April 1st

[Moos]

So on "Financial Fools Day", will you be:

a) sneaking into your office clutching your Starbucks latte and praying for safety

b) snugly tucked up at home, "working"

c) rioting and reclaiming the streets

d) not giving a shit and doing something else

I'm laughing as I post this, as there are just so many responses to this thread that I can almost write in advance...

[Michael Palaeologus]

I shall work from Home and watch the fun on the telly.

[????]

e) watching the Trustafarians being anarchists from high up in your city perch

[BigPhil]

watching the England v Ukranie World cup qualifier at the pub

[Strawbs]

Given I have no idea what 'financial fools day' is I guess I will be 3rd day in to my new job and still not back on the forum due to fear I will get caught!!

[giggirl]

On 1st April I will be on a flight from LA to London. I'm not fond of flying. I'm not fond of practical jokes. Please Lord let nobody at Virgin think it might be fun to combine the two.

[ratty]

what is financial fools day. Does it give up hard working types the chance to slap a couple of hippies? Count me in! ;)

[Moos]

There have often been anti-capitalist / anarchist demonstrations in the City on 1st April, but with the G20 in London, it's going to be a bit bigger this year. Here's a link to one of the websites organising demonstrations/party/general presence Financial Fools Day

[Keef]

Hopefully not having my first child born!

[????]

or on the less refined site I sometimes frequent, along the lines of

f) chance to give the soap dodging, middle class pond-life a kicking when they try and storm the trading floor

[Rhinestone Cowboy]

Had some old trading buddies on the exchange floor when they last stormed in thinking they would be met with some larry lightweights, only to find the icf had moved from football terrace to the floor and gave them all a good kicking.

[Mick Mac]

Yeah RC, those high class Jermyn Street shoes with the "Would sir like to announce himself with steel"... heels/toecaps, really pack a punch when on the end of some oxbridge prop, turned city trader, foot coming into speedy contact with layabout lazy cider induced stuper troublemaker. Only one winner there, the rich get quicker, the poor are bruised.

[Brendan]

I stopped washing yesterday in preparation.

[mockney piers]

Do you know RC, I think I might have seen them in the Cock (suppress the sniggers people) tavern one lunch time.

They'd been at the lunch time sauce a bit heavily, lairy mo-fos, and started laying in to the meat traders.

Never have I seen such a fight, and never again do I want to witness one, let alone be caught in the middle of it. Managed to slip through the pools of blood and broken chairs to get out. I think the traders had the upper hand, just.

As for the protesters, just as likely to find some dope-addled, ex hardnut as you are some trustafarian, irritating though they genuinely are. Though I have to say in the 1999 may day riots, the naked mud wrestling ladies that blocked the police vans from getting up Old Broadstreet were a joy to behold.

[Brendan]

Ahh yes. It is always so reassuring to be reminded about the fact that the backbone of the British economy is largely supported by single minded meatheads.

No wonder the national zeitgeist is synonymous with common decency and magnanimity to your fellow man.

Mud wrestlers I can see some value in though.

[Cassius]

As a temp I would definitely be a financial fool if I took the day off.

[Jeremy]

I don't trust our fragile-looking security guys to keep any protestors out of the building.

Perhaps I'll bring a disguise with me - so if things go pear shaped, I can join in and start trashing stuff too.

[BigPhil]

I thought May 1st was the day all the sh*t happened

[Brendan]

Yeah isn't April 1st, fool's day?

[jaybee82]

Got a funny feeling this is going to be big, and shift the daily commute to the City from the 'unpleasant' box to 'near impossible'. We've all been advised to 'dress down' so I'm going in dressed in rags and a headscarf and carrying a piece of gnarled bark and a couple of placards.

I agree with the cause, but not sure about the action...

[BigPhil]

I have some friends in the police and they are not looking foward to the coming weeks when G20 is about. they have had reminders about "restraint without injury". mobile lock-ups have been moved in from other areas of the country to be able to cater for the large amount of arrests they are planning on having to deal with.

and have just heard , loads of starbucks will be closed and boarded up while its going on ( this may just be rumour )

[Mikecg]

Work sent out a memo basically saying don't speak to any protesters and if you think that you are in personal danger call 999.

Better still I'm gonna phone in sick. When I was working on Euston road the bank I was contracting for held accounts for a Life Sciences company one day protesters were out side, as I was leaving a woman animal rights activist shoved a load haler in my face and started calling me names and screaming at me all I could do was to run like fook!.

[????]

I'm thoroughly looking forward to it, I like the whiff of anarchy.......

[Mikecg]

It's better to watch on the news quids, you get all the action from the safety of your arm chair.

[????]

Nah, bollox to that.....a rare chance to have a bit of a 'edge'