Jesus, I only persevered with scrolling down to tell you I lack the attention span to read all that stuff.

Page 2 has started well.

I’m surprised TSY had sufficient attention span to even finish that post…

Elfin I was going to add that but got bored.

Uprising of the scum herd?

No; the Tories are already in government, Markie…

😀

Can we ban all posts over 50 words (which is about 30 more than my attention span)?

When I look at that utter gobshite deluded nonsense of a post, and think the OP might believe it? The looting of trainers and PS3s was so far from the sixth form marxist society claptrap spouted above, you might as well have been trying to explain squirrel hibernation by referring to the evolution from co-ax cables to HDMI, the point is missed so badly. Reminds me a lot too of that deluded Norwegian nutter Anders Breivek’s manifesto. Open your eyes to the real world or get medical help.

When I look at that utter gobshite deluded nonsense of a post

Funny, cos I don’t actually see you offering up any supreme wisdom at all.

Did you actually read owt of the OP? Or just a little bit, then allow your sensibilities to get all twitchy and your knickers become twisted?

I don’t see the OP insulting anyone here, so why insult them?

Why not just ignore it if it’s something you don’t like, or at least attempt to engage in intelligent debate, rather than resorting to the cop out of ‘I don’t understand this propperly/agree with this person’s point of view so I’ll just act all superior and belittle and denigrate them’?

bleeding-heat liberals

Reminds me – I must get the new loft insulation sorted before winter.

Well I admit it isn’t normally my style to insult, but the OP insulted our intelligence from the start. I might engage in intelligent debate with them but they have so many chips on their shoulders it would take the combined efforts of Eric Pickles and John Prescott noshing on them for a month before the OP could stand up straight to do it. It’s not an invitation to debate, it’s a cut and paste identikit pseudo socialist mindfart which doesn’t argue anything new and seeks to conflate Winston Silcott, Rodney King and dweebs on facebook just because they have a keyword “riot” in a google search and is just plain wrong in that regard. The looting happened because it was allowed and idiots were unrestrained, not because of ideology. (I except the original Duggan family vigil from this, but it wasn’t those people who rioted either.)

a cut and paste identikit pseudo socialist mindfart

Marvellous!

The looting happened because it was allowed and idiots were unrestrained, not because of ideology.

What a wonderfully intelligent and insightful summation of what occurred.

I’m surprised you’re not on Newsnight as an ‘expert’ on such matters.

Funny, I thought there were far more complex underlying social issues which were behind the anger whcih was the spark for such mindless violence and lawlessness, but according to you, it was just something that happened. Just like that.

the OP insulted our intelligence from the start

I think personally they may actually have overestimated the intelligence of some….

Look at the targets, Watches, Plasmas, Xbox, Nikes. Bottles of water?

No, not mindless violence. Small minded violence.

Sorry, just catching up with some Glastonbury backlog, watching Beyoncé shaking her booty. Did I miss anything?

So which STW member is the trolling astrid then?

7/10, a promising start. Good use of capitals but let down by lack of swearing, timeliness and occasional incomprehensibility. The topic was a bit too obvious as well – what you really need is a topic that is superficially not terribly controversial but will degenerate into accusations of racism/Communism/antediluvianism/ignorance or preferably a combination of all four. Perhaps the tax deductability of interest on mortgage payments might be “sleeper” troll.

You do, however, get credit for using footnotes in a rant. I think that’s a STW first.

Fred/elfin/talk/astrid’s right; JJB were providing the police college at Hendon with training kit, and the looting of their stores was a brilliant example of plucky inner-city youths striking back at the apparatus of the current oppressive regime.
Pass the tinfoil.

They’re coming to get you Duckman

<adds an extra layer of foil to be on the same side>