ok. not being funny
but where are the rubber bullets and the tear gas? where is the army?

i'm sick of this left wing softly softly bollocks
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:34, archived)

David Cameron has the only key to the cupboard where we keep the tear gas and he's not in the country.

( well, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:35, archived)

god dam him

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:39, archived)

with an n somewhere

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:39, archived)

I'd prefer 35million tonnes of concrete to an 'n'

( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 5:46, archived)

this country would not be any worse off if every last fucking one of the rioters was shot fully in the face.

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:35, archived)

mind you then libya may start air strikes against us for oppression :/

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:36, archived)

I think i heard someone on the news say the army aren't trained for this sort of thing.
Which I think means 'we could kill them all in one fell swoop, if that's what you really wanted. Is that what you want? Is it?'

As for water cannon: the Met don't own any.
(rnuk http://flickr.com/rnuk, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:40, archived)

i am pro kill them all
but seeing as we're bombing libya for doing that we can't then do it ourselves.

i did not want to bomb libya. i do want to shoot these cunts. we have the resources. if we could just keep our stupid noses out of other countries businesses we could use them.
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:43, archived)

It's hard to set-up a national riot training scenario.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:47, archived)

if the army were on the streets it'd all stop in a heart beat
and everyone knows it.
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 2:55, archived)

That's just not true at all.
The army are trained to kill people as effectively as possible whereas the police are trained to use excessive violence as a final resort. The army, or our army at least, have no experience or training and it would be a massacre. Think of the message it sends putting the army on the streets.
( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:17, archived)

one bullet one head
i genuinely couldn't give a toss if it's a massacre. why should i? fuck these cunts.

roll in the army. roll up your sleeves and get bloody. they won't understand anything less.

why should innocent people fear for their lives? how do we know innocent people haven't died in these fires. enough is enough.
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:27, archived)

Way to contradict your entire post in the last line.

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:35, archived)

innocent people don't go around wearing masks
carrying TV's, numbnutz
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:47, archived)

probably the safest option is just to shoot the blackies

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:48, archived)

oh hang on, that's what started this 'legitimate protest' in the first place...

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:49, archived)

it's just this sort of attitude that makes coloured people want to rebel (left wing argument)

(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:52, archived)

people need to get rid of the MASSIVE CHIPS they carry around
then we can move forward
(Mortal Wombat - he's just an excitable boy, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 3:54, archived)

The army are trained to wound
The police are trained to kill with one shot. Each week they have to fire 40 rounds in practice, and if 8 or more fail to deliver a lethal hit, they're off the team for that week.
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 5:52, archived)

No it isn't
There's a dedicated artificial town for training purposes used by all the UK services.

I tried to find the name of it, but when I put "dedicated riot town" into Google, the first result was "Brixton".
( Grrrmachine the indifference engine, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 5:51, archived)

I tried not to laugh at this, because I wasn't sure if it was meant to be funny, but I couldn't help it.

( BraynDedd Natasha Kaplinsky's labia majora, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 7:45, archived)

Oh cool, is it as big as London?

( mike woz ere 7442200 & 7696970 getter, Tue 9 Aug 2011, 12:44, archived)

What army?
The regulars are all being made redundant and the TA (Hi Piston!) are all off fighting in Afghanistan.
( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 9 Aug 2011, 7:11, archived)

Oh, and the coppers are happy for it to be out of hand so they can say "We told you that the cuts would mean we couldn't police the streets effectively."

( stuj (^(^;;^)^) GO TEAM SPIDERS!(^(^;;^)^), Tue 9 Aug 2011, 7:12, archived)