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First off I'm not an anarchist. second define government or I can't argue with you about anarchy at all.

Jubear wrote:Hmm rioting looks like great fun theres shields walls and cavalry charges and other rad stuff =)

Ok Ive just secured half a brick and a ticket to the UK LETS DO THIS!!!!!!

Please note that planning regulations cover the type of brick to be used in riots. Central London riots may employ traditional red brick, while some Victorian suburbs mandate the use of yellow brick in conservation areas.

Kilkrazy wrote:

Jubear wrote:Hmm rioting looks like great fun theres shields walls and cavalry charges and other rad stuff =)

Ok Ive just secured half a brick and a ticket to the UK LETS DO THIS!!!!!!

Please note that planning regulations cover the type of brick to be used in riots. Central London riots may employ traditional red brick, while some Victorian suburbs mandate the use of yellow brick in conservation areas.

Oh thanks for the heads up it sure would suck to show up to a riot with the incorrect half brick =)

MET MARINES ATTACKKKK!

FOR THE QUEEENPEROR!

Surely Empress?

The Dreadnote wrote:Surely Empress?

Not since we gave back India...

/sadface.

Cheese Elemental wrote:Well, you can hardly expect those students to be acting rationally. They're pissed as hell at the government, with good reason.

I don't condone their actions, but the government have pulled a major dick move here. They should be supporting students to get through university and into employment, not holding them back for the sake of the economy.

It's a shame that money has become more important to the British government than the future of its people.

It's more to do with the fact that the Lib Dems did a complete 180 degree turn. They got a large quantity of their votes from the student base, who they promised they would ensure tuition fees would not be raised for. They then turned around and did the opposite.

I mean, if you voted for a party who said they stood for everything you wanted, and the second they got in power, the flat out ignored EVERYTHING they said pre-election, wouldn't you be a little pissed? If you voted for conservatives, and their first act was to bring in new laws for efficient unionisation, and nationalised the means of production? Or if you voted Labour, and the first thing they did was decide they were actually facists?

It's not so much the cuts, it's the clear fact they've broken the promises they made to the electorate to get votes in the first place. You always expect that to some degree, but as a reader of Private Eye, its shocking how much they've turned around on. Weapons dealing, nationalisation, corruptions and inefficiencies in Government. Everything they've spent the last four years slagging off Labour for, they seem to be turning around and upholding. They've actually shot themselves in the foot with this one, most students I know identified themselves as Lib Dem. They absolutely despise and distrust the Lib Dems now.

The Lib Dems have basically done to an entire generation of voters what took Labour 15 years to do to their support base: left them in complete disillusionment, and shattered their party loyalty.

If Labour is smart, they might actually be able to profit from this, and get back in next election. Scary a thought as that might be.

So what's this all about anyway? That douchy little wikileaks dude call for it or somesuch?

While I'm all for transparency and whistleblowing-- and I indeed approved of wikileak's leak of the torture happenings-- there's a difference between whistleblowing and "I hate America so let's do everything we can to ruin anything they're trying to do, no matter the cost". The donkey-caves on that site have caused the deaths of many people.


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Ketara wrote:I mean, if you voted for a party who said they stood for everything you wanted, and the second they got in power, the flat out ignored EVERYTHING they said pre-election, wouldn't you be a little pissed?

You mean like Republicans?

Melissia wrote:So what's this all about anyway? That douchy little wikileaks dude call for it or somesuch?

No, just students or hoodies claiming to be students so they can use the fees protest as an excuse to break things.

Flashman wrote:

Melissia wrote:So what's this all about anyway? That douchy little wikileaks dude call for it or somesuch?

No, just students or hoodies claiming to be students so they can use the fees protest as an excuse to break things.

And anarchists as well. Also, I'd divide it between students, people who will be students and hoodies claiming to be students so they can use the fees protest as an excuse to break things.

Melissia wrote:So what's this all about anyway? That douchy little wikileaks dude call for it or somesuch?

While I'm all for transparency and whistleblowing-- and I indeed approved of wikileak's leak of the torture happenings-- there's a difference between whistleblowing and "I hate America so let's do everything we can to ruin anything they're trying to do, no matter the cost". The donkey-caves on that site have caused the deaths of many people.


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Ketara wrote:I mean, if you voted for a party who said they stood for everything you wanted, and the second they got in power, the flat out ignored EVERYTHING they said pre-election, wouldn't you be a little pissed?

You mean like Republicans?

WTF! does that have to do with student protests and tuition fees, either read the thread and it's topic, or stop trolling!

Christ on a bike.

There was another article in this thread about that subject so I assumed that's what the protests were about.

