Yeah I think he's out.

There was never Florida.

You know me so well.

Fuck you very much.

Florida is where old people go to die. F*ck that place.

Fuck you...

And where Cubans go to avoid death.

Well, it's official.

I'm heading to England.

Goofle, better get your big boy shoes ready cause I'm flying into Manchester late as sh*t on April 26th. From there my plan gets very sporadic. Probably day trips over the following week to Ireland and Scotland. Then I'll spend a day or two in London before I head south to Spain, Portugal, and France.

I'm just happy I'm on a plane. Now I can focus on trip planning instead of trying to find a cheap ticket.

Gonna egg Trollheart's house?

Don't ruin the supreese.

Bye surprise you must mean the Tampa International airport...;)

Don't forget to look out the window as you land in Dublin Airport to see my house! Just follow the plumes of black smoke to the broken-down cars in heaps, the ponies running wild and the crowds chasing leprechauns down the main street, sorry dirt road. My house is nowhere near that.

Yeah, the British Isles are small, but I think that´s a bit optimistic, especially if by "day trip" you mean there and back in one day. What with check-in time, etc, etc, a day trip to Dublín would probably give you a chance to mooch round Dublín Airport´s car park for an hour before returning to Manchester.

I advise all my students to avoid Europe in 2016.

Yeah, I was over zealous about day trips. Probably two nights.

Being afraid of people who are assh*les just lets them be bigger assh*les.

I just don't want my students to be killed in a random terror attack.

Key word, random. You know about it so how random could it really be?

Hi, mordwyr! Welcome back to MB.

I´m sorry to be contentious, but surely the risk of suffering in a terrorist attack is statistically very low. Do you also advise your students to leave Tokyo because of the earthquake risk ?

Hi!

No, I just don't want my kids to die in a situation completely avoidable. No one knows when and where earthquakes will strike, but, as I've told my students, there are many signs that Europe will be struck by many terror attacks in 2016. So it's a matter of prudence.

Sooo....go nowhere?

Just not places where dangerous humans have guns. So, yes, that means parts of America, too.

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^That's not what I wrote.

It's about minimizing risk, about taking precautions. Many Japanese have earthquake-readiness awareness (supplies, community communication, architecture). They cannot, however, defend themselves abroad from a terror attack.

That´s up to you, of course, but Exo´s already bought his ticket - let´s not scare him into staying home.

Of course I hope Exo will be safe! Best wishes and bon voyage! :)

I'm sorry, but did not Japan get their **** epically rocked by a tsunami that caused not one, not two, but three nuclear meltdowns? That's far more worrisome than a few nuts with guns and cheap explosives.

And of course that's not what you wrote. I edited it to show that what you wrote applies to both situations, making your silly argument invalid.

My argument is valid. My argument isn't "don't die". My argument is "don't die in a terror attack". Everyone dies.

Let's get back to this as 2016 rolls on and Europe starts burning.

Difficult to find the exact statistic you want, but these might help put the risk of being killed in a terrorist attack into perspective:-

:laughing: mordwyr, thank you for disproving my theory that people were becoming too cynical to buy into sensationalist journalism anymore. I might even reconsider going back into that field knowing all of the fear that I can spread.

We'll see who's laughing when Europe starts burning. Hint: it won't be you, and it won't be me.

I didn't say that.

I've read somewhere there wasn't a reported case of a any one being killed by a meteor. I looked it up online. According to the National History Museum in London "there have been no recorded deaths due to a meteorite fall." Just how many humans have space rocks killed, anyway? - SciGuy
I'm not sure of NHM stance on the 1490 Ch'ing-yang event, whether they recognize it or not.

In my opinion, I see that Alan W. Harris is making an apple to orange comparison. He is using probability of a future event i.e. asteroid colliding with Earth and comparing that to odds based on stats of actual historical events. Since 1970 there have been 4,000 deaths do to terrorism, compared to zero deaths from asteroids.

Be sure to invest in at least three or four of these anti-terrorist hats before you go to Europe, Exo.

http://www.paulduane.net/wp-content/...foilhatguy.jpg

I've also heard that taping bacon to your chest deters Islamic terrorists like a positive magnet against a negative one.

You watch too much news. This is a pretty clear case of you having no idea what's going on in one part of the world, but letting media alarmism inform your entire opinion. And yet you dismiss the possibility of being killed by a tsunami in Japan because you live in Japan and you know from personal experience just how unlikely that is. Why don't you just assume that your ignorance of the current events of anyplace that isn't Japan means that making the kind of claim you're making is premature at best, and idiotic at worst.

Who needs rationality when you can be constantly terrified for your life?

I'm not scared. I'm being prudent. Just watch.

You communicate with youtube links and jpegs?

^We know that you can't convince someone undergoing a nervous breakdown with things like words. Visuals are far more effective.

I thought that pic would be too easy. Here's something I came across during my search for alternatives.