16th September 2001, Birmingham
Yesterday's Telegraph 'Pub Talk' contained a fabulous article on what the ale house occupants of central Birmingham thought about Tuesday's events, and the mind-blowing stupidity on display just helps reinforce my nervousness about possible repercussions:
"Whoever's responsible and the country they are from should be wiped out because there's more there anyway. They are fanatics, these people."
(The non-fanatical views of builder John Reilly)
Tony Hartigan, also a builder, said "Castrate the bastards. Let them feel pain. Let them bleed to death."
A well-informed Irishman said, "I reckon this is Saddam, not the man with the beard," whilst Patrick Mulvey, a retired factory worker, really summed up the deeper issues involved by noting that, "the evilest man of all time was Oliver Cromwell. He set fire to churches. He massacred the whole town of Drogheda."
Finally, a token Muslim opinion: "My father, he's 82. He's very religious and he went to Mecca two years ago. He just condemned it."
Yesterday's Telegraph 'Pub Talk' contained a fabulous article on what the ale house occupants of central Birmingham thought about Tuesday's events, and the mind-blowing stupidity on display just helps reinforce my nervousness about possible repercussions:
"Whoever's responsible and the country they are from should be wiped out because there's more there anyway. They are fanatics, these people."
(The non-fanatical views of builder John Reilly)
Tony Hartigan, also a builder, said "Castrate the bastards. Let them feel pain. Let them bleed to death."
A well-informed Irishman said, "I reckon this is Saddam, not the man with the beard," whilst Patrick Mulvey, a retired factory worker, really summed up the deeper issues involved by noting that, "the evilest man of all time was Oliver Cromwell. He set fire to churches. He massacred the whole town of Drogheda."
Finally, a token Muslim opinion: "My father, he's 82. He's very religious and he went to Mecca two years ago. He just condemned it."
Comments
Nothing to do with is post (which was interesting) but i don't seem to have your email address.
A while back we discussed a gadget to simulate sea level change - well I found it, at least for Europe. You need to download it and it doesn't include isostatic rebound but its still rather interesting
Its here http://douweosinga.com/projects/sealevel
Same guy also has some cool artifical life on his site that you might enjoy
Cheers
John