[Cactusman]

Is it calming down yet? Its peaceful where I am, for now.

[Jsm]

http://twitter.com/#!/CarolineFW/sta...85722515808257

Haha, so true.

Edited:

Cactusman posted:

Is it calming down yet?

Not at all it seems.

[Rage.]

cr2142 posted:

Also. Sky news was just talking to a man that had a family business since around the Victorian years and the building got burn'd down, and they couldn't say anything because they were so devastated...


These fucking kids should show a little respect...

This is the bit that gets to me the most.
Fair enough if you're burning bins and shit. But when you start burning innocent people's well earned possessions it gets fucking disrespectful.

I'm not fully for these riots, but neither am I against them. But I think when innocent people who don't want to be involved start getting their houses and cars burnt down, and even more so hurt, it gets disgusting.

I really don't know where I stand on these riots.

Edited:

Also, inb4 curfews and shit.

[Bytecry]

strayebyrd posted:

To be honest I'm morally bankrupt so I probably would loot if I was there, may as well take advantage of the situation as one person'll hardly make it worse.

My friends already have stolen some iPods and Macbooks. Also one of my friends has a photo of tons of CD.

Off Topic: HMV was looted but Cher Lloyds Swagger Jagger was untouched.

[Murkat]

Stockers678 posted:

This is the moment when the bus burst into flames (at least according to Twitter)

The explosion looks so fuzzy and furry. I just wanna pet it over and over.

[Appolox]

Jsm posted:

Start a riot to get one.

Edited:

Just saw this posted on Garry's twitter feed, I laughed.

http://twitpic.com/633lsf

For muscles and shit, because he gonna need them in prison

[Jsm]

Some more funny stuff from Twitter.
http://twitpic.com/634n3z

I am liking the polar bear idea.

[Terminutter]

Rage. posted:

I really don't know where I stand on these riots.

I don't even fully know what the riots are about, other than something linking them to a gunman who attacked a police officer and was shot.

[Occlusion]

strayebyrd posted:

To be honest I'm morally bankrupt so I probably would loot if I was there, may as well take advantage of the situation as one person'll hardly make it worse.

You are a cunt.

[smurfy]

Ray-The-Sun posted:

Too long and smart for the Daily Mail. Also, it's nowhere near as racist as it would be for them. It'll end up something like...
"GOLLYWOGS BLOW UP GLORIOUS LONDON"

They could go for something simple like "NIGGERS" and and a picture of a single black rioter cropped out from a crowd

[frankie penis]

well shit, wolverhampton and walsall are apparently being looted at the moment. both cities are 5-10 minutes away from me. i was meant to be going to the thinktank in birmingham tomorrow, but everythings fucked up now.

[Rage.]

Terminutter posted:

I don't even know what the riots are about, other than something linking them to a gunman who attacked a police officer and was shot.

That's how it started, then I guess it spread to a full on attack towards the government.

[Cactusman]

The weatherman again!

[Jsm]

frankie penis posted:

well shit, wolverhampton and walsall are apparently being looted at the moment. both cities are 5-10 minutes away from me. i was meant to be going to the thinktank in birmingham tomorrow, but everythings fucked up now.

Blame Garry

[Terminutter]

Well, if it spreads down here, all I have to worry about is the large number of OAPs in the area, and a high street consisting of charity shops.

I'm fucked...

[strayebyrd]

Occlusion posted:

You are a cunt.

well yeah, I kind of thought the "morally bankrupt" part of my quote pretty much summed that up.

[Carne]

:(

Aaron Biber, 89, assesses the damage to his hairdressing salon after riots on Tottenham High Road on August 7, 2011. (Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

[Scot]

smurfy posted:

They could go for something simple like "NIGGERS" and and a picture of a single black rioter cropped out from a crowd

I wouldn't put it past them to be honest.

[Deiru]

I wish the news would report on what is going on at the Children's Hospital. I hear a lot of rumours, but nothing solid.

