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Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:55 am**

Geneviev wrote:
Dogmeat wrote:People have been saying that for thousands of years. One day they'll be right, but not today.

It might be today, or tomorrow, or this week. It probably hopefully will be.

I think you might be overreacting but if you're really down about this, we do have a list of resources to help people feeling depressed.

*puts on Mod hat & looms ominously*

Let's stop arguing and saying "Nonsense" and try to be more supportive, shall we?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:56 am**

Geneviev wrote:
Dogmeat wrote:People have been saying that for thousands of years. One day they'll be right, but not today.

It might be today, or tomorrow, or this week. It probably hopefully will be.

You weren't alive during 9/11, were you? Experiencing that as it was happening put a lot of things into perspective.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 8:58 am**

The Free Joy State wrote:
Geneviev wrote:But a lot more people are doing these things now. So the world is ending.

That's not true.

The Witch Trials killed between 20,000 and 100,000 innocent women in ritual violence between the 1400s and 1800s.

20,000 Indigenous Australians were ethnically cleansed between 1788 and 1934

200,000 were killed by Cromwell's conquest of Ireland between 1649 and 1653.

Yes, terrorism is bad. It's traumatic and it's wicked. But there are not more people wanting to harm than have done so over the centuries. And I'm sure plenty of people -- at various points in all these previous periods (I could list more, but I don't want to press the point) -- felt the world was ending.

Yet, we're still here.

Yeah... okay never mind. The world isn't going to end then. Yet.

I should probably go outside and do something else.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:06 am**

Geneviev wrote:
The New California Republic wrote:Not really. People have been injuring and killing each other for thousands of years and the world hasn't ended...

It probably will. Because a terrorist attack in London when your friend is in London is when the world ends.

Ffs, i was in the station when the last moron tried to bomb athe subways. Most people survived, and live healthy productive lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyre ... quare.html

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:08 am**

Geneviev wrote:
The Free Joy State wrote:Yes, London. The suspect was arrested at the scene, under suspicion of terrorism offences. But no official announcement has been made AFAIK.

No-one was killed.

That doesn't mean the world is ending. It just means that people are people. A percentage of people have always wanted to harm other people, and they've always found an excuse to do it. That's not the wider percentage of humanity.

But a lot more people are doing these things now. So the world is ending.

Hardly. The world isn't ending.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:23 am**

Ethel mermania wrote:
Geneviev wrote:It probably will. Because a terrorist attack in London when your friend is in London is when the world ends.

Ffs, i was in the station when the last moron tried to bomb athe subways. Most people survived, and live healthy productive lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyre ... quare.html

Or the fact that there have been numerous terror attacks in London, including the Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings in '82...

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 9:27 am**

Ethel mermania wrote:
Geneviev wrote:It probably will. Because a terrorist attack in London when your friend is in London is when the world ends.

Ffs, i was in the station when the last moron tried to bomb athe subways. Most people survived, and live healthy productive lives.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/nyre ... quare.html

Co-worker lost family in the Nice truck incident a few years back, he'd probably be a bit disgusted at giving in to panic.

Bit of decorum, lads! We're all hale and hearty and have nothing to fret or complain over.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:16 am**

Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:24 am**

Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Unless you've brought lollipops to placate this aggravated rabble you've got a storm a coming.

Sour apple for me, thank you.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:26 am**

Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Hello again, Idz! I’m glad to see you once more; how was your missionary/humanitarian work?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:26 am**

Gallade wrote:
Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Unless you've brought lollipops to placate this aggravated rabble you've got a storm a coming.

Sour apple for me, thank you.

Lemon for me, thanks

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:34 am**

Ethel mermania wrote:
Gallade wrote:Unless you've brought lollipops to placate this aggravated rabble you've got a storm a coming.

Sour apple for me, thank you.

Lemon for me, thanks

I'll go for something sweeter; can I have a raspberry one? Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:35 am**

The Free Joy State wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Lemon for me, thanks

I'll go for something sweeter; can I have a raspberry one? Thank you.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:35 am**

The Free Joy State wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Lemon for me, thanks

I'll go for something sweeter; can I have a raspberry one? Thank you.

If you don’t mind me asking, may I please have a cherry-flavored one?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:37 am**

Ethel mermania wrote:
Gallade wrote:Unless you've brought lollipops to placate this aggravated rabble you've got a storm a coming.

Sour apple for me, thank you.

Lemon for me, thanks

The sour apple sounds good. And mine and Ethel's need to be sugar-free.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:37 am**

Farnhamia wrote:
The Free Joy State wrote:I'll go for something sweeter; can I have a raspberry one? Thank you.

Should've seen it coming...

… Should've but didn't.

EDIT: Couldn't you have found me a sweeter raspberry, Farn?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:38 am**

The Free Joy State wrote:
Farnhamia wrote:

Should've seen it coming...

… Should've but didn't.

Hang around here more often, you'll develop a TET-sense.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:46 am**

Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Indeed, occasional serious detours balance out the joviality.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 10:58 am**

Did I miss something?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:00 am**

The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:Did I miss something?

We were talking about terrorism.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:01 am**

The New California Republic wrote:
The Derpy Democratic Republic Of Herp wrote:Did I miss something?

We were talking about terrorism.

Who isn't, these days?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:05 am**

The Holy Therns wrote:
The New California Republic wrote:We were talking about terrorism.

Who isn't, these days?

My aunt. She must be some kind of Übermensch that has transcended such banal things.

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:08 am**

Farnhamia wrote:
Ethel mermania wrote:Lemon for me, thanks

The sour apple sounds good. And mine and Ethel's need to be sugar-free.

Danke

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:19 am**

The Supreme Magnificent High Swaglord wrote:
Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Hello again, Idz! I’m glad to see you once more; how was your missionary/humanitarian work?

Swag! Longtime no see. The trip was really good, and now I'm back to the American grind. How have you been?

Posted: **Tue Aug 14, 2018 11:21 am**

Gallade wrote:
Idzequitch wrote:Well. What a cheery bunch of lads and lasses we are today.

Unless you've brought lollipops to placate this aggravated rabble you've got a storm a coming.

Sour apple for me, thank you.

What do I look like, the Easter bunny? Doesn't he only bring candy for the good boys and girls? Or am I creating holiday hybrids again?

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