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Fire at Glasgow airport

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    http://www.intelligence.gov.uk/threat_levels.aspx

    Oh god, look at the page title.

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  • ÆthelredÆthelred Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Coldred wrote: »

    Delicious!

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  • FarseerBaradasFarseerBaradas Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Coldred wrote: »

    Look at all the treats!

    I want a critical treat!

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  • GoodOmensGoodOmens Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Coldred wrote: »
    Oh and the old system:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIKINI_state

    The "BIKINI state" has just as unclear as the US one. I mean "Black Special" what the hell?

    "Black Special" and "Amber" make them sound like they're rating drinks instead of danger. And why the hell is it called "BIKINI" anyway?

    Oh, by the way...looks like my flawed logic in the OP was, you know, right. So, nyah.

    By the way, one of the suspects has died of burns.

    To all of you in the UK, I wish you well. We're all hoping that this is just a couple of yahoos who had a bad idea, and not something worse.

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    GoodOmens wrote: »
    Coldred wrote: »
    Oh and the old system:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIKINI_state

    The "BIKINI state" has just as unclear as the US one. I mean "Black Special" what the hell?

    "Black Special" and "Amber" make them sound like they're rating drinks instead of danger. And why the hell is it called "BIKINI" anyway?

    Oh, by the way...looks like my flawed logic in the OP was, you know, right. So, nyah.

    Flawed logic can lead to correct answers. The logic is still flawed though.

    I don't know why it's called Bikini though.

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  • Anarchy Rules!Anarchy Rules! Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Coldred wrote: »

    Look at all the treats!

    I want a critical treat!

    I can kind of expect to see that in the Private Eye magazine any time soon:lol:

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Diana concert tomorrow. An attack there would attack the very heart of Britain
    Royalty and Football

    I recall, after the July bombings, a quote from one of the survivors was "we've been bombed by better". I really think that holds true.

    If you ever combined the ability of the IRA with the fanaticism available to the Muslim terrorists then, well, you'd get 9-11 I guess.

    But incompetent jackasses I can just about live with.

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Diana concert tomorrow. An attack there would attack the very heart of Britain
    Royalty and Football

    I recall, after the July bombings, a quote from one of the survivors was "we've been bombed by better". I really think that holds true.

    If you ever combined the ability of the IRA with the fanaticism available to the Muslim terrorists then, well, you'd get 9-11 I guess.

    But incompetent jackasses I can just about live with.

    Ugh, Diana wasn't Royalty when she died.

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    No, but I believe the princes will be in attendance.

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  • Anarchy Rules!Anarchy Rules! Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm not one for the royalty really, and couldn't be fucked with the whole Diana is great thing. Amazing she was an anorexic royal who did a bit of work for charity.

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    A good PR agent goes a long way :)

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    I'm not one for the royalty really, and couldn't be fucked with the whole Diana is great thing. Amazing she was an anorexic royal who did a bit of work for charity.

    She was the People's Princess.
    The People are fricking idiots who read the Sun.

    Edit: Safety, it helps when your PR agent is the Prime Minister.

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Very true

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    This is why Scots can't be terrorists

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  • 12gauge12gauge Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Well, it's kind of hard to find suicide bombers with experience in their profession - those guys wanted to suicide bomb, right? I mean, they did not set themselves on fire by accident, did they?

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Wouldn't have put it past them.

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  • Anarchy Rules!Anarchy Rules! Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    And they didn't even manage to kill themselves, they really are the world's worse terrorists

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    edited June 2007
    Coldred wrote: »
    japan wrote: »
    BBC wrote:
    Stephen Clarkson said he helped police restrain one of the men.

    "I managed to knock the fellow to the ground," he said.

    :lol:

    I love it when the BBC clean up eyewitness accounts. I'm sure the word he actually used did start with "f", though.

    "I say, there's a chap on fire over there."

    The terrorist was a beginner-homosexual.

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  • GorakGorak Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    And they didn't even manage to kill themselves, they really are the world's worse terrorists

    I'm going to write to my MP to complain. The government should be taking steps to ensure our terrorists can keep pace with our competitors in the global marketplace.

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  • JaminoJamino Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    I gotta say these 'terrorists' must be home grown, the airport attack and carbombs are so incredibly amateur. The kind of explosives they are using, petrol and gas canisters are the kinda shit we used to blow up in the woods as kids.

    We're just lucky that none of these guys were intelligent enough to put together a real weapon.

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  • electricitylikesmeelectricitylikesme Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    You know the british public are really shaping up to be the badasses of the 21st century. I mean an eyewitness calls attempted terrorism amateurish!?

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    If we ever have a 9-11 sized terrorist attack we might stretch to "well, it wasn't bad I suppose."

