{"id":2153,"date":"2005-07-08T22:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-08T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/you-gotta-love-the-british\/"},"modified":"2005-07-08T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-07-08T22:49:00","slug":"you-gotta-love-the-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/you-gotta-love-the-british\/","title":{"rendered":"You gotta love the british"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes from all over regarding London going boom:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWhen the news reporter said &#8220;Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea&#8221; I just smiled. It&apos;s like yes. That&apos;s Britain for you. Tea solves everything.<\/p>\n<p>You&apos;re a bit cold?<br \/>\nTea.<br \/>\nYour boyfriend has just left you?<br \/>\nTea.<br \/>\nYou&apos;ve just been told you&apos;ve got cancer?<br \/>\nTea.<br \/>\nCoordinated terrorist attack on the transport network bringing the city to a grinding halt?<br \/>\nTEA DAMMIT!<\/p>\n<p>And if it&apos;s really serious, they may bring out the coffee. The Americans have their alert raised to red, we break out the coffee. That&apos;s for situations more serious than this of course. Like another England penalty shoot-out [in soccer].<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&apos;s hard to panic the British. They&apos;ve dealt with the Blitz, the IRA, the Silurians, the Zarbi, the Daleks, the Cybermen&#8230;&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>To quote an old Londoner who lived through the blitz and got caught up in the Canary Wharf explosion: &#8220;I&apos;ve been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They did their worst, and they managed to disrupt our transport network and get fatalities in the low double figures. That happens on a fairly regular basis anyway, you twits. What&apos;s your next trick &#8211; a fiendish weather control device which makes it rain on a bank holiday weekend?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Al Qaeda say: &apos;Britain is now burning with fear, terror and panic in its northern, southern, eastern, and western quarters.&apos; Bitch, please. Osama, you live in a fucking cave. You&apos;re like an evil Batman or something. No wonder you have a thing for blowing up commuters, because you will never commute because you live in a cave. You see transport, and you are filled with rage, because you? Live in a cave. You could try forming a political wing to&#8230; oh, wait, you can&apos;t because YOU LIVE IN A CAVE. Twat.<\/p>\n<p>The BBC paused news coverage to show *Eastenders*. That&apos;d be the nationwide fear, terror and panic, then.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quotes from all over regarding London going boom: &#8212;&#8212;&#8212; When the news reporter said &#8220;Shopkeepers are opening their doors bringing out blankets and cups of tea&#8221; I just smiled. It&apos;s like yes. That&apos;s Britain for you. Tea solves everything. You&apos;re a bit cold? Tea. Your boyfriend has just left you? Tea. You&apos;ve just been told&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/08\/you-gotta-love-the-british\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;You gotta love the british&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[207,52,49],"class_list":["post-2153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bombings","tag-london","tag-the-british-way"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3u9vK-yJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flubu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}