as is d-cam, who just flew his private tennis coach out to italy
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
there are pro tennis players who can't afford a travelling coach
On one hand WTF BORIS YOUR CITY IS IN FLAMES, on the other, can you imagine anyone less likely to make a meaningful contribution?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just point your hose thingys over there, ok, super.
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
lolxp
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Sunday, 7 August 2011 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Waltham Cross now says twitter.
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
westfield too
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mate just texted me to tell me trouble in Walthamstow High St and to stay indoors. Haven't noticed any noise, maybe it's the other end? There's a bunch of people on the corner of my road and the High St, but that's not unusual
― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just saw that selbourne walk was being targeted in e17. Hearing plenty of sirens now at the top of cryPal
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
TimGatt Tim Gattby OwenJones84Disturbances in Walthamstow. Shop "smashed up" RT @tomwilliamsisme: Police blocking off area around Walthamstow Market twitpic.com/62n3r710 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply
― lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Palace sirens have got to be something else surely?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
think a lot of this might be bullshit/wishful thinking
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
just heard something is going on outside parliament http://twitpic.com/hindenburg.jpg
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Matt, wind carries the sirens miles and to be honest I hear plenty most nights, just had a couple of bursts of lots though which is unusual. Right now though it's all v quiet, no plane traffic, no helicopters.
― problem chimp (Porkpie), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Meanwhile David Cameron has gone back to a bar in Tuscany to sort out a misunderstanding about a tip.http://news.sky.com/home/article/16045391
― Ned Trifle X, Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i guess he's thinking, may as well use this currency as it won't be worth a damn in a week
there are reasons why maybe the PM should not be on holiday right now, but the riot isn't the biggest
― sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 22:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#!/shobz/status/100353100778438656
― nakhchivan, Sunday, 7 August 2011 23:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://thewestlondoner.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/breaking-riots-in-enfield-edmonton-brixton/
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
0017: Update via jc54322 on Twitter, Hemel Hempstead is not on fire.
― Ned Trifle X, Monday, 8 August 2011 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
0208: Yes, the kissing couple picture was from Vancouver, thanks to all pointing it out via Twitter – my fault for not checking it first!
― caek, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol http://twitpic.com/62pr98
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://twitpic.com/62pt9a
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://yfrog.com/j19kqz
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://twitpic.com/62m4ox
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://twitpic.com/62q1p0
this is pretty significant now i guess? stratford, edmonton too....someone on twitter says police w/ smgs in streatham
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
smgs? lol not buying that.
― caek, Monday, 8 August 2011 01:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
yah that was firsthand but signal to noise pretty lopsided right now....
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
ACAB
All cops are bastards.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Monday, 8 August 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― nakhchivan, Monday, 8 August 2011 02:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel bad for falling asleep through it last night :/
― lex pretend, Monday, 8 August 2011 07:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
the real root of the riots is not the cuts/coalition etc, its police brutality in the black community, an ongoing issue. so so so fucking weird to see no mention of this in any paper.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/07/tottenham-riot-community-destruction
ok i found one
guess we should get ready for more riots across london and england asap then
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp otm. that's what i was getting at last night. kind of feel like these riots are being appropriated by the ~chattering classes~.
― caek, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
people want to see it as a response to the coalition but its not, or rather it wasnt. most (white) people just arent aware of how deep this issue goes in the black community. they knew there was something dodgy about the shooting so they protested. other people just used it as an opportunity to start something else. im not supporting the riots nor what opportunists did but i dont really know what a more constructive way to deal with it is. fact is this sort of thing explodes periodically and i suppose this weekend was the latest explosion before it bubbles back under again.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
2 phone shops... No, just passed a 3rd at Streatham Hill broken into, JD Sports ransacked in central Streatham. Honestly when I went to bed, there were dozens of reports that there wasn't rioting in Brixton so wonder what happened after I went to bed.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
teenagers get some free trainers. justice is served!
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the police being the root of this rings v true. and this is against the backdrop of an erosion of whatever authority the met had over the past few months: violence and thuggery at ground level (tomlinson, smiley culture), corruption at the top (hacking). which maybe played a role in triggering the situation to tip beyond chronic distrust into full-scale rioting?
― lex pretend, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, at least the powers-that-be will be gratified that The Ritz escaped attack in preference to the branch of Aldi. Did someone 'refuse' permission to use The Mall/Picadilly for the protest?
― Mark G, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reports of Walthamstow BHS being set on fire turned out to be wildly exaggerated, I think there was a broken window and the entrance is cordoned off. Barclays bank also had a window put through, but that seems to have been it.
Crowd of hoodies gathered on my street corner around midnight with police vans driving through sporadically, there were sirens going off til at least 3am when I finally managed to fall asleep.
― Operation Pooting (Colonel Poo), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
these fucking kids are no anarchists sticking it to the big banking boys, they just want free shit.
why burn/break down M&S in brixton though? unless the kids were trying to get free underwear for their mums and gfs. honestly im surprised at how many areas have been looted (though tbf most of the big chains have enough money to replace their windows etc). bit worried for ppl i know who live in brixton.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
That was the quietest riot I ever heard of, I slept right thru it. There's no trail of destruction over Brixton Hill. I would have expected one. (Stolen?) car abandoned on the pavement by Sainsburys tho.
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
RT @ChrisKeys_11: London's getting mashed cause broke n low life people needed gear. Ladies, ask ur man 4 a receipt if he suddenly gives u a gift #londonriots
― James Mitchell, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost - rioters should be more polite, i agree.
starting to think all these tweets are made up by bad itv 'urban crime drama' writers.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
(not that one specifically, that one rings true lol)
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't know if trust in the Met has diminished significantly in the last couple of months in the places that are rioting. It has always been pretty appalling - the widespread idea that the police 'have changed' post-Macpherson might have some truth to it but it's probably overstated and not common currency in a lot of deprived areas.
The danger at the moment is that the organised rioting might spread to other areas with strongly-defined communities. There were apparently reports that Turkish and Kurdish lads were out protecting their shops around Green Lanes last night. The same might happen with Asian-owned businesses in places like Walthamstow.
― Slice Me Nice (ShariVari), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think "fuelling" is a poor choice of word, this article makes more sense to me than any of this FIND OUT WHAT THEY DOING ON THE TWITTERZ nonsense John Humphreys was babbling on about on the radio this morning: http://urbanmashup.wordpress.com/2011/08/07/the-unlikely-social-network-fuelling-the-tottenham-riots/
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Well, it's the new by-word for 'the population are organising by means out of *our* control'.
Like the RAF could have been all "lol i'm bombing Dresden where U at?"....
― Mark G, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's no trail of destruction over Brixton Hill. I would have expected one. (Stolen?) car abandoned on the pavement by Sainsburys tho.
It's all between Coldharbour Lane and Gresham Road. RIP Footlocker.
― Upt0eleven, Monday, 8 August 2011 08:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
Depressing that they had to cancel the Hackney Children's Carnival yesterday because some morons were talking up the opportunity to cause trouble there on Facebook.
― Slice Me Nice (ShariVari), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah the bus just went thru there. Damage is way overexaggerated, a lot of holes in windows (field day for glaziers vans there right now) but the only serious damage is the torched Footlocker. Nothing lime the scenes in Tottenham. Few anarchy symbols painted on shutters, civilisation as we know it is ended!
― Aphex Twin … in my vagina? (Karen D. Tregaskin), Monday, 8 August 2011 08:53 (1 year ago) Permalink