re: the recent tragedy in London here, but these are my favorites:
‘It’s hard to panic the British. They’ve dealt with the Blitz, the IRA, the Silurians, the Zarbi, the Daleks, the Cybermen…’
To quote an old Londoner who lived through the blitz and got caught up in the Canary Wharf explosion: “I’ve been blown up by a better class of bastard than this!”
We took on the Romans, the Saxons, the Danes, the French, William Wallace, the Black Plague, the Roundheads, the Great Fire, Napoleon, the Nazis, and the Blitz, and we’re still here. You terrorists are bloody amateurs.
The BBC paused news coverage to show *Eastenders*. That’d be the nationwide fear, terror and panic, then.