Sri Lanka blasts

[Daemon]

Just cannot fathom what goes through some peoples minds. Don’t think we’ve seen something of this scale in terms of planning since Mumbai.

 

[Burgey]

Yeah it's ****ing awful. Hard to fathom the planning going into something so mindless and barbaric.

 

[ankitj]

Was there anything brewing in Sri Lanka? I wasn't aware of anything that could lead to this. The Tamil conflict ended couple of years back and they didn't target Christians specifically anyway. Seems completely out of blue.

 

[Bahnz]

Horrendous stuff. What's additionally sad is the small amount of coverage this has received relative to attacks in the West.

Really? It’s the headline story of every publication I’ve read today.

 

[Smudge]

My sister got to Colombo from Aussie on Saturday night for a tour which started last night (SL time). She had got up to Negombo to meet the start of the tour and had time to kill yesterday morning - she thought about heading to the church for a look (2km from her hotel) but opted to visit the beach instead which, in hindsight, was a very good decision. She's safe (and waiting to see what happens with the tour) - hope all SL CWers are safe and well.

 

[Ausage]

Geez smudge. Sliding doors stuff. Glad to hear she's ok.

 

[Smudge]

Upside of this is that I've been able to communicate with her via Twitter DMs (which somehow avoided the SL govt social media ban).

Downside is that 65yo mum decided she should sign up to Twitter too, and has started following me. She's now responding to my irreverent tweets with her usual pithy Facebook-esque comments & I've had to go back through my timeline and delete old tweets that refer to her.

Twitter was my last social media sanctuary from mum. No more.

 

[GIMH]

Upside of this is that I've been able to communicate with her via Twitter DMs (which somehow avoided the SL govt social media ban).

Downside is that 65yo mum decided she should sign up to Twitter too, and has started following me. She's now responding to my irreverent tweets with her usual pithy Facebook-esque comments & I've had to go back through my timeline and delete old tweets that refer to her.

Twitter was my last social media sanctuary from mum. No more.

From the bottom of my heart I am truly sorry to hear this.

My twin daughters signed up for twitter recently and immediately enquired as to why it says ‘Jeremy Corbyn is a **** pheasant’ in my bio.

 

[Burgey]

Upside of this is that I've been able to communicate with her via Twitter DMs (which somehow avoided the SL govt social media ban).

Downside is that 65yo mum decided she should sign up to Twitter too, and has started following me. She's now responding to my irreverent tweets with her usual pithy Facebook-esque comments & I've had to go back through my timeline and delete old tweets that refer to her.

Twitter was my last social media sanctuary from mum. No more.

Glad your sister is ok mate.

As for mum joining Twitter, thoughts and prayers.

 

[Top_Cat]

Echo the others, glad your sister's okay.

 

[Kirkut]

Was there anything brewing in Sri Lanka? I wasn't aware of anything that could lead to this. The Tamil conflict ended couple of years back and they didn't target Christians specifically anyway. Seems completely out of blue.

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