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Post 1 \| New	Posted August 9th, 2011
Inky is a pie Joined: May '03 Posts: 1,003	So I turn on CNN and they're covering this riot that's happening in London. So far though I haven't been able to discern why, they're just covering the destruction mostly. Looks nuts though, is it all over London or just in parts? ------------------ "you know, the only satisfaction that i get dealing with people like that, is imagining them having sex"

Posted August 9th, 2011

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So I turn on CNN and they're covering this riot that's happening in London. So far though I haven't been able to discern why, they're just covering the destruction mostly. Looks nuts though, is it all over London or just in parts?

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Disco Joined: Aug '11 Posts: 73	Did somebody spill their tea and crumpets?

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Did somebody spill their tea and crumpets?

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Maindrian Anti-Hero Deluxe Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 2,501 Type: Moderator	That's not very damned funny Disco, it's pretty hairy right now. You just have to look at the news footage to see that it's no laughing matter. (Stolen joke, courtesy of Touge) As far as I can tell, some knob end got shot by police. Yes. The police shooting somebody over here is a national incident rather than an everyday occurance. That's about all I can tell you because, funnily enough, the news coverage is a confused mess. It's also not limited to London anymore, which is mental, considering how little info there is to go on. ------------------ Maindrian and Touge's videos of vague annoyance - Est. 2007

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Posted August 9th, 2011

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That's not very damned funny Disco, it's pretty hairy right now. You just have to look at the news footage to see that it's no laughing matter.

(Stolen joke, courtesy of Touge)

As far as I can tell, some knob end got shot by police. Yes. The police shooting somebody over here is a national incident rather than an everyday occurance. That's about all I can tell you because, funnily enough, the news coverage is a confused mess.

It's also not limited to London anymore, which is mental, considering how little info there is to go on.

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Fragdieb2 Avatar is missing! Joined: Mar '03 Posts: 1,784	I really hope you guys are ok, the stuff on the news here today really looked scary as shit, burning cars and buildings like a war zone. German tv news only showed footage from London, but mentioned that they were riots going on in parts of Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham as well, any more cities? ------------------ -temporary placeholder for a new cool signature-

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Posted August 9th, 2011

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I really hope you guys are ok, the stuff on the news here today really looked scary as shit, burning cars and buildings like a war zone. German tv news only showed footage from London, but mentioned that they were riots going on in parts of Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham as well, any more cities?

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Post 6 \| New	Posted August 10th, 2011
ameer cunt smasher! Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 3,063	This shit pisses me off. If I was in charge, I would turn fire hoses on all these twats. Peaceful protesting is great, but this shit makes my blood boil. At the first sign of anybody smashing anything- FIREHOSE! ------------------

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Posted August 10th, 2011

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This shit pisses me off. If I was in charge, I would turn fire hoses on all these twats. Peaceful protesting is great, but this shit makes my blood boil. At the first sign of anybody smashing anything- FIREHOSE!

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Post 7 \| New	Posted August 10th, 2011
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It's all kicking off, poundland in great yarmouth is ablaze!

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Fragdieb2 Avatar is missing! Joined: Mar '03 Posts: 1,784	ameer wrote: This shit pisses me off. If I was in charge, I would turn fire hoses on all these twats. Peaceful protesting is great, but this shit makes my blood boil. At the first sign of anybody smashing anything- FIREHOSE! As one of my collegues said yesterday, in Syria people are protesting for freedom, and in England apparently for 50" flatscreen TVs. ------------------ -temporary placeholder for a new cool signature-

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Posted August 10th, 2011

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ameer wrote:

As one of my collegues said yesterday, in Syria people are protesting for freedom, and in England apparently for 50" flatscreen TVs.

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Post 9 \| New	Posted August 10th, 2011
Maindrian Anti-Hero Deluxe Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 2,501 Type: Moderator	Knott wrote: It's all kicking off, poundland in great yarmouth is ablaze! Good job I don't work there anymore then. All the job security of a suicide bomber. I wish they'd have burnt something worth burning. Number 10 would be the ideal place to start. Maybe move on to Buck Palace for good measure. Stick Cameron and Miliband and Clegg's heads on spikes and party 'til morning. Out with their stupid, moneyed, cunt faces. But no. Lots o' lootin'. Stupid fuckers. Hate this fucking country. ------------------ Maindrian and Touge's videos of vague annoyance - Est. 2007

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Knott wrote:

It's all kicking off, poundland in great yarmouth is ablaze!

Good job I don't work there anymore then. All the job security of a suicide bomber.

I wish they'd have burnt something worth burning. Number 10 would be the ideal place to start. Maybe move on to Buck Palace for good measure. Stick Cameron and Miliband and Clegg's heads on spikes and party 'til morning. Out with their stupid, moneyed, cunt faces.

But no. Lots o' lootin'. Stupid fuckers. Hate this fucking country.

