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# ..Twice in one week..
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:49, archived)
# Arf!
Lurker Extraordinaire indeed :P
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:56, archived)
# business as usual for city
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:01, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:11, archived)
# ROCK ON TOMMY!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:12, archived)
# I saw a kid playing air guitar at the station the other day.
It was most amusing - he was really getting into it - staring at the imaginary crowd, and head-banging at the right places. He clearly thought he was actually at Wembley, and that he looked really cool.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:13, archived)
# I bet he looked really cool.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:14, archived)
# 7/4 on, mate.
Fiver each way for ya?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:19, archived)
# Fuck it, make it £4!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:24, archived)
# If the other day happened to be 1983, then I was that kid..
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:16, archived)
# RAWK
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:25, archived)
# always look to who will profit the most...
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:40, archived)
# No Escape (1994)
In this film, convicts are dumped on a remote island with no guards, no help & no rules except one: try to escape and you get shot.

I'm taking a collection to buy a remote island, anyone wanna chip in?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:41, archived)
# I prefer Escape from New York
Just lock it down, let em fend for themselves and landmine all routes out
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:57, archived)
# ^ This
with added 'Thank the lord they gave up on that remake'
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:20, archived)
# if there are no guards, who does the shooting?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:58, archived)
# Daily Mail readers
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:01, archived)
# haha!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:40, archived)
# no guards on the island
they're constantly being monitored by satellite and there are boats in the sea, forget the finer details, been years since I last saw it and I may have some crossover memories from the Van Damm film Double Team which also features an island of convicted killers
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:02, archived)
# So not too different from Battle Royale?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:04, archived)
# no, not too different
but I like your thought train, PPV convict fight-to-the-death matches, throw in a thunderdome too :)
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:07, archived)
# Oh definitely :)
If I ever became prime-minister I'd totally bring that up in Parliament. We could annex the Isle of Wight (NINJA EDIT) or some other wee island and let the battle commence.

Oh, and release a leopard every few days.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:15, archived)
# Stornoway isn't an island :(
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:16, archived)
# I'm sorry, what? ;3
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:20, archived)
# The Isle of Wight isn't that wee
:(
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:30, archived)
# it's a peninsula
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 14:43, archived)
# *something about updated 2011 Norwegian edition*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:29, archived)
# The Isle of Wight?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:36, archived)
# The Isle of Fright more like

*dances*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:50, archived)
# We're already on the remote island
maybe it's time to push them off the White Cliffs of Dover
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 14:49, archived)
# why havent they invented ripley-proof glass like in 'Aliens' yet?
Break the glass... break it, break it!
I FOOKIN CORR MATE!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:56, archived)
# Given some of the 'interesting' cases turning up in court
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:01, archived)
# lol
"Several alleged looters admitted to trespassing in shops but insisted they were looking for friends at the time to try and persuade them to leave."

Yes, that would be right.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:07, archived)
# Indeed.
I mean - why on earth would they lie?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:12, archived)
# They wouldn't, of course!
It's what anyone would do. Every time I go past a shop with broken shutters and a smashed window and full of pricks in hoodies stealing flatscreen tellies I *always* go in to find my chums and tell them that they shouldn't be doing this.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:13, archived)
# I like this one:
"He did not enter a plea and the case was adjourned. He was granted conditional bail on the grounds that he wears an electronic tag and adheres to a curfew."

Adheres to a curfew that sent him into the nearest riot to loot and pillage, trustworthy tag that.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 14:52, archived)
# 8D
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:11, archived)
# DAMN YOU MR X!
*shakes fist*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 13:42, archived)
# isn't this an actual parable in economics?
steshaw.org/economics-in-one-lesson/chap02p1.html
though the original didn't mention blackberry messenger as far as i know
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:15, archived)
# Behold the ringleader!
... www.richglazier.co.uk/
(a bit obvious, really)
(, Fri 12 Aug 2011, 14:58, archived)
# Livid.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:32, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:38, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:06, archived)
# Why is that poor girl rolled up in a rug?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:25, archived)
# that made me angry, poor kid
fucking sickening
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:41, archived)
# how do you know he wasn't a looter?

