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# The bomb was in my office building - we were evacuated and forced to the pub.

(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:34, archived)
# A bomb?
An exploding bomb?
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:34, archived)
# I believe it involved nails.
We (by which I mean Fluffy, since I did not) saw one man with blood on his mush, but it appears that he was the bomber.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:36, archived)
# we got bombed a while back
didn't go off, because we caught it in time.
Glad to hear your bomber was the IP.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:38, archived)
# as in TCP?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:41, archived)
# Injured Party
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:44, archived)
# sounds like a shit party
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:46, archived)
# Hey, assholes.
here are more assholes for your suckfest, assholes.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:47, archived)
# wouldn't that be called a Scat Party?
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:53, archived)
# ain't no party
like an s-cat party
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:55, archived)
# http://news.bbc.co.uk/
has no mention of bomb! I think you're making things up!
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:41, archived)
# don't not believe everything you don't
read on the internet!
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:41, archived)
# erm
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/7415470.stm
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# cor blimey you're 'avin a giraffe
aintchya?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# Oh I don't fucking know.
I'm tired and you're probably being sarcastic.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:43, archived)
# *cuddles*
poor tired captain... shall I read you a bed time story?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:44, archived)
# People are dickheads.
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:44, archived)
# look at the TV breaking during the football the other week.
"Our T.V. broke. What a shame. Let's throw BRICKS AT FUCKING POLICEMEN."

who, exactly, could possibly justify that kind of response. It's fucking shameful. We're a doomed species and we fucking deserve it.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:47, archived)
# Yeah, agreed
Though apparently most of the fuss was caused by people who weren't fans anyway and were literally just looking for any excuse to lob bricks at fucking policemen.

Which, in some respects, makes it all the more idiotic.
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:50, archived)
# Pointless fucking wankers
and they are everywhere.

*sings*
I've been around the world and found that only stupid people are breeding,
the cream is floating and feeding,
and I don't even own a TV.

They put me in a hospital for nerves and then they had to commit me,
you told them all I was crazy,
they cut off my legs, now I'm an amputee god damn you...

I'm not sick but I'm not well...
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:54, archived)
# I think what's most tragic
is that a bomb blast in the UK is no longer front page news (while jet lag is) :(
(I helped save b3ta! Ratsta, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# at least the A Team nurses are there too
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/7414982.stm
(I helped save b3ta! The Snockerty Friddle, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:47, archived)
# I disagree
Firstly, it was a pathetic attempt at a bombing by someone with severe mental problems, probably no links to serious terrorists, and who only managed to injure himself.

Secondly, the whole point of terrorism is not to kill people but to scare them. By making every incident front page news, we have been playing the terrorist's game, and letting them win.
(orukusaki actually fucking posted something for a change, on, Fri 23 May 2008, 11:26, archived)
# Rizzle fo' shizzle?
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:36, archived)
# Rizzle, as you say,
fo' shizzle.

www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3988862.ece
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:39, archived)
# the new £230 million Princesshay shopping centre.
I love the uneccesary detail

Poor big bugger.
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:40, archived)
# Crikey.
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:43, archived)
# why were you bombed?
Are you crypto-jews? The money-handling, cock-circumcising, pork-shunning, code-making, code-breaking children of motherfucking Israel?
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:36, archived)
# Cryptofascists
*puts sparkly suit on*
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:36, archived)
# we gonna rule you, like it or not, and we'll do it...
WITH A SIMPLE SUBSTITUTION CYPHER!
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:37, archived)
# Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:38, archived)
# *re-reads cryptonomicon*
*joins*
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:39, archived)
# *Encrypts*
Hoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:40, archived)
# *eats cryptonomnomnomnomnom*
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:40, archived)
# Your reply has filled me with Glee.
now I'm off to do SCIENCE!
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:44, archived)
# SCIENCE is always best done under the influence of Glee.
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# or Ghee
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:55, archived)
# curriesnom
(I helped save b3ta! lordsaccharine b3taing is well retro mate, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:57, archived)
# careful now
you may be affected with FACT
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# FACT is a common side effect of SCIENCE
and contrary to popular belief is completely harmless
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:47, archived)
# I'm 100% qualified for the safe handling of both SCIENCE! and FACT.
I'm allowed to handle FACT in concentrations up to and including 100% of FACT.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:49, archived)
# does this mean that you are also a licenced dispenser of TRUTH?
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:51, archived)
# yes
in courts
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:56, archived)
# 'ning
*molests*
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:41, archived)
# Wotcher sporran.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# why, is someone likely to try and grab it? :D
(I helped save b3ta! mutster101 fell over, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:53, archived)
# seriously? cripes... been an odd couple of weeks then...
a stabbing, a suicide, and now a bomb...
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:37, archived)
# A stabbing, a suicide, and now a bomb...
All in Pedantichrist's Office!

