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In Malta the buses used to have a little Christian shrine at the front of the bus. At the terminus the replacement driver always used to honour the shrine as he got on the bus before driving off. None of the passengers ever found it a problem.
Mind you, in those days the buses were pretty elderly and the tyres were always completely bald, so maybe what the driver did could only do good!
In Malta the buses used to have a little Christian shrine at the front of the bus. At the terminus the replacement driver always used to honour the shrine as he got on the bus before driving off. None of the passengers ever found it a problem.
Mind you, in those days the buses were pretty elderly and the tyres were always completely bald, so maybe what the driver did could only do good!
Les
IMHO the issue is more to do with frightened passengers having no idea what was about to happen, after 7/7 i can understand this. The Koran accpts and allows its followers to miss prayers if required and you have to wonder why this driver felt he just had to stop his bus and pray to the prophet.
Imgaine the Muslim pilots, surgeons air traffic controllers etc all stopping their work to pray - wouldn't happen and you have to wonder if there is an alterior motive to this act...
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IMHO the issue is more to do with frightened passengers having no idea what was about to happen, after 7/7 i can understand this. The Koran accpts and allows its followers to miss prayers if required and you have to wonder why this driver felt he just had to stop his bus and pray to the prophet.
Imgaine the Muslim pilots, surgeons air traffic controllers etc all stopping their work to pray - wouldn't happen and you have to wonder if there is an alterior motive to this act...
I don't disagree Paul, I was just relating a bit of local colour from a few years ago. Happy days too!
I can just picture it: A melodramatic women screams "He's going to blow us all up". Next thing stampede, and said praying driver gets trampled in the mad dash for the exits
Les; the buses in Malta were like that when I went about 15 years ago, but they never stopped to have a prayer. To this day I think their bus service is far superior to our local service, cheap, goes everywhere on the island, and pretty good time keeping, despite their buses at the time being mostly 1950's Bedfords, AECs and Leylands etc (I think most have drivetrains out of newer trucks as they were rarely short on power). Drivers often didn't bother using the clutch to change gear, just "felt" their way into the next gear - proper driving
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I can just picture it: A melodramatic women screams "He's going to blow us all up". Next thing stampede, and said praying driver gets trampled in the mad dash for the exits
And how fcuking funny do you think you are!
What a laugh for anybody, what if someone who survived 7/7 was on the London Bus or a relation of someone who died as a result of 7/7 - i bet they would laugh thier heads literally off!
Maybe i am having a sense of humour faliure or maybe you should think a little more before typing...
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What a laugh for anybody, what if someone who survived 7/7 was on the London Bus or a relation of someone who died as a result of 7/7 - i bet they would laugh thier heads literally off!
Maybe i am having a sense of humour faliure or maybe you should think a little more before typing...
The op posted a Daily mail link (no direct slur intended). Think about that for a second; A closet racist melodramatic newspaper, that incites fear and hate. Hence that paper really could cause melodramatic people to run amuck due to the fear that these papers incite. As such I don't take the OP topic seriously; because the source is a joke in itself IMO.
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- I'm a xenophobic tapinophobe and a claustrophobic agoraphobe. And I'd like to talk to you right now, but it's me on my other mind. I'll call you back when the spaceship lands in 1949.
- I'm a bipedal omnivoric semi-simian, who is always mating and I'm chewing up the whole planet, and I'm procreating. And I'd like to talk to you right now, but it's time to procreate. I'll call you back when my head's cut off, but of course that will be too late.
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Originally Posted by Paul Habgood
And how fcuking funny do you think you are!
What a laugh for anybody, what if someone who survived 7/7 was on the London Bus or a relation of someone who died as a result of 7/7 - i bet they would laugh thier heads literally off!
Maybe i am having a sense of humour faliure or maybe you should think a little more before typing...
defo sense of humour failure i think the funny part was the driver getting stampeded . got to admit it was not the most clever thing to do if bus was packed with mainly white christian people , but then when have they ever given a stuff about our society and way of life , or ethics . or laws . , or anything else about this once great land for that matter
We had a few of them when i was at mercedes benz they just fekked off to the toilet hands and knees praying.
what got my goat was the dirty fekkers used the sinks to wash feet
I can just picture it: A melodramatic women screams "He's going to blow us all up". Next thing stampede, and said praying driver gets trampled in the mad dash for the exits
Les; the buses in Malta were like that when I went about 15 years ago, but they never stopped to have a prayer. To this day I think their bus service is far superior to our local service, cheap, goes everywhere on the island, and pretty good time keeping, despite their buses at the time being mostly 1950's Bedfords, AECs and Leylands etc (I think most have drivetrains out of newer trucks as they were rarely short on power). Drivers often didn't bother using the clutch to change gear, just "felt" their way into the next gear - proper driving
Yes those are the ones Ali,and yes they never stopped to pray-it was only when the driver stepped on the bus at the terminus and he only acknowledged the little shrine.
They were as you say the good old buses, it was a lot longer ago when I was last out there and you could go just about anywhere for 6d! One of those nice memories from the good old times.
I don't mean this to make me sound racist or 'religionist' in any way but were I on that bus, I think I would have got out of my seat and drop kicked his head to try to knock him unconcious ASAP as i imagine I would have instinctively reacted to an apparent suicide attack!
I don't mean this to make me sound racist or 'religionist' in any way but were I on that bus, I think I would have got out of my seat and drop kicked his head to try to knock him unconcious ASAP as i imagine I would have instinctively reacted to an apparent suicide attack!
I think that makes you sound racist and "religionist".
Maybe it does Les but the driver should also consider how his actions may be taken by some in light of recent history.
Yes absolutely, but surely he would have just done it instead of drawing attention to himself first like that. I agree its a strange way to behave though.
I think that makes you sound racist and "religionist".
Les
Really?
I suppose it would be slightly less alarming than if you were on a transatlantic flight, halfway across the water when a man wearing traditional Saudi garb (purely as a random example), stood up from his seat and knelt down in the middle of the aisle?
I think in that situation, I'd like to think that it would be a race to see who could incapacitate him quicker ..........
I suppose it would be slightly less alarming than if you were on a transatlantic flight, halfway across the water when a man wearing traditional Saudi garb (purely as a random example), stood up from his seat and knelt down in the middle of the aisle?
I think in that situation, I'd like to think that it would be a race to see who could incapacitate him quicker ..........
Is that too racist?
what if he was a white muslim born and bread in the UK would you still be so quick to incapacitate him?
I suppose it would be slightly less alarming than if you were on a transatlantic flight, halfway across the water when a man wearing traditional Saudi garb (purely as a random example), stood up from his seat and knelt down in the middle of the aisle?
I think in that situation, I'd like to think that it would be a race to see who could incapacitate him quicker ..........
Is that too racist?
I was gently taking the piss NDL, forgot the smiley.
Seriously though, if the bloke really intended to blow the plane up, do you think he would bother to do that thus drawing full attention to himself.
Of course it is not racist to disable a suicide bomber.
even if there's a few usual suspects missing 
