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Jordan 08-09-2011 06:36 AM

Nottingham is about half an hour away from where I live. I wonder how long it'll take before some stupid fuck starts in my area. Fucking hell.

Havoc 08-09-2011 06:42 AM

:lol:

Wil 08-09-2011 06:46 AM

I have the pleasure of being in a high-class little market town. If anyone starts rioting here it'll be because Waitrose ran out of elderflower cordial.

Having said that, they don't stock canola oil, which pisses me off. Time to get my Heinekan parasol out?

Havoc 08-09-2011 09:14 AM

Heineken*

jumper 08-09-2011 09:47 AM

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Riots have broken out where i live, Nottingham.
http://www.impactnottingham.com/2011...in-nottingham/

So yeah, whereabouts in Nottingham? I'm away from Notts at the moment; I can't imagine it will be anywhere near where I live, but I still use central Nottingham and have friends elsewhere :/

STM 08-09-2011 09:53 AM

It's cooling down, the mobs are smaller this evening, I think things are cooling down.

Bullet Magnet 08-09-2011 11:34 AM

Phew, busy busy day. I must have started six fires.

MeechCrunchies 08-09-2011 11:49 AM

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Phew, busy busy day. I must have started six fires.

I can't tell if you're trolling...:fuzconf:

STM 08-09-2011 11:51 AM

How did you start the combustion Bullet Magnet, a cunning scientific exothermic reaction? Was there caesium involved?

moxco 08-09-2011 11:56 AM


Jordan 08-09-2011 12:11 PM

Moxco that video was posted earlier. I've been really worried all day, I know I shouldn't have been but it's still unnerving that it could happen anywhere. Hopefully it'll die down soon. My cousin and his boyfriend are in London and we haven't heard anything from them yet.

Bullet Magnet 08-09-2011 12:14 PM

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How did you start the combustion Bullet Magnet, a cunning scientific exothermic reaction? Was there caesium involved?

I provided the activation energy of a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons (mostly C4-C12) using a rapidly oxidising coat of red phosphorus on the tip of a short stick of pine. Which I ignited with an argon laser.

STM 08-09-2011 12:34 PM

Ah fair enough, I prefer the good old Fe2O3 + 2Al -> 2Fe + Al2O3 equation given activation energy from C3H8 in a pressurised tank and a spark emitting device.

Bullet Magnet 08-09-2011 12:51 PM

You've always been too flashy.

Nate 08-09-2011 09:50 PM

Apparently communities are pulling together to clean up the mess and oppose the rioting. I find this wonderful and inspiring.

Pilot 08-09-2011 10:04 PM

It's been a long time coming. The people are quite simply tired of being dominated, and it's gone on for ever.

This doesn't excuse looting, but what I see is the death of this young man being the straw that broke the camels back. Let's face it, the domination has been growing worse, this seems a natural reaction to the oppression, however small the apparent "surface cause" may seem.

Havoc 08-10-2011 02:32 AM

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It's been a long time coming. The people are quite simply tired of being dominated, and it's gone on for ever.

This doesn't excuse looting, but what I see is the death of this young man being the straw that broke the camels back. Let's face it, the domination has been growing worse, this seems a natural reaction to the oppression, however small the apparent "surface cause" may seem.

This has jack shit to do with oppression. This is just a bunch of uneducated worthless chavs using the death of some random guy they didn't know as an excuse to riot and loot. There is no excuse for this bullshit. Not in a wealthy country like the UK.

Wil 08-10-2011 02:44 AM

Except large swathes of people in these areas aren't wealthy, they don't have access to jobs or education, they have no life prospects. Yes, what the rioters are doing is wrong and terrible, but don't let thoughts of revenge and retaliation distract from the underlying causal factor of underserviced and alienated communities.

Crashpunk 08-10-2011 03:24 AM

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So yeah, whereabouts in Nottingham? I'm away from Notts at the moment; I can't imagine it will be anywhere near where I live, but I still use central Nottingham and have friends elsewhere :/

http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/139/snottingham.png

Its slap bang in the middle of England, East Middlands.

MeechMunchie 08-10-2011 04:22 AM

I've heard views that the looting is just the inevitable point society reaches when we all have nice stuff we can't afford shoved in our faces for years.

MeechCrunchies 08-10-2011 05:45 AM

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I've heard views that the looting is just the inevitable point society reaches when we all have nice stuff we can't afford shoved in our faces for years.

The wise one speaks truth.
I would be willing to be money that the US will have it's turn soon..

jumper 08-10-2011 08:49 AM

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Its slap bang in the middle of England, East Middlands.

I know that <_< I said where in Nottingham, not where is Nottingham. I'm from Nottingham for Christ's sake, and was wondering where any rioting was. And from what I gather, it was in St. Anns, which does not surprise me.

Pilot 08-10-2011 04:17 PM

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This has jack shit to do with oppression. This is just a bunch of uneducated worthless chavs using the death of some random guy they didn't know as an excuse to riot and loot. There is no excuse for this bullshit. Not in a wealthy country like the UK.

It is also about that, but worldwide, it is about MORE than that. You'll always have the looters and people jumping in to take advantage during a revolutionary action.

Nate 08-10-2011 04:33 PM

You really can't try to link this to the Jasmine Revolution, Pilot. These people aren't trying to Change The System or protesting the government's policies. They're just doing it so that people know they exist. Or possibly because they just don't have much better to do.

This editorial sums it up really well.

Dynamithix 08-11-2011 03:08 AM

This rioting is just getting out of hand!


Wil 08-11-2011 04:15 AM

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This rioting is just getting out of hand!

That's the minimum requirement of a riot.

Havoc 08-11-2011 05:18 AM

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp...qajlo1_500.png

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp...qajlo1_500.jpg

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp...qajlo1_500.png

Silly Brits...

Ridg3 08-11-2011 08:07 AM



Anyone friends with Lorne Lanning on Facebook may have already have seen this. If you haven't, watch it. Now.

STM 08-11-2011 09:26 AM

What does the girl say at the end of that video? Also, I'm not too sure what to think about that video, is certainly puts a new perspective on the mentality of 'some' of the rioters.

Dynamithix 08-11-2011 12:12 PM

I hate how the interviewer doesn't let him speak.