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#8421 Coco with marshmallows

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 10:27 PM

Obdigore, on 09 August 2011 - 10:25 PM, said:

Really? CNN was claiming he is back and is calling some emergency meeting of the parliment even though they are on summer break like schoolchildren.

He is.

Now.

After THREE NIGHTS RUNNING of rioting.

which kind of irritates.

meh. Link was dead :(

#8422 stone monkey

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Posted 09 August 2011 - 10:29 PM

He got back this morning. The first riots were on Saturday night. Even if he'd left it for the Met to handle on the first night he should have been back on at least Monday morning, after the second night of rioting. Presumably he had a bottle of a cheeky little chianti that he just couldn't bear to leave...

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:12 AM

@Loki: wow

I'm glad Matador is okay! Wish I could do something to help...

Re UK Riots: wow, just wow, one of my cousins lives in one of the areas affected, they are ok, but my aunt is freaking out entirely and telling them to move home... I hope the situation improves soon for everyone!

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:30 AM

Spines are notoriously evil.

I really, really, really, really, really DON'T WANT TO BE STUDYING.

But, alas, I suppose (since I'm on here) I'm not being as efficient as I could be...

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Peopleare harrasing me... grrrrrh.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 03:34 AM

I saw a FB status by some little arse laughing at them taking three nights of rioting to not even destroy London and saying they managed to destroy Manchester in two hours followed up by 'we are the people' in capitals, should expect nothing less from some one who has stated the middle name as being ulster but fucking hell.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 03:38 AM

Have not heard from my gf's cousin who lives in Manchester yet...we sent her a message earlier hoping she's okay. Kinda freaking my gf out though that we've heard nada yet.

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#8427 caladanbrood

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 08:02 AM

Illuyankas, on 09 August 2011 - 09:49 PM, said:

caladanbrood, on 09 August 2011 - 09:33 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on 09 August 2011 - 09:20 PM, said:

especially with a very volatile ignition source (Duggan's murder).

I would point out that this has absolutely nothing to do with it whatsoever, especially outside of London. It's opportunistic looting, and not related in any way to a protest against what the MET have done. It's kids looking to get free stuff, thinking they can get away with anything.

So it JUST HAPPENS that the Met murder another person and people protest it like they do all the other murders and it JUST HAPPENS that the Met do their usual method of dealing with these by kettling protesters for provocation purposes and then putting the boot in and deciding the appropriate level of force for a sixteen year old girl throwing things is five fully armoured officers going in batons first and it JUST HAPPENS that the Met's plan works and people begin rioting in retaliation so the Met can provide their excessively violent response to their manufactured situation, and then oh no! More people join in, either in support or for their own reasons and then more do. And then more. And then more, the whole thing snowballing as more and more people who have been shat on for their whole life join in.

Good thing it's completely unrelated, though!

To reply in the same tone - you're completely right, one man getting shot, a man with a gun who had a known history with police, entirely justifies little shits in Manchester deciding they want a free TV, and more twats in Birmingham running people over and murdering them because they were trying to stop the looters trashing their community. Wake up and smell the bullshit.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:19 PM

This rioting business is just depressing, even all the way over here in Aus. Also, a friend of mine has an English exchange buddy who's got family there...and is quite worried at present. It's nasty all around.

On a personal note, I'm feverish and just as I was beginning to feel a bit better.

Suck it Errant!

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:27 PM

@Brood: What, assholes rioting and looting in response to assholes rioting in response to the police straight up murdering a guy - you know, the shit they're not meant to do which is in fact illegal - and lying about it then making another riot out of a protest isn't connected? And fuck off with your justified bullshit, I never even implied that. It's a cause, not an excuse.

The number of people who want a police state and mass executions for smashing a window and stealing a TV is royally rogering my groove.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:33 PM

Why jump straight to executions? Just round them up.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 12:58 PM

Illuyankas, on 10 August 2011 - 12:27 PM, said:

I said this in the other thread...but I'll say it here too Illy cause you just don't seem to be SEEING it.

Duggan HAD a GUN. Got that? He had a fucking gun. The ONLY reason to HAVE a GUN is to use it. I don't care if he didn't use it in this instance or not...he fucking had one, and at some point (maybe not that day) he was likely going to fire it at someone...that someone is now safe.

And don't you DARE think that you know what happened in that situation with him...you weren't there to see who shot at whom so you have no ground for your high horse to stand on when you don't (nor do ANY of us) have the facts about what happened in that Altercation with the Trident gun squad...

the fact we DO have is that Duggan had a gun...that he was CARRYING. End of story. How you seem to keep glossing over that fact and go straight to "the police murdered him!" and skip the fact that he was armed really baffles me. Though I guess believing the media spin is something some people subscribe to. But stop using this is a point Illy, cause it not only doesn't hold water as nothing is proven about what happened, but glossing over the unregistered WEAPON OF FUCKING DEATH is not on man.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 01:04 PM

Hey, how about taking this out of the Groove thread? This is a place for whinging and commiseration, not argument.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 01:11 PM

King Kazma, on 10 August 2011 - 12:58 PM, said:

Illuyankas, on 10 August 2011 - 12:27 PM, said:

I read the report the IPCC released. The Met lied about the death of a man. He never fired his gun, he never even had it in his hand, it remained in the sock he'd stashed it in. The only shots fired were police bullets from police firearms. The Met's statement was released uncharacteristically early for whatever reason and the reaction to that was the trigger to this whole shebang. Again, ownership of a gun is not a licence for them to be killed offhand. Send him to prison! Convict him for years! Murder is not the first and only stop on dealing with criminals.

But Shiara's right, let's move the yelling to the appropriate place.

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Posted 10 August 2011 - 01:17 PM

The IPCC haven't yet released a report, merely an interim statement. He didn't need to fire in order to justify them shooting him. If he was reaching for his gun, that would constitute a lethal threat. Wait for the actual report mayhaps?

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