Melissia wrote:There was another article in this thread about that subject so I assumed that's what the protests were about.

**insert Samuel L Jackson animated gif about thread reading here**

I couldn't be arsed to read all four pages of British politics. I wouldn't expect a brit to read so many pages of American politics either.

You keep posting in topics you don't understand, to tell us that you don't understand. Why bother?

Melissia wrote:I couldn't be arsed to read all four pages of British politics. I wouldn't expect a brit to read so many pages of American politics either.

You could have just read the opening post, done a google search and read a news item then.

Or not fething bothered posting your entirely useless opinion on something you don't even want to know about?!?!

Grumpy brits are fun I merely asked for confirmation about the situation, no reason to bite my face off.

*puts fist in mouth*
Sorry, I deal with that sort of thing from kids in school all day every day (asking questions about things they could easily get answered if they read a paragraph's worth), so I understand where they're coming from.

Yes, but this isn't homework, or related to a job. I'm not gonna read a forum thread as closely as I would my o.chem textbook

Sorry for misunderstanding foreign local politics and all that, but goddamn.


Anyway... back on topic...

Tuition fees have been consistently raised over here as well, at least non-subsidized ones (Texas public colleges are subsidized for example)

Melissia wrote:Yes, but this isn't homework, or related to a job. I'm not gonna read a forum thread as closely as I would my o.chem textbook

According to you, you didn't even bother reading any of it, let alone as if it was a textbook.

You basically just did the equivalent of me wading into a 4 page thread you started on sisters of battle, and saying, 'So hai gais, what about them necrons? They're pretty l33t. So whatcha talking about?'

No I didn't. I read the first page (And if you had actually paid attention to what I posted instead of overreacting , you'd know that is exactly what I said), and based my assumption off of the series of vids and articles on that page. I didn't read all four pages, I admit, but I did read the articles linked to on the first page.

And yes, there was a link to an article on wikileaks and the reaction to companies not allowing donations to them.

Melissia wrote:I can't admit I made a mistake!

6 posts on one page of a thread you don't understand nor want to.

Dude...

Melissia wrote:No I didn't. I read the first page (And if you had actually paid attention to what I posted instead of overreacting , you'd know that is exactly what I said), and based my assumption off of the series of vids and articles on that page. I didn't read all four pages, I admit, but I did read the articles linked to on the first page.

And yes, there was a link to an article on wikileaks and the reaction to companies not allowing donations to them.

So you read the links, but didn't see that the second link was not related to the OP? It was another poster saying that 'things are pretty weird over here too' and well wasn't related at all to the brits anger over higher tuition.

Seriously though, if you would've read the first page you would've seen that and should've said "Oh, that poster is making an analogy between the british protests and the hacking of mastercard following Julian Assange's arrest" instead of "Oh, that poster has changed the topic of the thread so I'm going to go with the new topic."

As far as being as important as your ochem text, ochem is easy. All you do is draw pictures of molecules and make up nifty sayings to help you remember rules. Ochem lab is also easy, its just time consuming, can't tell you the number of times my lab partner and I took turns going to the chik-fil-e on campus while our lab was running.

Having just looked back, the you actually never said you read the first page. You started rambling about wikileaks, said that was what you assumed the protests were about, followed with how you couldn't be bothered to read 4 pages of British politics.

So to conclude, no, it wasn't 'exactly what you said'.

Amusingly enough, as for the 'series of links and articles', there was one rather random link which people pretty much ignored. Demonstrating just how closely you read the first page as well.

To conclude, if you'd bothered to spend the time you've just wasted demonstrating your ignorance on the topic, actually reading about it, you might have had something constructive to say. Instead, you seem to prefer arguing pointlessly.

Okay, that's enough folks. We can drop that subject, now.

I read 4 pages of British Politics, but I am really hear for the neon green knights and the German swat. Its cool that the college I plan on going to is (sudo)FREEEEEEEE! Not being effected by others problems is FUN! So about them necrons...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11978956


Stupid spanker swings from the Cenotaph, then grovels out of it. ARSEHOLE!

EDIT: Already posted by Mattyrm on page 3, however I'm going to keep it in as it's so ridiculous.

Also the little gak was seen with the group around the royals car. What the hell...




Have a look at these beautiful people...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/12/pictures-released-of-14-suspects-from-student-tuition-fees-riot-115875-22778952/

Medium of Death wrote:
Have a look at these beautiful people...

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/12/12/pictures-released-of-14-suspects-from-student-tuition-fees-riot-115875-22778952/

Welcome to your future Britain. Also, I think the second to last is Flavor Flav. Explains why he hasn't been on TV lately.

Flavor Flav

Wanted Student Protestor

Was this justified ? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11987395