{"id":8634,"date":"2016-04-24T05:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T05:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/04\/24\/elodieunderglass-deputychairman-hamsilton\/"},"modified":"2016-04-24T05:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T05:25:49","slug":"elodieunderglass-deputychairman-hamsilton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/2016\/04\/24\/elodieunderglass-deputychairman-hamsilton\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

elodieunderglass<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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deputychairman<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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hamsilton<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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blxxdfae<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say \u2018london has fallen\u2019 what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf??<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

@deputychairman<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And even if Peckham Tesco goes down you\u2019ve still got the Lewisham one open 24 hours, yeah you\u2019re in trouble on a Sunday evening but even in a survival situation you can probably hold out till Monday because all the local takeaways would still deliver, no one can stop those guys and no one should try<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

yeah and making it a little serious for a second, the city has such a historical\/cultural expectation of being (or at least appearing) resilient in response to destruction that these portrayals are not realistic at all.<\/p>\n

If you talk to people who were in London on 7\/7 I feel that they use very different language about their experience, vs. people who were in New York City for 9\/11. The brush with destruction is not portrayed as a life-changing experience, if that makes sense. The expectation is that the city has to keep moving. That obnoxious\u00a0\u201cKeep Calm and Carry On\u201d poster (now a meme) was actually designed and printed in readiness to be posted everywhere if London actually fell to Nazi occupation. the expectation was that\u00a0\u201cdescent into chaos\u201d would let everyone down.<\/p>\n

Like, in the London Blitz people made\u00a0\u201cnot giving a shit as the city is gutted around you\u201d into an art form.\u00a0<\/p>\n

this lady would make a great reaction image for drinking truth tea in the wake of drama:<\/p>\n

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like look at these guys here<\/p>\n

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\u201coh ffs that was my BUS\u201d<\/p>\n

I mean this guy is just delivering the milk like<\/p>\n

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TREVOR I DON\u2019T THINK YOUR CUSTOMERS ARE GONNA CARE IF YOU\u2019RE A LITTLE LATE<\/p>\n

or this extremely safe community policing<\/p>\n

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\u201cremember girls you need TWO policemen to go past the unexploded bomb\u201d<\/p>\n

or this\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201chey Bridezilla your window fell off\u201d
\u201cfuck off Helen this is my SPECIAL DAY\u201d<\/p>\n

or<\/p>\n

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\u201cguys you\u2019re supposed to be – guys pay attention\u201d<\/p>\n

or
\u201cHey what should we do we are literally being bombed right now\u201d
\u201cidk go hide in the tube??\u201d
\u201cbut it\u2019s the kids\u2019 bedtime\u201d
\u201cyeah, but like\u2026 bombs<\/i>\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cwait I\u2019ve got a plan, we go to the tube and then\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cok so \u2026 so we\u2019ve literally just tied the children to the train tracks\u201d
\u201cshh\u2026. they\u2019re sleeping\u2026. they\u2019re safe now\u201d<\/p>\n

or this cheeky lil shit<\/p>\n

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apparently he\u2019s reading<\/a> a history of London<\/p>\n

rude<\/p>\n

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Anyway it\u2019s not like Londoners are super brave or anything, it\u2019s just that on the one hand there might be giant alien sea dragon robot tsunamis smashing the recognizable landmarks, but on the other hand they gotta make rent\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

elodieunderglass: deputychairman: hamsilton: blxxdfae: i dont think american filmmakers realise how huge london is, because sure you have the london eye and houses of parliament but when you say \u2018london has fallen\u2019 what??? so the nandos in catford is in flames? the tesco in peckham has descended into chaos? wtf?? @deputychairman And even if Peckham … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/gabapple\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}