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Disaster Grenfell Tower fire & fallout
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"Look, this isn't the venue for this style of music and when you booked you basically mislead us. This is my bar, and I don't like this music so I'm not going to but you on the list."
"RAAAAA RACIST RACIST RACISSSSSSSSSS!!1!1!!!"
I fully expect that sometime in the next two or three months, there's going to be a massive hoohaa over a mass audience walk out from a theatre. It will absolutely be an audience who paid a ridiculous amount of money for a black tie high end classical music performance by a full size professional orchestra, featuring special guest unknown but soon to be famous tenor. The audience will sit down and as soon as the curtains go up, they will be confused as hell because there the orchestra isn't. Instead there will be a DJ deck, a drum kit, a couple of guitars and a singer who sneers and says, "It's time you learned about music other than the racist, eletist, arrogant, written by white people, ancient history music that no one really likes, you're all just here to look better than you are." S/He will then launch into an angry tirade in badly composed rap lyrics, in between screaming insults at the racists who get up and walk out.
I've actually had a small taste of this a few years back. It's a common thing. But it's going to go global very soon.
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I should have clarified. My response was directed at the chan mindset, which is clearly that these people are going to receive huge financial windfalls.
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I've seen this. Punk guys expecting to see punk music are the best. For some reason a chav music act decided to go and play at a lowkey festival made up of punk and indie artists, mostly student bands like, they played one song, then got one note of the next song out before someone launched their bottle o' piss at the guy rapping, knocking him out cold. It was simultaneously the most hilarious and horrifying thing I've ever seen.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/201...ims-grenfell-tower-victims-murdered-zionists/
It was the Jews who did it.
It was the Jews who did it.
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Of related interest:
Dubai fire: Streets reopened around Torch Tower as fire extinguished and no deaths reported
Police in Dubai have reopened the streets around one of the world's tallest residential skyscrapers after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted early on Friday in the high-rise, forcing residents to evacuate in the middle of the night and sending chunks of debris plummeting below.
If you have a massive fire break out and it destroys not just your own home but forty odd of your neighbours' homes as well and yet you feel genuinely lucky afterwards, that's when you know that something is truly fucked up.
Dubai fire: Streets reopened around Torch Tower as fire extinguished and no deaths reported
Police in Dubai have reopened the streets around one of the world's tallest residential skyscrapers after firefighters put out a blaze that erupted early on Friday in the high-rise, forcing residents to evacuate in the middle of the night and sending chunks of debris plummeting below.
No major injuries had been reported but a few people were treated for smoke inhalation, according to Dubai's Gulf News website.
Several residents said the fire broke out just after 1am at the 86-story Torch Tower — a more than 335 metre-tall residential building in Dubai's popular waterfront Marina district.
The same building had also caught fire just two-and-a-half years earlier.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known but in the past, such infernos in Dubai have been linked to highly flammable building cladding — as was the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London in June that killed at least 80 people.
More than 40 floors of the building on one side were engulfed in flames as residents looked on from below, many in tears.
The firefighters battled the blaze for more than two hours.
Dubai's Civil Defence announced at about 3:30 am that firefighters had brought the blaze under control and said cooling operations were underway.
Authorities shared video of the building from the outside later on Friday, showing the entire length of the tower charred on one side.
By midday on Friday, a few police cars could be seen in the area, but the streets had been wiped clean of the debris, some of which had fallen on cars parked below.
However, the skyscraper remained closed to residents, some of whom were moved to a nearby and even taller residential tower while others decided to stay with friends.
Officials said they were working on providing shelter for those affected and assessing the damage.
The Torch Tower also caught fire in February 2015 with no casualties reported.
Parts of the building were still undergoing restoration work when the second fire broke out early on Friday.
In both incidents, fire alarms alerted residents and building staff knocked on doors to ensure evacuation.
Tower resident Alireza Aletomeh, who is now staying with friends, said towers like the Torch should have sprinklers.
