But in 2013 both are up to their necks in the fallout from turbulent Middle East politics, notably the Syrian war where France's aircraft carrier is playing the role of bombing platform, which Britain's did last time.
Will the Flaming Four really hang up their smoke bombs and platform boots after this Farewell Tour?
He said one suspect was a lathe operator and another was an electrician, without explaining why they would want to bomb a crowded subway platform at rush hour.
I'm not holding my breath … Next week: Vaughn threatens Lucas (I suspect this might be a returning storyline), an FSB officer at Thames House, some kind of bomb on a train platform.
He added that he's seen influencers on other platforms "totally bomb" on live video: "They aren't able to hold that audience in the palm of their hands with this new style".
Surveillance videos of that brawl, which depict improvised bombs exploding on the platform, went viral, and Mexico City suddenly had a new youth trend to worry about that had the public wondering if they were living in some Spanish-language remake of The Warriors.
"Constructing three bastions, two new magazines, bomb-proofs, traverses, platforms, embrasures, grading glacis, and renewing abatis," the report reads.
That same month, an anonymous bomb threat posted on the platform forced San Clemente High School to go on lockdown for a day.
With their hidden platforms and old bomb shelters, these ghost stations have acquired a patina of romance along with their layers of dust, often featuring in films and television dramas.They seem to have commercial as well as nostalgic appeal.
New platforms have put a bomb under the financial model – advertising – resources are shrinking, traffic is increasingly dependent on them, and publishers have no access, no insight at all, into what these platforms are doing in their headquarters, their labs.
