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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Webb wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 11:00pm:

It was a long time before I was born, but I'm fairly sure that a large percentage of the mods and rockers' rioting was in fights against each other. As one newspaper put it, this isn't a typical postcode or gang war, this is a riot against ourselves.

ozzy72 wrote on Aug 10^th, 2011 at 1:48pm:

So the riots are calming down a bit?

London Calling - 1979 (YouTube)



London calling to the faraway towns
Now that war is declared-and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, all you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look at us
All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
London calling, see we ain't got no swing
'Cept for the ring of that truncheon thing

The ice age is coming, the sun is zooming in
Engines stop running and the wheat is growing thin
A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river

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And anyone who has ever seen me mildly annoyed will know why Nobody has ever lived beyond rather vexed

ozzy72 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 6:33am:

That's surprizing.  I thought I had ended up accidentaly enraging you atleast once. 
It can be so easy to forget how lucky you are to be alive.  Even after getting hit by a van and a school bus!

BigTruck wrote on Aug 9^th, 2011 at 10:57am:

Napalm? B-52? 

tcco94 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 10:31am:


ozzy72 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 10:35am:


Oh I love pyrotechnics!  Make sure to let me know when I get to see some rioters go kaboom!

ozzy72 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 10:35am:



Does anyone know how to permanently erase images from one's minds eye 

Matt

tcco94 wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 10:31am:


Nah. Just put cyanide in the shops they are looting. Bound to do the trick. And hat else are British afraid of? Cold tea ?

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Mark's hand would have come out of your screen and you would be having your funeral... At best .

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You can just put some Comodo Dragon venom, I mean Saliva in your food/beverage It's better than berds nest soup. And you will never have a bad Memory again.

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All you have to do is evacuate Lo I mean Britain and leave all the "Strikers" (more like looters with an excuse) And use your imagination for the rest. . Britain will not suffer unemployment for a looooooooooooooooooooong time.

1olehippy wrote on Aug 11^th, 2011 at 12:18pm:


I didn't know what a water cannon was except for maybe a fire hose and I looked it up on wikipedia.  Apparently they are able to make the water stink like nuts and put some sort of ink in it that can't be washed off and can only be seen under a ultraviolet or black light.  That might work.

Are there 50.cal rubber bullets? But if there aren't any the real ones can do just fine .

hyperpep111 wrote on Aug 12^th, 2011 at 5:42am:

Perfect!  Again, let me know when I get to see some rioters go kaboom!