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Terrorist Attack in Glasgow

#121
Atoz said:
I had a pretty good friend in grad school who was from Glasgow, and I learned how to "understand" a fair bit of his dialect/accent after a time, but the person on the video was more or less unintelligible to me.
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Really? He's putting on his posh accent there too...

"You're no hitting the polis (police), mate, there's no chance... so I ran straight down, other members of the public at the same time have done the exact same thing as me... we've all ran towards the guy... we've all tried to get a kick into him, get a boot... just subdue the guy..."
 
#122
dlloyd said:
Really? He's putting on his posh accent there too...

"You're no hitting the polis (police), mate, there's no chance... so I ran straight down, other members of the public at the same time have done the exact same thing as me... we've all ran towards the guy... we've all tried to get a kick into him, get a boot... just subdue the guy..."
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So he WAS talking about kicking. At least I was able to understand SOMETHING... :p


BTW - Your avatar is pretty funny.
 
#123
marcray said:
I didn't bring the IRA into this thread..., and on the actual point, you're not getting what I mean when I say it was a different era. Back in the primetime of the struggles in NI, the British Police and Government, plus the Irish authorities, had to fight the IRA without the modern day technology of the Pentagon or for that matter, and to a lesser degree, the newer Scotland Yard.

Enforcement against terrorism was much harder, with no cross dialogue of mega-powerful databases, full of fingerprints, photos and intelligence. To go from NI to England requires a decent boat that can cross the North Sea, not an 8000 mile airtrip thru modern day security ridden airports, customs and immigration officials... a different era indeed.
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Agreed mostly, although we're not talking the 1920s. The IRA (including their offshoots) continued their reign of terroe right up to the late 90s. The British (and Irish) Government should be one of the best equiped Governments in dealing with terrorism as they had tp deal with the likes of the IRA over such a sustained period, which is why I think the US were slightly caught off guard as it wasn't expected to be hit on their own soil as such.

Incidentially, a quick look at a map will show that to get from Northern ireland to England requires a short hop across the Irish Sea, not the North Sea.

The issue is with Islamic fundalmentalists is that there is no base, like the IRA, and no specific target except the west, of which Britain and the US are viewed asthe leaders
 
#124
Bruce Lindfield said:
Are you sure 'Scotch' wasn't involved at some point? :p
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I say sir, I hope you're not implying that those of us who live north of Hadrians wall like to partake of an alcoholic beverage now and then. I'm pretty sure the Church frowns upon such shenanigans.:eek:

Like the man said when asked if he had a message for the terrorists, "they can try and come to Britain and distrupt us any way they want, but the British people have been under a lot more things than this, and have stood proud."...and more specifically up here in the Frozen North "Glasgow doesnae accept this, if you come tae Glasgow, we'll set about you."

NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT YA BAS!:D
 
#128
DrDrill said:
NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT. 'No one provokes me with impunity'.
National motto of Scotland and a few of our Scottish regiments, in Scots translates as "Wha daur meddle wi me?"

'Ya Bas', literally you bast**d, google 'Tongs Ya Bas' for info
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That's the current meaning, in as much as that's what the people uttering it think it means. It supposedly comes from an old gaelic battle cry, buaidh no bas, which roughly means "victory or death". Not that your average ned would know that.
 
#131
lowenduser said:
Agreed mostly, although we're not talking the 1920s. The IRA (including their offshoots) continued their reign of terroe right up to the late 90s. The British (and Irish) Government should be one of the best equiped Governments in dealing with terrorism as they had tp deal with the likes of the IRA over such a sustained period, which is why I think the US were slightly caught off guard as it wasn't expected to be hit on their own soil as such.

Incidentially, a quick look at a map will show that to get from Northern ireland to England requires a short hop across the Irish Sea, not the North Sea.

The issue is with Islamic fundalmentalists is that there is no base, like the IRA, and no specific target except the west, of which Britain and the US are viewed asthe leaders
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I apologise for my sad geog...:confused: :o :(

If you look back, my answers are directed to bassturtle who seemed to be dismayed at the level of attacks in Britain, sighting that our law enforcement must be to blame. I disagreed. My step-father had many excursions to NI as a British soldier (Royal Engineers) in the 70's and 80's and I feel that the authorities did an amazing job in Britain and N. Ireland during that time. And I'm very confident in their efforts against any form of terrorism in modern day.
 

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