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Off-Topic => All of all! => Topic started by: fruckert on August 08, 2011, 11:48:08 PM
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So, apparently London is burning.
Live story here (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14449675).
I'm at a loss for words.
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I live in England. This has spread to Birmingham too. It's a little scary, you know!
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Man, looks like dem Brits've gon' god-amn crazy!
In all seriousness, its scary to know that this is happening in a first world country. It goes to show that it can happen anywhere. I'm feeling something similar might happen with... uh... the they-who-must-not-be-named on the internet and the US government. I mean, they hacked into police servers and posted officer's financial and personal information everywhere. Who knows what they'll do next?
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Soccer riots, am I right?
Seriously though, what's the cause of this? The link seems to be a bit of a mess, and I can't make heads or tails of it. I can see that there are a few blazes and some looting, but I don't know why.
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Some dude got shot by cops, and apparently people are really overreacting about it.
On the link, there was also a correspondent who said something about a "Demolition Party", but I have no idea what's up with that. Wikipedia doesn't mention anything like that.
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That's the scary thing. These new-found riots are now in no way linked to the original cause. It's spread to towns like
Liverpool, Leeds, etc. I live in Hull, which is quite a chav-infested area. If this kicks off here, God knows what I'll do.
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Some dude got shot by cops, and apparently people are really overreacting about it.
That's how it started but that is NOT the cause. Apparently the political and economic climate in the city has been very bleak for some time now. And there have also been a lot of incidents with the police that has lead to widespread distrust of the police and general authority. All it took was something to spark it off and a lot of people that have had reasons to resent authority are not holding back.
Grim scene. I've never understood the concept of rioting like this. "Hey guys, let's wreck our own **** and make our neighborhoods even worse than they are" ? Maybe if it was targetted at a police station or something, but just random department stores? That's not going to make people want to go into business there again.
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(http://i.imgur.com/qoVlo.png)
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I live in Hull, which is quite a chav-infested area. If this kicks off here, God knows what I'll do.
I live in Stoke. We are the scum capital of England. I am ready to crack some scumbag skulls.
Honestly, this isn't even politically-motivated. It is now more about looting than rioting. It's an excuse for the subhumans in some of those areas to steal themselves some stuff. Police resentment aside, this is just thieves and thugs being thieves and thugs.
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At least you guys are rioting over economic instability, government transparency, and police brutality.
In our country they rioted over losing a hockey game...
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...or winning.
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Also I looked at some clips on youtube, wtf is wrong with all these people making comments about this being the result of an attack on the white race and elimination of white culture? And telling blacks and muslims and non-whites to get out? Srsly? ****, if that's how the people around me thought of me I'd be mad too.
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But it's not even about that. It started because a black drug dealer pulled a gun on police and was shot dead for it, and people began protesting (in Tottenham) because the police didn't release much information about it. Then, because a lot of the people protesting were scumbags, they started rioting, then vandalising things, then looting. Then similar scumbags in the other major cities like Manchester and Liverpool got wind of it and decided to start looting as well. Of course some looters have put their own agendas on it to justify their actions - I've seen people claiming they're "getting their taxes back" (when most don't pay taxes, and it'll all have to be paid back in higher council tax anyway, idiots), and a lot of the significant black and Asian contingent (unfortunately the majority are non-whites, in London and Birmingham at least) have said they feel justified because the government doesn't respect them. Ironically some of the biggest vigilante anti-looting groups have been the English Defence League (white nationalists) and the Indian Sikh and Turkish Muslim communities.
As I say, they may dress it up as racially- or politically-motivated, but it's just scum being scum. Any excuse to do some thieving.
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Also I looked at some clips on youtube, wtf is wrong with all these people making comments about this being the result of an attack on the white race and elimination of white culture? And telling blacks and muslims and non-whites to get out? Srsly? ****, if that's how the people around me thought of me I'd be mad too.
Oh Zerl, I'd racially persecute you any day of the week.
If you know what I mean.
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Dragonium hit the nail on the head. This isn't politically or racially affiliated. I've been to London, it's expensive, and people wanna steal ****.
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People are fighting back XD
http://i55.tinypic.com/25uhziv.gif
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The world is coming to an end!
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Doesn't even happen in Brazil, and we have ten times more scumbags than you do!
You are pushing your luck boy.
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People are extremely uneducated when it comes to Britain. The percentage of Brits who speak in 'proper RP'
is extremely low. Britain is a harsh, loud and bustling place. Where I live, there's always drunken fights, people
clubbing, police around, smackrats, people shouting abuse as they speed by in their awful cars. American TV shows
stereotype British people as a bunch of posh, intellectual, thin bookworms with really good literacy skills. Some of
our MPs, and the prime minister, confirm that stereotype, but as a whole, we're very American when it comes to drunken
behavior.
In fact, most of what we do is influenced by America. Most of our music, about 90% of our TV shows and 90% of our films
are all made in America.
"Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a
Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV."
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But America is the bomb! We rule at everything!
Everything!
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But America is the bomb! We rule at everything!
Everything!
Especially sucking.
EDIT: Wait, don't reply before I posted an image of Michael Kelso.