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    More like "It's been done."

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "Bloody repeats..."

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    You know the british public are really shaping up to be the badasses of the 21st century. I mean an eyewitness calls attempted terrorism amateurish!?
    Well yeah, we've been under damn near constant attack by professionals for forty years...
    You people forget that the Irish problem only recently went back to "oh a few kneecappings here and there, but mostly quiet, yeah."

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  • FuruFuru Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    So wait

    a man tackled a terrorist

    a terrorist who was on fire?

    That...that is the most badass thing I've ever heard.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    This is all very embarrassing, I mean come on, how hard can it be to blow yourself up, really?

    We get a three-pronged terrorist attack and the only actual injury that comes out of it is that one of the terrorists sets himself on fire.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    SpongeCake wrote: »
    This is all very embarrassing, I mean come on, how hard can it be to blow yourself up, really?

    We get a three-pronged terrorist attack and the only actual injury that comes out of it is that one of the terrorists sets himself on fire.

    Some people probably got a hernia from the laughter.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    MKR wrote: »
    SpongeCake wrote: »
    This is all very embarrassing, I mean come on, how hard can it be to blow yourself up, really?

    We get a three-pronged terrorist attack and the only actual injury that comes out of it is that one of the terrorists sets himself on fire.

    Some people probably got a hernia from the laughter.

    I would be more concerned about head trauma caused from consistent face-palming.

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  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "We can't kill the infidels with bombs, so we kill them with...LAUGHTER!"

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  • The_ScarabThe_Scarab Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "Bloody repeats..."

    It's not a repeat to me if I haven't seen it before!

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  • Loren MichaelLoren Michael Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
  • siliconenhancedsiliconenhanced __BANNED USERS regular
    edited July 2007
    Wasn't there a quote from the London bombings from one of the survivors that referenced when Nazi Germany bombed the hell out of them?

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Wasn't there a quote from the London bombings from one of the survivors that referenced when Nazi Germany bombed the hell out of them?

    Probably, probably also a reference to IRA bombings too somewhere.

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  • AdrienAdrien Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    "Oh, very, very determined."

    As far as I'm concerned, they all get As for effort. Remember, it doesn't matter how smart you are, or how much funding you have, it's how big your heart is.

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  • SpongeCakeSpongeCake Registered User regular
    edited July 2007

    "You must've been worried about your own safety..."
    "Naww"

    Of all the places to attack, why would you pick Glasgow? Glaswegians will eat you alive, man.

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  • Mr_RoseMr_Rose 83 Blue Ridge Protects the Holy Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    SpongeCake wrote: »

    "You must've been worried about your own safety..."
    "Naww"

    Of all the places to attack, why would you pick Glasgow? Glaswegians will eat you alive, man.

    Actually, that's a point; why the hell would you attack Glasgow Airport? It's not a strategic target at all....
    I think someone said something about holiday makers, but that makes no sense either.

    Also, we currently have important things to worry about, like flooding. Incompetent terrorists sort of get lost in the shuffle...

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  • ColdredColdred Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Mr_Rose wrote: »
    SpongeCake wrote: »

    "You must've been worried about your own safety..."
    "Naww"

    Of all the places to attack, why would you pick Glasgow? Glaswegians will eat you alive, man.

    Actually, that's a point; why the hell would you attack Glasgow Airport? It's not a strategic target at all....
    I think someone said something about holiday makers, but that makes no sense either.

    Also, we currently have important things to worry about, like flooding. Incompetent terrorists sort of get lost in the shuffle...

    Terrorists, meh.

    Poor weather, now the country is in trouble.

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  • nexuscrawlernexuscrawler Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    Coldred wrote: »
    Mr_Rose wrote: »
    SpongeCake wrote: »

    "You must've been worried about your own safety..."
    "Naww"

    Of all the places to attack, why would you pick Glasgow? Glaswegians will eat you alive, man.

    Actually, that's a point; why the hell would you attack Glasgow Airport? It's not a strategic target at all....
    I think someone said something about holiday makers, but that makes no sense either.

    Also, we currently have important things to worry about, like flooding. Incompetent terrorists sort of get lost in the shuffle...

    Terrorists, meh.

    Poor weather, now the country is in trouble.

    Rain? Somehow I think the Scots will manage

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  • Safety StickSafety Stick Registered User regular
    edited July 2007
    You hit one airport then you'll cause chaos throughout the network (as it is the heightened security will no doubt have led to some flight delays - increased security, etc).

    From experience Glasgow is a bit more relaxed than, say, Heathrow. It was probably viewed as an easier target.

    Or maybe it's just local to the terrorists? two guys see the car bomb stuff on London and start feeling left out!

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