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:51, archived)
# true he could have been
but his being covered in his own blood and very disorientated make me assume he got kicked in possibly for trying to stop looting, like many other people over the last few days.

I try to presume innocent until proven guilty.

*EDIT - he is a Malaysian student who was on his was to get something to eat. He had his jaw and teeth broken, then phone and wallet stolen
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:13, archived)
# Maybe a student
chavs love students.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:16, archived)
# Also, he was wearing flip-flops.
Not really footware suited to looting, but ideal for casual strolling, or tourism.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:17, archived)
# I've been looking for his story but can't find it..
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:25, archived)
# It was nicked from his Rucksack
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:28, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:28, archived)
# Fucking hell
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:37, archived)
# they interviewed him in hospital bed
he's ok. recovering in hospital. he was out buying food thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/8/10/nation/9272131&sec=nation
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:30, archived)
# It's the kids that turned him over I feel sorry for.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:54, archived)
# yes
poor lambs
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:38, archived)
# You think Hulk puny?
No one steal Hulk's stuff!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:19, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:24, archived)
# that happens to a lot of Wilburs
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:29, archived)
[challenge entry] Only Superman can save him n-


Uhh...
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:36, archived)
#
u
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:58, archived)
# Clever git :P
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:05, archived)
# :)
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:12, archived)
# hahahaha
mentalness
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:00, archived)
# That's how I'm doing it.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:11, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:19, archived)
# Hahaha! Woo!



(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:32, archived)
# old joke--different venue :)
edit: yours is bereft of gratuitous butt shot
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:34, archived)
# well, judging by the barman's hair . . .
judging by the barman's hair . . .he looks a bit of a butt


(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:37, archived)
# well just in case
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:45, archived)
# hahaha!
Braw!


(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:08, archived)
[challenge entry]
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:13, archived)
# Well, I think this is great!
:D
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:18, archived)
#
thanks :]
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 15:40, archived)
# hahaha
I understand this and think it's very clever!!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 13:14, archived)
# hahaha
splendid.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 13:36, archived)
# Linktastic
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 17:36, archived)
# 'ningles all. Have a non-riot based post.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:24, archived)
# what a lovely village
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:26, archived)
# I photoshopped it out of cheese.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:27, archived)
# I'm suspicious of the man lurking in the background
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:38, archived)
# Which one?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:43, archived)
# hahahahahah
nicely done - I was looking for them on there originally...
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:43, archived)
# They're outside their shop
in which you can but a section of three different chords.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:44, archived)
# I thought it looked odd without Henry.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:47, archived)
# Meme fest ensues!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:48, archived)
# great Henryage
have 10 points
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:00, archived)
# *buts a section of three different chords*
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:30, archived)
# haha
Nicely slipped in, as the actress etceterad
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:48, archived)
# haha
this is delightful and may help explain the drastic decline in ell populations in recent years
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:27, archived)
# and that of the eel too!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:27, archived)
# I'm more concerned about the ells
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:31, archived)
#
Bloody ells!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:32, archived)
# They generally live in handcarts.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:34, archived)
# And their neighbours are kays and emms:)
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:35, archived)
# Hahaha nice one
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:35, archived)
# g'ning Mr Average
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:43, archived)
# Hellow mister four bees!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:01, archived)
# Pfffft
That's just earned you a David


'nings
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:45, archived)
# sexah!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:01, archived)
# At least thay got the correct spieces, it's all those bloody "rogue" eel clampers that worry me.
Last week I saw a lobster wearing the yellow boot!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:46, archived)
# Someone think of the children!!!
Mmmm succulent, buttery children.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:57, archived)
# Salmon ought to tell him that's a lovely hat
'ning!


(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:04, archived)
# Click for desperate attempts at justification:
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:36, archived)
# Someone's looted your picture!


you're missing a 'b'
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:37, archived)
# Hahahahhahahaha fixed
EDIT: No I'm not - it's witty, post-modern comment on the state of education in Britain today.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:38, archived)
# Hurrah!
I always's enjoy blaming things on Thatcher.

