Occupy Wall Street protest

[Silcc69]

Oh, and also:



~BB~

Such a profound chart.

[trish]

The government is the people. Do you feel like you have too much power? Large corporations conspire to attenuate government power; i.e. your power to protect your water, your air, your commons.

[russtafa]

....not sure what you mean ...and I even googled "teddy boy".

...but I have to admit (...and I'll probably take some heat for this) but if I was a cop...I'd probably want to pepper spray the living shit outta them.

they were a cult in the eighty's,it was cool for a while then i had to nuckle down and really work .no time for drapes and creepers when you are up to your knees in mud carrying timber

[BluegrassCat]

It is no suurprise that a topic that should be in Politics & Religion is as confused as the Occupy Wall St Movement -I dont know where Bella's graph comes from but it is risible as an explanation of popular protest -corporations do not lobby for government to have more power, they lobby government to reduce it! To reduce taxes and rates, to reduce regulation, to reduce red tape -I mean, it is so elementary I don't know how the graph was even concocted.


So far in this thread all I have read is resentment, not politics -maybe that's why this confused drivel is in General Discussion, and should not be taken seriously.

You hit the nail on the head about the venn diagram.

But in case you weren't aware, almost all politics in America is about resentment.

[robertlouis]

Teddy boys and mods, if I'm not mistaken, were two types of guys in '60s England.

I think Teddy boys dressed like James Dean and mods rode scooters. I have a dim recollection from a passage in "Moon the Loon", a biography of The Who's drummer, and a couple of iconic pics from Life magazine.


Any of the Brits care to correct or expound?

Hi Dave

Teddy boys were an early 50s phenomenon, probably the first time that youngsters in the UK deliberately moved away from dressing like their parents and became "teenagers". The style they copied was their interpretation of how men had dressed in the first decade of the 20th century, which was known as the Edwardian era after Edward VII who rule from 1901 to 1910.

The mods were a cult who dressed in smart casual clothes and had short hair. They often wore parkas and travelled on scooters - Italian Vespas and Lambrettas. Whereas the Teddy boys tended to fight other gangs of teds, the mods' sworn enemies were rockers, who essentially copied the hells angels look, but without the community culture. Smart against grime, if you like. There were pitched battles in English seaside towns between the mods and the rockers in the early to mid-60s, with much hand-wringing and cries of the end of civilisation etc.

The rockers were all about 50s rock'n'roll, the mods embraced bands who dressed much as they did - the Who and the Small Faces both came from the mod scene. And if you want to get a vivid set of images about the mods and rockers battles, get hold of a DVD of the movie "Quadrophenia" which was originally a concept album by the Who. Apart from giving you the flavour of the time, it's actually not a bad film.

Here are some example pics of all three groups, all black and white, because that's what the UK was in the early 60s till the Beatles blew it apart and painted us in bright colours.

Hope that helped a bit.

[russtafa]

Hi Dave

Teddy boys were an early 50s phenomenon, probably the first time that youngsters in the UK deliberately moved away from dressing like their parents and became "teenagers". The style they copied was their interpretation of how men had dressed in the first decade of the 20th century, which was known as the Edwardian era after Edward VII who rule from 1901 to 1910.

The mods were a cult who dressed in smart casual and had short hair. They often wore parkas and travelled on scooters - Italian Vespas and Lambrettas. Whereas the Teddy boys tended to fight other gangs of teds, the mods' sworn enemies were rockers, who essentially copied the hells angels look, but without the community culture. Smart against grime, if you like. There were pitched battles in English seaside towns between the mods and the rockers in the early to mid-60s, with much hand-wringing and cries of the end of civilisation etc.

The rockers were all about 50s rock'n'roll, the mods embraced bands who dressed much as they did - the Who and the Small Faces both came from the mod scene. And if you want to get a vivid set of images about the mods and rockers battles, get hold of a of the movie "Quadrophenia" which was originally a concept album by the Who. Apart from giving you the flavour of the time, it's actually not a bad film.

Here are some example pics of all three groups, all black and white, because that's what the UK was in the early 60s till the Beatles blew it apart and painted us in bright colours.

Hope that helped a bit.

i was a young teenager in the eighties when we got into it and fought with the skins and went to rockabilly gigs.great fun mate.lots of piss and dope and slutty chicks and fighting with skins and punks,mods

[Dino Velvet]

i was a young teenager in the eighties when we got into it and fought with the skins and went to rockabilly gigs.great fun mate.lots of piss and dope and slutty chicks and fighting with skins and punks,mods

Weren't you guys all White, Russ? Could you have banded together instead? Stop White on White Crime.

[russtafa]

no mate we had a lot of maori guys in with us and even a few chinese and the same with the other sides but the skins were more white and the maori /islander gangs had a few whites .it was a bit mixed up ,the mods were mainly white and we gathered in big numbers for fights and our parties were great fun lot's of loud rockabilly and sluts and dope and sex and we were always fucking different chicks i don't think society would let kids get away with the things we used to do

[MdR Dave]

From what little I've seen this occupation is ridiculous. They need a little less "Merry Prankster" and a little more "Black Panther".

And an anthem.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?desktop_u...8mw9MKbQ&gl=US

[BellaBellucci]

The government is the people. Do you feel like you have too much power? Large corporations conspire to attenuate government power; i.e. your power to protect your water, your air, your commons.

And therein lies the problem. The government hasn't been the people for decades, hence IMO, the chart is correct.

I think I just figured out what should be the Occupiers' key issue: campaign finance reform.

~BB~