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[camwyn]

I came this close to calling in sick this morning (one of my sinuses is playing the 'Unbalance Camwyn's Head And Back Up Down Her Throat' game). Decided not to. Left my skates home, yeah, but didn't call in sick- I'll just go home and nap for a while after work, thought I.

Then I come in and the first words I hear out of the telly are 'an incident in London'.

Beginning to hate the word 'incident' almost as much as I hate the word 'insist', which in the news is code for 'this particular news source doesn't believe word one of what the person/org we're talking about said, but we're repeating it anyway, and you shouldn't believe it either'. Just once I'd like an 'incident' to be, if not something positive, then at least something interestingly Fortean. As it stands it's all bombs and meltdowns and chemical releases and somebody's political leader barfing on somebody else's.

bah. stupid Thursday. will write when I get home.

Comments

[milkshake-b.livejournal.com]

"There was an incident in London--it involved forty nuns and fifteen penguins in an improbable bus accident."?

[camwyn]

That might work. Although it sounds like the setup to an article in the Sun about someone's sexual naughtiness in Parliament, for some reason.

[aberrantangels]

"In the debate a spokesman accused the Government of being silly and doing not at all good things. The member accepted this in a spirit of healthy criticism, but denied that he'd ever been naughty with a choirboy. Angry shouts of 'what about the watermelon, then?' were ordered by the Speaker to be stricken from the record and put into a brown paper bag in the lavvy. Any further interruptions, he said, would be cut off and distributed amongst the poor."

[innerbrat]

It's not an incident. It's a joke. Shouldn't even make the national news, let alone you guys over there.

[camwyn]

I'm guessing this is because CNBC didn't have much else to talk about before the markets opened over here.

[traffic-cone.livejournal.com]

This would explain the reactions of the news channels I was looking at.

Sky News and CNN: OMGOMGOMGOMG

BBC: pictures of a biscuit factory.

[quintus.livejournal.com]

It's either time wasters or someone got turned over two pages at once midway through the recipe from 'Anarchist cookbook' and knocked up 20 kiloes of play-do instead of C4.
Thinking about that, that HAS to happen sometime... some guy gets hyped up on Wahabi dogma and adrenaline, yells "Allah hu Akb-duh?" and looks down at the melting puddle of plasticine surrounding his 'bomb'.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Copycats. Three trains and a bus? Has to be copycats. Except not suicidal ones.