I hope everyone enjoys your picture for what it is and doesn't enter into a big argument.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:40, archived)
# Hahahaha
Hippy.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:42, archived)
# *picks up a mid-sized hefting brick*
Say that again, racist.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:50, archived)
# I SAID
SHUT UP, YOU HIPPY.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:51, archived)
# *loots a new age bookstore*
That'll teach ya!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:00, archived)
# Yeah right like that would happen.
"Ooo hey look Strykah - the karmic teachings in the Buddhist philosophy within the teachings of Zen purport that actions visited upon others will be visited upon those doing the actions ... "
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:08, archived)
# lol
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:27, archived)
# Found it!
'b' *points* Look, there it is!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:05, archived)
# arf!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:43, archived)
# Nasty men!!! Grrrr!
strange to be sympathising with the police for a change

if only the rioters had the brains to target bankers' mansions instead, i could get back to normal
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:45, archived)
# ah well, I tried
I wasn't trying to justify anything about the riots, just that I feel people are losing sight of the fact that the government have caused the disorder. I don't sympathise with the people burning and looting whatsoever, but am not willing to go down the route of blinkered branding of the problem as just chav scum being chav scum.

There are reasons behind this and there are ways to prevent it happening.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:46, archived)
# What are the reasons, and how has the government caused the disorder?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:51, archived)
# I don't know the precise reasons, just suggested a few possibilities
the government has made cuts in areas which were too vulnerable to cut. Benefits have been reduced, less jobs for uneducated/unqualified people, funds have been and are being reallocated away from hospitals in more deprived areas of England, less money allocated to community development schemes and social housing... etc. Again, in case this angers anyone that I'm not appearing to jump on the all-out hatred wagon, I'm not justifying, sympathising etc *yawn* that's enough.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:59, archived)
# Still don't get it.
I've been unemployed, I've been bored, I've been angry.

Oddly, I've never thought to loot and burn down a shop to get what I want, though, I've always been under the impression that I should get a job and earn the money to get what I want. Clearly I was wrong about this. I'm going to start mugging grannies - they tend to go down like a sack of spuds once you hit them.

I take it McDonald's aren't taking on staff these days. Or Starbucks. Or Burger King. Or Greggs. Or the council.

Yeah. I'm not happy. I think I might go and torch something. It's my right (I know my rights). What are they gonna do? The prisons are full - give me an ASBO? I'll wear it.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:05, archived)
# yes, you've been brought up well.
others have not.

We can either ignore that environments exist in which people are brought up to display such behaviour or seek to deal with the reasons for it.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:14, archived)
# Well - if you'd like to lay out the excuses for not bringing someone up well, that would be great.
"Being poor" is not an excuse. I know plenty of people - some of whom don't even have their own butlers - who are impecably behaved, despite having been brought up very much on the wrong side of the tracks.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:19, archived)
# "Why are chavs" is a huge enigma, though.
What you've just said there is pretty much "chavs because chavs".
Once again, though, you might be right. The whole thing might just be noise.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:23, archived)
# not excuses, reasons.
poor health and education of parents are factors.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:29, archived)
# It's a recursive thing, isn't it?
Being brought up badly would explain why that person then brings someone else up badly.

From a lot of comments I've seen dismissing any idea of upbringing being a factor, I think a lot of people don't like the idea that we can be raised to be bad, simply because it means that our personalities are merely a product of luck, rather than some magical unchangable thing special to ourselves.

That said, excusing the violence entirely because of 'society' is not only dumb, but incredibly patronising to people from the same backgrounds who do not act like that.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:44, archived)
# I've said many times, that I am not excusing anything
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:48, archived)
# Sorry, that line wasn't aimed at you.
I agree with your stance.