[Ray-The-Sun]

smurfy posted:

They could go for something simple like "NIGGERS" and and a picture of a single black rioter cropped out from a crowd

I was gonna go with that, but that seems like The Sun territory (See: "Gotcha" and "Did 1,200 Argies really drown?" headlines). Also, I was really paranoid of a racism ban.

[LewyJudge12]

I wonder if this will spread to Liverpool.

Then again, if it does nothing will happen except high-pitched male teens screaming "FUCKING COME ON THEN" with their bandanas over their faces, wearing their trackies and dragging around their obese pitbulls.

[Scot]

Carne posted:

:(

Wow, fucking assholes. What can they possibly gain from a salon?

[Jsm]

I am not sure what the legality of embedding unreleased Getty images is so I will just link to it.

http://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/...ty-Images-News

Doesn't look like something you would expect from the UK at all to be honest.

(apart from the can in his hand).

[Jcorp]

Carne posted:

:(

Those BASTARDS

[Appolox]

Carne posted:

:(

This makes me so damn sad now.

[Rage.]

LewyJudge12 posted:

I wonder if this will spread to Liverpool.

Then again, if it does nothing will happen except high-pitched male teens screaming "FUCKING COME ON THEN" with their bandanas over their faces, wearing their trackies and dragging around their obese pitbulls.

Living in that area, I completely know what you're talking about, and agree.

[Dacheet]

It's times like this I miss Hezzy. We could use his insight.

[Carne]

Honestly though, the police should just charge all the rioters they see and beat the shit out of them/arrest them.

[Appolox]

Carne posted:

Honestly though, the police should just charge all the rioters they see and beat the shit out of them/arrest them.

This will produce more violence, bigger rioting.

[Dacheet]

Deiru posted:

I wish the news would report on what is going on at the Children's Hospital. I hear a lot of rumours, but nothing solid.

What's happening?

[smurfy]

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/n...ham-riots.html

A police constable told the London Evening Standard that the youths at the centre of the violence may have been tempted to re-enact scenes from Rockstar's controversial gaming franchise.

[Jsm]

Dacheet posted:

It's times like this I miss Hezzy. We could use his insight.

It would be interesting to have the input of someone who actually does know what they are talking about.

[strayebyrd]

Carne posted:

:(

What is the point? if you're mad at big business, attack the fucking HMV, what is there to gain in attacking a privately owned salon run by a local man, which hardly looks like it would have harbored anything expensive in the first place.

[LewyJudge12]

Rage. posted:

Living in that area, I completely know what you're talking about, and agree.

Your FB picture made me laugh due to our current conversation

[Jsm]

smurfy posted:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/gaming/n...ham-riots.html

A police constable told the London Evening Standard that the youths at the centre of the violence may have been tempted to re-enact scenes from Rockstar's controversial gaming franchise.

If that was the case they would have 5 stars by now and would have been raped by a tank.


What a load of fucking bullshit.

[frankie penis]

do the police in this county have those slug pellet type guns?

like the hard rubber balls that hurt like fuck if they get shot at you.

[Carne]

Appolox posted:

This will produce more violence, bigger rioting.

They should at least arrest as many as possible.

[Drakehawke]

Deiru posted:

I wish the news would report on what is going on at the Children's Hospital. I hear a lot of rumours, but nothing solid.

You know what rumours are like, I bet it was originally "riots are only around the corner from a childrens hospital", and is now "rioters trash children hospital".

[theenemy]

LewyJudge12 posted:

I wonder if this will spread to Liverpool.

Then again, if it does nothing will happen except high-pitched male teens screaming "FUCKING COME ON THEN" with their bandanas over their faces, wearing their trackies and dragging around their obese pitbulls.

The riots in the early 80's pretty much started there. If this has the power to spread to Birmingham I don't doubt it will.

Which is a real shame because I'm going there tomorrow to visit family overnight :ohdear:

[Rage.]

LewyJudge12 posted:

Your FB picture made me laugh due to our current conversation

Haha, totally forgot. Maybe I can join in with them.