07/07

by Diane

Some reactions… but not from the locals. And then the locals arrive and start taking the mick, remixing the banner (see Boing Boing for some of the art) and generally snorting in derision.

And here are some more reactions, altogether more representative of the local turn of mind, as far as I can tell.

Not to discount in any way the genuineness of the tragedy. I have all too clear a sense of what the “recovery site” down in that deep tunnel looks like. Additionally, one of our best friends passed through Kings Cross only twenty minutes before the bombs went off… ” — and I’m usually half an hour later,” she told us. We still shiver at the thought of the near-miss.

…But there’s still something bracing about the general scornful astringency of many Londoners’ responses. They have been living at one Ground Zero or another for quite a long time…and the response to this kind of threat is now fairly well-conditioned.

“Tea, dammit!”
 

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