Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
I'm quite aware of that. I was taking the piss. I'm often wading through a sea of Metros on the way to work
tube party on june 1st?
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I'm quite aware of that. I was taking the piss. I'm often wading through a sea of Metros on the way to work
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
Well I suppose its cheaper finding one self on the Circle line than say having to travel around India
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
Look how much fun we're having with our products!
You can tell we're fun, you want to be like us, don't you?
Change the booze for fags, change the era to (say) the 1970s and it's the same old story.
indeed.Yep. Just like festivals, gigs, parties, even offices sometimes. People party, stuff gets broken/dirty & it's rarely the ones that make the mess that do the clearing up.
Even the Guardian's reporting is distortedly hysterical.
Crispy
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Oswaldtwistle
Banned
But the cost of clearing up after a festival is included in your ticket. Or those in the case of free parties/gigs the organisers have to do it (i should know I help out with a monthly free event!!). Neither of these applies here.
Sorry to be on the side of the 'Daily Mail' brigade, but this party has been massively counter productive and hasn't helped your 'cause' one little bit........
Sorry to be on the side of the 'Daily Mail' brigade, but this party has been massively counter productive and hasn't helped your 'cause' one little bit........
editor
hiraethified
And the cost of cleaning up the tube is also included in my ticket.
The comparatively minor mess that was made by this one off party pales into absolute insignificance compared to the vast quantities of mess created every single day on tube trains.
So what is your point, exactly?
(*that's not to say that those people shouldn't have cleaned up their mess)
untethered
For industry & decency
I don't think the mess is the major problem.
The major problem is the thousands of people that couldn't get onto their train, off their train or even into their station while considerately going about their legitimate daily business.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
But look what happens when you make a serious effort to eliminate "products":
um.... am i missing the point of this post?
editor
hiraethified
Then blame Boris and his fucking stupid new law.
Fuck me... thats even worse than the other vid i saw. Barley's in there somewhere im sure of it.
What a pack of cunts. Boris must be lovin this.
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
That this is a massive own goal, basically. The people involved in this party have managed to prove just why this law was needed.
editor
hiraethified
Right. So the law was needed to outlaw any relatively minor littering and drunken antics that that may take place in reaction to such a law being introduced?
Have I got that right?
Oswaldtwistle
Banned
We aren't going to agree on this one, Editor, but what you need to consider is the way this will be percieved, in particular by the liberal middle class demographic who might previously have had doubts about this ban on libertarian grounds but now will likely be firmly behind Boris.
All the idiots have done is give Boris justification (in the minds of other idiots) for his idiotic law. The average voter won't draw the distinctions being bandied about here.
He's off to a good start, or thats the way he'll pitch it anyway. Not so much an own goal as an instance of the crowd coming on the pitch and kicking the goalkeeper's head in. Idiots.
He's off to a good start, or thats the way he'll pitch it anyway. Not so much an own goal as an instance of the crowd coming on the pitch and kicking the goalkeeper's head in. Idiots.
scott_forester
probably talking shite
I don't think they were protesting it, I'm pretty sure if you asked most of them what they were going to do after the ban to get it removed they'd say 'nothing'
I took it more as a huge piss take.
Then again when Bob Crow calls you a "disgrace" you know you're in trouble.
sleaterkinney
Well-Known Member
You do you think were the people on the tube last night?. The liberal middle class will never be behind boris.
winjer
holocene death beat
c.f. The internet. Granted it provides an efficient mechanism by which people can bandwagoneer, but that's not the same as being predominantly used for that or by those people.
winjer
holocene death beat
They could of course, but those you suggest are not supported by the facts on the ground.
1. There was no -ve change in crowd dynamics, quite the opposite with the crowd reduced to less than half it's initial numbers, with people drifting away after the sound system left.
2. Entirely possible, but irrelevant to the manner in which it was done, which was the point of my comment. The crowd did not simply get arsey at being moved, the loose line of police could easily have been resisted or walked around, but there was no confrontation until the bottleneck.
(a) Listening to the discussion just prior between the senior BTP, CoLP and Met* cops the choice of tactics seemed to come straight from the Met.
(b) Is it not the case that since J18 the Met takes the lead on public order situations in the City? Or pre-planned only?
Either way, it was the presence of the Met cops that allowed the aggressive tactics to be used, if you feel that given suitable strength of numbers the CoLP and BTP would be just as aggressive, then I won't argue with that
* I believe the collective noun is an indecision of senior officers.
untethered
For industry & decency
If it's all the same to you, I'll blame Boris for his laws and partygoers for their party.
Nothing that Boris has enacted has compelled anyone to go out and hold a huge, selfish, hedonistic party that isn't even an effective protest against the law.
People partied because they wanted to party and thought their "right" to party was more important than other people's right to a peaceful and troublefree journey. That isn't Boris's fault, it's theirs.
Crispy
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I pretty much agree with this. Stupid law, stupid party.
winjer
holocene death beat
There were people clearing up after themselves at Liverpool Street, but as I understand the train above at King's Cross was emptied by the police, including dogs, we'll never know whether those people would have done the same.
How has it been counter-productive at all in terms of the ban? Without the parties would the ban have been dropped as unworkable? Or would it, as it still will, remain in theory but in practice only be very selectively enforced?
Gixxer1000
cant wheelie a shaftie :(
I think people are being to literal on Boris's ban. Personally I believe its a tactic to wrest control of the tube off the unions.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
yep, those agency migrant cleaners on less than the national minimum wage should be grateful that i leave my shit all over the public transport....
included in the cost of your ticket ffs....
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
In What way?
emanymton
A cat politely sat on the flaming gardener.
Editor said:
yep, those agency migrant cleaners on less than the national minimum wage should be grateful that i leave my shit all over the public transport....
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
well, what is it saying then?
scifisam
feck! arse! girls! drink!
well, what is it saying then?
Er, it's saying that those people should have cleaned up their mess.
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