MSNBC reporting pub patrons used glasses and chairs to fight off attackers at Borough Market...

[brooklynite]

[Not Ruth]

1. Such brave people

I hope that they were successful

[Warpy]

3. I hope they were at the last stage of inebriation, "bulletproof."

BBC showed 2 bodies on the street with some sort of cannisters taped to them. There have been three loud explosions over the last hour. Putting 2+2 and getting the cube root of 64, I imagine the patrons were very lucky one of those goons didn't blow himself up.

[tblue37]

13. The Guardian reports that they were not suicide vests. Maybe they were fakes

intended just to terrorize people more.

The explosions were controlled explosions.

[HipChick]

2. Video....A Geezer is a bloke.

Link to tweet

[Rustyeye77]

4. Holy s---

That's some video.

[flamingdem]

5. Sounds really bad

but fortunately not that many dead, so far.

Geezer is an old duffer, oldster, supersenior in the USA.

[HipChick]

6. he's speaking too fast for subtitles..

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. It's the BBC, British people don't need subtitles to understand a London accent

(and I found it perfectly intelligible, but then I've lived in the UK for going on a decade now)

[HipChick]

15. Talking about US news outlets..

complaining about him speaking a little fast...and praising the British public for fighting back...

Never get between a Brit and his beer down at his local on a Sat night..

[Spider Jerusalem]

16. I didn't find him to be speaking fast

but then Americans tend to speak slowly compared to Brits, I suppose. (My experience moving to the UK was a lot of mutual non-understanding for a few weeks and "what? huh?" until my ear and tongue made some adjustments.)

[HipChick]

17. Me either...I moved from the UK to US - the south..

No one could understand me, and I couldn't basically couldn't understand them..

[Myrddin]

19. Colloquial Londonspeak for your traditional 'guy'

It would not be applied to a child, but could be applied to a teenager.

It's all in the inflection?

Could be a familiar term, or could be anonymous third party.

Not necessarily 'old'!

[Myrddin]

21. Case in point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geezer_Butler

Enjoy

[DavidDvorkin]

7. When I was a kid, "geezer" "old man"

[HipChick]

8. Not in the UK..

[DavidDvorkin]

9. That's how my English parents used the word.

[HipChick]

10. Not how most Brits use it

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=geezer

[DavidDvorkin]

11. They left England in 1947

Perhaps usage has changed since then?

[HipChick]

12. Probably...honestly I have to ask my nieces and nephews these days..

on what things mean..

[DavidDvorkin]

18. We have become aliens in a world where we once belonged.

[Myrddin]

20. If, a 'geezer' was old...

...he would be referred to as an 'old geezer'!

[DavidDvorkin]

22. Yes, and I do remember hearing that phrase, too.