Topic: Keep Calm and Riot On (Read 4397 times)

Brentai · « **on:** August 09, 2011, 09:02:21 PM »

I guess someone needs to say it.

HEY LONDON

WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU GUYS THE ONES RIOTING?

Mongrel · « **Reply #1 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:05:41 PM »

They had the most unemployed futureless youth to spare.

Brentai · « **Reply #2 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:16:30 PM »

YOU'RE FUCKING IT UP GUYS

HANGING ON IN QUIET DESPERATION IS THE ENGLISH WAY

JEEZ

Thad · « **Reply #3 on:** August 09, 2011, 09:17:25 PM »

...don't they still have by-the-minute Internet prices?

Because honestly I'm afraid that would explain a lot.

Sharkey · « **Reply #4 on:** August 10, 2011, 12:17:12 PM »

Maybe I'm being silly, but it seems possible to be repulsed by the complete and total motherfuckery of the rioters while also acknowledging that this is the sort of thing that happens when you gut the middle class and swell the ranks of the under-employed, under-educated poor.

The internet at large seems to think that these are mutually exclusive concepts and would much rather the cops just shoot those fuckers. If you think the situation warrants anything more complicated than that then you can just fuck yourself with an alligator, you bleeding heart. They're only pulling this shit because you coddled them too much.

Brentai · « **Reply #5 on:** August 10, 2011, 12:19:39 PM »

I'm just hoping that the "screwing the public too much is not really to your personal benefit" message gets through.

Not really betting on it though.

Ziiro · « **Reply #6 on:** August 10, 2011, 12:29:26 PM »

The mutual exclusive part I find is you can either be sympathetic to the fact of where they are/their situation. OR you can hate them for being thieving scum.

Pacobird · « **Reply #7 on:** August 10, 2011, 12:51:11 PM »

stiff upper lips start to ache after a while

Sharkey · « **Reply #8 on:** August 10, 2011, 01:02:03 PM »

I haven't had too much trouble hating a crime or even hating the criminal while still trying to understand the circumstances that made them capable of it and hating those circumstances and the people responsible for them even more. I just think the second is the greater crime. Sometimes you have to put down rabid animals. By no means does that make it hypocritical to then stand back and say "fuck, maybe we should have vaccinated them in the first damn place instead of spending the money on blow."

Oh, and this is a kind-of-relevant oldie.

Thad · « **Reply #9 on:** August 10, 2011, 02:14:30 PM »

...am I to assume you just ran across the same Brendan O'Neill article on Google News as I did?

Royal☭ · « **Reply #10 on:** August 10, 2011, 03:56:37 PM »

Quote from: Thad on August 10, 2011, 02:14:30 PM

...am I to assume you just ran across the same Brendan O'Neill article on Google News as I did?

Man, that guy is an asshat.

Pacobird · « **Reply #11 on:** August 10, 2011, 04:34:10 PM »

he looks like a man who has never been invited to a cool party in his life

Büge · « **Reply #12 on:** August 10, 2011, 04:46:31 PM »

How about some context to the riots?

Brentai · « **Reply #13 on:** August 10, 2011, 05:05:47 PM »

Quote from: P. Birdy on August 10, 2011, 04:34:10 PM

he looks like Sinestro

Apparently he has discovered the Brown Ring.

Brentai · « **Reply #14 on:** August 10, 2011, 05:51:36 PM »

Holy goddam shit, this is going to get fucking ugly.

I can't find a link to the statement not taken out of context, but sufficed to say that in context Cameron's "phony concerns about human rights" comment was even worse. If that idiot doesn't shut his mouth right now he's going to flip public sentiment from "these are violent, desperate criminals" to "anybody under a certain age who doesn't pick up a stick and start breaking windows is a complacent moron."

I guess the capitol really is the last we're going to see of a long list of historical revolts against the British Empire. Wow. Makes you feel better about living in an economy that's just slightly fucked, huh?

EDIT: Ah, here we go - a straightforward report from Al Jazeera. The irony, it just flows like water. http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish#p/u/3/yooXQzjwp8M

Sharkey · « **Reply #15 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:09:23 PM »

Quote from: Thad on August 10, 2011, 02:14:30 PM

...am I to assume you just ran across the same Brendan O'Neill article on Google News as I did?

No. But thanks for introducing me to another example of living shit.

François · « **Reply #16 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:15:39 PM »

Iran has called on the British government to "restrain" the police and stop the "violent treatment" of rioters.

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According to Press TV, Mohammad Karim Abedi, the vice-chairman of the parliamentary committee "urged London to order the police to stop treating protesters violently".

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency, which is affiliated to the elite revolutionary guards, has given extensive coverage to the rioting and looting across Britain. "We advise the monarchical regime of Britain to respect the rights of its people by avoiding savage behaviour," Fars quoted Seyed Hossein Naqavi, an Iranian MP of the parliamentary human rights committee, as saying.

Iesus. You know you've fucked up when god damned IRAN is telling you to dial it down.

Or rather, you should know.

Sharkey · « **Reply #17 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:22:05 PM »

Nah, that's just Iran counting coup. It's hypocritical as all hell and anything right about it is probably for the wrong reason. Fucking trolls.

Brentai · « **Reply #18 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:29:56 PM »

Thing is if they're gunning for that then the last thing they want is for Parliament to calm the fuck down.

Mongrel · « **Reply #19 on:** August 10, 2011, 06:50:07 PM »

Hold on here, we're talking about the world's single most trollicius nation. Don't bring none of yer fancy-dancy logic into this!

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