Okay...so...
I've got the most embarrassing story I can possibly imagine to relate.

The other week, I was waiting for the bus. I occasionally commute (travel) between Embra and Glesca; one city I study in, one I live in, or at least my parents do. Anyway, I was waiting to get on the bus when I saw a bunch of foreign looking fellows with large rucksacks board the bus. I spent a while debating with myself whether to get on or not, and in the end I'm ashamed to say I decided not to, based solely on the thought process 'they might blow me up'.

I got on the next bus, and when I arrived at my destination, I saw the same guys pulling their rucksacks off the bus in front of me, conspicuously absent of burn marks and explosions.

This was nowhere near the London bus bombings, either in place or time, I had no reason to suspect that, but I wasted an hour of my life waiting for a bus because the people getting on in front of me were darkies. It's the most embarrassing thing I've ever done and much as I hate to admit it, it does ever so slightly come under the definition of prejudice.
(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 4:42, 7 replies)

If I lived in the UK, I would probably be horror stricken.
But when I came back home two years ago, I was on the tube going to meet dad, and an asian guy with a rucksack got on. I went and stood near the door. I'm still ashamed to this day.
( Batshitmentalist is sane for once, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 4:58, closed)

sounds like
they were doing their practice run, lucky you.
(knackerz is skinning up, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 6:14, closed)

Not prejudice...
Don't beat yourself up over it.
I don't believe it was prejudice per se, more of an act of fear drummed into our heads by the media.
(DougQuaid Get ya azz to moars..., Thu 8 Apr 2010, 7:03, closed)

True
There was aplace over in america than reported in the morning news the local terror alert for the day. This wasnt even a major city. WTF would a terrorist (if they do even exist) want with a small town with a population less than 100k?

People were genuinely scared though.

Media + Government = manipulated population
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 9:17, closed)

Don't worry
Their rucksacks probably just failed to detonate.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 8 Apr 2010, 10:50, closed)

I read that as
Bum marks
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 8 Apr 2010, 12:00, closed)

You should have called in a helicopter gunship.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Thu 8 Apr 2010, 12:12, closed)