London the greatest city in the world

[Chico]

Enough is enough!!

All are from Star Trek

"Obedience brings victory and victory is Life" is the war cry of Jem Hadar as seen in DS9



"Resistance is futile" is the war cry of the Borg



"Live long and prosper" is a farewell greeting of the Vulcans

[The Lone Gunman]

All the Daleks ever say is "Exterminate"... sort of short on conversation really.

Surely not! What abot "YOU WILL OBEY ME, YOU WILL OBEY, OBEY, OBEY"

[TwoWolves]

You are right. It was the Daleks only the Yanks stole it from us and put it in their inferior Sci-Fi trash.

[xoggoth]

I'm sure Daleks said resistance is futile or was it something similar?

[Paco]

Unless of course you were really really desperate for a decent shag.

I'd keep off public transport in Birmingham then...

[threaded]

Unless of course you were really really desperate for a decent shag.

[BoredBloke]

"After watching the video made by the London bomber prior to the attack it seemed to me that they weren't scary fanatics at all but more like pathetic utterly naive thickos."

I would have said that was somewhat obvious. You are not going to get somebody with a brain to actually take a rucksack filled with explosives on a 200 mile drive and the sit on a train and blow it and themselves up, based on the promise of loads of virgins once they reach the other side.

[The Late, Great JC]

All startrek.

Vulcan
Borg
Jem'Hadar

Oh God I am Soooooooo sad.

I thought "Resistance is Futile" was from HHGTTG...

Ah, well, you learn something new every day...

[bfg]

I know live long and prosper is Startrek
Suspect resistance is futile must be Dr Who and the Daleks

What peurile kid's thing does the first bit of nonsense come from? Ah! it must be the bible!

All startrek.

Vulcan
Borg
Jem'Hadar

Oh God I am Soooooooo sad.

[TwoWolves]

After watching the video made by the London bomber prior to the attack it seemed to me that they weren't scary fanatics at all but more like pathetic utterly naive thickos. Rather like the Labour party during the Thatcher years (ahh the good old days) but more violent. It beggars belief that these people are any threat at all but then again the CIA training might have helped a little.

[xoggoth]

I know live long and prosper is Startrek
Suspect resistance is futile must be Dr Who and the Daleks

What peurile kid's thing does the first bit of nonsense come from? Ah! it must be the bible!

[Chico]

London Shining: Why the London Bombers Failed

By Noel S. Williams
Sep 27, 2005

Recently in London there concluded what to many of us must seem a very peculiar ritual, known as the Ashes, wherein throughout the summer a series of 5 games of cricket are played between England and Australia. It takes the whole summer because each match lasts up to 5 days and when not delayed by interminable rain-showers is often interrupted for tea breaks. After hundreds of hours of … yawn … “action,” England finally won.

Whether to celebrate its end or the victory itself, what better reason to party? So, dutifully, hundreds of thousands of merrymakers turned out to watch the open-top bus parade to London’s Trafalgar Square where England’s cricketers led masses of jolly Englishmen and Women in collectively thumbing their noses at the London bombers. If the best way to defeat terrorism is to carry on with life, then this spectacle must represent a massive defeat for the purveyors of doom.

In two remarkable days in July London plummeted from the ecstasy of beating archrival Paris to host the 2012 Olympics to the despair of indiscriminate mass murder. Now that the sensational headlines wrought by the initial horror have calmed we may reflect on what, if anything, the evil perpetrators accomplished. The answer is nothing! If their goal was to cripple the British economy they have failed miserably as it is chugging along nicely; using the FTSE 100 stock index as a proxy it’s sprinting along. Statistical and anecdotal evidence shows that even tourism continues to thrive.

While it’s hard to see what they won, it’s easy to see how they lost.

Not only have they undermined their own perverse cause but have strengthened the resolve of freedom loving people whose verve so contrasts to their hateful promulgations. The continued vibrancy of a great Capital city cannot be what these bomb-wielding jihadists had envisioned. Beyond the arrests and breakup of their cells; beyond the new anti-terror laws; beyond the new surveillance and scrutiny of their activities; beyond a mobilized law enforcement and vigilant public; there is even a bigger loss they have to endure: London shines brighter than ever. You see if the best antidote against terrorism is to carry on with life unperturbed then the London attackers have been dealt a severe blow. It must be absolutely galling to them that instead of dimming the light of a great beacon of democracy they see it shine brighter as London so vivaciously parties on.

Famed writer Samuel Johnson once said: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” Never has that been truer than in the weeks following the London bomb attacks. How antithetical to the terrorists’ abhorrent message of hate than to see the human spirit soar as revelers in Notting Hill recently gathered for their annual carnival. The wonderfully diverse and creative region has seen a once minor affair born in 1964 evolve into one of the world’s biggest street parties. The carnival features steel drum bands, tiara clad dancers, West Indian cuisine and all manner of free-spirited revelers frolicking in the streets. Barely one month after the attacks the event turned out record numbers, police estimating over a million people in a single day.

The contrast between the terrorists who seek to quell freedom and wreak death and destruction, and the resolve of Londoners to relish their freedom by celebrating in Trafalgar Square and Notting Hill is stark. Clearly the London bombers have failed and just as with New Yorkers following 9/11, Londoners have shown strength and resolve. If we heed Winston Churchill’s words that “Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities … because it is the quality which guarantees all others,” then in New Yorkers and Londoners we have plenty of guarantors.

Party on chaps!

http://www.nationalledger.com/artman..._2726914.shtml