EDIT2:
(http://www.multiverseworks.com/garycxjkrandomstuff/kelsosays.png)
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Might be a bad time to say this but England suck. Been to London once and almost got mugged twice. The hotells are small and nasty, everything is expensive and it's overall crowded and dirty. Sorry, but that's just my impression of it.
Also, from what I've seen of your drunken behaviour it might even beat the Americans.
Also, only reason we are doing well with our politics and all that (although things are changing for the worse) is that we are a large country with merely 9 million people. That's like the populace of new york or london.
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I'm excited for when Texas secedes. I've got it marked on my calendar. "Sometime hopefully soon..."
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Where'd that come from?
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No idea, but we totally can. Like, at any time. We are the only state in the US that has the privilege to either divide into five states, or leave entirely. We're also big enough and totally self-sufficient to hold up well.
We won't, most likely, because it's a mutual relationship, us and the US.
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"Being British is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a Belgian beer, then traveling home, grabbing an Indian curry or a
Turkish kebab on the way, to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV."
Jesus Christ this is spot on, and I'm not even British!
I actually wanna see Texas leave the union, just to see what happens to basic training bases. :p
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The US military would collapse, and we'd be the new #1.
Us and our fundamentalist, monkey-outlawing, Christian leaders.
Also, the "steers and queers" joke might fall off the map.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJcparImeQ&feature=player_embedded
More ppl liek this plz
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Well, you pretty much openly hate the US, so there's that too.
Say what you want about us, Brits - at least our people aren't pissed off enough to set the capital city on fire!
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024358/UK-RIOTS-2011-Sikhs-defend-temple-locals-protect-pubs-Britons-defy-rioters.html
LONDON: I choose you, POLICE!
<POLICE does nothing>
LONDON: That's enough POLICE! Go, Aging-Sikh-Men!
<AGING SIKH MEN use SWORD ATTACK>
It's very effective.
RIOTERS ran away.
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More proof that there is nothing that can't be boiled down into basically a Pokemon battle.
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See, for as many issues of racism as all this brings up, the Sikhs are still wonderful people. Seriously, when you're not white and the EDL says you're alright really, you know you're welcome.
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There's nothing that says community bonding more than killing off rioters with swords.
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I'm a fan.
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Wondering what you guys think of this article...
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/peteroborne/100100708/the-moral-decay-of-our-society-is-as-bad-at-the-top-as-the-bottom/
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I took Lucas's comment in a completely different way before I actually looked at the article.
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You're not alone, AFL. I did too.
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It was a tl;dr for me.
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I read the first couple paragraphs and knew what the rest of the article would be about, so I didn't have to read further. Yay for being lazy.
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I took Lucas [...] in a completely different way[...]
You're not alone, AFL. I did too.
I should be an editor for a magazine.
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I don't openly hate the US!
Lies, lies, blatant lies.
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Why do riots like this in London have to spark? It is for political agenda? Or it is just for fun? The main cause of the riot remains unclear to everybody. But this time is not the time for asking, blaming and non-sense arguments. What everybody should do is to rise again from where they have fallen. London is in a big mess, and it needs restoration. Much has been made of the role Twitter and alternative social networking online websites took part in spreading the ongoing riots in London and other parts of the U.K.. But Twitter and Facebook are also linked to cleansing the violence-torn roads. The social media is being used to rally countless volunteers in the effort. Even [personal loans couldn’t be used to buy that much help in either direction.
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Hahahahahahahaha!! What a hilarious bot response! I want to pick it apart for so many reasons. I like how it disses personal
loans, but also provides a link to them. Bad-mouthing your own product is the way to go. Now get of our forums, you automated
c**t.
EDIT: Being a youth that is interesting in making RPGs, personal loans really interest me. You've picked a great target audience.
I'd like to send a message out. If there's someone reading this who makes new accounts, or someone who checks feedback, we're
not all spastic. We have common neurological functions and brains, allowing us to see (extremely easily, may I add) that many of
these new members are just bots. Why would we accidentally click on an advert for water cooling systems or something? Are you out
of your minds? We're not moronic. GOD! These bots are just so annoying. ARGGGHHH!!!!!!
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I edited out the link but I'll leave the bot post because that's just amazing. I think the bot revolution got a lot more interesting when they learned to contextualize.
Riot seems to be good and over by now.
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It's been over for a couple of days. People stopped stealing things when they realised that the police had got their act together and were now hauling in scumbags at a record rate.
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I don't openly hate the all US citizens and newborn babies!
Well, well... Finally, some honesty around here.
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They didn't riot in Hull because they knew I lived here ;)
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Epic bot. I nominate him for new poster of the year.
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Oh my god, this is just as xkcd has predicted (sans the CAPTCHA part).
Mission ****ing accomplished indeed.
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I'm loving XKCD more now than ever.
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One can only hope
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Your sentence should end with a question mark, since it's a question.
Just so you know.
So, yeah, the riots... how's it going? Anything new?
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Yeah, as you can see, I clearly am one to follow the news.
I guess you can go back to that bot discussion, then.
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Aw, who deleted the second bot post.
I don't usually delete specific bot posts, but I do delete their accounts and all posts with it. So it might have been me seeing a bot post in another thread, not being amused, and deleting the account.
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Care to sum it up for those of us who missed it?