This just in: Londoners are beyond annoyed

Courtesy RandomWalks, a London resident responds to the situation:

We're sick of this whole 'courageous London' thing. ... Terrorists cause terror. That's why they're called terrorists. If they didn't cause terror, they'd be called something else -- like 'annoyingists'.

Okay, Get Your War On it's not. But I was struck by the contrast with the attitude of WWII Londoners as satirized by Thomas Merton:

"Where do you come from, to see us English people in our silent, incomprehensible courage? What do the people in your country think of our resistance? Do they know how brave we are? Do they understand our bravery?"

The whole earth shakes with a giant bomb above us, so great that spontaneously, all over the tunnel, voices begin at once the words of the very same song, together: a song full of lying gaiety, cloaked in smut.

"Listen to them," says the man who has been talking to me. "You say you do not know your own nationality. Then if you have no national pride, how can you expect to understand our bravery?"