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Posted: 7th Jul 2005


Jonny Ucof and I are back at the princess palace safe and well with tea and spliff. I might even cook for him later

It's been a really wierd day to be in central London. The first I knew anything about it was at about 9.30 when one of the girls phoned to say they were having problems on the tube. Then Bam's phoned me and told me about the explosion at Liv street and was I ok?

All day we were finding out about all the different blasts from the internet (and Skully I found out more from you than I did from the crappy BBC ). But it kinda was "business as usual". Because of the terrorist link we were told we could leave at about 3ish and that the office will be closed tomorrow "so don't come in" (which is good!). As Orangebobo said everythign in the west end just closed down.

And then we started our mission home. We walked from Tottenham Court Road to Liverpool Street - which was surprisingly quick and we now know where the Old Bailey is and loads of other interesting facts . Luckily Liverpool Street had re-opened, and we got a train, and then a bus and we were home by 6pm

As Gabe said we didn't see any "carnage" or "destruction" walking through the city - not even at Liverpool Street. Roads were cordoned off but all you could see was people, LOTS of people just walking to get home.

The attacks seemed fairly contained. Seeing it all on the news tonight has made me think. As skully just said this could have been a HELL of a lot worse.

Maybe I would feel differently if I worked in an area that had been attacked... I dunno. ...I don't think it's all sunk in yet. Like I say it's been a spooky day.

Blimey! Long post

I hope and pray tonight that everyone you know is also safe and well.

love to everyone



** goes off to watch the news **

Live well, love much, laugh often...

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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
OMG FRD i can understand why that angered you, i just read the first page and i'm fuming. Not reading anymore, its not worth it.

Let just be thankful that not everyone thinks like that.

to everyone

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
I was about to go to bed, but just got an unofficial update. Current toll on BBC online is 37. Friend of mine who's a tv cameraman in the uk said that the toll was at least 45, then revised it to 150-200. I do hope he's wrong.

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
im alrite



im still hearing 37 dead. all the bus services in area 1 are back up aparently and they are going to open the jubily, picadilly and northen line late tonight tho they are only very limited service.



i think that it is about 150-200 critical or server injuries so the 37 number might go up



also if anyone is still worried bout someone and cant get hold of them try phoning 08701566344 tho bear with the people running the service thy are getting something like 50,000 call per hour
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
Hels, I'm totally with you on that wierdness thing. I arrived in Euston just as they closed the tube, was about to get on a bus to go past Russell Sq but decided I needed a pee before I went - it was when I was on the loo they evacuated Euston and by the time I came out, they were RUNNING people out of the station - feck, that was wierd.

Then i got in the office, went in a meeting and knew nothing til 12.30 at lunch break - 8 txtx n 3 voicemails saying 'are you alright - call me' and 'please tell me you're not in London today'

I really started to think 'oh sh**', I might not get home , this is serious.

As it happened, I ended up walking from Cov Gdn to Euston, picked up a couple of new buddies along the way, went for a beer - London was so so quiet, just pedestrians, everyone knew it was bad but no-onepaniced, no-one goet stressed out, the police were fantastic (never thouht I'd say that!!), so helpful, again so calm.

And I got to Euston, and I got back home and now I'm watching it on the TV and thinking - I was so very close to all of this - and now I feel quite, well, odd, like I shouldn't be here

sorry, babbling

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
We can thank the emergency services for keeping the death toll so low.



They were on hand extremely quickly (especially as the bus was blown up just outside the British Medical Association and there were trained doctors inside!) - all emergency services carried out their jobs calmly and efficiently.



Well done and huge cheers for them



As for the internet sites... well, surely there would be more of an outcry if govenments started to really police the internet?



It's being monitored for terrorist-related activity and paedophilia already (hence the large number of recent arrests)... but you can't get everyone.



The group that claimed responsibility is a fringe organisation who apparently spelled their Qur'an quote incorrectly - leading to doubt over its authenticity. Also, from what I heard on the news, it's an open forum, so any random person can post on it anonymously. Wait and see.



Flashpoint, there are those that would argue that terrorism and violence does succeed. It succeeds in drawing attention to a cause...

Getting to the other side

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
And that's why the message they're sending out is to unite with UK muslims to fight them, not fight the UK muslims or there really will be a war but fought internally - they'll have won.

But I don't hold out much hope of it lasting, hope I'm wrong

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
poor timg - my post was in response to Claire's

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus

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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
Why is everything so normal at home in Cheshire when it's been so godamn unnormal all day!

I'm off to bed - survivor guilt getting to me

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus

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Getting to the other side

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
ok, i've deleted my above posts before I go to bed, as they're beyond the topic of the thread. I did some digging around and found some worrying things, but I'm sure that conspiracy stories will circle for years and this isn't the time nor the place.

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
No less important for that tho - it's just nice to find out people are Ok and share a bit of it.

Thanx to HoP for giving me you guys to talk to when something like this happens

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
to everyone

Posted: 7th Jul 2005
dont feel guilty you survived, in death everyone on hop would have been very upset, very very very upset like we are not allready when stupid things like this happen

i am sooo glad that everyone is accounted for here on this lovely website.............. am i correct in thinking this?

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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
Glad everyone is ok. HOP is one of the first places I thought of when I heard this last night...



Is Kat still in London? I haven't spoken to her in ages.



I hoping for statistical safety for my friends and family at the moment!
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Posted: 7th Jul 2005


What the world needs now, is love, sweet love....

hugs to all. All our UK HoPpers were in my thoughts as I watched this unfold on the TV last night.

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Posted: 7th Jul 2005
I'm glad I heard about it here first and got to see everyone check in.

Deepest condolences from all your friends in the U.S.

