose you all know that the bombers relatives in Pakistan had a celebration.

"Relatives of Shehzad Tanweer, who is buried there, staged the feast to 'celebrate his life' and 'remember him as a martyr' on the third anniversary of the terror attacks which killed 52 people and injured many more"

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...rate-life.html

Them and the whole village will probably all apply to immigrate to the UK as asylum seekers when they finish partying, Brown will be there at the airport rolling out the red carpet for them.

Kapri Jul 7th 2008 10:39 pm

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Originally Posted by isgraham (Post 6546252)
I was also working in London on that day and I found it to be one of the most exciting days I have ever lived through with the exception of 9/11 which was better because we were all told to get out of the City incase of an attack so we went to the pub to watch the buildings fall.

Are you for real? :confused:

Exciting??? Did you feel no sense of horror at all? Compassion??

sunflower7 Jul 8th 2008 11:52 am

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7/7, 9/11 etc they were all so awful. People caught up in it, or not, by a twist of fate. Sadness for the abrupt end to many lives, and their famlies grief. Such admiration for the way people cope in the face of adversity, and go on with such memories, and disabilities to enrich their own life, and the lives of others..

Cheetah7 Jul 8th 2008 11:55 am

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Originally Posted by Kapri (Post 6547479)
Are you for real? :confused:

Exciting??? Did you feel no sense of horror at all? Compassion??

He is a troll.

Im sure if it were his wife/kids caught up in that he would be singing a different tune. Or perhaps he is such a friend of Mrs Palm and her five chunky daughters, that he doesnt have anyone that loves him enough or to cry over him should anything happen to him, resulting him being totally unable to comprehend tragedy and the consequences of a disaster.

He is probably quietly tugging at himself as we type to see if he is still in the real world.

sunflower7 Jul 8th 2008 12:06 pm

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....from planet of the 'numb'......

DunRoaminTheUK Jul 8th 2008 12:08 pm

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Originally Posted by Professional Princess (Post 6550368)
He is probably quietly tugging at himself as we type to see if he is still in the real world.

Ewwww...

emmyjc1 Jul 8th 2008 2:50 pm

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Wow I feel really bad now I let this day pass with out remembering this year as I'm in oz. Such a terrible day, a girl I went to school with lost her life on the Moorgate train she was only 22. So close too home.

Sheilas Wheels Jul 8th 2008 10:48 pm

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Always will remember 7th July 2005 as a truly awful, day. Thankfully everybody I knew went unharmed but two people from our village weren't. A mum of 2 and other man didn't make it home.

It was my youngests' 2nd Birthday and the day just 'stopped!'
Everybody was so anxious about loved ones.

I was very lucky not to have been caught in the Harrods bomb, just left there, Harrods - shopping, and was in Harvey Nics when it went off. An awful memory, complete chaos but thank god its just a memory.

As for Isgraham - get lost!

Cheetah7 Jul 9th 2008 11:57 am

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The day is etched in my mind and I always change my avatar on that day for that one day.

:(


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