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London's Calling

It's been a bad day in London.

Four coordinated terror attacks, all bombs, with 38 dead and over 700 injured as of this moment. A double-decker bus blown apart. The Underground brought to a standstill. Bus services in central London too. Panic, fear, and lots of worrying about missing loved ones as the mobile and landline phone networks went into meltdown.

But you know what?

We won. Not the terrorists. As said by one elderly Londoner who lived through The Blitz, "I've been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!" So they set off some bombs. London has more it's share of terrorist bombings for more than thirty years. It's nothing new to those tough London folk. Sure, it's a shock, and they were scared for themselves and their loved ones. Who wouldn't be? But they, and the rest of us in the UK, have weathered this sort of storm before. That resolve we've been hearing so much of in the news today is as strong as ever. They won't win.

I mean, seriously. You lose, guys. You think doing this will make us back down, make us join your righteous cause and worship the perversion of Islam you hold so dear? You must've turned your turbans too tight this morning. You've just made us more determined to beat you than ever before, and now we the Great British Public might even be happy to go a step or two further than before to do so.

You lose, assholes. Have fun while it lasts.

"Yes, I know I suddenly sound like an American right after 9/11, but what did you expect?" - me, to all my critics

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