What's the most revolutionary thing you've ever done?

[HonaloochieB]

I once went on a march to save the GLC. It was abolished anyway.

Crushed and devalued I threw away my Woodie Guthrie record and joined the Conservative party.

[Tony.London Suburbs]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

I once went on a march to save the GLC. It was abolished anyway.

Ah! The Good Old GLC starring Kenny The Livingstone.

Best Holiday Camp this side of The Watford Gap.

Stick yer Pontins/Butlins/Maplins and Warners, The GLC was different class...:)-D

[Tony.London Suburbs]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

I once went on a march to save the GLC. It was abolished anyway.

Ah! The Good Old GLC starring Kenny The Livingstone.

Best Holiday Camp this side of The Watford Gap.

Stick yer Pontins/Butlins/Maplins and Warners, The GLC was different class...:)-D

[Marmora Man]

Ah! The Good Old GLC starring Kenny The Livingstone.

I remember those days. Driving back from work at Navy HQ, where I had been trying to monitor the activities of Soviet ballistic missile submarines, and arriving in Ken's "Nuclear Free Zone" - achieved by putting up a few signs here and there. Wondering how Ken's initiative was going to ensure that Moscow didn't target GLC ratepayers.

[Marmora Man]

Ah! The Good Old GLC starring Kenny The Livingstone.

I remember those days. Driving back from work at Navy HQ, where I had been trying to monitor the activities of Soviet ballistic missile submarines, and arriving in Ken's "Nuclear Free Zone" - achieved by putting up a few signs here and there. Wondering how Ken's initiative was going to ensure that Moscow didn't target GLC ratepayers.

[HonaloochieB]

Jesus, thanks a lot TLS and MM, I was youngish and idealisticish at the time.

I feel all recrushed and devalued now.

[louisiana]

Physically pinning a High Court summons on the shoulder of the head of housing at the Tory GLC (pre-Livingstone), after he'd hidden behind lawyers and security guards all afternoon.

But perhaps not that revolutionary, given that I was appealing to the law of the land, so to speak.

Occupying a 48-flat GLC council block? (same case)

Or perhaps serving 3 days in Holloway with a refusal-of-bail form reading 'reason for refusal of bale: crowning of Queen Beatrice'

Who knows....

[PeckhamRose]

louisiana - you rock.

[bigbadwolf]

N roll.

[louisiana]

That was of course bail, not bale. Silly me :-S

Though I am finding myself increasingly drawn to the rural these days...

[intexasatthe moment]

Flash camping in the playground of my son's school in an effort to keep it a community comprhensive.

[louisiana]

Actually it's a funny confusion, 'cos I've just been writing about straw bale houses. Totally Freudian!

Thanks PeckhamRose and BBW. I'm feeling old before my time (49 last week!!), but inclining to return to revolutionary roots, be they urban or rural. What goes around...

One of these days, I shall get around to framing that refusal of bail form, and it will inspire me every day.

[louisiana]

intexasatthe moment Wrote:

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> Flash camping in the playground of my son's school

> in an effort to keep it a community comprhensive.

I am *always* in favour of direct action. Well done intexasthe!

[louisiana]

What I like about this flash camping is that you say I'm going to do something, and you don't think 'I can't change anything'.

Making your view known will influence so many others, who will maybe get brave too. It's viral, it's insidious, it really does influence others.

Say what you think! And have fun while you're doing it!

[charliecharlie]

Giving Johnny Rotten a load of grief about getting his teeth fixed... some hope!

Mind you I was somewhat off my face and he was at very close quarters...

Surprisingly, he took it very well...

http://www.pedestrian.tv/uploads/images/blogs/484776af62968/JohnnyRotten400x526.gif

[PinkyB]

Once rang up our local MP in the middle of the night, pissed on cheap wine at a teenage house party, to generally harangue him with drunken silliness. We didn't seriously expect him to answer, so we hadn't prepared anything. Although to be fair, he was in the phone book, so what did he expect?

Not so much revolutionary as just drunken, but I've been on more than my fare share of demos over the years, so I reckon I'm allowed one moment of idiocy. And I was sixteen.

Oh, and I nearly forgot, a friend and I wrote an article for the local paper about what teenagers thought of the poll tax (so 1989), and interviewed lots of kids from our school, but the headmaster refused to let it be published, the git. That was my fledgeling journalistic career up the swanee.

[HonaloochieB]

louisiana Wrote:

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Or perhaps serving 3 days in Holloway with a

refusal-of-bail form reading 'reason for refusal

of bale: crowning of Queen Beatrice'

I think I'm a little bit in love.

[bigbadwolf]

O.K hona if you insist.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Sat on a Witch's Hat.

[HonaloochieB]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Sat on a Witch's Hat.

I feel for you PGC, but shouldn't this be on The Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage thread?

[????]

Blew up the House of Commons in my brand new shoes then went to bed with a charming young thing

[bigbadwolf]

You've got my vote Quids.

P.s I've put the claim in for the TNT so we should be O.K...........actually............shit.

I'll see you in the papers! Mate?

[????]

you light the fuse

[PinkyB]

you had to edit that twice, BBW? I do hope you haven't been drinking.

[louisiana]

HonaloochieB Wrote:

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> louisiana Wrote:

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> Or perhaps serving 3 days in Holloway with a

> refusal-of-bail form reading 'reason for refusal

> of bale: crowning of Queen Beatrice'

>

> I think I'm a little bit in love.

I'll see you in court ;-)