ooh it's 7/7 tomorrow. 10 f**king years ago

[barrybueno]

Blimey

[Pokster]

[barrybueno]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

How many were killed?

[barrybueno]

a hell of a lot.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Pat Vegas]

those f**kers cost me a shag!

[Billy Goat Sverige]

my way home back to Wapping by foot and not on a bus or train :-|

[Classic Jorge]

Suicide Bummer?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Classic Jorge]

[Jake]

[Berni]

I don't think I spent any time thinking about the implications of the thing as a whole until I knew she was back home safely. And even then I was so relieved it wasn't until the evening that the reality of it started to sink in.

[Pat Vegas]

to meet some girl I had been chatting up online. :hide: ICQ style probably back then.

I was on my way to Kings cross via tube when it all kicked off. Very strange. Then they told us to get out the station. and exited through the Thameslink part.

I thought it was the old standard bomb scare. So I trying to get around the cordon to reach the mainline station so I was thwarted.

Them mysteriously there was no phone signal whatsoever. I was probably using a Nokia 8210 or something at that point. hmmm 2005 probably a sony ericcson.
I tried to find a phone box but there were queues for it, Then I tried to use the phone in the travellodge but they refused.

Anyway after realsing I wasn't getting anywhere and seeing people coming out of the station wrapped in foil and then hearing a bus has blown up. I strolled home and to reconcile myself I bought a strange yellow Arsenal training top.

No much of a story really. But these small things can alter your life.

What if I had gone to Doncaster It might have altered my women timeline which would change everything.

I could have rearranged the weekend but never did.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

How long did it take you?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Those people deserved to die because Thatcher and blaming terrorits is racist.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

was a bomb or bomb scare every month.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

3 hours. Those were the days :cloud9:

[Berni]

It takes a lot to make the IRA seem like ordinary, decent murdering terrorist *******s, but these f**kers have managed it.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Tuna mayo?

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Salt and vinegar. Possibly a Dairy Milk for desert.

[Pat Vegas]

Everybody was speculating who would be next.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Great days BGM.

Football until darkness fell then home for a ****. Same again next day.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Given that I was working two minutes from Liverpool Street at the time.

A colleague, who was in the TA, told us that he had contemplated telling his commanding officer that he worked with young chaps from NI. I have to assume he never did.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

explosion made the house/windows shake :yikes:

[Jake]

I genuinely see people get off the bus/tube if they don't like the look of someone (bearded, muslim, has a bag), still.

[Rich]

[Red N White Army]

We both looked more than a little uncomfortable.

[Pat Vegas]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

Look around and worry that is.

[Jake]

My gf's mum wanted to report a bloke for suspicious behaviour because he was pretty much moving in his seat and she'd seen him praying before.

Everyone's become a Mail reader :-(

[Rich]

tube and I see you know... one of them, I will look to see how menacing their face is.

If it's very menacing then I've been known to disembark and get onto the next train if I'm in no rush.

[Curly]

we used to head over to that area to watch the bombs go off.It was well cool

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I judge people solely by how kind their faces are. The eyes are but a detail in this.

[Berni]

[Berni]

person in the world not to start getting a bit twitchy imo.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Berni]

when they fielded first and couldn't have drinks. It also meant we got to scoff virtually all the tea.

Huzzah!

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Have you joined a cricket club in Kuwait, or what?

[Classic Jorge]

[Berni]

You get quite a few clubs that are all-muslim or at least predominantly so. They're all 'Shabash! Shabash!' and no beer.

The banter is generally quite poor, tbh.

[Berni]

peoples.

[Curly]

when the woolly faces came in and told us there was a smokie due to go off in an hours time.
Cue the sight of chaps hopping over the bar and stocking up on some of the bar's stock.Some mad *******s spent 40 minutes unbolting the pool table

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I despair, I really f**king do.

[Classic Jorge]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Berni]

But no. They lost, thus proving that theirs is a false God.

[Ashberto]

bombscare. Quite often.

[Berni]

Luton Town & Indians and had Monty Panesar playing for them, so these ethnocentric teams aren't that unusual.

[Trixie Popsicle]

[Classic Jorge]

*I've no f**king clue who's best at cricket

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I'm off to join UKIP.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Especially since Lehmann took charge.

[Berni]

mankind, really. :-(

[Berni]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I played a cup final in 1993 against a side called PYO.

Progressive Youth Organisation formed by Bangladeshi people in the east end of London. It was quite the scene as they were rather rude and tried to be aggressive, lots of massive flag waving etc. on the touchlines.

Naturally we won 3-1 and sent them back to where they came from with their respective tails between their legs.

[Classic Jorge]

The only people in Ireland who like cricket are proddies or social climbers, stop it at once.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Absolutely scandalous. The poor bloody Englishman is like a stranger in his own land.

Send the buggers home.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Classic Jorge]

Mind you, there are only a few countries that even play it

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

This is supposed to be England.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Probably what I said to them that morning.

I recall them being very rude to me on one occasion as I took a free kick. Naturally I did not understand one word they were saying but I doubt they were complimenting me on my performance.

[Red N White Army]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_Gn7TEEB-M

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

allowed into, but it's OK for them?

Typical. Bloody typical.

[barrybueno]

[ITSUPFORGRABSNOW]

And teams such as Ilford and such had certain dietary requirements. No ham sandwiches for a start.