He wondered why Civil Defence crews did not deploy helicopters to try and extinguish the fire quicker.
"Putting out the fire was the most important thing, which took them so long," he said.
Simon Bach, a New Zealander who lives in a high-rise across the street, said he saw a few policemen as well as Emiratis in traditional white robes helping people get out.
About 10 to 12 firetrucks arrived quickly on the scene, he said.
He said just as the firefighters had seemed to bring the blaze under control, falling debris ignited a part of the building further down.
"People were streaming out of the car parks of the building."
Several skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates have caught fire in recent years, including a towering inferno that engulfed a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai on New Year's Eve in 2016.
In that blaze, as in others in Dubai in recent years, residents escaped without major injury.
Earlier this year, Dubai passed new fire safety rules requiring buildings with quick-burning side panelling to replace it with more fire-resistant siding.
Authorities have previously acknowledged that at least 30,000 buildings across the UAE have cladding or panelling that safety experts have said accelerates the rapid spread of fires.
While the new regulations are now in place for construction in Dubai and other cities, it's unclear how authorities will force owners to replace flammable siding with better material.
The tragic June inferno in London prompted Britain to order more thorough testing on the cladding systems of its towers.
Several residents said the fire broke out just after 1am at the 86-story Torch Tower — a more than 335 metre-tall residential building in Dubai's popular waterfront Marina district.
The same building had also caught fire just two-and-a-half years earlier.
The cause of the fire was not immediately known but in the past, such infernos in Dubai have been linked to highly flammable building cladding — as was the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in London in June that killed at least 80 people.
More than 40 floors of the building on one side were engulfed in flames as residents looked on from below, many in tears.
The firefighters battled the blaze for more than two hours.
Dubai's Civil Defence announced at about 3:30 am that firefighters had brought the blaze under control and said cooling operations were underway.
Authorities shared video of the building from the outside later on Friday, showing the entire length of the tower charred on one side.
By midday on Friday, a few police cars could be seen in the area, but the streets had been wiped clean of the debris, some of which had fallen on cars parked below.
However, the skyscraper remained closed to residents, some of whom were moved to a nearby and even taller residential tower while others decided to stay with friends.
Officials said they were working on providing shelter for those affected and assessing the damage.
The Torch Tower also caught fire in February 2015 with no casualties reported.
Parts of the building were still undergoing restoration work when the second fire broke out early on Friday.
In both incidents, fire alarms alerted residents and building staff knocked on doors to ensure evacuation.
Tower resident Alireza Aletomeh, who is now staying with friends, said towers like the Torch should have sprinklers.
He wondered why Civil Defence crews did not deploy helicopters to try and extinguish the fire quicker.
"Putting out the fire was the most important thing, which took them so long," he said.
Simon Bach, a New Zealander who lives in a high-rise across the street, said he saw a few policemen as well as Emiratis in traditional white robes helping people get out.
About 10 to 12 firetrucks arrived quickly on the scene, he said.
He said just as the firefighters had seemed to bring the blaze under control, falling debris ignited a part of the building further down.
"People were streaming out of the car parks of the building."
Several skyscrapers in the United Arab Emirates have caught fire in recent years, including a towering inferno that engulfed a 63-story luxury hotel in Dubai on New Year's Eve in 2016.
In that blaze, as in others in Dubai in recent years, residents escaped without major injury.
Earlier this year, Dubai passed new fire safety rules requiring buildings with quick-burning side panelling to replace it with more fire-resistant siding.
Authorities have previously acknowledged that at least 30,000 buildings across the UAE have cladding or panelling that safety experts have said accelerates the rapid spread of fires.
While the new regulations are now in place for construction in Dubai and other cities, it's unclear how authorities will force owners to replace flammable siding with better material.
The tragic June inferno in London prompted Britain to order more thorough testing on the cladding systems of its towers.
If you have a massive fire break out and it destroys not just your own home but forty odd of your neighbours' homes as well and yet you feel genuinely lucky afterwards, that's when you know that something is truly fucked up.