It was more a general comment on many comments I've seen that do seem completely divided down two extreme opinions, and refusing to accept that it can be both the individual and society to blame.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:54, archived)
# Oh, the upbringing angle
that's even more baffling territory. I'm a bit afraid the riots will be used to argue for all sorts of harsh and primitive discipline, and cause pointless heartache and pain and screwed-upness for future generations, who will still riot anyway.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:21, archived)
# yep that's a valid worry
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:30, archived)
# Sadly I suspect you are right.
The whole thing flags up lots of long-term problems which need fixing - schooling etc, but I suspect that they will all be ignored for quick fixes in dealing with crime after the event.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:49, archived)
# I was more worrying about headteachers recommending that parents say "no" more
and blaming the riots on a failure of parents to say "no". And then the parents say "no" to their kids a lot, thinking that they're instilling a sense of discipline and obedience, resulting in kids who are both angrier and more ignorant (because they haven't been allowed experiences), and worse at relating to people (because any attempt at negotiation over something they want just leads to "no").
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:03, archived)
# ahem
Just because the rioters are "criminal scum", does not mean it is not sensible to work out (and implement) ways of reducing the production of "criminal scum" attitudes in the future.

Edit: it's nice that y'all can pattern match and work out that vandals/looters are antisocial criminals. But pattern matching gives only a diagnosis, it isn't a cure. A cure involves understanding the dynamics of how people come to behave like that, and working to change or control those dynamics.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:58, archived)
# Agreed!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:09, archived)
# excellent
I notice there aren't any angry responses to this. Is it because you're more concise, or simply because you're absolutely right?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:10, archived)
# Whose benefits have been reduced?
I think standard JSA and housing benefit are still the same (though there were some rumblings about changing the latter soon, I don't think it's happened yet). The threshold for what counts as disability was changed, I think, but is that all?

I'm not sure which publicly-funded jobs employ the unqualified. I don't think a vast number of unqualified workers have been sacked from employment by the government, but I might be wrong. I think in the riot-struck cities there is still plenty of shitwork in factories, and was even through the recession.

The rioting isn't happening the deprived areas of England, it's happening in the biggest cities.

Still, cuts make people generally cross. Cuts are a factor. Then you have to ask whether they're a thing to blame and regret, or not.
Like how if I go out dressed in an extraordinarily sexually provocative way and get raped, the way I dressed was a factor, but it's not to blame.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:11, archived)
# JSA is now EA? I think and the criteria are different and cuts to the amounts and thresholds have come in for some
Lack of social care, support and education contributes to people developing a disrespect for society, police, etc. My suggestions before were possible factors that cause collective frustration and anger.

I work in social care just now and am constantly trying to encourage the kids I work with to respect the police and the law, but I often see that they don't give a fuck, because they don't have anything to aspire to. The kids that show the most potential to become model citizens are the ones I and others have managed to motivate to get jobs, though actually getting them jobs has been slow and very difficult. Others, where they have no prospects have a kind of learned helplessness and don't feel the need to adhere to any rules, be that a result of peers, upbringing, helplessness, lack of education, whatever. It is a wider societal problem that is at the moment being expressed by these riots. The problems need to be addressed by the government or things will only get worse.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:26, archived)
# I wasn't going to join in
as I prefer to discuss weighty matters with people I know in real life.

I agree with some of your arguments but also empathise with Vagabond's point of view, and ultimately, like _Felix I think, I believe that there's a middle ground (please visit me on my fence sometime).

Anyway, all I reall wanted to add is that I think the last line of your post above is correct and verry very important.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:41, archived)
# I'm not sure what it means.
I'm guessing "employ more people in public services" - right?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:46, archived)
# Not necessarily, and I don't have any quick answers
But I believe rhetoric from both government and opposition politicians achieves nothing and that long-term positive action (whatever that is) by government rather than negative quick-fixes is the way to make the current situation less rather than more likely in future.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:57, archived)
# Things like this can't have helped...
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:00, archived)
# "the fact that the government have caused the disorder"
No they have not - the rioters have caused the disorder.

This is not in any way about disenfranchisement; it's about opportunitism only.

