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Boris...

  • should completely lock us down immediately and fook up all our Christmas'

    Votes: 3 12.5%

  • let the bodies stack high

    Votes: 13 54.2%

  • lock us down from the 29th to fook up Treble's plans

    Votes: 8 33.3%
  • Total voters
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Emu said:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-53656220

BBC reporting explosion as an accident. A fire breaking out at an explosive depot.

Edit.. to keep on topic, maybe we can create another war out of this and rescue the economy?
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I’m confused bruv, saw many shots of desolation but smoke in the background. Not in the country now so don’t get all the up to the minute jazz. What’s it all about?
 
brb said:
I'm wondering if that is water that has caused that after effect, because the building looks like it is on a shoreline. So my guess being as it's fireworks or ammunitions there, that it might be on a small island or peninsula surrounded by water.
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Think you’re right, would explain why there is a distinct lack of stuff burning, yes flames but an explosion that size would surely have left more fires burning
 
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brb said:
I was as much shocked how much new development had taken place in Beirut. Sadly I always had memories of it being a war torn place. Sad something like this has happened in more peaceful times.
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Maybe I’m being idealistic but I honestly thought this **** had finished. Sad for the loss of life but sadder for the perpetrators frame of mind.
 
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I think people automatically tie Beirut with war, but it looks quite the opposite now, many modern developments, we have to remember that factory is in an old industrial area.
 
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The Ginger Marks said:
Maybe I’m being idealistic but I honestly thought this **** had finished. Sad for the loss of life but sadder for the perpetrators frame of mind.
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Incoming report from BBC. Link in previous post.

A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people, officials say.

It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Video posted online showed a large mushroom cloud and destroyed buildings.

Hospitals are said to be overwhelmed by casualties.

It comes at a sensitive time with the country's economic collapse reigniting old tensions.

Tensions are also high ahead of the verdict in a trial over the killing of ex-PM Rafik Hariri in 2005. A UN tribunal is due to issue its verdict in the trial of four suspects in the murder by car bomb of Hariri on Friday.
Lebanon's health minister, Hamad Hasan, has spoken of many injuries and extensive damage.

Reuters news agency quotes sources as saying 10 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage.

The cause of the explosion is still not known, but some reports suggest it may have been an accident. Lebanon's National News Agency reported a fire breaking out at what it called an explosives depot at the port.
 
Emu said:
Incoming report from BBC. Link in previous post.

A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people, officials say.

It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Video posted online showed a large mushroom cloud and destroyed buildings.

Hospitals are said to be overwhelmed by casualties.

It comes at a sensitive time with the country's economic collapse reigniting old tensions.

Tensions are also high ahead of the verdict in a trial over the killing of ex-PM Rafik Hariri in 2005. A UN tribunal is due to issue its verdict in the trial of four suspects in the murder by car bomb of Hariri on Friday.
Lebanon's health minister, Hamad Hasan, has spoken of many injuries and extensive damage.

Reuters news agency quotes sources as saying 10 bodies have been pulled from the wreckage.

The cause of the explosion is still not known, but some reports suggest it may have been an accident. Lebanon's National News Agency reported a fire breaking out at what it called an explosives depot at the port.
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You'll get used to Ginge, he's in Thailand and is likely to be pissed this time of day <whistle>
 
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brb said:
I'm wondering if that is water that has caused that after effect, because the building looks like it is on a shoreline. So my guess being as it's fireworks or ammunitions there, that it might be on a small island or peninsula surrounded by water.
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It was water vapour, there’s another video of it from the water side that clearly shows it.

Bobble heads on social media are calling it nuclear though lol.

Fireworks factory apparently.
 
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Emu said:
Well, we've shown him pictures. We've sent it in text.

He's on his own from here. There's not much more we can do.
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Get in your box you don’t lad, you pony Leeds boys are in our pockets having never won a cup game of any description against us.

Ps. Love you really.:emoticon-0109-kiss:​
 
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The Ginger Marks said:
I resent that comment, apart from hospital duties I have little else to do bar bake bread... anybody have three fishes like?
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See that would be my biggest worry leaving the UK, hospitals; consultants, doctors, medication! I suppose you went out their before all the health stuff started kicking in.
 
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