If communication has broken down, and it actually gets people to listen, then yes.
It really only works if everyone joins in, though. It's been over 80 years since the General Strike. I say it's about time we had another.

Alt: filthy scab!
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:06, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It rarely changes anything though
we're just not very good at it in this country. People bunk off for a week or two then when their demands aren't met, shuffle back to their jobs saying 'Oh. Okay then'.
The French know how to strike.
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:08, Reply)

Was it Wimbledon yesterday berk?
If so. How was it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:10, Reply)

It was lovely
I had a wonderful day. Sadly however today has kicked me nicely in the knackers and brought me back down to earth with a nasty bump.
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:13, Reply)

Is somebody grumping again?

( Kroney, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:16, Reply)

No, not at all
I started applying for a job I had a very good chance of getting, had met the team involved...logged on this morning to discovered they'd closed the vacancy 10 days early due to overwhelming response. I rang the woman I'd met and she sounded genuinely upset but said there was nothing she could do.
I have still not heard anything from the applications I made earlier in the month, despite thinking I had a good chance of getting at least two interviews.
there may have been a minor bedroom-based mishap last night which has made me feel very inadequate and stupid. But there was no grumping.
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:21, Reply)

Oh that sucks.
Your bedroom mishap, was that more or less embarrassing than, for example, your fellow pulling out to change position and accidentally jizzing in your hair?*

*I totally haven't done this.
( Kroney, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:22, Reply)

She said "made me feel very inadequate and stupid"
Which makes me think she thought 'blow job' was literal, and inflated his foreskin like a balloon.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:24, Reply)

that's no how it works?
I mean HAHAHA, that would be stupid!
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:27, Reply)

No
me mistakenly thinking he'd come and stopping doing what I was doing, and then having a massive flounce/strop and embarrassing myself further when I realised he hadn't. I have no confidence in my ability to do sexy things, and worse, little confidence in his ability not to judge me for being rubbish*

*NB, I'm probably being massively paranoid and unfair here.
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:31, Reply)

Might I say that I think
you're being massively paranoid and unfair here.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:46, Reply)

i want to know what she was doing.
Like was it that thing, y'know...
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:50, Reply)

Did you get to watch any tennis, or did you spend the day watching the big screen, eating strawberries and drinking Pimms?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:20, Reply)

Watched loads of tennis
most of it on court rather than on screen, no strawberries (brought a picnic, and they were obscenely overpriced) but I did have some Pimms. And it was lovely and sunny.
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:22, Reply)

Well that sounds like a lovely day.
Glad you enjoyed it.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:25, Reply)

I hope you boo'd the fuck out of Murray.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:25, Reply)

Haha, we only had ground passes
I wasn't queueing for 4 hours to get tickets for the show courts!
(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:28, Reply)

We're too British to strike properly.
It's not polite.
( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:10, Reply)

YOU'RE not polite.

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:11, Reply)

Screw you, Bitch!

( b3th Not shit. Not mod., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:13, Reply)

Love you too

(Poppet some assembly required., Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:15, Reply)

Very much so.

(berk, Thu 30 Jun 2011, 11:12, Reply)