Where does he work? Hull Childrens Home?

Oh and
(I helped save b3ta! Wobbly Bloke Hello, did I miss anything on, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:40, archived)
# IVE BEEN MISINTERPRETED! NOOOOO!
:D


Edit: ooops, how rude of me, Ningles!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# ning and t'ing
irie?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:43, archived)
# shame they found it


/thinks up another plan
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:38, archived)
# They didn't
it went off.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:40, archived)
# this place is going off, mate!
*gurns*
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:51, archived)
# ello prodge
you bin celebrating?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# let's just say I staggered into work today :D
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:56, archived)
# \o/
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:56, archived)
# They were saying on the Today Programme (which I listen to)
that "... d00d w0z like well simpul init, and was rite into iz izlam uh woteva for reel!"
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:39, archived)
# Good to hear that Radio 4
Has avoided dumbing down.
(I helped save b3ta! The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:43, archived)
# yup
Jim Naughtie's Daily Realism Report in place of thought for the day is just progress imho
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# Crikey
well glad you're safe

In the newspaper reports I love how they distinguish between "having mental illness" and "following the Islamic faith" as if they were different things
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:42, archived)
# *bums embassy*
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:44, archived)
# "following the islamic faith" - not mad
"Being a religious extremist in any religion" - mad as a mad cunt.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# Especially considering that Islam preaches peace:
25:63:

The worshippers of the All-Merciful are they who tread gently upon the earth, and when the ignorant address them, they reply, "Peace!"




It's just that there will always be someone in any religion (or supposedly) that contorts and deforms the message to their own (usually politically minded) agenda. And those with no will of their own or those easily led types will be duped. But not everyone who has faith in something is mental. I'm CERTAINLY not.

I'm not trying to start the age old argument, but that kind of thinking really does get my back up.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:47, archived)
# Crusades, anyone?
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:48, archived)
# Yes, all Christians are mad warlike bastards.
Especially the ones in the 21st century. Because we've got time machines and went back to join in.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:49, archived)
# As an atheist
I'm going to use mine to seduce Elizabeth I and become king of all England
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:51, archived)
# Is it not quicker and easier to seduce
Liz II?
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:52, archived)
# oooh
*plans*
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:55, archived)
# youll need to put on a corgi coat
she likes it doggie style
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:57, archived)
# no thanks
we tried it once and it was shit. Fuckloads of people died.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:50, archived)
# I know
whoever planned that little saga holiday was a right mong.
(I helped save b3ta! Prof UnderCover evitable, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:51, archived)
# this definition is right up there with
Llamas being "some sort of fliddy horse"
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:52, archived)
# hahaha
proper tealol
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:54, archived)
# I'm still proud of that one.
For some inexplicable reason.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:55, archived)
# it's some of your finest work
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:57, archived)
# the infidel reps were atrocious
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:54, archived)
# It also mentions burning the unbeliever
and putting the heretic to the sword

mind you the Jewish and Christian holy books aren't a great deal better
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:50, archived)
# So does that mean I'm mentally ill in your eyes, because I have faith?
I'm honestly curious.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:52, archived)
# depends on the faith.
I'm all for religion at a personal level, it's just organised religions and churches that seem to be the cause of people doing fuckittery and using god as an excuse.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:56, archived)
# I can't take responsibility for them.
But then I don't tar all atheists with the same brush, and there's plenty of fucking awful things commited by them.

Oh, I don't know. I just get a little fed up that because I choose to believe in something I get accused of being mentally ill, stupid or both, in some cases only so the accuser can feel a pat on the back from someone else (like all of the agreement that goes on here). It just seems... like schoolboy bullying to me. But then I suppose if the shoe were on the other foot I'd feel differently. And I DO have a preexisting massive persecution complex.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:00, archived)
# I've seen fewer people
trying to justify their decision to be a horriffic fucktard through atheism than I have trying to justify it through religion.

If I were in an arguing mood I'd dispute your use of "choose to believe". If you believe it (in a faith-related sense) then you do, no choice about it. Doesn't make it wrong of course.

but I'm not in an arguing mood, I'm in a kittens and hugs mood. Why don't we ever get kittens in the lab? It's always knives and shit. Can't hug that shit, it's bad for you.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:04, archived)
# Bad choice of words, I'm half concentrating on something else.
And yes, actually, I did make a choice, to finally admit it to MYSELF. I've been surrounded by atheists in my circle of friends all my life, and to 'come out' to them WAS a choice. But not to choose to have faith, you're right there.

