Explosions in London

[S'mon]

Perhaps some of you london types can answer a few questions for me?


What is a tube? That like a subway?

How do you define a casuality? The report said something like a 100 casualities and 1 fatality. In the US they would be pretty much the same.

Regards and sympathy,
Your American allies.

Tube = Subway, underground train lines.

Casualty = anyone injured enough to go to hospital, not just dead & critically wounded.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

I know moderating is difficult & stressful etc, but I do think knee-jerk heavy-handed moderating can cause more trouble (& bad feeling) than it prevents.

If your first thought on seeing reports of a terrorist attack is that it might turn into a "political" discussion, you've gone off the bend. Civilized people have nothing to "discuss" here.

 

[S'mon]

Ingrid phoned again and it looks like she can get a lift from a friend with a car at Borough, which I think is just a few miles.

 

[MonsterMash]

I've got about an 8-9 mile walk home as all my usual routes are stopped now - tube shut, overground from Liverpool St - shut, no buses in zone 1-2. Looks like I'll get fitter then!

 

[Darmanicus]

Just managed to get hold of me old man who frequently works in London and as it happens was there today about one station away from the Liverpool one. Wasn't able to get thru on his mobile for a couple of hours which was quite worrying.

Still trying to wrap my head around the whole situation.

Hope y'all get home safely.

D out.

 

[HellHound]

Thoughts going out to everyone in London and the world.

I just heard about this - because I was looking up the weather in London as my daughter is going there Sunday, and -all- her best friends are all there today.

If your first thought on seeing reports of a terrorist attack is that it might turn into a "political" discussion, you've gone off the bend. Civilized people have nothing to "discuss" here.

Hey, let's just keep arguing in this thread!

 

[S'mon]

If your first thought on seeing reports of a terrorist attack is that it might turn into a "political" discussion, you've gone off the bend. Civilized people have nothing to "discuss" here.

Plane Sailing once closed a thread about D&D warfare because I discussed John Keegan's concept of warrior or warlike societies and mentioned America as an example. Different moderators have different ideas of what's acceptable. If necessary we can discuss it on Meta.

 

[S'mon]

I've got about an 8-9 mile walk home as all my usual routes are stopped now - tube shut, overground from Liverpool St - shut, no buses in zone 1-2. Looks like I'll get fitter then!

Good luck Dave!! You can hopefully get a bus from zone 2 if necessary.

 

[Aus_Snow]

Awful news. My wholehearted sympathy goes out to all those affected.

I haven't been able to contact my relatives in and near London so far, and I'm fervently hoping they are OK.

It seems no-one round here (edit: not meaning *locally* here) has been affected, which I'm glad to hear.

Regards.

 

[Goblyns Hoard]

I've got about an 8-9 mile walk home as all my usual routes are stopped now - tube shut, overground from Liverpool St - shut, no buses in zone 1-2. Looks like I'll get fitter then!

Lucky man - I've got a 47 mile walk home if public transport doesn't come back on line... though trains may be operating from further out if I'm lucky.