Malcador

Well some of the funny things the rioters/hoodlums/feral rats/chaos cultists say, or at least what I think, not a very good transcript. Q "Why have you been stealing? A "Why you gonna miss the opportunity to get free stuff, that's like worth load of money?" Q "So you're saying you could afford some of this stuff?" A "Yeah we could but we're not a part of that " (I have no idea what he says past yeah we could ) Q "What is this about?" A "The government obviously, taking away...obviously kids don't wanna go college no more cause they don't get paid in it" Q So the fact you're knicking shoes that you could probably afford to buy..that's about the government ? I don't understand A No it's that the government aren't in control cause if they were we wouldn't be doing it would we ? (I think he says that) Q So...because the government can't stop you doing it...that's why you're doing it ? A [unintelligible] How many people have they arrested ? like 10 ? I'm not really bothered I'll keep doing this everyday until I get caught Q What about people's families ? Does your family know where you are tonight? A Na na... Q Where do they think you are ? A Just out ... A I told mine that I'm here. Said get home, is in trouble, I said no just [untelligible] Q So your parents know you're here A Yeah but they can't get started, can't get me...and when I get home, nothin's gonna happen to me, not gonna get grounded or shouted at, well might get shouted at but that's it. I'll just lift it up and keep doing it Q Tell me, really, what on EARTH are you doing here? If you get caught... you'll get a criminal record A Nahh this'll be my first offence. I've not been in trouble before so..I'm not really bothered. I'll take the caution..exactly..the prisons are overcrowded what they gonna do ? give me asbo ? I'll I'll lift it up A I've seen kids younger than me, little girls younger than me running into shops Q What do you think about that? A That's wrong, little kids shouldn't be doing it... Q .. but it's alright for older kids to be doing it ? A Well obviously it's not right.. Q Wait let's just examine that...you say it's not alright so why are you doing it ? A Well just cause everyone else's doing it really... He then asks them well if someone stole all their stuff they'd be outraged and they say "Exactly!" .

Well, hope the surgery goes ok with her when it happens.

Damn, I can barely understand some of their accents. But yeah, some of them are gold.

Well to be fair he handled it well. No flouncing off or /exit'ing!

There were some brilliant interviews with rioters yesterday on BBC. The "we'll respect you when you respect us back" and "Well we're showing them (rich?) that we can do what we like" ones were the most amusing.

Really ? My friends going for M.ASc/Ph.D have nothing but positives about it. Mind you, is Engineering so they're used to the workload from undergrad, heh. Am amazed at how douchebag-ey the suits are in this building, one was yelling the girl in the coffee shop because...she didn't know where some office in the building was, heh. At least watching her shrug in response was a nice start to the day.

Always best to look at worst case for things? Damn bandwidth caps, have to make sure I keep 8 or so unused by the 24-25th

Hm maybe, have got good results out of bashing a cousin with the edge. Baseball bat would probably hurt more, I guess.

I'd have thought they'd have used cricket bats, wonder which one is more damaging.

Duggan apparently did not shoot at the police - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/09/m...gan-police-ipcc

http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/...ind-london-riot Well "riot is the rhyme of the unheard" as the song goes. Largely I suspect that's a load of BS in this case anyway.

I wouldn't say they're subdued. Sure they don't have psycho ultras like in Italy or Brazil, but there's still the usual "hurl abuse at opposing fans' type of thing. And they riot in the playoffs when they win

Well they have marching season and other things in NI, and they've had the G20. So not the exact same kind of riot, but not so different that the individual officers have no idea of what to do. Police haven't been using any gas, water cannons or rubber bullets yet, so there's still that for them to try.

In that case, just get riot police who are trained and are accustomed to using that kind of gear and type of work. The motivation for calling for the military I sense from the ones I've heard calling for it is just to escalate the force or threat of force.

Yeah, they definitely need to pull them back from Afghanistan for this. They put some soldiers on the street, then all some idiot needs to do is make a sound like a gunshot.

Despite not having heard the song in years can't get "Blue Suede Shoes" out of my head. Odd, but another day of working while listening to riot coverage as dull as it is.

The official forums must be lapping that up, heh.

Oh nice they spoke to Farage of the UKIP, heh. Bring in the army "under police command".

Was funny to hear on that BBC feed "COBRA will be meeting today.."

Well by now, that's money already spent no ? There's still a fair chunk to be spent before the Olympics lands.. and more to be spent during the Olympics.... Ahhh ok. Had thought the majority of it would have been sunk in by work done or contracts. Well, IOC says London is safe for the games (once they deploy all those guards and soldiers). Reminds me, our city has a $700 million deficit and hosting the Pan-Am games in 4 years.

Well by now, that's money already spent no ?

Luckily for them RIM will never turn over data to a governmental agency. Maybe this'll die down once football season starts this weekend ?

You really think that ?

We'll just need an Adblock for our games - course that'll get labelled as piracy long enough . Still, eye-roll inducing to see that though as it's a bit tacky to see in a game you've paid for, heh, but companies are what they are. Swedish PCG gave it 94%, blah blah as good as the original, boss fights suck, etc.

Well, they know how to riot, not like those wussies in Vancouver and TO Still, interesting to hear the police can't use rubber bullets or tear gas without the Home Secretary's direction ?