I'd like to say no but........
I did nearly have a panic attack a week after the July 7th London bombings. I was on a train and an Asian chap with a backpack sat near me. I acted like a totally irrational tit and excused myself to find another seat.
And now I realise that I'm a fanny who should cultivate a healthy disregard for media frenzies. (Sorry Mr Asian chap)
( Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 21:47, 9 replies)

Hmmm. Not really a media frenzy.
Some Asian chaps really DID blow themselves up on public transport, killing dozens and injuring hundreds.

I remember getting the bus to work in London, in the days just after the July 2005 bombings. And I also looked askance at the Asian chaps on the bus (although I never actually moved my seat).

It was weird. On the one hand, I could tell that EVERYONE on the bus was looking (albeit discretely) at the Asian chaps on the bus (and that the Asian chaps knew they were being covertly scrutinized, and maybe feeling quite uncomfortable). On the other hand, some Asian chaps, a day or two before, really HAD blown themselves and some of my fellow Londoners up...
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:26, closed)

Sorry to hear that you lost people, friend
with all respect to those poor victims - I still acted like a tit that day. I try to look at the world in rational terms and sometimes I catch myself being superstitious.
Peace.
( Hitler's Barber Soylent Green is high in saturated fat, Sat 3 Apr 2010, 23:43, closed)

If you had changed your seat between September 2001 and June 2005
Fair enough, you would be prejudiced.

But in the days immediately following 7/7/2005, it might have been prejudice, but less so, and as any other Londoner at the time will probably agree, it was hard not to be suspicious of our Asian neighbours - for a few days or weeks.

Of course, if you're STILL suspicious of an Asian with a backpack, then yes, you are BNP material.
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 0:25, closed)

And too stupid to realise that any terrorist worth their salt would never use the same tactic twice.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 0:27, closed)

Yeah, blowing yourself up on public transport is soooo passe in terrorist circles

Of course they'd never try the same thing again. Just ask the Russians...

You're presuming these murderous subhuman fanatical scumfucks have an ouce of intelligence - if they did, they wouldn't be blowing their shit halfway to Narnia in order to appease a magical, invisble friend.

"Get bomb, wear bomb, enter bus, 'splode" is about as inventive as they get. Seriously, these fuckers could be outwitted by a Caledonian crow.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 1:28, closed)

Like the four guys two weeks later?

( Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 4 Apr 2010, 11:00, closed)

There is something wonderfully British about this ...
That a few days after the worst terrorist attack since the Ra got bored with it all, Asian chaps wearing backpacks on the tube or the bus just have to put up with a dirty look. That's the height of civility.

Russia on the other hand a busy kicking the shit out of anything in a burqa right now.
(Que?, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 0:13, closed)

THE SUN GOD OF THE EGYPTIANS WAS BEHIND A TERRORIST ATTACK ON BRITISH SOIL??!
I don't remember that.

Although I sense a screenplay coming on... [After negotiations with the Stargate lawyers]
(theremin put the lotion in the basket on, Sun 4 Apr 2010, 7:13, closed)

I do remember some
asian guys in London bringing bottles of wine with them onto the underground as a signal to other commuters that they're not going to blow themselves up.
(MSB Load universe into cannon. Aim at brain. Fire., Sun 4 Apr 2010, 10:32, closed)