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A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:07 am
by JWW
Without getting into anything political, I just thought I would note that during the news coverage of the terror attacks in London and Glascow, the American reporters on the major cable news networks noted several times how Londoners were going about their business as usual. (Not to slight Glascow. A few people on a couple of other forums I frequent were thinking it would not be good to make Scotland mad.) To all British forum members, carry on, and Godspeed.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:22 am
by Goblin
I'll second that!
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:38 am
by rogueusmc
To alter your usual routine because of the attacks is a victory for them...by not doing this, I have one thing to say...GOOD SHOW WHAT, WHAT!!![8D]
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 3:55 am
by Neilster
Stiff upper lips. Dunkirk spirit. Home Guard training or ARP warden duties after a gruelling shift at the tank factory. A bomb shattered shop-front with a cheery "Don't mind the mess, we're open for business" sign. All for real.
They're resilient folk the English. It must be the weather. [:D]
I look forward to the day when people stop taking Iron Age mythology seriously. Just watch the news on any night and count how many of the bad-news stories involve religion. Most of them. [:-]
Cheers, Neilster
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 4:33 am
by robpost3
give em piss and vinegar boyos, stiff upper lip wot...bless your souls down to your shoes, would not want a better mate, lets get em!
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:27 am
by JudgeDredd
ORIGINAL: Neilster
They're resilient folk the English. It must be the weather. [:D]
We
British are! [;)]
Thx for your thoughts people.
Over the years, Scotland has pretty much been left alone with regards to terrorism. The IRA and other factions in Ireland have had a long bombing campaign against the UK, but contained to Northern Ireland and England.
I guess this shows clearly once again that terrorism knows no bounderies!
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 7:07 am
by Neilster
ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
ORIGINAL: Neilster
They're resilient folk the English. It must be the weather. [:D]
We
British are! [;)]
Thx for your thoughts people.
Over the years, Scotland has pretty much been left alone with regards to terrorism. The IRA and other factions in Ireland have had a long bombing campaign against the UK, but contained to Northern Ireland and England.
I guess this shows clearly once again that terrorism knows no bounderies!
Fair enough. I deliberately said "English" because I didn't know about the Glasgow attack. Usually you lot aren't too keen to be lumped in with the Poms. [:D]
Cheers, Neilster
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:40 am
by Dave Ferguson
ORIGINAL: Neilster
........They're resilient folk the English. It must be the weather. [:D]
Cheers, Neilster
No its the TEA, why do UK troops always brew tea?
Rommels about to attack, never mind, time for a cuppa!
ps bad weather this summer, up to a billion pounds in flood damage so far.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 11:09 am
by Dixie
ORIGINAL: Dave Ferguson
No its the TEA, why do UK troops always brew tea?
Rommels about to attack, never mind, time for a cuppa!
ps bad weather this summer, up to a billion pounds in flood damage so far.
The Empire was built on tea [:D] It's no coincidence that the Commonwealth shrank with the advent of readily available coffee in the post war years[:D] Also the coffee in our ration packs is terrible....
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 12:30 pm
by comtrjl
JW, Goblin et al,
thank you.
It is always very touching whenever some loony-inspired incident happens here that our friends in the US are always the first to offer support and sympathy.
Bless you all; it doesn't go unnoticed.
bob
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:03 pm
by Prince of Eckmühl
Was this activity somehow linked to the Rushdie knighthood?
PoE (aka ivanmoe)
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:23 pm
by Zap
ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
Was this activity somehow linked to the Rushdie knighthood?
PoE (aka ivanmoe)
It was Reported that a chat line used by radicals gave mention to that. But they also gave a half-dozen other reasons. If there is not a reason(in their warped minds) they will make one up. Usually going back in history to some remote time and place where they were oppressed or offended.
Glad to hear all are safe in England. I hope your government has no problem going into those areas (in England) to feret out the responsable parties. No political correctness needed.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 2:54 pm
by Shaun
Hia Guys,
They wil never understand how to beat us
The ENGLISH are feeling the pinch in relation to recent terrorist threats and have raised their security level from "Miffed" to "Peeved." Soon, though, security levels may be raised yet again to "Irritated" or even “A Bit Cross." Londoners have not been "A Bit Cross" since the blitz in 1940 when tea supplies all but ran out. Terrorists have been re-categorized from "Tiresome" to a "Bloody Nuisance." The last time the British issued a "Bloody Nuisance" warning level was during the great fire of 1666.
The UK would never give in, we have a secret weapon, the Joke that kills!
