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45 minutes ago, supermik said:

To be truly honest, I dont even know what trolling is. I Tell it as I see it and if you check all of my previous posts you will see that I have never said a bad word about anybody. I only answer back to people who try to belittle me and try to be the quintessential keyboard hardmen. 

You feed beefburgers to swans.  

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3 hours ago, Savage Henry said:

Except they haven't and they don't. And it's not a matter of semantics.

 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-40965581

"So-called Islamic State has said it was behind the van attack in Las Ramblas, saying in a brief statement carried by its Amaq news agency that it was carried out by "Islamic State soldiers". The group gave no further evidence or details to back this claim."

Semantics or not, what i said was correct, they have claimed they were behind it, but that means f**k all given they claim every terrorist attack regardless. Its such a common thing for them to do. 

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33 minutes ago, Marr1 said:

Two of my friends from Uni - were staying 200 yards from where the attack happened. They're fine, but they said that they were in the exact spot of the attack like an hour beforehand

f**k that, being a victim or family of a victim of these kinda attacks is about as horrible as it comes, but i can only imagine witnessing it would be with you for the rest of your life, your mates are pretty fortunate pal

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1 hour ago, welshbairn said:

Miguel Sanchez who lost his sister, Camilla, 4 years old. He's going to be ok, lost his legs, 6 years old.

Actually, for legal reasons, I am Vietnamese and was nowhere near the scene of any of the Barcelona-related car crashes on the 17th of August I may have been linked with.

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I'd also like to point out that the true tragedy here is P&B's collective unwillingness to create new threads for things, instead bumping things weeks/months/years old when something happens in the world, no matter how tenuous the link may be. You know it's bad when it makes Mr. X's views on thread management look sensible.

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Of course it's a horrible thing to happen but the media really relish these events. It will dominate our screens, news feeds etc for days to come and prompt debate about open borders and the threat of outsiders. In 2016, Scotland had 867 drug deaths, 728 suicides, there were c.10,000 sexual crimes, c.6,700 violent crimes, about 200 road deaths, 57 murders and as far as I can remember 5 Scots died in terror attacks (Tunisia and Manchester) in 2016/17.

Maybe the more anonymous nature of these statistics is why we don't seem to care about these victims or the criminals responsible yet when a terror event happens, the more in-you-face horror of it grips people with fear (hence the name terrorism I suppose)?

 

 

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19 minutes ago, invergowrie arab said:

I'm going to Barcelona in 3 weeks.

I'm basically telling terrorists they won't win.

I have defeated terrorism.

You're welcome

Hopefully that c**t Aamer Anwar will have finished his holidays and wont spoil things for you.

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With each passing incident of this nature, the grief porn gets ratcheted up to new levels. I think we're totally desensitised these days to how completely inappropriate it is to have cameras thrust into the faces of people, including young children, who have just witnessed multiple people being murdered in front of them.

One of the pictures repeating over and over on the news is of a family running toward the photographer, who is obviously crouched in their path poised for the perfect snap of a terrified family running for their lives. I find it pretty sickening tbh. 

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6 hours ago, Shandon Par said:

Of course it's a horrible thing to happen but the media really relish these events. It will dominate our screens, news feeds etc for days to come and prompt debate about open borders and the threat of outsiders. In 2016, Scotland had 867 drug deaths, 728 suicides, there were c.10,000 sexual crimes, c.6,700 violent crimes, about 200 road deaths, 57 murders and as far as I can remember 5 Scots died in terror attacks (Tunisia and Manchester) in 2016/17.

Maybe the more anonymous nature of these statistics is why we don't seem to care about these victims or the criminals responsible yet when a terror event happens, the more in-you-face horror of it grips people with fear (hence the name terrorism I suppose)?

In my lifetime more people have been killed in the UK due to lighning strikes than were murdered by Peter Tobin, but still the media insisted on blanket coverage for Peter Tobin when he was convicted for his statistically insignificant contribution to the deaths in this country.  

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