Just found out that a mob is less than a mile from the office. We're now working out who is taking what home tonight just in case. None of us are able to move the fish tank!!!! I'm dreading getting the server down three floors without a lift!
Poor fish

This is what happens when people with 1 IQ point get together and create a super cell.

Some of the excuses from the riots were idiotic; the initial one about the shooting is unfortunate. Yeah, the police do make mistakes. But a gun man gunned down? Hmmm. It was asking to happen.

As for cutting EMA (for those who don't know, currently, depending on your household income, college students can receive between £10 and £30 per week from the government) is idiotic. They're not 'removing' EMA, they're merely making the payments more direct and focused on the students who do actually need help. Believe me, I got £30 EMA, and I live a very comfortable life. That money went straight on booze or photography equipment. About 99% of the students in my college didn't need EMA, it was merely an offering that many of us were able to take up. So they're making the system fairer, and they're rioting over that?

Also, they're apparently rioting over unemployment (whilst burning down shops, including Tesco, which means they now have nowhere to work  ) is rubbish... Unemployment is going down, and more students are being hired. Heck, I have 3 full time job interviews going this week, and in the past 6 months I've had many job offers and interviews.



The people who are affected are the ones who are just getting on with life. A friend of mine is in a band who are very up-and-coming. Their record label building was burnt, and they lost all their stock.


Bahh, gotta love the UK. So long as they don't touch my beloved Nantwich 


Edit: My mother has just been asked to leave work in Hanley over threats of riots starting up there too.

I have never understood mob mentality. A large percentage would not be involved in any violence if they were alone.

And it rarely, if ever accomplishes anything good. The only example I can think of, would be to put a dictator out of power.

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Yes. But It would be bombed a million miles from the target and bomb the victim then call it a success . .
Have you ever heard about The cheerleader effect? .

But that is just plain stupidity

Well getting home was a non-event. There was me hoping to get some hoodie heads as bonnet ornaments to make the Astra a little more personal.....
I think the best thing would be to conscript these idiots and use them as human IED/mine detectors in troublespots around the world. It might teach them a thing or two about the value of life... or it might just stop them being a problem

Woah. At this rate to when I get sucked into a portal into the past and I have to live with Victorian colonies and i discover they had Internet, The first place I'll post is here.

This is a prime example of why its time to force the PC bunny-hugger brigade out. They are too afraid to do anything except blame the parents and politely ask these shameful youths to stop.
There is no need to go to the drastic lengths of certain countries with riots, but certainly a need to put some respect back into these idiots.
Human rights went out the window the moment they put others lives in danger, that was further backed when two people at least now, were killed.

I thought English hooliganism was a tradition.

May 18, 1964: Mods and Rockers jailed after seaside riots

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