sucks to be a teenager nowadays :(
thinking about it I'm actually very lucky that the period when I was mostly going to public events fell neatly between the termination of IRA hostilities and the dawn of wankers with backpacks
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it weirds me out a little bit to think that actually the risk was probably a lot greater when I was growing up, since the IRA were decently funded and organised ... but they were pretty fair about it, they usually phoned in warnings beforehand that would give the emergency services a chance to evacuate people before bombs went off, and they often tended to favour government targets over civilian ones
red chamber dream
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Discussing past guests, Colbert decides that he doesn’t have any moral qualms about sharing a Ted Cruz anecdote. “I had Ted Cruz on early on in this present gig, and we were back stage,” he recalls. “I said, ‘Thanks for coming on, I like having Republicans on.’ And he goes, ‘I was hoping we could humanize me.’ And I thought, ‘Well step one, don’t ask anyone to humanize you. That’s something humans don’t ask…’”
a couple of things
they published the name of the bomber in manchester before the UK police had officially released it (actually I think that was CBS rather than the new york times, but it still shouldn't have been leaked)
but worse than that, they published pictures that were taken by the UK police / intelligence officers after the explosion happened
basically evidence that wasn't supposed to be public ... our intelligence guys shared evidence with the US intelligence guys and someone in the american intelligence services leaked it to the press, presumably in exchange for a nice brown paper envelope stuffed with cash
they published the name of the bomber in manchester before the UK police had officially released it (actually I think that was CBS rather than the new york times, but it still shouldn't have been leaked)
but worse than that, they published pictures that were taken by the UK police / intelligence officers after the explosion happened
basically evidence that wasn't supposed to be public ... our intelligence guys shared evidence with the US intelligence guys and someone in the american intelligence services leaked it to the press, presumably in exchange for a nice brown paper envelope stuffed with cash