The Downsides of Living Within One Mile of The Houses of Parliament (perhaps!)

Warning Spoiler Alert: (if you haven't seen the first episode in series 9 of Spooks)

So you know when you're watching TV and you get a little too into it? That doesn't happen to me often, but last night, rather humoursly it did.

I was watching the first episode of series 9 of Spooks -- what is perhaps the BBC's finest show.

Cutting a long story short. Terrorists get hold of some explosives and plan to send them crashing into the Houses of Parliament. Only way to stop this from happening is to use the last resort which - detonate an EMP to disable the bombs. The downside - it'd knock out anything containing a microchip within a 1 mile radius.

The bombs (contained in small submersibles) are making their way up the Thames. There is no time to stop them. The decision is made. The EMP must be detonated to prevent the destruction of the Houses of Parliament.

As I mention, I had a got a little too into the episode, and.....see thing is, is that I live comfortably within the 1 mile radius of the Houses of Parliament. For a brief second, I was watching the episode as if it was real time waiting, the tension building inside me as I waited for my internet connection to go off. Thankfully it didn't ;)

I did enjoy this random person's tweet on the subject though. Very funny!

Anyway that's all. Congratulations to the BBC for another great episode. Also thanks that this wasn't real and my internet connection was unaffected so I could still look at porn opportunities to volunteer.