Keep our English members in mind -

Jordan · #31 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 · #32 08-09-2011, 06:42 AM

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http://boos.audioboo.fm/attachments/...clip_id=434411

Ugh.

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***Wil*** · #33 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 · #34 08-09-2011, 09:14 AM

Heineken*

jumper · #35 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 · #36 08-09-2011, 09:53 AM

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

Bullet Magnet · #37 08-09-2011, 11:34 AM

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

MeechCrunchies · #38 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...

STM · #39 08-09-2011, 11:51 AM

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

moxco · #40 08-09-2011, 11:56 AM

Jordan · #41 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 · #42 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 · #43 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 · #44 08-09-2011, 12:51 PM

You've always been too flashy.

***Nate*** · #45 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 · #46 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 · #47 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*** · #48 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 · #49 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 :/

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

MeechMunchie · #50 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 · #51 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 · #52 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 · #53 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*** · #54 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 · #55 08-11-2011, 03:08 AM

This rioting is just getting out of hand!

***Wil*** · #56 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 · #57 08-11-2011, 05:18 AM

Silly Brits...

Ridg3 · #58 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 · #59 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 · #60 08-11-2011, 12:12 PM

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