common link to the riots
Aug 10th 2011, 12:09 pm
#106
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Aug 10th 2011, 12:21 pm
#107
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Re: common link to the riots
Your post insinuated that it is a UK problem, bottom line is that it isn't. It happens elsewhere.
Aug 10th 2011, 12:26 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
Not rocket science.
Poverty and hopelessness. Nothing new there.
How many riots do you get among the middle class, no matter what else is going on with their lives?
Poverty and hopelessness. Nothing new there.
How many riots do you get among the middle class, no matter what else is going on with their lives?
Aug 10th 2011, 12:34 pm
#109
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Re: common link to the riots
Don't try and use 'elsewhere' as a smoke screen for what is happening in London.
Aug 10th 2011, 12:55 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
Aug 10th 2011, 1:02 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
Actually I was thinking of the uni students pissing on the Cenotaph, swinging from the Union Flag, smashing up Maccas, the window of the car holding Charles and Camilla etc but never mind. 
Aug 10th 2011, 1:05 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
Oh you can. Middle class England couldn't get by without it.
But yes, I know what you mean. Rockstar children swinging from the flag aren't a proper riot, but at least those riots were about something, despite the hangers on that were just in it for the riot alone. These riots just seem to be down to a total disconnect from the very idea of society. It's taken us some time to grow this lot, they can't be the product of any recent changes alone.
Last edited by Lion in Winter; Aug 10th 2011 at 1:09 pm.
Aug 10th 2011, 1:34 pm
#116
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Re: common link to the riots
Bad example set by our "leaders".
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk
avid_Cameron"Things got a bit out of hand & we'd had a few drinks. We smashed the place up and Boris set fire to the toilets" David Cameron,Oxford,1986
Aug 10th 2011, 1:38 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
There's a difference between mould that you've grown on purpose to eat with digestive biscuits and a nice glass of wine, and mould that is filling up your basement because you never pay any attention to what's going on down there and just throw junk down there to get it out of the way.
Aug 10th 2011, 11:06 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
Aug 10th 2011, 11:34 pm
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Re: common link to the riots
