how long must we sing this song?

[gnomewizard]

i was in king's cross a month ago. my window faced the british library. i was yards away from king's cross station. and the ironic thing was, as i caught trains to and from king's cross and sat in the hostel looking out over euston road, i felt i was happier and freer of worry than i'd been for a long time, and the people around me were nicer

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[daemonllama]

Actually, people in England are pretty accustomed to anticipating bombings happening, what with the way the IRA was in the past and the many different ethnic and political groups present. When I was there ten years ago, people thought there would be bombings, but they just didn't let it get them down. I doubt that this recent wave of them will shake their views of things that much.

Random bit of erie weirdness. The last time I was in King's Cross station, they had us evacuate under the pretense of there being a bomb. In reality, part of one of the subway cars had caught on fire.

[gnomewizard]

whoa, that's weird, i wonder why they'd do that. it seems like it would create more panic. yeah, i guess you're right about bombings and such, but the ira seems like a different kind of enemy. like, you know more about what you're dealing with, in that case, and...that's less scary? i don't know. it seems like that's the outcome of years of british policy as usual, but al-quaeda or whoever is the product of warped, conspiratorial, bizarro right-wing politics--politics that are as careless of a country's own citizens, and those of its allies, as they are of their supposed enemies. that's what makes it scary.