Beirut, huge explosion video

sodthisforfun · 6 Aug 2020

Munroist said:
it is rather shocking seeing the destruction and my heart goes out to them too. It must be a very strange existence living your life somewhere like Beirut, one of my early childhood memories was watching the devastation in Beirut on the evening news, even as a young teenager I used to think what a frightening place that must be (made sunderland seem civilised). People there must have lived a lifetime of destruction and carnage.

Lebanon, like Iran is another country I have lived in, I was born there too. It was once a beautiful country and it breaks my heart that they have lived so much destruction for so long. Those poor people there suffering so much.

I'd have loved to have gone back a few times with my Dad, something we tried to do on occasion, but each time things seemed to settle, something else would kick off again and the advice was not to travel there. Now my dad has gone, I'll never get to do that.

EddieM · 6 Aug 2020

ellal said:
Beirut is seen as a lawless war-torn city with little regard to regulations...

Of course it couldn't happen here, could it?

Beirut explosion: Planners feared risk at Shoreham, Sussex

"PLANNERS feared a Beirut-style blast at a Sussex port where the same fertiliser was stored, documents show.

Shoreham Port Authority had applied to keep ammonium nitrate in a storage shed on site.

And the authorities here in Sussex raised their concerns in 2006 and 2010 about the hazards of storing the chemical at Shoreham.

In 2006 the Port Authority was granted planning permission to handle up to 2,800 tonnes of the chemical."

Btw, the UK is the heaviest user of ammonium and ammonium nitrate-based fertilisers in the world!

Not even the highest in Europe

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati...tiliser_consumption#Analysis_at_country_level

Mottie · 6 Aug 2020

EddieM said:
Not even the highest in Europe

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/stati...tiliser_consumption#Analysis_at_country_level

True. I wonder where ellal gets his flawed data from?

dontbelieveawordofit · 6 Aug 2020

should re-name this the bullsh!t forum

Munroast · 6 Aug 2020

sodthisforfun said:
Lebanon, like Iran is another country I have lived in, I was born there too. It was once a beautiful country and it breaks my heart that they have lived so much destruction for so long. Those poor people there suffering so much.

I'd have loved to have gone back a few times with my Dad, something we tried to do on occasion, but each time things seemed to settle, something else would kick off again and the advice was not to travel there. Now my dad has gone, I'll never get to do that.

you were born and lived in Beirut? impressive!
I take it that such places do have areas and times of normality when life does go on as normal, Beirut has always struck me as one of the most scary places in the world - I guess I'm wrong.

I've never been to london but I guess all of it is not as bad as Croydon / Newham / Westminster for violent crime - there must be safer areas of the capital?

sodthisforfun · 6 Aug 2020

Munroist said:
you were born and lived in Beirut? impressive!
I take it that such places do have areas and times of normality when life does go on as normal, Beirut has always struck me as one of the most scary places in the world - I guess I'm wrong.

I've never been to london but I guess all of it is not as bad as Croydon / Newham / Westminster for violent crime - there must be safer areas of the capital?

Born in Tripoli, lived in both Beriut and Tripoli.
This is my first ever home!

We lived on the 6th floor, it was called the Nanni building. Dad took the photo as a lorry had just driven into the fountain, much to our amusement as kids. Sadly both the building and the street name are long gone with all the troubles.

It really was a beautiful country and the only place (afaik) where the climate allowed you to go skiing in the mountains and picnic on a warm beach on the same day, which we did

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London is fine - worked all over London for years and all times of day. It's great city, just with any city anywhere have to be careful what you have with you that may be worth pinching and just don't be daft

To be honest, I've seen more violence and aggression with drunk punters in small towns than I have working and living in London.

Mottie · 6 Aug 2020

sodthisforfun said:
Iran is another country I have lived in, I was born there too.

I’m quite surprised at how liberal Iran was before the revolution. Looked like the fashionable times in London. Looked a lovely place. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5103795/Fascinating-photos-Iran-1979-revolution.html

sodthisforfun · 6 Aug 2020

Mottie said:
I’m quite surprised at how liberal Iran was before the revolution. Looked like the fashionable times in London. Looked a lovely place. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5103795/Fascinating-photos-Iran-1979-revolution.html

Sorry, bad grammar, I was born in Lebanon.

And yes, those pics really show what it was like, chalk and cheese eh.. Pahlavi was one of the most forward thinking leaders in Iran, he liked a lot of the ways of Westerners.. He wasn't without a lot of fault though and he ignored too many of his people who were living in poverty, but getting rid of him really did set the clock back as far as women's rights were concerned.

Brigadier · 6 Aug 2020

sodthisforfun said:
It really was a beautiful country and the only place (afaik) where the climate allowed you to go skiing in the mountains and picnic on a warm beach on the same day, which we did

You can do that in Cyprus, and I think you also can in San Diego.

fillyboy · 6 Aug 2020

Munroist said:
you were born and lived in Beirut? impressive!
I take it that such places do have areas and times of normality when life does go on as normal, Beirut has always struck me as one of the most scary places in the world - I guess I'm wrong.

I've never been to london but I guess all of it is not as bad as Croydon / Newham / Westminster for violent crime - there must be safer areas of the capital?

I was quite surprised when a chap I used to know told me he holidayed there regularly in the 60's, he was into scuba diving. It was referred to as the jewel of the Mediterranean.

EddieM · 6 Aug 2020

Brigadier said:
You can do that in Cyprus, and I think you also can in San Diego.

California too.

Tigercubrider · 6 Aug 2020

That Daily Mail article gives a very one sided view of Persian/Iranian politics
The Shah was a bastard and relied on secret police and didn't bother with democracy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

He was put in place by the British and Americans who overthrew a democratically elected government to install a regime friendly to them, regardless of how he treated the average Iranian.

The lot in charge now are a direct result of a kickback against a government installed to benefit the USA /Uk

Same as Cuba - the USA and Mafia ran Cuba for their own benefit and it ended up a communist country

fillyboy · 6 Aug 2020

Tigercubrider said:
That Daily Mail article gives a very one sided view of Persian/Iranian politics
The Shah was a bastard and relied on secret police and didn't bother with democracy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d'état
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mosaddegh

He was put in place by the British and Americans who overthrew a democratically elected government to install a regime friendly to them, regardless of how he treated the average Iranian.

The lot in charge now are a direct result of a kickback against a government installed to benefit the USA /Uk

Same as Cuba - the USA and Mafia ran Cuba for their own benefit and it ended up a communist country

And then along came the Ayatollahs and they all lived happily ever after.

gasbusters · 6 Aug 2020

fillyboy said:
I was quite surprised when a chap I used to know told me he holidayed there regularly in the 60's, he was into scuba diving. It was referred to as the jewel of the Mediterranean.

yep like many things in the west its only acceptable and great if they bend over backwards to make their nations a place of entertainment for westerners.

Heaven forbid the locals decide they want to live in a way that THEY want, a system of their choice, values of their choices, laws of their choice. Which is exactly what the Iranian revolution was about. Just like the British voting for brexit.

gasbusters · 6 Aug 2020

fillyboy said:
And then along came the Ayatollahs and they all lived happily ever after.

it was their revolution, the people rose up and overthrew the western imposed puppet shah. They wanted an "islamic" system of governance and its what they got. Its no business of anyone outside of Iran. Just as i'm sure you couldnt care less what the Iranians think of brexit.

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