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now, there's a trend i can get with.

I think what nobody has mentioned yet is the fact that 95 percent of the rioters and looters have nothing to do with the initial 'cause.' People just very easily become overwhelmed with their surroundings, and scared to be the rational, civilized person in a reckless situation, they join the small albeit powerful community.its why people join gangs in bad neighborhoods. The smallest thing I can relate it to is like turning off a lawn mower. Its loud, but you make nothing of it until you turn it off. Then, the silence is deafening and you think, 'wow, the drone of the engine really made me space out and not really think of anything' multiply that times 10000 and that's why so many people went batshit at the first lootings. You just turn mindless when you're faced with such an abstract situation.

I find myself being pulled towards the mindless in regards to real life, myself.

The abstract requires an awful lot of thought in comparison.

yeah this is insanely dumb. it's tough to think about until it directly affects you...
this is about the most mild way it could have affected me - no doubt i didn't lose my business or get injured over there - but:
http://pitchfork.com/news/43474-sonypia ... n-uk-riots

snipelfritz wrote:but on a dumb superficial level it's very difficult to think about English people and not picture either tea-sippping fancy-pants or newspaper wielding Dickens characters.

Either that or a stereotypical East Ender with a raging cockney accent. Or maybe football hooligans.

Or like, Shakespeare and stuff.

the first time i went to Europe in 1990 i found myself surprised that everything wasn't grainy and black and white and full of bullet holes like 16mm footage from documentaries about WWII.

When I was really young, I really thought that the world used to be black&white up until the late 50s.

culturejam wrote:When I was really young, I really thought that the world used to be black&white up until the late 50s.

My dad used to tell me that's how it was all the time.

You're name isn't Calvin, is it?

gotta love Calvin and Hobbes

I imagine the only good thing about having kids is being able to feed them all kinds of B.S. like this.

My name is Mudd wrote:You're name isn't Calvin, is it?

No he did it because of calvin and hobbes though. I think I have all of them somewhere.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ipcc-may-misle ... 36315.html

"It was initially reported that Mr Duggan, 29, shot at police. But ballistic tests later found that a bullet which lodged itself in one officer’s radio was police issue."

so much for the stereotype of the 'umble bumble "wots all this then?" british cop

i thought that stereotype was over with a couple of years ago when they chased the Brazilian dude into the Underground and double-capped him in the head because they incorrectly thought he was a jihadi terror bomber. The Bill of Rights: They Don't Have It In The UK™!

Wait, I thought cops in the UK didn't carry guns. Did I just make that up?