In the news

Breaking story of a bomb in Bankok. Terrible news.

Edit: now cited from Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/08/17/uk-thailand-blast-idUKKCN0QM19Y20150817

I guess the lesson is if you're ever near a big fire which might result in an explosion get the fuck away from the window.

I was living in the Isle of Dogs at the time of the South Quay bomb. When it exploded, I was sitting at the window studying, but because we were only on the third floor of a tower block, the force of the explosion blew all the windows in near the top and the pressure wave then travelled down the building's heating shaft. As a result, the windows in our flat were blown out rather than in, and I wasn't injured at all. It would have been a different story had we lived further up.

That was my old office.

The bloke who worked in the corner shop was Moroccan I think, nice chap, made a special trip to the cash and carry to get diabetic chocolate for my pregnant colleague. He was killed.

Yes, I used to buy newspapers there, from both of the guys who got killed. It was a horrible tragedy--allegedly, they had already been evacuated by police and went back inside for some reason. This was before anyone knew that the van in question was parked right next to the shop.

Funnily enough they started demolishing that building this weekend. It's going to be a residential skyscraper.

I'd got home from work early, it was a nice warm evening and we were sitting out on the balcony of our little maisonette in Leyton with the news playing on the radio when we heard and felt the blast. Every car alarm on the estate went off and a couple of minutes later we heard why.

Growing up in NI at the tail end of the troubles, I was very "lucky" to have been from the rural outskirts of a small, predominantly protestant town (mostly prods so less conflict). It is only a handful of miles away from Belfast but I was fortunate enough not to have been personally affected by any of the bombings or attacks that happened. I did kind of experience one car bomb. It was in the late 90's, set off on a Sunday I think in the late afternoon right in the town centre so no bugger was about, thankfully. Nobody was reported injured, only damage to shop fronts. I was playing football in one of the nearby farmer's gardens with their son/my friend. We heard a loud, metallic bang that sounded exactly like one of the big steel barn doors being hit. We didn't realise what it was until we saw the almost cartoon-like mushroom cloud on the horizon. We were about 5 miles away. That was chilling enough, I can only imagine what it was like for people whose lives were devastated by similar acts in more damaging circumstances. I've met more people since moving to London who were more directly affected by the troubles than I ever did in 20+ years in NI.

My old employer had their building condemned in that blast, they'd decided to stop paying disaster insurance six months previously... I think they got quite a bit of money for the land but not a very smart move considering the amount of bombings that were still going on at that time... They had quite a few people in hospital with broken glass injuries, big weekly trade magazine and still managed to go to press on time that week... Amazing...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-33967375

I guess he just didn't like flash cars.

DWP in making up fake stories about benefits claimants saying how ameaz the DWP is shocker.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33974674

surely IDS needs to get shitcanned over this?

probably not.

#cumface

DILLIDSGAF?

Probably not.

hmm interesting
famous name in the ashley madison hack

https://twitter.com/zerohedge/status/633753110490419204/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

hmm interesting
famous name in the ashley madison hack

It's probably worth acknowledging that someone could sign up to the site with a fake name

Phew

#notnervous

Those email addresses look a bit strange. All gov.uk (hotmail.gov.uk?). Maybe that's how they're stored? Maybe it's a screenshot of a list for something else. Maybe it's just fake.

Actually, just googled it - someone (claims to have) made a list of all accounts with UK gov addresses, hence only gov.uk.

You're a clickbait queen...

heres a few .gov's

https://twitter.com/MisterMetokur/status/633748154450513921

trying to locate the full list
it's gone a bit darknet i think

It's on 4chan.

http://boards.4chan.org/pol/thread/49904267/uk-government-ashley-madison-accounts-part-one

signing up with your work email. Idiots

I used biglad69@gmail.com

inbox me

One reason you may want to use work email - less likely to be easily read by your significant other?

Wait a minute, you're pretty clued up on all this... *squints*