WTF is going on in the world?

scotchandcigar

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"well dressed old lady seems lost, wonders around hospital"

The Queen visits Royal Manchester Children's Hospital | Daily Mail Online

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I think I've seen that hat in a Dr. Seuss book.
 

HecticArt

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What a dick.
It's too bad that the guy that too a swing at the thug didn't connect very well.
A little street justice would have been great.
 

JHDK

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on a lighter note london needs to get its act together. this is london bridge:

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what is this plain jane bridge doing with that title?

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so the cool, iconic bridge in london that the whole world knows is the tower bridge and some dime store generic bridge is the actual london bridge. that's just not right.
 

HecticArt

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6 people are known to be dead at the moment, but they expect that number to go up.

It's an older building, so it didn't have sprinklers. It may have only had one exit stair too. You couldn't do that these days. They said something on tv this morning about the cladding and that the building was recently renovated.
 

IdRatherBeSkiing

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In theory apartment buildings should have isolation layers to prevent/slow spread of fire between units. In Canada this has been in the codes since the 60s. Obviously not in this building. And several people have said no fire alarm much less sprinklers.


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HecticArt

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Yep.

Fire walls, sprinklers, alarms, and a farking second means of egress.

I want to know what the hell it was made of that let it go up so quickly.