Dear dear me ,

[ozboz]

shootings , bombings , Paris , Brussels , Lahore , now a hijacking , and then on the box this morn , kids as young as ten running around Britain with firearms , Dear me ,

 

[Markymark]

shootings , bombings , Paris , Brussels , Lahore , now a hijacking , and then on the box this morn , kids as young as ten running around Britain with firearms , Dear me ,

Yes, the world has only become violent in the past few years......

 

[guitarpete247]

And two Belgian cyclist dead http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/35914893

 

[subaqua]

I went to Croydon and asked a divorced man what he was going to do about the egypt air hijacking . He said was nothing to do with him. Mealy mouth response or what !

 

[snorri]

I just come in for a short break from enjoying the fine weather and read on here that we're all doomed.
Has CC transformed into the Daily Wail? I'm gonna hop outside again and enjoy life

 

[ianrauk]

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[jonny jeez]

Yes, the world has only become violent in the past few years......

Thing is, I really think it has.

I cannot help but feel that the choices made by local, European and global political and financial leaders have proven to be disastrous. As a result there is much more conflict in the world than I feel there has been in decades.

I appreciate conflict has always been present and that most of it has been easy to ignore or "excuse" as someone else's problem but right now there really is a sense of impending doom at every corner.

I am off to Flanders this week to ride the route. Despite having accommodation for the entire weekend, and despite actually being there, I am avoiding the Sunday circus and travelling home.

Because of the fear of a national event, in Belgium, on telly, attended by thousands and virtually impossible to secure.

I've never felt an event like this "needed" to be secure.

 

[Fnaar]

My baby left me
And my mule got lame.
I lost my money in a poker game.

 

[Markymark]

Thing is, I really think it has.

I cannot help but feel that the choices made by local, European and global political and financial leaders have proven to be disastrous. As a result there is much more conflict in the world than I feel there has been in decades.

I appreciate conflict has always been present and that most of it has been easy to ignore or "excuse" as someone else's problem but right now there really is a sense of impending doom at every corner.

I am off to Flanders this week to ride the route. Despite having accommodation for the entire weekend, and despite actually being there, I am avoiding the Sunday circus and travelling home.

Because of the fear of a national event, in Belgium, on telly, attended by thousands and virtually impossible to secure.

I've never felt an event like this "needed" to be secure.

Are you serious? Look back at the wars of the last few hundred years. This is unprecedented calm in comparison.

 

[jonny jeez]

I just come in for a short break from enjoying the fine weather and read on here that we're all doomed.
Has CC transformed into the Daily Wail? I'm gonna hop outside again and enjoy life

I think that if I lived, worked and socialised outside of London, or even a large town, I would be doing the same.

I fly two or three times a week from the US across europe. Every time I am away, something seems to happen that effects my journey or concerns my family, last week I was in amsterdam and landed to a long list of texts from worried friends and family who though I was in Belgium (that was the week before)...i had no idea about the Brussels bombings, I had been travelling since 4.00 am.

Perhaps I need to escape.

Iceland is very appealing to me, if it wasn't for all the ice....i guess the clue is in the name.

 

[Tim Hall]

Iceland is very appealing to me, if it wasn't for all the ice....i guess the clue is in the name.

Drifting off topic...I read (probably on Teh Intarwebs, so it must be true, that when the Vikings (or whomever) discovered Iceland, they thought it was quite a nice place to live, but didn't want everyone coming there. A bright spark decided, therefore, to call it Iceland, as "the clue is in the name". Greenland was named such for the opposite reason - it's barren, cold and unwelcoming, so we'll persuade people we don't want here to go there.

 

[jonny jeez]

Are you serious? Look back at the wars of the last few hundred years. This is unprecedented calm in composition.

I wasn't alive a few hundred years ago. So can't comment on how it felt to the average Londoner then.

I have spoken to my grandparents though, who obviously survived the last world war. They felt that it a brutal and frightening time, full of uncertainty. But their overwhelming memory is one of unity against a defined, single foe.

Today, I literally don't know which faction, movement, regime, politician, company or neighbour...can be trusted. They are all potential foes...its very eroding.

 

[tyred]

My baby left me
And my mule got lame.
I lost my money in a poker game.

Would like a bottle of Bourbon to drown your sorrows?

 

[Markymark]

I wasn't alive a few hundred years ago. So can't comment on how it felt to the average Londoner then.

I have spoken to my grandparents though, who obviously survived the last world war. They felt that it a brutal and frightening time, full of uncertainty. But their overwhelming memory is one of unity against a defined, single foe.

Today, I literally don't know which faction, movement, regime, politician, company or neighbour...can be trusted. They are all potential foes...its very eroding.

No but you can lookup how dangerous the world actually was. If you prefer to base your fear on how you feel rather than actual risk the you can walk around being petrified by kittens. I'd rather not.

 

[Fnaar]

Would like a bottle of Bourbon to drown your sorrows?

Can I also have one Scotch and a beer, please?