Banter 2021 Off-Topic Chat Thread

[Cataholic]

Random Q, has anyone ever tried to assassinate the Queen?

Closest they've gotten was Lord Mountbatten from memory

 

[Spazz Cat]

Closest they've gotten was Lord Mountbatten from memory

Noooooo. Not Lord Mountbatten

 

[Shell]

List of assassinations - Wikipedia

 

[Cataholic]

Noooooo. Not Lord Mountbatten

Oh crap. You watching a show of some sort?

Oops. Spoiler alert?!

 

[cats_09]

When was like the last big assassination... like Lennon?

Heaps since then, especially in the world of politics

I listened to a good podcast on this one -
Benazir Bhutto
After 9 years in exile, she was finally granted amnesty by the then President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, in 2007. She wanted to contest in the elections in 2008. Two weeks before the election, on 27th December, 2007 she was shot as she was waving to her supporters through the sunroof of her car. An explosive went off as well, resulting in her death soon after and killing 20 others. Her party won the elections nevertheless.

 

[Spazz Cat]

Oh crap. You watching a show of some sort?

Oops. Spoiler alert?!

No. What show? It was just a funny name.

 

[Shell]

Heaps since then, especially in the world of politics

I listened to a good podcast on this one -
Benazir Bhutto
After 9 years in exile, she was finally granted amnesty by the then President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, in 2007. She wanted to contest in the elections in 2008. Two weeks before the election, on 27th December, 2007 she was shot as she was waving to her supporters through the sunroof of her car. An explosive went off as well, resulting in her death soon after and killing 20 others. Her party won the elections nevertheless.

I meant ppl i have heard of prior..

 

[Cataholic]

No. What show? It was just a funny name.

Oh, ok. All good then.

He was blown up on a boat if my memory serves me right.

 

[cats_09]

I meant ppl i have heard of prior..

You haven't heard of Benazir Bhutto?

 

[Shell]

Not really

 

[Spazz Cat]

Oh, ok. All good then.

He was blown up on a boat if my memory serves me right.

Oh no!

 

[Spazz Cat]

You haven't heard of Benazir Bhutto?

I have. But forgot all about it till then.

 

[Cataholic]

Oh no!

The IRA.

Took a young bloke out too I think......

 

[Spazz Cat]

The IRA.

Took a young bloke out too I think......

Ahhh ok. Yeah they liked blowing stuff up back in the day.

 

[Shell]

979

Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, former Governor-General of India

Thomas McMahon

Killed along with three others while on a fishing trip with his family by a bomb planted onto his boat by McMahon. McMahon was a member of the Provisional Irish Republican Army, who claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

[Cataholic]

Ahhh ok. Yeah they liked blowing stuff up back in the day.

Was crazy. But just when you figured 'humanity' couldn't get any worse we started flying planes into buildings, beheading innocent people on tv, and murdering kids in massacres..........

 

[Shell]

The list of assassinations here is lousy. We got 8.

 

[Cataholic]

The list of assassinations here is lousy. We got 8.

'here' ??

 

[Shell]

 

[Spazz Cat]

The list of assassinations here is lousy. We got 8.

Yeah we suck for that stuff.

 

[Cataholic]

Geez I hate the deliberate rule......

 

[Shell]

Yeah we suck for that stuff.

We need to do better.

 

[Spazz Cat]

We need to do better.

If we all pull up our socks .........

 

[Cataholic]

Yeah we suck for that stuff.

We could've done better if we let the Anita Cobby 5 out, and given them a 10 minute headstart.

Then set the likes of Milat on them...... etc

 

[Hamingja]

After JFK any leaders in the Western world would be hard work with all the security these days