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Brixton violence and looting (7th Aug 2011)

I dunno what you're playing at butchers. What was the stuff that people were laughing at, this idea you mentioned? Would it be too much to ask for something a bit more specific than "stuff" and "idea"?
 
Pickman's model said:
you're quite right. everyone should have gone out rioting last night and we'd all have free shopping. people who have to work in the morning unlikely to nip out for a bit of last minute rioting at this time on a monday morning.
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Indeed. Ain't they got homes to go to?
 
TruXta said:
I dunno what you're playing at butchers. What was the stuff that people were laughing at, this idea you mentioned? Would it be too much to ask for something a bit more specific than "stuff" and "idea"?
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Why did you reply? Did you get caught out? No worries. You can't be everywhere all the time.
 
I've seriously got no idea what you're talking about Butchers. Which seems fitting since I replied because I didn't get what you were referring to in the first place. Again, what stuff and ideas were laughed at?
 
TruXta said:
I've seriously got no idea what you're talking about Butchers. Which seems fitting since I replied because I didn't get what you were referring to in the first place. Again, what stuff and ideas were laughed at?
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Why did you ask me if i thought there had been a riot? You must have had some pretty strong interpretative structure to ask me that question in reply to the post on this board that nothing could happen unless they saw it. Or, at the very least me arguing that there had been a riot, Or, at the pathetic last, someone on the thread arguing that there had been.

And you ain't got the last two.
 
You misunderstand. I didn't ask you if you thought there had been a riot. I asked you if the "idea" and "stuff" that people had "laughed at" was that there was a riot going on. Capiche?
 
TruXta said:
You misunderstand. I didn't ask you if you thought there had been a riot. I asked you if the "idea" and "stuff" that people had "laughed at" was that there was a riot going on. Capiche?
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No you did not. That only makes sense if i'm arguing that it was a riot against people who were arguing that it wasn't. I didn't mention a fucking riot. Why ask me

I mentioned that the it can't happen because i can't see it types have just been burnt out. What else can't they see?
 
quimcunx said:
I meant the police were! Hope you feel better.
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Oh i see what u mean. It looked to us from our roof that the police were pushing the rioters out of central Brixton. They as my photos show put up lines of coppers to stop people and traffic entering the cleared area.

I could see that there was people running up and down the High street. So it looks to me that the police were containing central Brixton and not the high street or Currys.

Maybe they did not have enough police. At one point I saw the cops start to put on there riot gear and then rush off in the vans. I guess the rioters were moving around a lot and the police were sure not where they would be next. A lot of cops were just standing there guarding the streets they had cleared. So could not move elsewhere. This would gradually tie up a lot of there manpower. A problem when policing a fast moving group of people.
 
TruXta said:
I've seriously got no idea what you're talking about Butchers. Which seems fitting since I replied because I didn't get what you were referring to in the first place. Again, what stuff and ideas were laughed at?
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He wants people to have scoffed at the idea that any serious unrest was happening/going to happen in Brixton, followed by serious unrest happening in Brixton, so that he can scoff at those people for having scoffed. The opaque manner in which he does this is to add extra scoffiness. Or, he might be drunk. Or, possibly both of those things. HTH
 
teuchter said:
He wants people to have scoffed at the idea that any serious unrest was happening/going to happen in Brixton, followed by serious unrest happening in Brixton, so that he can scoff at those people for having scoffed. The opaque manner in which he does this is to add extra scoffiness. Or, he might be drunk. Or, possibly both of those things. HTH
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It's called laughter.

edit: note the trap door - 'going' - run run you might escape!
 
loads of people were desperate to say it was kicking off in brixton. Loads of people were swift to say it wasn't and what rot the idea was. Now it has a little bit and might a bit more.
 
Pickman's model said:
you're quite right. everyone should have gone out rioting last night and we'd all have free shopping. people who have to work in the morning unlikely to nip out for a bit of last minute rioting at this time on a monday morning.
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I agree.:)

The bloody helicopter is keeping me awake now as well and Ive got to get up tomorrow morning.

I mean its not exactly full on riot out there now.
 
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