The MI5 Mailing List

[liadnan]

Your daily terror threat analysis. I for one will be signing up. It can go into the "random" folder, along with Snowmail, B3TA, and Popbitch. Another step more ludicrous every day...

I was promised flying cars, not a daily terror-level email.

I was tempted to add something crude about the expression on Dame Elizabeth Manningham-Butler's face in the photograph, but we are all grown-up and above such things. Aren't we?

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[deililly.livejournal.com]

I was tempted to add something crude about the expression on Dame Elizabeth Manningham-Butler's face in the photograph, but we are all grown-up and above such things. Aren't we?

Don't hold back on my account :P (I have decided this year not to even try to act grown up - hopefully it will just happen when I am not looking...

[babysimon]

I like that a related news story was Christmas attack "highly likely". Hmm. After all, our politicians know what they're talking about.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

Are you really signing up for this?

I doubt I would. I can't imagine what I would change: if I were planning to be in London (or Glasgow, or Manchester, or ...), would I not go because MI5 thought the threat was higher? Would I be more vigilant? (And what would that mean? Avoid people with backpacks? Avoid crowds? Look people in the eye?)

No; not for me, I think!

[liadnan]

If I do it will only be for the comedy value.

[kittenexploring.livejournal.com]

When they publish figures about how successful it is because X amount of people subscribe to it you also get to point out that people are subscribing for comedy value.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Yup, as the song has it, "The Future Is Not As Good As it Used To Be" (now I'll be annoyed until I find the lyrics... hmm, wasn't it on the same album as "Dinosaurs Are Getting Better"?).

[tybalt-quin.livejournal.com]

I love the fact you can get text messages:

r u in Ldn?

r u on Oxd St?

r u nr crzy psn wi bk pk?

run!