I'm reminded of one of my favorite movie clips, at 00:30 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbIV3btTpw
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I'm reminded of one of my favorite movie clips, at 00:30 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcbIV3btTpw
And we're back at the game in London and Birmingham tonight.
Is this ever going to stop? Hopefully before the Olympics.. :rolleyes:
AII
It does not look good for the Olympics, since if they cannot control these people, how are they going to control a much larger group?
EDIT. Talk about a cross post.
the only positive thing that might come out of this is that it should make the OlympicsQuote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
much moreinteresting
The riots would make for nice breaks in betweenQuote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
utter boredomtennis matches and themind-boggling stupidity100 mtr hurdles.
AII
I bet tonight the rioters will be getting what they have been bargaining for the previous nights,atleast at London.
arms race....amazon style.
Sales of baseball bats, billy clubs, up 5000% on Amazon.uk
Obviously the police can’t handle it.
It is time for a major escalation.
Send Prince Charles down to have a word with them, that should make everyone happy. At least about the secession. :laugh4:
On the BBC they just had a guy who was present today in the Magistrate's Court when the first offenders were seen, and he said that quite a few of them had proper jobs or pursuits, such as graphic designer, student or (you wouldn't believe it) youth worker.
This dovetails with what is know about other modern riots in the western hemisphere, such as footbal hooliganism. The perps are often normal citizens with good jobs, fathers of young children, etcetera.
It's a funny old world.
AII
Nerd alert!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
Sports is all there is, Adrian, you should know this. On that note, if the Premier League is postponed this weekend, I'll join the holocaust-advocates.
They would stab Charles to death to take his watch.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherking
Sports are great, my friend. I have always engaged in them; rowing, hockey, ice-hockey, baseball, rugby most of all.Quote:
Originally Posted by HoreTore
But watching sports is dumb. :sleepy:
AII
Eh some people love to selectively read what you post and gloss over everything that dosn't allow them to see what they want to see. Nothing you can do when you shove someone's head in the :daisy: and all they smell is roses.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Bah!Quote:
Originally Posted by Adrian II
Much better to watch people who are actually good at it do it, while you sit and enjoy a nice, cold beer... Or sing your lungs out on a stadium, of course.
From The Guardian:
:laugh4: :viking:Quote:
When the rioters came to attack the premises of Kurdish and Turkish businesses in Hackney's Stoke Newington High Street and Kingsland Road on Monday night, the owners were waiting for them.
"It was between about nine and 10 at night," said Yilmaz Karagoz, sitting in his coffee shop next to a jeweller's shop that has been shuttered since Sunday when the rioting began and a pharmacy that closed a day after.
"There were a lot of them. We came out of our shops but the police asked us to do nothing. But the police did not do anything so as more came we chased them off ourselves." The staff from a local kebab restaurant ran at the attackers, doner knives in their hands.
"I don't think they will be coming back," Karagoz said.
AII
P.S. What happened to the döner smiley??
They say there will be 16,000 police officers in London tonight there was 6,000 yesterday if the news is correct so hopefully that will help.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherking
Oh and if they post pictures of them and there loot on say Facebook that should help track them down too.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...-Facebook.html
Oh yea:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ronin
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Yes. Time for a little funQuote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
http://photoshoplooter.tumblr.com/
Reposted to Facebook.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fragony
Just got a message on BBCA to go to BBC.com to check up on the rights.
Thanks. My small American brain couldn't figure that out.
Shaun of the Dead is a pretty funny movie. But in this situation I think they need Hot Fuzz
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Rioters vs Zombies
Rioters want;
tvs, watchs, mobile phones and cash to fill the void in their meaningless lives.
Zombies aspire to better things;
They want brains, locally produced food, a classless society as all are welcome, no animal products, tested on humans only and slow food as the fast food keeps getting away.
I for one prefer the Zombies to the mindless rioters. One has good taste the other prefers burberry.
Mate I have to tell you, until about 30 years ago there was what the politicos call 'policing with consent'. West Yorkshire in 1980 was about 5 million.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fisherking
The Police Force?
About 32, 000.
What are you saying?Quote:
Originally Posted by InsaneApache
there are 34,500 police officers in NYC. The population is 19 million. And while the NYC obviously has some bad crime and crime of a different sort from Britain. But I don't remember off the top of my head any riots this bad in contemporary times. LA has more like what is going on now. LA has about 9500 officers and 9 million residents.
Wikipedia puts the population covered by the NYPD at 8 million.Quote:
Originally Posted by Centurion1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Police_Department
It also gives very comparable numbers (for police and population) for the London metropolitan police.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropo...Police_Service
Remember, the metropolitan police has an element of a national police force too (e.g. it handles anti-terrorism, Murdoch newspaper scandals etc).
I know - we Brits don't remember anything like this in living memory either. There were nasty riots in the 1980s but they were more localised and had more of a sense of grievance. What is new in the last four days is that the rioting is all over London and major cities, and that it is more larcenous than angry (more looting than rioting).Quote:
But I don't remember off the top of my head any riots this bad in contemporary times.
I don't know if I was disagreeing with apache I was just giving him some numbers in comparison.Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
The only thing I can compare this to in the Us off the top of my head is the Race riots in the Us after the police brutality against watts or maybe some of the the worse riots in Miami by the poor mostly hispanic population (cannot remember the reason). At least that had a purpose though, racial tension....... what precisely the purpose of these chavs is....... anyone's guess.Quote:
I know - we Brits don't remember anything like this in living memory either. There were nasty riots in the 1980s but they were more localised and had more of a sense of grievance. What is new in the last four days is that the rioting is all over London and major cities, and that it is more larcenous than angry (more looting than rioting).
Wait. I'm sorry. Are you saying the NYPD doesn't handle terrorism and national security?Quote:
Originally Posted by econ21
It's just recreational rioting, allowed by a mix of bad parenting and social networking sites.
Don't hate me for saying it. It's commonly accepted that this is behind a lot of rioting in Belfast these days, I'm not surprised the same is going down elsewhere. Happened here in Scotland as well with that youth riot at Kelvingrove Park during the royal wedding.
No he's saying that with Scotland Yard they are part city police force and FBI and national counter-terrorism. They also have a few in/famous unit(s) that are essentially SAS in police uniform.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vladimir
The one thing that really made my blood boil this thread was someone said how they were using their blackberry networks to communicate. How poor and downtrodden can you be with a smartphone. It's absurd. I hate how people whine and moan about how bad they and their families have it while they wait to collect their monthly check all while they type away on their smartphones looking at new tv's to buy.
They do not!
I protest!
They use their smartphones to look at new tv's to loot from a local shopkeeper as a political statement to stick it to the Man!
And to look up which cake to eat for their lard arses.