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Post 10 \| New	Posted August 10th, 2011
Disco Joined: Aug '11 Posts: 73	So, they're protesting a policeman shooting a criminal? If your police officers shot more criminals, I doubt the looting would be as bad. They'd all be shot here in 'muricah.

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So, they're protesting a policeman shooting a criminal?

If your police officers shot more criminals, I doubt the looting would be as bad.

They'd all be shot here in 'muricah.

Post 11 \| New	Posted August 10th, 2011
Disco Joined: Aug '11 Posts: 73	Now I'm confused. Some kids were just on the world news. They say they're rioting because there's not enough opportunities available to them. Sorry for being crass earlier - I had no idea it was this serious or this stupid.

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Now I'm confused. Some kids were just on the world news. They say they're rioting because there's not enough opportunities available to them.

Sorry for being crass earlier - I had no idea it was this serious or this stupid.

Post 12 \| New	Posted August 11th, 2011
2na Beans, eating it! Joined: Feb '03 Posts: -97,249	There has been a lot of demonstrations and clashes with police before this main riot, it's been going on for months. Something about the privatization of education and the cost of learning (Studying at uni = hex debt for life), I don’t pretend to be an expert but it's something like that. But yeah looters be lootin, bunch of tards trying to get a free pair of jeans. ------------------ I hope you like me and I fit in with your life.

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Posted August 11th, 2011

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There has been a lot of demonstrations and clashes with police before this main riot, it's been going on for months. Something about the privatization of education and the cost of learning (Studying at uni = hex debt for life), I don’t pretend to be an expert but it's something like that.

But yeah looters be lootin, bunch of tards trying to get a free pair of jeans.

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Post 13 \| New	Posted August 11th, 2011
ameer cunt smasher! Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 3,063	Fragdieb2 wrote: ameer wrote: This shit pisses me off. If I was in charge, I would turn fire hoses on all these twats. Peaceful protesting is great, but this shit makes my blood boil. At the first sign of anybody smashing anything- FIREHOSE! As one of my collegues said yesterday, in Syria people are protesting for freedom, and in England apparently for 50" flatscreen TVs. Yeah, it's a really interesting and tragic juxtaposition. From Libya to Israel to the UAE you hear about young people protesting for noble causes, and then there's this shit. I remember a video from Egypt of a police van mowing down at least 20 innocent people (out of a crowd of about 100) marching peacefully in the street. They had some serious shit to deal with, and while I'm sure there was some looting there, that was never the story, it was about a peaceful and necessary uprising. Then you've got this, where punks are smashing up locally-owned businesses. It's just sick. About the cause of the riots, I found the below video a very interesting point of view. While obviously the rioting is inexcusable, it shines light on the tension that is behind part of it. As I understand it, the BBC later apologized for being disrespectful during the interview. But obviously, for those rioting, they're not helping anybody's cause of having the police treat them like normal people. This video below really made my blood boil. Copy/pasting the story to the above video: A Malaysian student named Ashraf (Asyraf) Haziq was walking through Barking, East London, on his way to purchase food with which to break his Ramadan fast, when a group of rioters attacked him and left him in need of serious medical attention. He was eventually helped up by a group of passersby who ended up stealing items from his backpack. A video of the incident went viral, leading many to wonder what became of Haziq. The Guardian reports that the 20-year-old is presently at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel awaiting surgery to fix a broken jaw. A video of Haziq in hospital has been posted online by friends (see below). Expressions of sympathy and support have taken the form of a Twitter hashtag (#getwetllsoonashrafhaziq), and a Tumblr site dedicated to “do[ing] something nice for Ashraf Haziq.” ------------------

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Posted August 11th, 2011

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Fragdieb2 wrote:

ameer wrote:

As one of my collegues said yesterday, in Syria people are protesting for freedom, and in England apparently for 50" flatscreen TVs.

Yeah, it's a really interesting and tragic juxtaposition. From Libya to Israel to the UAE you hear about young people protesting for noble causes, and then there's this shit. I remember a video from Egypt of a police van mowing down at least 20 innocent people (out of a crowd of about 100) marching peacefully in the street. They had some serious shit to deal with, and while I'm sure there was some looting there, that was never the story, it was about a peaceful and necessary uprising. Then you've got this, where punks are smashing up locally-owned businesses. It's just sick.

About the cause of the riots, I found the below video a very interesting point of view. While obviously the rioting is inexcusable, it shines light on the tension that is behind part of it. As I understand it, the BBC later apologized for being disrespectful during the interview.

But obviously, for those rioting, they're not helping anybody's cause of having the police treat them like normal people.

This video below really made my blood boil.

Copy/pasting the story to the above video: A Malaysian student named Ashraf (Asyraf) Haziq was walking through Barking, East London, on his way to purchase food with which to break his Ramadan fast, when a group of rioters attacked him and left him in need of serious medical attention. He was eventually helped up by a group of passersby who ended up stealing items from his backpack.