"My skin is singed but it heals my heart and with glowing pride I'll wear my scars." -Davey Havok

Posted: 7th Jul 2005


I heard about all of this this afternoon, on my way to school. Glad to hear that most of the UK HOP'ers are accounted for.



As for that Uranium twit on the comic site... all i can say is: and people wonder why I wanna expat...

What exactly do I have to light on fire to get you to notice me?

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
sweet puk hugs for uk hoppers.
I sore late on t.v last night and made me think of the lovely hopper's poeple over there .

that shrewd and knavish sprite

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I am the merry wander of the night -puk

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
I was horrified when I saw this on telly last night. What's happening to this world. Thanks to everyone who checked in.

Never hold your farts in! They travel up your spine, go into your brain and that's where shitty idea's come from.

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
back in work - the city almost seems normal today.

i don't want to comment any more than that right now.

our mayor said this yesterday, and i don't think anyone could have said it better:


“This was a cowardly attack, which has resulted in injury and loss of life. Our thoughts are with everyone who has been injured, or lost loved ones. I want to thank the emergency services for the way they have responded.

Following the al-Qaeda attacks on September 11 in America we conducted a series of exercises in London in order to be prepared for just such an attack. One of the exercises undertaken by the government, my office and the emergency and security services was based on the possibility of multiple explosions on the transport system during the Friday rush hour. The plan that came out of that exercise is being executed today, with remarkable efficiency and courage, and I praise those staff who are involved.

I’d like to thank Londoners for the calm way in which they have responded to this cowardly attack and echo the advice of the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair - do everything possible to assist the police and take the advice of the police about getting home today.

I have no doubt whatsoever that this is a terrorist attack. We did hope in the first few minutes after hearing about the events on the Underground that it might simply be a maintenance tragedy. That was not the case. I have been able to stay in touch through the very excellent communications that were established for the eventuality that I might be out of the city at the time of a terrorist attack and they have worked with remarkable effectiveness. I will be in continual contact until I am back in London.

I want to say one thing specifically to the world today. This was not a terrorist attack against the mighty and the powerful. It was not aimed at Presidents or Prime Ministers. It was aimed at ordinary, working-class Londoners, black and white, Muslim and Christian, Hindu and Jew, young and old. It was an indiscriminate attempt to slaughter, irrespective of any considerations for age, for class, for religion, or whatever.

That isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith - it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder and we know what the objective is. They seek to divide Londoners. They seek to turn Londoners against each other. I said yesterday to the International Olympic Committee, that the city of London is the greatest in the world, because everybody lives side by side in harmony. Londoners will not be divided by this cowardly attack. They will stand together in solidarity alongside those who have been injured and those who have been bereaved and that is why I’m proud to be the mayor of that city.

Finally, I wish to speak directly to those who came to London today to take life.

I know that you personally do not fear giving up your own life in order to take others - that is why you are so dangerous. But I know you fear that you may fail in your long-term objective to destroy our free society and I can show you why you will fail.

In the days that follow look at our airports, look at our sea ports and look at our railway stations and, even after your cowardly attack, you will see that people from the rest of Britain, people from around the world will arrive in London to become Londoners and to fulfil their dreams and achieve their potential.

They choose to come to London, as so many have come before because they come to be free, they come to live the life they choose, they come to be able to be themselves. They flee you because you tell them how they should live. They don’t want that and nothing you do, however many of us you kill, will stop that flight to our city where freedom is strong and where people can live in harmony with one another. Whatever you do, however many you kill, you will fail.”

- Ken Livingstone (Mayor of London), 7 JUly 2005


cole. x

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Posted: 8th Jul 2005

Written by: Havokist

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i've just got a list off Tao Star of people she knows to be ok:

Monkey
Weasel
Martin
Cole
Hels
Eva
BamBam
UCOF
Purple Anna
Kev
Magic Matt

and she says probably more but thats all she can think of at the moment

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thank you havokist!

-v-

Wiederstand ist Zwecklos!

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
I have been stuck in hospital for the past few days and all I had to do was to watch the t.v so I was seeing all this horror and destruction and terror in a city where so many of my beautiful friends live.

I cried and cried. My heart broke for you guys. Then when I managed to get hold of kevvie I cried some more.Now that I have FINALLY been able to get here and check the list Im crying again. (what a sook) Im so glad that you are all ok!!

Im thinking healing thoughts for all of you.

TAJ "boat mummy." VALURA "yes sweetie you went on a boat, was daddy there with you?" TAJ "no, but monkey on boat" VALURA "well then sweetie, Daddy WAS there with you"

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
What about Tammy? Anyone heard from her?
She's quite a petite lady, with long black hair, phillipino... goes to Spitz occasionally...?

Never pick up a duck in a dungeon...

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
I must admit, i also thought of all you londoners on here as soon as i heard the news.

Im so glad everyone here is safe.

I hope those of you in London are all coping, love to you all xxxx

p.s. wildchild, please dont beat yourself up about still being here, as M-O-M said, so many people would have missed you. It was something completely out of anyone's control, im sure everyone is just glad that you as many others here are ok.

I watched the news most of yesterday and im still not taking it all in, so i really feel for you guys down south.

Be careful everyone

Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned
and the last fish has been caught
will we realise that we
cannot eat money.

Cree Indian, 1909

Posted: 8th Jul 2005
Thanx MOM and Astrofaerie - means a lot

Hope everyone living in and around London is feeling OK today and not too jumpy, our thoughts and love are with you guys

'The last rays of crimson on the spindle tree as the cerise fruit splits and reveals its orange seeds in a gloriously clashing colour scheme no-one would ever dare to wear'
Euonymous Europeus