Attack Warning Red

[Jimbuna]

Can't say I'm surprised....should have been raised months ago.

The UK's terror threat level has been raised from "substantial" to "severe" in response to conflicts in Iraq and Syria, Home Secretary Theresa May says.

The new alert level rates the risk of an attack on the UK "highly likely", although Mrs May said there was no evidence to suggest one was "imminent".

It is the second highest of five possible UK threat levels.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28986271

[Oberon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28986271

You may now officially panic, run around screaming and forget about governmental nonsense because the terrorists are going to kill us all.

Have a safe and productive work day.

Alternatively, you can express your skepticism via twitter:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014...tml?1409330186

2:57!

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Nippelspanner

2:57!

I must admit 2:46 always gets a little chuckle from me, knowing my luck if the balloon ever went up that's where I'd be.

[Catfish]

So the "threat level" has been "raised" ? At least this sure raises the thread level ..
Friends of mine are currently in the UK, i so i can fully understand your reaction



From the reactions:
"Threat level: Salad for dinner."

[Skybird]

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

[Stealhead]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

They say that the birth rate in the US spiked several months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

[eddie]

I don't think anyone is worried that ISIS will come marching through London or New York anytime soon, but with AQ calling for more attacks by individuals instead of anything like the subway attack or 9/11 all over again, I think the "Lonewolf" attack might be what their going on about. Like when that British soldier was killed recently in the UK, or something on the order of the bombings in Boston.

No reason for anyone to get super paranoid about it, but if something bad happens, and our Governments didn't say anything about a terrorist threat, we'd be all over them about that too.

[Rhodes]

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by eddie

I don't think anyone is worried that ISIS will come marching through London or New York anytime soon, but with AQ calling for more attacks by individuals instead of anything like the subway attack or 9/11 all over again, I think the "Lonewolf" attack might be what their going on about. Like when that British soldier was killed recently in the UK, or something on the order of the bombings in Boston.

No reason for anyone to get super paranoid about it, but if something bad happens, and our Governments didn't say anything about a terrorist threat, we'd be all over them about that too.

Aye, that's likely the case, I just have to shake my head when I consider the 1960s-90s where we had much more regular acts of terrorism than today and yet nowhere near the amount of governmental hysteria about it. Admittedly the IRA wasn't prone to sending suicide bombers across, but people in London were used to bomb scares, tube station closures, and the occasional car bomb or pipe bomb.
If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!" if it did.

[Armistead]

Originally Posted by Stealhead

They say that the birth rate in the US spiked several months after the Cuban Missile Crisis.

I'm a direct result of that....heck with protection during a crisis..

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by Skybird

Of course we can run around now, screaming. But why dying tired?

It's healthier for you, lose excess weight so when the radiation comes it has less distance to travel through the body.
It's called being considerate, being an atomic particle is no easy task you know. Remember, if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

[TarJak]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Aye, that's likely the case, I just have to shake my head when I consider the 1960s-90s where we had much more regular acts of terrorism than today and yet nowhere near the amount of governmental hysteria about it. Admittedly the IRA wasn't prone to sending suicide bombers across, but people in London were used to bomb scares, tube station closures, and the occasional car bomb or pipe bomb.
If it happens, it happens, but yeah, you're right, society has changed now and we'd only go "why wasn't there any warning?!" if it did.

Well remember the IRA did give warnings in most cases. With a few notable exceptions of course.

[TarJak]

Between 2003 and 2008, 108 people in the United States died from injuries caused by cattle, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So cows are more dangerous than AQ.

The world is a far less dangerous place according to Professor Pinker: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-08-2...of-our/5707092

[Catfish]

Originally Posted by TarJak

Between 2003 and 2008, 108 people in the United States died from injuries caused by cattle, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
So cows are more dangerous than AQ.

And do not forget BSE.
I am sure also scottish highland cattle has a plan ..

If only NSA and GCHQ knew that.