The blame lies at nobody's feet but those who have taken part in the riots.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:54, archived)
# I want to know what broon's theory is, though.
Your explanation might be right, but is a bit unsatisfying.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:58, archived)
# That's me all over.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:05, archived)
# It's clear that you don't wish to look at the wider problems that have been happily ignored for many years
If they continue to be ignored by the government, this sort of disorder will keep happening in the future.

Of course the people perpetrating these crimes are responsible for their actions, but these people are not created in a vacuum. Arresting the perpetrators is necessary, but is only a short-term solution.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:09, archived)
# In this instance there aren't any wider problems.
It's just opportunism.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:20, archived)
# in your expert opinion, I suppose
keep watching the bbc, it agrees with you.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:29, archived)
# Joe S has it on the money:
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:32, archived)
# I agree
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 22:08, archived)
# *Sigh*
Okay, I think there's been too much roundabouting here, and it seems that the message you originally put down has been twisted...

Yes I agree that there are problems in Britain and yes, people have a right to feel wronged if they have tried and failed to make a life for themselves

However, attaching this legitimate outrage to the recent LOOTING seems like a bit of a betrayal... There are plenty of disaffected, unemployed, rightfully angry people who have not decided to take the opportunity to destroy public property or private businesses and make off with whatever they can carry...

There are ways and means to change the state of things, wanton, aimless destruction is going to solve precisely NOTHING... So people who want change tend not to go down that route!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:43, archived)
# I agree. I simply posited reasons that this is happening, these are not exhaustive reasons, simply a wider reason than just a lot of individual anti-social people
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:51, archived)
# It's a fair point
The social issues are the tinder-box here... but the bandwagoning effect has stolen any credibility from anyone who had an original grievance, at least in this case
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 11:57, archived)
[challenge entry]
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:19, archived)
# Beware of trainee kneivels
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:20, archived)
# Isn't that Shakespeare?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:54, archived)
# Is that 42 double decker buses I see before me?
Ramp towards my motorbike?
Come, let me leap thee
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:02, archived)
# nah - that's Medieval Knievel
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:20, archived)
# I love the absurdity in this parallel :)
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:28, archived)
# Medieval Knievel on a weevil?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:39, archived)
[challenge entry] Have a related pea
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:40, archived)
# What will those evil thugs stoop to next??
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:15, archived)
# ahahahahaa!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:23, archived)
# Ally oop!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:36, archived)
# Hahahaha this
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:40, archived)
# Hahaha
Those evil cunts!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:47, archived)
# Bundun, surely?
surely?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 8:43, archived)
# I remember the days when a quo shop was so subtle at times, I didn't even see them after they pointed them out to me
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:03, archived)
# Not this one, mind
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:04, archived)
# That's them far right
dressed in black.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:15, archived)
# Those were the days my friend
we thought they'd never end.

But they did.

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:36, archived)
# we'd sing and dance forever and a day
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:42, archived)
# Morning!
My local asda got smashed up last night. Here's a cartoon to cheer them up:

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 8:08, archived)
# ^ Fact...
Ning DB!

(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:01, archived)
# Erm...
Source?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:12, archived)
# The Crying Game?
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:24, archived)
# From a film called "En plein coeur"
I think. That's what my trawl brought up.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:45, archived)
# oh my
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:16, archived)
# My favourite Ning!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:32, archived)
# :)
Better than these ones?

&
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:55, archived)
# Yes
although I like those too
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:19, archived)
# badum..
and indeed, tish. ha ha ha.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:01, archived)
#
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:05, archived)
# ^ I love this...
and I love you...
and I love horses b3ta...
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:56, archived)
# Hooray!
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 10:15, archived)
# i cringed as usual
keep up the good work :D
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 9:19, archived)
# crowds are quickly dispersed with full riot gere


'ning, Wobb--with your Vag Menagerie
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 7:55, archived)
# Needs more Gerbil.

allegedly
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 8:20, archived)
# I live for the day when
I drive down a country road and see a "Gere's Gerbil Farm" sign. But I probably won't, unless I put it there. But that's better than nothing.
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#
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# ahahh
that busted-again look :)
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# :D
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# that would make me move on
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# Wow.. Loads of requests again yesterday...
Kitty Fantastico: Jack Haley and Rosanna Arquette
mediocre: Devon Aoki from Sin City.
Drunken Miss Ho: Norma Shearer and Jack Haley
RedHouse Kate O'Mara
claptonista: Lorraine Pearson from the poptastic 5 star tomorrow? - now that must be the hardest photo I have ever had to find - go on, try it...

