Civil Disobediance

[ratty]

I heard from a leader of a council department in SE London that Civil Disobedience protests may soon start in their area. What do people here think? What might it involve and how might it manifest? Really interested to see what people think on this. Sounds very un-British to me.

[Pearson]

Sorry to pull you up on this Ratty, but your 'cuss' makes no sense at all..

'ratty - acting like a @#$%& since 1970'

I've already picked admin on this earlier, but we all know

there are only four characters in any decent cuss.

[ratty]

Prick!

[Loz]

The council is probably planning on organising them. So don't expect much.

I can foresee a slow parade of 4x4s up Lordship Lane protesting against the removal of the middle-class child benefit, though.

[ratty]

Bugaboos surely!

[Pearson]

ratty Wrote:

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> Prick!

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Ha, chill out dude.

You have sense of humor fail :(

[ratty]

Or does it answer your question?

ratty - acting like a prick since 1970

[????]

Pearson's a bit slow Ratty....

[Pearson]

Oh *&$@ i am VERY slow this evening!

My hat off to you sir, i am the fool..

[ratty]

Now, back to Civil Disobedience if we may. (and apologies for any misunderstanding.) x

[ianr]

Pearson Wrote:

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> Sorry to pull you up on this Ratty, but your 'cuss' makes no sense at all..

> 'ratty - acting like a @#$%& since 1970'

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> I've already picked admin on this earlier, but we all know there are only four characters in any decent cuss.

Phorum, as configured, works in a mysterious way. The @#$%& is general-purpose. AFAICS, if a word contains an offending string, [ed: for some of them] the whole word seems to come out as @#$%&. But if you enter different offending words explicitly in the search window, the search returns different sets of hits. So there are in reality all sorts of @#$%&s. Ratty's making sense, but in a rather ambiguous sort of way. Without testing, we can't tell what kind of @#$%& he is on any particular day, or even in any particular post.

[mockney piers]

Wally

[ianr]

[Experiment deleted. Back to the sandbox]

[ratty]

Coont!

Can we please start some civil disobedience?

[Brendan]

wankspanner.

Call me when you plan on being uncivil and disobediant[sic*].

*Dude.

[ratty]

Well, I don't undertsand what it might entail.

[Ridgley]

Power to the people(tu)

[RosieH]

fucknuts works

If anyone's interested in a film about civil disobedience surrounding climate change, have a look here: Just Do It.

Subtitled "the inside story on the UK's biggest troublemakers", it's a documentary looking at climate change protestors, currently in post-production and looking to raise funding. If you support their cause, have a shufty and give them some money - for every pound they raise in October, Lush (makers of uber-smelly bath things) will match fund it.

I saw some of the edits earlier this week and it was moving and quite affecting (while some bits weren't quite my kind of politics too) but worth a look.

And if you're not a big old fan of oil, or at least the oil industry's part in climate change, there's a march tomorrow. Get creative and get disobedient: www.crudeawakening.org.uk

[????]

......yeah man

[waynetta]

SAVE energy and help the environment by placing solar powered calculators under a hat when not in use.

[RosieH]

Quids, come here while I kiss you.

I didn't expect you to be interested, but some people like that kind of thing.

[tomchance]

I think it's pretty unlikely there will be much effective civil disobedience of the sorts Rosie mentions, it's rare that a group is well trained and strategic in their use of those sorts of tactics.

More likely waves of protests ranging from petitioners on street corners to (hopefully not) 1980s-style riots.

[????]

Oh i have a latent appetite for a bit of disorder Rosie

[dbboy]

Keep your eye peeled on London, Wednesday 20th October

[SteveT]

Central London tomorrow 16th Oct. it's all about oil being on the way out so don't drive in,

get a cab to it and wear bicycle clips,

they'll all think you rode in to town.