'One Love Manchester' is underway. For those unaware, it's a concert of a load of major artists who are performing for free to raise money for charity and to support the victims of the attack in Manchester. You can watch live here... https://twitter.com/i/live/869974381853790208
Fair enough, but they could take out 200 people on Oxford Street, or 10 people in a small provincial town where there are no armed police units for 50 miles. I think at last that people are realising that what has gone wrong is the fact that there are no local bobbies with their ear to the ground about what is happening locally. Apparently it takes 30 anti-terroriist officers to monitor one of the suspects on their lists and there's thousands of them. It's not possible for that to work is it? When was the last time you saw a policeman in your street? I'm guessing many many years.
I didn't even realise it was on TV! I hardly watch TV nowadays, everything is on the internet for me instead... Also, her music really isn't to my taste but watching Ariana Grande perform right now is pretty emotional - she looks like she's really holding it together.
Yeah, Robbie Williams earlier choked me up a bit especially after last night as well. We stand together.
I know it's not about the music tonight, but I honestly have no idea what Ariana is singing, lyric-wise. Her anunciation is really odd. Doing a grand job mind, must be hard.
I take your point but, without wishing to sound rude, that sounds a bit like saying there's no point putting a lock on your front door because a burglar could just break a window. Anything that makes it harder to do this sort of thing has to be a positive. I'm sure we could come up with something to protect people (preferably without it being a horrendous eyesore). I agree that they could attack on Oxford Street or wherever but I think on a normal street it's easier for people to shelter/hide in buildings. My wife and I live just a few minutes walk from Surrey Police HQ and had two detectives living next door for a while so we see police quite a lot (usually in cars to be fair) but I know that's not usual and don't see them elsewhere so I completely agree about the police getting back on the street. It's too early to talk about last night's attack (the nature of it is such that it may have been virtually impossible to stop) but the Manchester bomber had supposedly been behaving oddly in public in the weeks running up to the attack. A local policeman out on street regularly would be better placed to hear about and do something about that sort of thing. Likely to be lots of benefits in regards to "normal" crime too.
Off to the Emerald Isle in the morning for a trip of drinking, music, sightseeing, eating and more drinking. Will be glad to leave the election crap behind (I've done my postal vote) and look forward to being relatively incommunicado for a while, so I hope we hang on to our "Stars" and manager. Have a good June everyone and stay safe and sane.
An American climber has become the first to ascend El Capitan, the sheer granite face in Yosemite National Park, without any aids or safety gear. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/storie...ME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2017-06-04-18-21-13 Of course, you may know it with this visual aid: Funnily enough, Captain Kirk appears to be doing the same. Presumably he thought he was going where no one had gone before.
Well, as Spock informed him, "the record for free-climbing El Capitan is in no danger", so someone must have done it previously!
My wife found some old photos at her mum's house. When the kids were younger, I insisted on baking their birthday cakes myself. She found this. Proof if ever their was needed, I am a masterbaker....
