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    Default Bad things happening in London

    London has had a terrible few days.

    I would personally like to thank all of our clients who have been so understanding as obviously there have been problems with outcalls and a few clients delayed in getting to us.

    There have been rumours on the news about Victoria being hit tonight but the news channels have not confiermed this.

    Please be careful if you are in the city tonight

    As always if we see any problems in an area we will reserve the right to suspend outcalls in that area and apologise to anyone that this effects.

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    To everyone in London, stay safe and hopefully it will pass soon.



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    Default Re: Bad things happening in London

    a tragic situation indeed - hope order and sanity can be restored soon without further loss of life and or property



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    Default Re: Bad things happening in London

    I heard a rumour that Wimbledon and Kingston were about to get it. Police were it seems telling shops to close early based on "information." Stay safe everyone.



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    As a Brit I find the whole fucking thing a complete and utter disgrace and feel embarrased to be known as a Brit.

    This mindless bunch of fucking wankers need some serious treatment. The sad thing is though our policeforce are helpless to do anything and these rioters know this full well.

    The police's only weapon it appears is the video camera and the threat that they will follow up with prosecution. Sorry guys but I want to see something much much stronger than that.

    My suggestion (apart from an armalite) would be water cannons with indelible dye that can not wash off for at least a month. Hose the bloody lot of them and anyone in a hoodie getting involved (most of them) strip them naked and hose them with bright yellow dye. Let them try and explain that to their families or the person behind the desk the next time they try and sign on!

    Sorry guys, got it off my chest now.



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    My suggestion (apart from an armalite)

    Let me get this right: you disapprove of violence on the streets of London but don't disapprove of violence if you are using it on the streets of London...?

    And if you are suggesting mass murder as a solution to social problems, you might want to explain what you do after you have begun something that has never been shown to work.

    The alternative is to face up to the economic and social problems that modern life has created in a mega-city like London and find a practical solution, instead of just sitting at home and getting upset at genuinely distressing and horrible scenes. I have read some incredible drivel in the press, most of which merely exposes a latent bank of predjudice and lust for violence as bad as anything seen on the streets: but there are alternatives. I posted this in Politics & Religion but post it again here as an antidote to the 'scorched earth' crypto-fascists who can't see past the tip of their fantasy armalite -from Camila Batmanghelidjh who actuallly works with feral youth and tries to turn their lives around. She is on the battlefield, not off it. At least read what he has to say. The alternative is a form of collective despair where we all end up in bunkers or an early grave, or both.

    Camila Batmanghelidjh: Caring costs – but so do riots

    These rioters feel they don't actually belong to the community. For years, they’ve felt cut adrift from society
    Tuesday, 9 August 2011