[center][font="courier new"]Funniest Joke in the World[/font][/center]
[center][font="courier new"]Opening Scene:[/font]
[font="courier new"]A suburban house in a boring looking street. Zoom into upstairs window. Serious documentary music. Interior of small room. A bent figure (Michael Palin) huddles over a table, writing. He is surrounded by bits of paper. The camera is situated facing the man as he writes with immense concentration lining his unshaven face.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Voice Over:[/font]
[font="courier new"]This man is Ernest Scribbler... writer of jokes.[/font]
[font="courier new"]In a few moments, he will have written the funniest joke in the world... and, as a consequence, he will die... laughing.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Ernest stops writing, pauses to look at what he has written... a smile slowly spreads across his face, turning very, very slowly to uncontrolled hysterical laughter... he staggers to his feet and reels across room helpless with mounting mirth and eventually collapses and dies on the floor.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Voice Over:[/font]
[font="courier new"]It was obvious that this joke was lethal...[/font]
[font="courier new"]no one could read it and live...[/font]
[font="courier new"]Ernest's mother enters. She sees him dead, she gives a little cry of horror and bends over his body, weeping. Brokenly she notices the piece of paper in his hand and picks it up and reads it between her sobs. Immediately she breaks out into hysterical laughter, leaps three feet into the air, and falls down dead without more ado. Cut to news type shot of commentator standing in front of the house.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Commentator:[/font]
[font="courier new"]This morning, shortly after eleven o'clock, comedy struck this little house in Dibley Road. Sudden... violent... comedy.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Police have sealed off the area, and Scotland Yard's crack inspector is with me now.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Inspector:[/font]
[font="courier new"]I shall enter the house and attempt to remove the joke.[/font]
[font="courier new"]About now an upstairs window in the house is fiung open and a doctor, rears his head out, hysterical with laughter, and dies hanging over the window sill. The commentator and the inspector look up and then continue as if they are used to such sights.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Inspector:[/font]
[font="courier new"]I shall be aided by the sound of sombre music, played on gramophone records, and also by the chanting of laments by the men of Q Division...[/font]
[font="courier new"](Points to a group of dour looking policemen standing nearby)[/font]
[font="courier new"]The atmosphere thus created should protect me in the eventuality of me reading the joke.[/font]
[font="courier new"](He gives a signal.)[/font]
[font="courier new"]The group of policemen start groaning and chanting biblical laments. The Dead March is heard. The inspector squares his shoulders and bravely starts walking into the house.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Commentator:[/font]
[font="courier new"]There goes a brave man. Whether he comes out alive or not,[/font]
[font="courier new"]this will surely be remembered as one of the most courageous[/font]
[font="courier new"]and gallant acts in police history.[/font]
[font="courier new"]The inspector suddenly appears at the door,[/font]
[font="courier new"]helpless with laughter, holding the joke aloft.[/font]
[font="courier new"]He collapses and dies.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Cut to film of army vans driving along dark roads.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Voice Over:[/font]
[font="courier new"]It was not long before the Army became interested in the military potential of the Killer Joke. Under top security, the joke was hurried to a meeting of Allied Commanders at the Ministry of War.[/font][/center]
[center][font="courier new"]Cut to door at Ham House[/font][font="courier new"].[/font]
[font="courier new"]Soldier on guard comes to attention as dispatch rider[/font]
[font="courier new"]hurries in carrying armoured box.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Notice on door:[/font]
[font="courier new"]"Conference. No Admittance"[/font]
[font="courier new"]Dispatch [/font][font="courier new"]r[/font][font="courier new"]ider rushes in.[/font]
[font="courier new"]A door opens for him and closes behind him.[/font]
[font="courier new"]We hear a mighty roar of laughter...[/font]
[font="courier new"]A series of doomphs as the commanders hit the floor or table. Soldier outside does not move a muscle.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Cut to a pillbox on the Salisbury Plain.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Track in to slit to see moustachioed top brass[/font]
[font="courier new"]peering anxiously out.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Voice Over:[/font]
[font="courier new"]Top brass were impressed. Tests on Salisbury Plain confirmed the joke's devastating effectiveness at a range of up to fifty yards.[/font][/center]
[center][font="courier new"]Cut to shot looking out of slit in pillbox.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Camera zooms through slit to distance where a solitary figure is standing on the windswept plain.[/font]
[font="courier new"]He is a bespectacled, weedy lance-corporal (Terry Jones) looking cold and miserable.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Pan across to fifty yards away where two helmeted soldiers are at their positions beside a blackboard on an easel covered with a cloth.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Cut in to corporal's face-registening complete lack of comprehension as well as stupidily.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Man on top of pillbox waves flag.[/font]
[font="courier new"]The soldiers reveal the joke to the corporal.[/font]
[font="courier new"]He peers at it, thinks about its meaning,[/font]
[font="courier new"]sni[/font][font="courier new"]ck[/font][font="courier new"]ers, and dies.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Two watching generals are very impressed.[/font]
[font="courier new"]Generals:[/font]
[font="courier new"]Fantastic.[/font][/center]
[left]Sulla ...[/left]
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:24 pm
by Brigz
ORIGINAL: Shaun
Hia Guys,
They wil never understand how to beat us
The UK would never give in, we have a secret weapon, the Joke that kills!
