What Time Does It All Kick-Off Tomorrow Guys?

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Going to be a long day, one suspects.

[Mick Mac]

Yep - HR's instructions are to 1) dress down and 2) get in early as the protestors are marching down Pall Mall at 9.45am - the office doors will therefore be locked at 9.30am and noone will be allowed in or out until "Security" decide its safe. Goodness only knows when that will be, probably sometime Thursday afternoon.

[????]

i've been looking on the West Ham sites and the Essex boys are well 'up for it'...

[matthew123]

But will they conserve their energies for the Ukrainians!?

[????]

...bashing "soap dodgers" "Hippy Scum" "Pondlife" that is....could be a long old day;-)

[KalamityKel]

I may choose to go up on the roof and admire the view from a good distance :p

[Marmora Man]

I'm off for an interview for a role within healthcare. Will be in my best interview suit (pinstriped) and polished brogues - do you think I can claim exemption from the protesters? I might look like a member of the capitalist society but I'm off to see about healing people.

[Mikecg]

Wear a ban the bomb badge.

[KalamityKel]

Im going to work in me black suit, beanie hat and bright pink flip flops... watch out for me! ;-)

[Michael Palaeologus]

Hopefully the BBC, Sky and CNN will have rolling news coverage. I shall sit on my sofa watching the fun.

[JohnL]

I've been practicing on COD4 on the PS3.

Anyone got a red dot for the M16 ;)

[????]

Very quiet so far - looking across the city, no helicopters, not one policeman seen on my journey...bus was a bit dressed down though

[charliecharlie]

It 'kicks off' at 11.00 (as I keep trying to tell you all!!!)

Are you concerned about the global financial crisis? Are you unhappy about the way the government has handled the banking crisis? Do you feel that the constant push to 'consume' is the right way forward for society?

Are you worried about unemployment issues? Are you worried about your savings or your pension? Are you concerned about others who may be in a worse situation than you???

Various groups are assembling at 4 london stations

Each group represents an 'issue'

Financial crisis (LONDON BRIDGE STATION... see you all there!!)

Climate Change

Anti War

and I think the fourth is Jobs and Justice

see facebook link for more detail

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53674491031

*thinks to herself... where is everybody?*

[Ladygooner]

Should be an interesting day - lots of jean wearers on the train. Some of my colleagues are at an awards dinner tonight at the Dorchester - all will be wearing penguin suits so will be easily identifiable to the protestors! Bet the organisers of the dinner wished they had chosen a different date

[Mick Mac]

Safely at work - Hardly a suit in sight - only person I saw of note this morning was Harry Enfield on his way into the Wolseley (yes really), was going to shout "Loads a' Money" - but thought perhaps not the best day for that sort of chat.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I dressed as normal. Nor would I be worried going to a black-tie do tonight.

I'm getting the distinct impression that it's the people who are ostensibly "at risk" today who are the ones who want the aggro more than any protester. For entertainment, depressingly enough

[Mikecg]

I drew out ?3000 from the bank yesterday so I can wave it out of my office window to all the protesters below.

[Brendan]

I for one whole heartedly support peoples? right to protest legitimately against a system which is exploiting them.

It is irresponsible of the press to whip up this hysteria about psychotic, blood crazed hippies on the war path to abuse pregnant city workers and whatever other bollocks they have been spewing.

Granted there may be radical elements that are looking for trouble but I?m sure the legions of heavily armed police I walked past this morning will quickly put a stop to this.

In a free society people have the right to make a visible show of their concerns. If there are enough people to bring a city to a standstill well then surely it means that there is a problem that those in power should rightly listen to.

I?m also in pin stripes and polished brogues today. Do you think that if I explain nicely that I work to expose corruption and amicably resolve disputes it will stop the soap dodging, pond life, baby killer, Marxist, cannibal, evil hippies bent of the destruction of our democratic right to exploit the weak from flaying the skin from my commie sympathising bones?

[LegalEagle-ish]

Haha, Brendan you're a one, for sure.

[snorky]

blah blah blah

the cameras are already up at various locations & there are more Media that Filth on the streets

Do these parasites report the news or make the news ? every little scuffle or stumble will be flashed across the world and repeated for the next 24 hours meaning for thoses who dont actually like here:

London=Battleground / stock up on tinned food & water

The victims hhowe have obeyed their corporate gang masters and followed instruction - dress down/ dont carry an FT / bring sandwiches / arrive early / depart late/ have lunch at desk etc are sadly cowed into fear by the whole system. Its pitiful and shows how little some understand about the whole ethos of the day

I hear of City boys - first hand BTW - who are talking about having a ruck if"swampy" tries to get into their offices- erm? shed blood for your employer ? what type of mugs are you ?

Snorky says - pull a sickie, put on a Hawaiian shirt, go up to the city and have a party

[Jeremy]

charliecharlie Wrote:

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> It 'kicks off' at 11.00 (as I keep trying to tell

> you all!!!)

Of course... I don't think anyone would expect the crusties to get out of bed at the same time as the rest of us.

[DaveR]

says it all, really

[LegalEagle-ish]

I'm off work today - was thinking of going up there, but not keen on being bludgeoned by a hyped up policeman for excercising my democratic right to protest against the thieving banking twats who've destroyed the global economy, so may plant out my spinach instead.

[Brendan]

Fantastic. Now if only we could scrap licensing fees all our news could be written with such an objective non-political agenda.

[mockney piers]

"says it all really"

Ugh?!?!

It says precisely nothing.

It just tries to ridicule a legitimate philosophical and moral position (ie what lies behind consumerism, which involves the subjugation of millions of people in an economic system designed to allow us to shop while others are subject to war, pestilence, plague and famine, while our society loses sight of core social values, replaced by the emptiness of materialism) by reducing it to a complaint about shopping and the right to own a telly.

Shoddy, shoddy journalism.

Mind you I'm loving the positively surreal comment underneath:

Dark matter is amazing, it might be the secret to other dimensions, and planets hidden behind the dark pelt. Although me and my friend are 11 year old girls, we are very interested in dark matter and the idea of finding it's source. Our young minds find ideas of the mysteries of dark matter.