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#
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# Phoar

Good morning WB!
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# Ningels
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# oh i do like a bit of O'Mara
in a non lesbian way of course
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# I doff my hat to you and your image sourcing skills
: D
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# It took me hours... literally...
* I love a challenge and eventually found this one on the CD cover site...

By the way b3ta, I am off on holiday on Friday so no requests after tomorrow...
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# Are you off to anywhere nice?
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# Scotlandshire
and i will be having a go at this!

* Parp
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# Nice!
I did a zipwire course in Costa Rica once. About 15 cables, zigzagging across a canyon in the pouring rain. Longest one was 300m IIRC.
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# I have done a few Go-Apes....
Thetford, Black Park, Wendover Woods etc

Looking forward to this big long one though!
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# Everyone is looking forwards to the big long one!
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# ah, i did that in thetford forest
it was a hoot, though one of the routes through one obstacle was fucking knackering and on another i fucked my knackers in the harness
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# ^ Ha ha ha...
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# Sigh. A day without Wobs is like a day without Doris.
Elya Baskin and Hulk Hogan for tomorrow.
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# Doris?

As Kitty and RedHouse make the most suggestions, would either of you fancy taking the challenge for a week?
- They would not have to be VAG CREAMS, just birthday people shopped / badly drawn?

* Or anyone else out there... I will be away from this Friday, until a week on Saturday.
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# Wibs, you've not read my profile *sigh*
I'm not up to the challenge :(
As usual, Kitty already pulled the best straws, so I'll add Emperor Ian Mcdiarmid and model Carolyn Murphy.
(and for your personal research, Dru 'NSFW' Berrymore)
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 12:08, archived)
# * I have now...
although you could do something really shit nice in Paint like Smash Monkey does...

Also: Dru 'NSFW' Berrymore - O_O
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#
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# CMCCCC?
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# Creamy Mediterranean Christmassy Chili Cunt Cum

cereal topping of champions
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# It's by Culture Club
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# LOL BART
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# p LOL
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# 69 LOL LOL
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# Tem Out!
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# one pound twenty nine?
no wonder they're looting
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# the trick is to go down the world foods aisle
they have all the same spices and stuff, for the same price, but in packets 20 times the size
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# very clever :D
clicks and nips off to rearrange my spice rack
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# Sorry Ten out?
I don't get it
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# Bart bart red thai
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# since this is disco night

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# thats what im talkin about!
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# he's found that time warp
only to find it was actually a head warp
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# disco, and dubious eighties flashbacks
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# I didn't see that one, but I think I might have liked it
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# I even paid to see his '93 outing, Reckless Kelly
it wasn't great, but it did have Alexei Sayle in it, if I recall
 
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# I WAS DATING AN AUSTRALIAN AT THE TIME, THAT IS MY EXCUSE
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# when we want excuses, we'll demand them :)
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# I paid to see Warlock: The Armageddon for the same reason
 
also highly forgettable but OH, JULIAN
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# fuck, i'm not dressed for disco night
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# PARTY NAKED
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# WAVE YOUR DICK LIKE A LIGHTSTICK
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# very light, hyper light (as in weight)
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#
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# yeehawww :)
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# round, round and round she goes - where she stops, nobody knows
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#
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# ahhhahhahh I really need to download these shows
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#
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#
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# woah.. trippy
/obvious response
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# U FILTAD
 
