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Nigello

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Oh, come on: this is a city of several million people. Perhaps if it had been on the night after the fire or the next night, a cancellation or muting would have been appropriate, but going into a kind of mawkish hibernation is the very opposite of what London (and life) is about. We don't live real-life enactments of Twitter feeds or tabloid headlines!
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Happened to be on a train out of Charing Cross last night as they were starting. Set off from a barge near Waterloo Bridge, so does sound like that Somerset House thing. More money than sense...but we're no in a period of national mourning or anything, so if that's how they choose to waste their money...
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Life goes on...I see the press have tried to make a big deal of it; as we were cycling along Lower Ground on Saturday there was an earsplitting roar very close overhead and I must admit for a second I did think 9/11...turned out to be the Red Arrows heading for the palace to wish Her Maj happy birthday, haven't seen any outcry over that celebration.
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KidKruger

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"More bloody fireworks- bit insensitive given today's events imo"


Come on man, most people with a party planned in ED won't park it / not set off their fireworks 'out of respect' for a failed bomb attempt in Parsons Green ?!

I'm not sure people are being insensitive (to whom ?) by 'carrying on'.

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Sue

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uncleglen Wrote:

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> I suppose it could have been a salute by cannons

> then as there were only 2 bangs that I heard.



I heard more than that.


But there was a brief flash of light before (or possibly after, I can't remember now) each one, which was weird. And they weren't very close together.


I thought it was thunder/lightning at first.


I looked out of the window but couldn't see any sign of fireworks.

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KidKruger Wrote:

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> "More bloody fireworks- bit insensitive given

> today's events imo"

>

> Come on man, most people with a party planned in

> ED won't park it / not set off their fireworks

> 'out of respect' for a failed bomb attempt in

> Parsons Green ?!

> I'm not sure people are being insensitive (to whom

> ?) by 'carrying on'.



My first reaction to that post was exactly the same as yours... Then I realised this thread was started a couple of days after the Grenfell fire.

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