Have the terrorist attacks affected your day?

[ronnie3]

Well they have mine, i had a hospital appointment this morning but cancelled it because i was scared something may happen , i live very close to Manchester airport and the hospital i was to attend is the nearest to the airport and i just thought that if the airport was targeted then maybe they would also attack the hospital. My dad was fuming with me and said that we should carry on as normal and not to let them win but i just think my kids need me alive. do you think i'm right ?

[dot.hawkes]

yes i do. Ring for another appointment, it was a reasonable fear in the current climate.

[dot.hawkes]

plus, if they had gone for Manchester Airport, that hospital would likely have taken casualties.

[IggyB]

depends what was wrong with you - what if you die because you didn't go to the appointment!!! argh panic panic panic
sorry no need really but i am surprised by peoples over reaction to terrorist threat - the chances of getting killed or hurt are so so small that you really shouldn't alter your life by worry about it to much, you were much much more likely to be hit and killed by a bus on the way to the hospital than blown up

[raysparx1]

ronnie, I think your dad is right, why give in to them ?, once you do that they win, I lived in London in the 60s and 70s with IRA bombs going off everywhere, I saw a man blown to pieces as I was walking down the road at campden hill square, notting hill gate, it was the most deafening noise I have ever heard and a jaguar car went about 15ft into the air, it was horrific, but I went to work the next day, I had to, or i would never have gone back, I had friends involved in the London Bombings of July, they all went back to work, bar one, and I don't think she will ever get on a train again, she should have, Don't let them win, Ray

[dot.hawkes]

we all react differently ray, i would not put myself in harms way just to brave it out, i didn't go back to manchester Picadilly for 10 years after the bomb, I had been too close to it and never forgot the sheer panic that maybe I would not get homw and my kids would never find me, cos there would have been nothing left to find.

[raysparx1]

I can see that dot, but there is probably no safer time to travel than just after a terrorist attack, everything is so tight, and the chances of actually being killed by a bomb are very remote.

[johnlambert]

not one iota
and terrorists never will affect my day to day business, if you let them affect you, they win

[ronnie3]

thanks dot i knew i had good cause., better safe than sorry. and yes my dad did say that it would be probably the safest time to go as everyone is on high alert

[BooldawgsMrs]

In my 38 years I've only ever known 10 years without the threat of terrorism on mainland Britain.

[ronnie3]

johnlambert your a very brave man

[johnlambert]

no, just bl00dy minded,

[stokeace]

if we change our everyday lives the terrosists win try to lead as normal a life as possible but be extra vigilant.....hey john how are you buddy?

[johnlambert]

good mate, thanks you?

[Scotman84]

There could be a bomb in any litter bin of letter box you pass - it's just a matter of getting on with life

[stokeace]

im sound john thanx im just b***dy angry at these terrorists though they are spreading fear throughout the country dont you think?you and i both know they have only got to get lucky once the security forces have got their work cut out this time i think.

[mountainboo]

do you peeps think gorden will do anything positive - and i mean to actually help us brits ie: stoping certain immigrants from coming into the country or sending some back? is anyone watching tonight on itv3? they're talking about council houses and immigrants. If you ask me all immigrants are getting better treatment than us real brits. you cant bloody well do anything or say anything because of 'political correctness' these days. Where has the true britain gone?

[stokeace]

mountainboo you have hit the nail on the head in 1 post.very well put..................................

[mountainboo]

hi stokeace, by the way, i fully agree with one of your previous answers about self preservation etc. what do you think will happen now? i have really noticed the extent of peoples anger over the last few days, and thats just from titter at work and here on ab. Surely its a good represantation of the majority of brits? and if thats the case then gorden must do something drastic?

[bobtheturkey]

try growing up in northern ireland in the 70s and 80s, you english make mountains out of molehills :)

[stokeace]

bob you are indeed right but there was a lot of secretarian violence which made ni a more violent place and as im sure you are well aware that the ira inflicted a lot of damage and murder on the mainland.i hardly think coming under attack from muslim extremeists is over reacting.people are genuinely scared who can you trust if 2 or more eminent figures of society turn out to be members of al queada?mountainboo i think it will go quiet for a while now.....in the uk at any rate whilst these terrorists re group and plan their next attack somewhere.you can rest assured they will be seething that 3 planned attacks went wrong and will want to do a 'spectacular' to regain their credibility...i may be wrong they could strike at any time.....this is my personal view.