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Re: UK riots

Post by seckle » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:26 pm

Uk rioting through the ages....
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/op ... 55535.html

Didn't know that in the 1600's, rioting forced King Charles the 1st to abandon London. Heavy...

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Re: UK riots

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Post by hugh » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:37 pm

nah I would imagine most people would agree that video was terribly embarassing.
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Post by Mr Hyde » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:40 pm

seckle wrote:Uk rioting through the ages....
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/op ... 55535.html

Didn't know that in the 1600's, rioting forced King Charles the 1st to abandon London. Heavy...
...well, it got worse for him- he had his head cut off! hasn't always been a monarchy here.

yeah, plenty of riots in London, the best one:
Riots in 1743 against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself

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Re: UK riots

Post by jugo » Fri Aug 12, 2011 5:51 pm

hugh wrote:nah I would imagine most people would agree that video was terribly embarassing.
everything supermassive raver does is embarrassing - that's the point

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Post by magma » Fri Aug 12, 2011 6:09 pm

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seckle wrote:Uk rioting through the ages....
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/op ... 55535.html

Didn't know that in the 1600's, rioting forced King Charles the 1st to abandon London. Heavy...
...well, it got worse for him- he had his head cut off! hasn't always been a monarchy here.

yeah, plenty of riots in London, the best one:
Riots in 1743 against Gin Taxes and other legislation to control the Gin Craze, principally the Gin Act 1736; rioting was fuelled by consumption of the drink itself
We used to be excellent at rioting. Read a pretty exhaustive History of London (Peter Ackroyd) this year and the stuff on the Gordon Riots is amazing. That's the last time I reckon Britons rioted for essentially "no reason" (no political motive, I mean). They burned down Newgate Prison* and The Clink by London Bridge. That was much larger numbers than this though... tens of thousands.


*leading to one of my favourite bits of human behaviour. A lot of the prisoners returned to the prison once it was safe and just curled up on the ground in the ashes of their cell even though the place had been cleared of guards, locks and walls... it was their home and someone had burnt it the fuck down. They didn't want freeing. Odd!
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Re: UK riots

Post by capo ultra » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:36 pm

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hugh wrote:nah I would imagine most people would agree that video was terribly embarassing.
everything supermassive raver does is embarrassing - that's the point
I don't understand, are you supposed to think 'that was shit' but then chuckle in some post ironic fashion or something? Genuinely puzzled by that video
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Re: UK riots

Post by jugo » Fri Aug 12, 2011 11:54 pm

capo ultra wrote:
jugo wrote:
hugh wrote:nah I would imagine most people would agree that video was terribly embarassing.
everything supermassive raver does is embarrassing - that's the point
I don't understand, are you supposed to think 'that was shit' but then chuckle in some post ironic fashion or something? Genuinely puzzled by that video
i'm not sure what it's about either - he just does it to be strange i think

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Re: UK riots

Post by Inanimate » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:08 am

BBC 3 right now.

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Post by nousd » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:20 am

How come the rioters are being so quickly & (relatively) harshly dealt with, when the financial oligarchy, whose actions have been far more damaging to society, still escape legal censure?
This haste & lack of proper consideration in the dealing with the disgruntled may cater to the clammering fearful but how does it foster confidence in the fairness of the justice system?
Disempowered masses go down swiftly...avaricious elite escape responsibility, yet again.
It is redolent of the solution found in C18th England for the dispossessed & unemployed (as wealth began concentrating in the hands of industrialists) who turned to petty crime...send em as slaves to the USA & Australia. Not so easy this time.
Is British democracy more concerned with stability than equity & justice?
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Post by SK3W3R » Sat Aug 13, 2011 12:51 am

i think this guy got it completely on point
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Re: UK riots

Post by capo ultra » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:57 am

"If you want nice clothes or a new TV, you don't smash shop windows and loot them - you work and pay for them."


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Re: UK riots

Post by kay » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:42 am

sd5 wrote:How come the rioters are being so quickly & (relatively) harshly dealt with, when the financial oligarchy, whose actions have been far more damaging to society, still escape legal censure?
This haste & lack of proper consideration in the dealing with the disgruntled may cater to the clammering fearful but how does it foster confidence in the fairness of the justice system?
Disempowered masses go down swiftly...avaricious elite escape responsibility, yet again.
It is redolent of the solution found in C18th England for the dispossessed & unemployed (as wealth began concentrating in the hands of industrialists) who turned to petty crime...send em as slaves to the USA & Australia. Not so easy this time.
Is British democracy more concerned with stability than equity & justice?
OMG. The rioting has actually been severe enough to cause sd5 to break from conventional phrasing! It truly has much greater repercussions than anything that has gone on before!

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Re: UK riots

Post by LA_Boxers » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:54 am

kay wrote:
sd5 wrote:How come the rioters are being so quickly & (relatively) harshly dealt with, when the financial oligarchy, whose actions have been far more damaging to society, still escape legal censure?
This haste & lack of proper consideration in the dealing with the disgruntled may cater to the clammering fearful but how does it foster confidence in the fairness of the justice system?
Disempowered masses go down swiftly...avaricious elite escape responsibility, yet again.
It is redolent of the solution found in C18th England for the dispossessed & unemployed (as wealth began concentrating in the hands of industrialists) who turned to petty crime...send em as slaves to the USA & Australia. Not so easy this time.
Is British democracy more concerned with stability than equity & justice?
OMG. The rioting has actually been severe enough to cause sd5 to break from conventional phrasing! It truly has much greater repercussions than anything that has gone on before!
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Re: UK riots

Post by clifford_- » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:55 am

its still sort of phrased though. more so than any of my posts!
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Re: UK riots

Post by kay » Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:09 pm

Anyone watched the Live "Debate" on C4? Some right proper twats in that, no wonder everything's shit. Also, kinda a waste to call it a debate when no one was allowed to debate anything because they didn't have enough time! Some good points got stated though.

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Re: UK riots

Post by seckle » Sat Aug 13, 2011 10:50 pm

New York's finest in LDN. Wow...speechless.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2 ... lling.html

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