Last night of the Proms/Terrorism/Living in fear - Rabrrrrrr's perspective [View All]

[Rabrrrrrr]

Have been listening to the NPR broadcast of the last night of the Proms - great music, if unchallenging, but it's a last night celebration; people don't want to think about their music, they want to have fun and sing along!

The announcer kept talking after the show, with the mikes picking up the sound of the crowd, and lots of popping sounds in the background.

What I found interesting was this: we are now in a time wherein the announcer felt the need to reassure the radio audience that the pops were balloons, not gunfire, and that the people at the Proms were indeed safe, just popping balloons.

It's a f-ed up world when we have to think to ourselves "Better reassure the people at home we aren't being attacked here."

Very damn sad.