Some still won't talk to me. Their loss.

Edit: also I'm not saying I have all the answers. I'm not saying I've studied the Bible in humungous depth for years and years and years. I just want to stand up for myself, as nobody else will.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:07, archived)
# I demand you not have faith!*



*may be an imitation of mad super-atheists
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:11, archived)
# This is why I teach now.
There's marginally less knives in a classroom.
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 10:09, archived)
# Would it be fair to say you pick the bits you like out of the bible?
I don't disparage anyone who has faith. It's those who try to force it upon me that I have trouble with.
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:57, archived)
# you're not nuts though
er, I think

what am I trying to say?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:58, archived)
# I think you're trying to say:
I've...
had...
The time of my liiiiffffee....
and I Neeeever felt this way before...
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:00, archived)
# have you been going through my bins?
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:02, archived)
# not today, no
*sidles*
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:08, archived)
# To be perfectly honest, yes.
If there's

A) a rational and natural explanation

and

B) an irrational explanation that invokes the supernatural

anyone who plumps for option B) despite no supporting evidence is, to my mind, insane.

But then again, that pretty much sums up every female I know. Most of my relationship problems stem from the fact that I run from a purely logical standpoint and have difficulty understanding overly emotional "reasoning", or indeed, faith.
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:59, archived)
# So you'd never risk your life to save a loved one?
That's overly emotional reasoning.

(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:02, archived)
# I dunno:
My personal value of my life = X
My personal value of loved one's life = Y

If X<Y then RUN TO THE FIRE.

This seems rationally emotional, rather than crezzy.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:07, archived)
# Well, what Mockingbird said
but I've been told by many women that I'm too "reserved", to employ a euphemism.

And I just don't understand how there's any value in saying "this is impossible and there's no proof for it, yet I believe it anyway".
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:13, archived)
# How is it impossible?
Improbable, certainly. But then so is winning the lottery.

I'm not trying to fight with you. I'm genuinely interested, although I didn't appreciate the sexism.

Also, there may be no 'value' in it to you, but then is that a viable excuse to throw around insults?
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Wow currently being a cunt in Infamous, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:17, archived)
# Not trying to be sexist
None of my male friends have ever told me that I'm too emotionally reserved...even when I fail to muster a response to, say, an England penalty shoot-out. It's only the women in my life who seem to have a problem with it. Empirical evidence.

And I'm not trying to pick a fight, and I'm not trying to throw around insults, but to me insanity is characterised by believing impossible things to be true. I wouldn't insult you by saying "well, I think most people who have faith are insane but you're special", that would be dishonest. This is what I think. You asked, I'll tell you. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings, but that's the way I roll. I do have friends who have faith and they know full well my feelings on the subject. Generally we talk about something else.
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:26, archived)
# I agree,
I just do not think that there is an awfully large percentage of things which happen that fall into category A
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Fri 23 May 2008, 10:20, archived)
#
www.jesusandmo.net/2008/05/13/stop/
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:51, archived)
# My Muslim neighbours spend all day shouting at each other
peace my arse


they make fucking excellent treacly Iraqi coffee though
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:52, archived)
# Hahahaha
quite
(I helped save b3ta! Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:45, archived)
# I'd watch your embassy if I were you!
Edit: Oops, too late!
(I helped save b3ta! NinjaBadger hides in the bushes and gives you TB., Fri 23 May 2008, 9:46, archived)
# i once spent 6 hours in exeter waiting for a bus
i contemplated taking gelignite to the place
(I helped save b3ta! cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:50, archived)
# Do you work amongst giraffes?
I'm glad I'm at home in bed!

(I helped save b3ta! XLVII .uk, Fri 23 May 2008, 9:52, archived)
# we had a bomb scare
in bris the other week. police asked us to leave the pub, then realised standing next to the bus which the "bomb" was on was less safe so ordered us back in and made us continue drinking :D
(cs192 is sucking on a Koala at, Fri 23 May 2008, 11:48, archived)
# A long time ago... in an office building far, far away...
I was given bomb training for a local council.
Part of the training was to listen and see if you noticed anything unusual about the caller. Like if he had a limp.
(Kaplaaah Wasting time on the net since 1994., Fri 23 May 2008, 13:48, archived)