Terrorism & bagels
Aug. 10th, 2006 06:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnToday in passing I said to an American: "In Britain we have more flavours of terrorism than we do of bagel."
Then I wondered if it were true.
British Bagel flavours I've encountered:
Cinnamon & raisin
Plain
Onion
Total: 3
British Terrorism flavours (not personally encountered, drawn from news).
IRA
Unionist
(I think you can count both, even if unionism isn't really a terrorism on the mainland?)
Islamic
animal rights extremists (I don't think they have actually killed anyone, but the most extreme actions *probably* count, as being designed to induce terror?)
Meibion Glyndwr (??? still current? Are Meibion Glyndwr still burning the odd holiday cottage? They definitely don't kill people though, not sure they count)
Total: 5, sort of.
I don't think Mebyon Kernow count, not even the ones that deface English Heritage signs. That's just graffiti.
Then I wondered if it were true.
British Bagel flavours I've encountered:
Cinnamon & raisin
Plain
Onion
Total: 3
British Terrorism flavours (not personally encountered, drawn from news).
IRA
Unionist
(I think you can count both, even if unionism isn't really a terrorism on the mainland?)
Islamic
animal rights extremists (I don't think they have actually killed anyone, but the most extreme actions *probably* count, as being designed to induce terror?)
Meibion Glyndwr (??? still current? Are Meibion Glyndwr still burning the odd holiday cottage? They definitely don't kill people though, not sure they count)
Total: 5, sort of.
I don't think Mebyon Kernow count, not even the ones that deface English Heritage signs. That's just graffiti.
