Manchester Arena suicide bomb - 22 dead, 116 injured

I like to think that's just how people gain strength to deal with shocking and difficult events like these, but it's more than likely to just get some likes and attention. "Look at me caring".

It's definitely the latter.

http://news.sky.com/story/manchester-arena-attack-search-for-missing-concertgoers-10889739

Have there been any updates on these missing people?

zXe wrote:I like to think that's just how people gain strength to deal with shocking and difficult events like these, but it's more than likely to just get some likes and attention. "Look at me caring".

Some people do it because they care, some do it because they think it helps send a united front against terror, some do it because they want likes. The first two are absolutely fine, the third type are just egotistical morons.

It doesn't matter whether you're right wing or left wing, you can still make a prick out of yourself on social media. Look at this:

twitter.com/ElizabethBarry9/status/866921234289704961

This kind of virtue signalling REALLY strawberry floats me off.

The bomber has been named as 22 year old Salman Abedi. He was born in Manchester but his parents are Libyan refugees who fled Gaddafi's regime. There's gratitude for you. He was known to the authorities.

Preezy wrote:I've seen instagram posts with stuff like "pray for Manchester" (that won't help BTW) - and whilst I suppose I agree with the sentiment as a show of solidarity, it's not something I'm ever going to "like". Social media is weird :/

I really don't like that #prayfor thing for the same reasons but also because it always makes me of "pray for Mojo" when the monkey gets fat and types it out on his little computer.

Still, I suppose the sentiment is fine.

Eighthours wrote:It doesn't matter whether you're right wing or left wing, you can still make a prick out of yourself on social media. Look at this:

twitter.com/ElizabethBarry9/status/866921234289704961

This kind of virtue signalling REALLY strawberry floats me off.

Eeuurgh! She's strawberry floating disgusting. Dumb bitch.

Got a lot of notifications on my facebook from people on my friends list. Fair enough but one of them was on holiday in Tenerife!

Posted pictures of himself in Tenerife and felt the need to let facebook know he was safe.

Utter twat!

:fp:

Eighthours wrote:It doesn't matter whether you're right wing or left wing, you can still make a prick out of yourself on social media. Look at this:

twitter.com/ElizabethBarry9/status/866921234289704961

This kind of virtue signalling REALLY strawberry floats me off.

And on the other side (all from my Facebook feed):

strawberry float me if we don't do anything after this episode, we ain't half going to be buying a lot of candles. They rape and kill our kids, and we light strawberry floatin candles , and crow about not being divided. We've been Divided for years, thanks to out dozy politicians .

How about deporting the strawberry floating Muslims.

Was it a Terrorist asylum seeker or rapeugee ?

get all of them out n solve the problem instantly

religion of peace again!! Fuk islam and fuk u banana splits that supports them

bet he was a white brit! Wake up fools we let the problems in!!!

Yes that's right, deport them there Muslims back to Muslimville :datass:

Sadly the world is full of downright strawberry floating idiots. Normally I'm desensitised to gooseberry fool like this but having my own daughter had me thinking it could be her going to concerts with friends when she's older and god knows what the world will be like then as it's not getting any better. Personally I believe no matter where in the world, you harm kids you deserve to be skinned alive before being tossed in a nice big tub of salt before your put out of your misery.

Must admit though I did chuckle at 'rapeugee' :slol:

My Facebook has been crafted (I suppose by me!) into a very pleasant echo chamber. It's just full of messages of sympathy, unity, compassion etc.

Having said that... there is one guy who has declared the entire thing an orchestration led by Theresa May. Apparently she set it up because she has been taking a beating lately in the media/polls etc.

He adds "it's worked as well, I was going to vote Labour but I'm not anymore!" :fp:

My thoughts whenever something like this happens are about how fragile our hold to life is and how quickly it can be broken. It is good to see how everyone reacted to events though. For every one person like the perpetrator there are a thousand like those who helped.

There's a quote kicking about how the planet is beautiful but the world is ugly. I really dislike that. Some individuals are ugly but generally the world how shown so much humanity going the extra miles to help those injured and involved. It's heartwarming to see free taxis, coffee and pizza given out. People using social media positively to donate money and set up lost and founds and house people over night.

Very proud of how my city and its citizens have responded to this atrocity.

Buzzfeed wrote:The UK is giving the US information about the Manchester attack. US officials are then leaking that information, freaking the UK out.

With strawberry floating useless friends like these...

Oblomov Boblomov wrote:He adds "it's worked as well, I was going to vote Labour but I'm not anymore!"

That's so strawberry floating dumb. :slol:

There's always some fucktard who thinks like Dblock and assumes it was a Government conspiracy rather than a batshit crazy Islamic terrorist.

I'll say again, the ideology needs to be much more prominently tackled, but now is not really the time for that discussion.

I don't really go along with the vigils and social media banners and stuff but if it helps people then I guess it's constructive. Tony Walsh (a poet apparently, I know nothing about him) read a fantastic poem at the vigil, really great stuff, highly recommend one of the brighter members of the forum embed it as I would inevitably cock it up.

KK wrote:
Buzzfeed wrote:The UK is giving the US information about the Manchester attack. US officials are then leaking that information, freaking the UK out.

With strawberry floating useless friends like these...

Hurr durr WW2 etc, but my grandad constantly had a massive gripe about the mouthy yanks constantly cocking thing up with their gung-ho attitude during the war. I guess it's a culture thing as I have a similar view myself now I'm older!

Denster wrote:Very proud of how my city and its citizens have responded to this atrocity.

Absolutely, so strawberry floating proud to be a Manc. The way the people of our city have stood up together and been so strong, people of all faiths and backgrounds working together to help others. It's amazing.

Got to say this has really hit me today, so many people either myself or people close to me know were at the concert, most okay fortunately but a few incredibly near misses. A friend of my girlfriends seems to have missed it by minutes having let another group walk out in front of them to be polite, they have no idea what happened to them but they feel awful. Another woman I work with has a friend whose daughter has been having urgent surgery this morning due to shrapnel embedded in her chest.

Then reading about that poor girl, 8 years old and dead, the same age as the kids I teach, could just as easily have been one of them. Makes me feel sick.

It's always horrific reading about this kind of thing, don't get me wrong, but when it's so close to home in so many ways it really hits you hard. So horrible, those poor families.

Manchester Arena suicide bomb - 22 dead, 116 injured

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