A video of the incident went viral, leading many to wonder what became of Haziq. The Guardian reports that the 20-year-old is presently at the Royal London hospital in Whitechapel awaiting surgery to fix a broken jaw.

A video of Haziq in hospital has been posted online by friends (see below). Expressions of sympathy and support have taken the form of a Twitter hashtag (#getwetllsoonashrafhaziq), and a Tumblr site dedicated to “do[ing] something nice for Ashraf Haziq.”

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Fackler threw an apple which hit a man on the back of the head, a pinball machine rolled down the road, some guy went "Free TVs!". That's what happened.

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Post 15 \| New	Posted August 11th, 2011
Maindrian Anti-Hero Deluxe Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 2,501 Type: Moderator	Nobody has a fucking clue. Anybody that didn't see something like this coming over the past three or four years is mental. Everything about this country from the Government, the police, the news media is a disorganised mess. Everybody feels fucked over about something, black or white. Bankers getting bonuses for losing all our money, Met police taking bribes, none of the politicians have a fucking clue what's going on with the working classes because they're all public schoolboys with brown noses. A job in politics wasn't ever their goal, it was their birthright, because, you know, rich and all. Education costs. Unemployment is so insanely high, they push people onto stupid schemes that teach you nothing and don't help in the slightest, under provisio that you're off their books and don't count as unemployed. Keeps the numbers down. I don't care either way about immigrants, I just don't see why they're want to come here. I'd rather they didn't so I didn't have to listen to "SAND WOGS, TAKING OUR JOBS, KILLING OUR CULTURE WITH THEIR EVIL FOREIGN WAYS" 24/7 from both joe public and certain elements of the press. Christ, where do you start to make sense of all that? The guy getting shot wasn't the bomb, it was the match that lit the fuse. No worries though! Alex Ferguson will make everything alright with FOOTBALL. You show the world true English spirit, overpaid rapists! ------------------ Maindrian and Touge's videos of vague annoyance - Est. 2007

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Nobody has a fucking clue. Anybody that didn't see something like this coming over the past three or four years is mental. Everything about this country from the Government, the police, the news media is a disorganised mess. Everybody feels fucked over about something, black or white. Bankers getting bonuses for losing all our money, Met police taking bribes, none of the politicians have a fucking clue what's going on with the working classes because they're all public schoolboys with brown noses. A job in politics wasn't ever their goal, it was their birthright, because, you know, rich and all. Education costs. Unemployment is so insanely high, they push people onto stupid schemes that teach you nothing and don't help in the slightest, under provisio that you're off their books and don't count as unemployed. Keeps the numbers down. I don't care either way about immigrants, I just don't see why they're want to come here. I'd rather they didn't so I didn't have to listen to "SAND WOGS, TAKING OUR JOBS, KILLING OUR CULTURE WITH THEIR EVIL FOREIGN WAYS" 24/7 from both joe public and certain elements of the press.

Christ, where do you start to make sense of all that? The guy getting shot wasn't the bomb, it was the match that lit the fuse.

No worries though! Alex Ferguson will make everything alright with FOOTBALL. You show the world true English spirit, overpaid rapists!

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Disco Joined: Aug '11 Posts: 73	Maindrian wrote: Bankers getting bonuses for losing all our money Welcome to America? I still can't believe nobody has been prosecuted post-'08. On the grand scale of things, Enron was nothing comparatively. Sure, they deserved punishment for cooking the books - but, c'mon. Those assholes selling those junk mortgages were MUCH worse.

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Maindrian wrote:

Bankers getting bonuses for losing all our money

Welcome to America?

I still can't believe nobody has been prosecuted post-'08. On the grand scale of things, Enron was nothing comparatively.

Sure, they deserved punishment for cooking the books - but, c'mon. Those assholes selling those junk mortgages were MUCH worse.

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Maindrian Anti-Hero Deluxe Joined: Feb '03 Posts: 2,501 Type: Moderator	Oh god, I want out. The more I hear Cameron speak, the more I want to start my own party, purely so I can get into the house of commons and call him a cunt to his face. And Blears. And Clegg and all of them, one by one. I'm going to just ignore the news now. It's making me absurdly tense. Edit: Hahahahahahaha. TENSION GONE. ------------------ Maindrian and Touge's videos of vague annoyance - Est. 2007

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Oh god, I want out. The more I hear Cameron speak, the more I want to start my own party, purely so I can get into the house of commons and call him a cunt to his face. And Blears. And Clegg and all of them, one by one.

I'm going to just ignore the news now. It's making me absurdly tense.

Edit: Hahahahahahaha.

TENSION GONE.

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I enjoyed that, also the one were Palin is a stripper.

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