    Shops looted, cars and buildings burnt out, young adults in hoods on the rampage.
    London has woken up to street violence, and the usual narratives have emerged – punish those responsible for the violence because they are "opportunist criminals" and "disgusting thieves". The slightly more intellectually curious might blame the trouble on poor police relations or lack of policing.
    My own view is that the police in this country do an impressive job and unjustly carry the consequences of a much wider social dysfunction. Before you take a breath of sarcasm thinking "here she goes, excusing the criminals with some sob story", I want to begin by stating two things. First, violence and looting can never be justified. Second, for those of us working at street level, we're not surprised by these events.
    Twitter and Facebook have kept the perverse momentum going, transmitting invitations such as: "Bare shops are gonna get smashed up. So come, get some (free stuff!!!!) F... the feds we will send them back with OUR riot! Dead the ends and colour war for now. So If you see a brother... SALUTE! If you see a fed... SHOOT!"
    If this is a war, the enemy, on the face of it, are the "lawless", the defenders are the law-abiding. An absence of morality can easily be found in the rioters and looters. How, we ask, could they attack their own community with such disregard? But the young people would reply "easily", because they feel they don't actually belong to the community. Community, they would say, has nothing to offer them. Instead, for years they have experienced themselves cut adrift from civil society's legitimate structures. Society relies on collaborative behaviour; individuals are held accountable because belonging brings personal benefit. Fear or shame of being alienated keeps most of us pro-social.
    Working at street level in London, over a number of years, many of us have been concerned about large groups of young adults creating their own parallel antisocial communities with different rules. The individual is responsible for their own survival because the established community is perceived to provide nothing. Acquisition of goods through violence is justified in neighbourhoods where the notion of dog eat dog pervades and the top dog survives the best. The drug economy facilitates a parallel subculture with the drug dealer producing more fiscally efficient solutions than the social care agencies who are too under-resourced to compete.
    The insidious flourishing of anti-establishment attitudes is paradoxically helped by the establishment. It grows when a child is dragged by their mother to social services screaming for help and security guards remove both; or in the shiny academies which, quietly, rid themselves of the most disturbed kids. Walk into the mental hospitals and there is nothing for the patients to do except peel the wallpaper. Go to the youth centre and you will find the staff have locked themselves up in the office because disturbed young men are dominating the space with their violent dogs. Walk on the estate stairwells with your baby in a buggy manoeuvring past the condoms, the needles, into the lift where the best outcome is that you will survive the urine stench and the worst is that you will be raped. The border police arrive at the neighbour's door to grab an "over-stayer" and his kids are screaming. British children with no legal papers have mothers surviving through prostitution and still there's not enough food on the table.
    It's not one occasional attack on dignity, it's a repeated humiliation, being continuously dispossessed in a society rich with possession. Young, intelligent citizens of the ghetto seek an explanation for why they are at the receiving end of bleak Britain, condemned to a darkness where their humanity is not even valued enough to be helped. Savagery is a possibility within us all. Some of us have been lucky enough not to have to call upon it for survival; others, exhausted from failure, can justify resorting to it.
    Our leaders still speak about how protecting the community is vital. The trouble is, the deal has gone sour. The community has selected who is worthy of help and who is not. In this false moral economy where the poor are described as dysfunctional, the community fails. One dimension of this failure is being acted out in the riots; the lawlessness is, suddenly, there for all to see. Less visible is the perverse insidious violence delivered through legitimate societal structures. Check out the price of failing to care.
    I got a call yesterday morning. The kids gave me a run-down of what had happened in Brixton. A street party had been invaded by a group of young men out to grab. A few years ago, the kids who called me would have joined in, because they had nothing to lose. One had been permanently excluded from six schools. When he first arrived at Kids Company he cared so little that he would smash his head into a pane of glass and bite his own flesh off with rage. He'd think nothing of hurting others. After intensive social care and support he walked away when the riots began because he held more value in his membership of a community that has embraced him than a community that demanded his dark side.
    It costs money to care. But it also costs money to clear up riots, savagery and antisocial behaviour. I leave it to you to do the financial and moral sums.
    Camila Batmanghelidjh is founder of the charities The Place To Be and Kids Company
    http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion...s-2333991.html



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    Default Re: Bad things happening in London

    Maybe I have misread the situation wrong then, perhaps I should go out tonight, find a hoodie and give him a big hug and offer to give him half my life savings because I feel sorry for him and I clearly don't pay enough in my taxes to go towards his needs.

    I agree that there are deep social problems and the armalite was of course not a real solution but name and shame with indelible dye is.

    I'm sorry Stavros but I have heard so much of this namby pamby politician crap over the years and the labour government ploughing so much money into social affairs, schools, health service etc. and nothing has changed other than we have massive debts, high unemployment and social unrest. Our borders are bursting at the seams and still more come in and stretch the social services even further.

    I have paid taxes all my life in every which way I have had to whether it be personal income, corporation, national insurance, council tax, road tax, fuel tax VAT, you name it.

    To hear that people can even sympathise with these mindless rioters and make out that its because of this and that I find deeply offensive. What about the furniture store that has been family run for 150 years, torched to the ground. Poor families terroised and stranded in flats whilst they burn down around them, yeah did they deserve that too.

    I'm sorry but standing back and watching these thugs with mindless violence on the streets can not be tollerated. The police do a great job but are powerless to dare touch anyone because someones human rights may be breached.

    Great Britain, my arse, we are a laughing stock!



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    Sounds like some guys from Baltimore are vacationing in the UK this summer.

    Ha,, welcome to your future. Too bad you gave your guns away.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Yvonne183 View Post
    Sounds like some guys from Baltimore are vacationing in the UK this summer.

    Ha,, welcome to your future. Too bad you gave your guns away.
    Wow - Harlem Riot of 1964 ring a bell?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Dave32111 View Post
    Wow - Harlem Riot of 1964 ring a bell?
    Harlem riot of 64,, that's going a ways back,,,lol Yea we here in the US had loads and loads of riots, no doubt about that. Just about every major city had a riot. It looks like it's the UKs turn for some fun, good luck and be safe.

    PS-I'm also from Baltimore. I know what life is like in Baltimore. Just drive down Fulton/Monroe Ave in west Baltimore or Madison St in east Baltimore for evidence of urban decay.

    Go down to the "safe"area, the harbor when there's a special event like the Easter day parade and see the wild youths rampage. Baltimore continues to have it's mini riots, it just doesn't get in the news.


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