cool effect though
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# try it then :D
anyway, it it does makes fires look cool
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# I don't think this plugin is MSPAINT compatible
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# maybe it's dying down now
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# nope, nope, still tripping balls
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# I wish I had a hypercolour shirt to go with this image
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# might take some kind of phosphorescent ink, or summit
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# do you remember these? I had one, yellow and blue I think
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# yea, thermochormic stuff
it's novel, but the colors seem a bit bland, for what that's worth. Something splashy and glo-in-the-dark might have been a more popular result
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# they were shit, in retrospect, but such was the style at the time
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# oh goody !
let's pump ourselves with magic monkey juice and take a trip to spaceland
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# ...but do not drive afterward
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# I like your gimmick here
and the other one (gymnast, I think it was)
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# technically, ueah. It was a kid backflipping off of a picnice table and whacking his chin on the end of aforementioned able
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# Do you remember (or know) where there is a
rotation tool in P'shop that uses numerical input for degrees of rotation? I recall using it but I have no clue where it is right now.
(, Wed 10 Aug 2011, 5:37, archived)
# Rotation
For the whole image, use Image --> Image Rotation --> Arbitrary

For a layer, the easiest way is to use Ctr+t, then input a number into the rotation box


 
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# NICE!!!
it used to drive me mad not being able to rotate a single layer
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# OH GET YOU WITH YOUR FOE TOE SHOPS
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# YOU COULD HAVE IT TOO IF YOU'D JUST GET OFF YOUR ASS AND BREAK SOME WINDOWS
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# haven't had a proper riot here since '84, even that was over in a day
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# From a cursory reading of the comments I learned the following new word:
Chillybin.
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# yeah that's newzilin for "esky", or I suppose "cooler"
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# Back when New Orleans was a "chocolate city"
They would invite you to "...touch the cooler," if you wanted to indulge in a beer. I learned that from Ira Glass.
In Texas, it's called an "igloo." Because there's no innuit there, innit?
*hangs head in shame.*
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# I nearly went out with an Eskimo once but she just wasn't that Innuit
 
I'LL GET MY COAT
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# furthermore, if Dave fucking Dobbyn had only been pulled from the stage and mercilessly stomped into a coma, we would all have been spared the past twenty seven years of his fucking awful shit music
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# thanks--I'm too lazy to look when we have the willing :D
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# FUCKING CALM DOWN BARRY, FUCKING HELL
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# tis very quiet around here right now.
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# is everybody out looting or something? WHEN THEY SHOULD BE FUCKING
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# Fuck knows
Nicely slopped pic, btw.
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# yeah came out alright, but the more I looked at that older pig in the middle the more he looked like Gary Glitter, I don't like it
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# now that you mention it.
I don't blame you.
/creepy
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# D'ya wanna be in my gang, my gang, my gang
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# COME ON, COME ON
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# I can picture that sentence as lyrics in a Bee Gees song.
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# I heard some 70s Bee Gees a couple of weeks ago
on someone's car radio. I'd forgotten how completely fucking ridiculous they sounded.
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# Yeah I still wonder why they chose to sing like that.
But I'm sure Maurice Gibb is now in a heaven full of beards and tight underpants..
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# aren't they all dead by now?
 
AND IF NOT, WHY NOT
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# Did you see the interview where they walked off in a paddy?
I lost all respect for them when they took themselves too seriously.

Bed calleth, g'night peeps :)
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# manufactured pop for the white mainstream, it's not even proper fucking disco
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# because Anders Breivik wasn't at their most recent concert
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# he was.. detained
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#
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#
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#
 

 
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# I'm people--where's the village?
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# it's just dawned on me you didn't use the policeman character for any of those
sure Victor Willis is there, but that is not any kind of a police uniform I have ever seen
 
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# FIRST HE WAS AFRAID, THEN HE WAS PETRIFIED
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# this thread is getting well disco up in here, well disco
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# for old time sakes
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# SHAKE IT LIKE YOU ARE GOING TO BREAK IT
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# Little bastards!
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# Newcastle on fire too..

not really
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