They actually did reveal the killer joke:
First German: The Furher's dog has no nose.
Second German: How does he smell?
First German: Awful!
and then there was the counter killer joke:
Zvie peanuts were walking down the strasser.
Und the first peanut was assaulted.......peanut.
I may have these backwards, does anyone else remember? It's been decades since I've seen the sketch.
Seriously, we Yanks will always stand beside the Brits. We are irrevocably tied by a common bond of history and brotherhood. And besides, as an American I am very proud of my Scots-Irish/English heritage. The United States is my country but the Isles are my roots.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:41 pm
by JudgeDredd
ORIGINAL: Neilster
ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
ORIGINAL: Neilster
They're resilient folk the English. It must be the weather. [:D]
We
British are! [;)]
Thx for your thoughts people.
Over the years, Scotland has pretty much been left alone with regards to terrorism. The IRA and other factions in Ireland have had a long bombing campaign against the UK, but contained to Northern Ireland and England.
I guess this shows clearly once again that terrorism knows no bounderies!
Fair enough. I deliberately said "English" because I didn't know about the Glasgow attack. Usually you lot aren't too keen to be lumped in with the Poms. [:D]
Cheers, Neilster
You are correct...we don't. But it does rather annoy us when we are lumped in together when we shouldn't.
It's...erm....complicated! [;)]
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 5:43 pm
by JudgeDredd
ORIGINAL: Prince of Eckmühl
Was this activity somehow linked to the Rushdie knighthood?
PoE (aka ivanmoe)
You mean "another" reason is needed for suicide bombing? Surely they have enough!
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:48 pm
by Shaun
Seriously, we Yanks will always stand beside the Brits. We are irrevocably tied by a common bond of history and brotherhood. And besides, as an American I am very proud of my Scots-Irish/English heritage. The United States is my country but the Isles are my roots.
Actually I have found this to be true of a great many Americans that I have known! After all, after chucking us out, you did come to our aid when we needed it every time and vice versa and look at the langaue you speak! Its "almost" English lol ..............You even forgave us the burning of Washington and we forgave you the heinous crime of throwing te overboard
On a serious note, it is funny that these people simply do not get it! The more they do this stuff the harder the resolve not to give in becomes as a nation! They are pushing the Caliphate further and further away! Mind you I think the Islamic flag over 10 Downing street would simply not look correct!
- Sulla
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:11 pm
by KG Erwin
OK, I'm of Irish heritage, so I have mixed feelings towards "The Empire", BUT, to change gears, it took my fandom of the Rolling Stones to turn me around and begin to appreciate the roots of the blues, rock n' roll and jazz which took place right here in the colonies.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:12 pm
by sol_invictus
The "special relationship" will always be. Britain and America will always stand or fall together.
RE: A note to the British - carry on.
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:15 pm
by CJMello63
ORIGINAL: Shaun
Seriously, we Yanks will always stand beside the Brits. We are irrevocably tied by a common bond of history and brotherhood. And besides, as an American I am very proud of my Scots-Irish/English heritage. The United States is my country but the Isles are my roots.
Actually I have found this to be true of a great many Americans that I have known! After all, after chucking us out, you did come to our aid when we needed it every time and vice versa and look at the langaue you speak! Its "almost" English lol ..............You even forgave us the burning of Washington and we forgave you the heinous crime of throwing te overboard
On a serious note, it is funny that these people simply do not get it! The more they do this stuff the harder the resolve not to give in becomes as a nation! They are pushing the Caliphate further and further away! Mind you I think the Islamic flag over 10 Downing street would simply not look correct!
- Sulla
You guys burned New Bedford too. Probably should do it again for old times sake.