Anyone up for a riot?

Jim236

Just seen on the RTÉ website, 10 people have stormed the Anglo Irish Bank head office, and got me thinking - how has there not been a riot in this country yet? With all the tens of billions of our money being wasted on propping up the banks, and just generally how much the government has f**ked up this country - is it not about time we had a proper riot?

Muckie

Yeah, why not. Good for a laugh. Meet you's at the GPO,
say 1.

Guy:Incognito

Yeah lets run around smashing the place up, that's how stuff gets fixed.

deelite

Yes let's have one but I don't know how we are going to get people to join in - like you don't want to warn target before hand. So ringing Joe Duffy is out. So I suggest we start putting posters up in the dole office, health centres, Lidl and Aldi - no politicans are ever going to go there!!!!

partyatmygaff

Jim236 wrote: »

Just seen on the RTÉ website, 10 people have stormed the Anglo Irish Bank head office, and got me thinking - how has there not been a riot in this country yet? With all the tens of billions of our money being wasted on propping up the banks, and just generally how much the government has f**ked up this country - is it not about time we had a proper riot?

Sounds like a surefire way to destroy what's left of the country's stability. Guess you're the type of person who think a group of people fighting each other on the street will magically solve our problems.

Richard tea

I concur, ill smash & you grab. How come no one predicted this riot:rolleyes:

partyatmygaff

Richard tea wrote: »

I concur, ill smash & you grab. How come no one predicted this riot:rolleyes:

These guys did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hamKl-su8PE

landsleaving

I predict no riot. I predict no riot.

phasers

With the amount of people asking this I'm also surprised we haven't had one - how about instead of asking on Boards you all get together and do something instead of expecting others to?

Posy

Great plan. I'll braid my hair and put flowers in it, so when the police arrive I'll just look like a confused hippie that stumbled upon the riot.
I too, am a smasher rather than a grabber so if there's room for one more I'll get my lump-hammer and head off to town now.

Mark200

phasers wrote: »

With the amount of people asking this I'm also surprised we haven't had one - how about instead of asking on Boards you all get together and do something instead of expecting others to?

Because no one has the balls and deep down they know it's an idiotic idea.

SoupyNorman

Lead the charge phasers, I'd follow you into the fire.

landsleaving

Needs more neck clocks. BOYYYEEEE!

SugarHigh

Posy wrote: »

Great plan. I'll braid my hair and put flowers in it, so when the police arrive I'll just look like a confused hippie that stumbled upon the riot.
I too, am a smasher rather than a grabber so if there's room for one more I'll get my lump-hammer and head off to town now.

Looking like a hippy is guaranteed to get you few smacks of baton in a riot and rightly so.

phasers

SoupyNorman wrote: »

Lead the charge phasers, I'd follow you into the fire.

This is madness!

MagicMarker

How many people are needed for a storm these days?

landsleaving

MagicMarker wrote: »

How many people are needed for a storm these days?

Just one weatherman.

Samba

Must be the flouride levels in the water system.

AckwelFoley

Jim236 wrote: »

Just seen on the RTÉ website, 10 people have stormed the Anglo Irish Bank head office

assclowns

Snickers Man

Eccentric Property Developer Mick Wallace said much the same thing on Newstalk last week. That it was a surprise to him that people hadn't started overturning cars in the street in response to some of the crap that's been handed out lately. This was at the height of the Richie Boucher pension top-up scandal, which he has since defused by declining the payment.

My guess is that something like that will happen and it will eventually be sparked off my some comparitively innocuous gaff. Some utter gob****e, probably from Fianna Fail, will make some unbelievably crass comment on TV or in the Dail to the effect that things aren't so bad and we must continue to overpay those in power/business/civil service (TOP END ESPECIALLY) if we want to have the sort of country we all want to be proud of and something will just flip.

Somebody from the smart-ass "I know best, ye lot are all whinging pinkos who should shag off to Cuba" Charlie McCreevey tendency in the Warriors of Destiny.

That would be my guess.

smokie2008

I'm in ha ha,

Son Of A Vidic

I'm 2 hours from Dublin, so listen ye get started and I'll bring up fresh reserves when ye get tired.

amacachi

medicman2009 wrote: »

I'm 2 hours from Dublin, so listen ye get started and I'll bring up fresh reserves when ye get tired.

2 hours away in Sligo? Thank God for the roadbuilding that's happened in the last 13 years or you'd be far longer getting over.

--LOS--

Jim236 wrote: »

Just seen on the RTÉ website, 10 people have stormed the Anglo Irish Bank head office, and got me thinking - how has there not been a riot in this country yet? With all the tens of billions of our money being wasted on propping up the banks, and just generally how much the government has f**ked up this country - is it not about time we had a proper riot?

coz nobody gives a damn what happens in the Republic, just don't mention the North.

Sofiztikated

I can't believe I'm actually replying on this thread.

Give it a rest. Throwing your toys out of the pram does a grand total of SFA.

If you want to do something about the way **** is happening, get up of your ass and either

1)find a way to fix ****
2)speak to someone who has a way to fix ****

Just plain old "rioting" doesn't cut it, you look like a tit, people end up ignoring you and your "cause" because you look like a tit, and things go back to the way they alway were, only now you have yourself a criminal record.

c0rk3r

Of course not

We are Irish not Greek

Guy:Incognito

c0rk3r wrote: »

Of course not

We are Irish not Greek

Do give us your wisdom on why the Greeks rioted (clue: because they wanted the government to keep spending at the ridiculous levels that got them in to he ****)

ejmaztec

MagicMarker wrote: »

How many people are needed for a storm these days?

Five more than a shower.

Jaxxy

Oh yes! Let's be more like the French!

Saibh

AH tried to organise a revolution before

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Jesus, for a horrible second I thought it was May 1st already! Nearly had a heart attack...

Posy

SugarHigh wrote: »

Looking like a hippy is guaranteed to get you few smacks of baton in a riot and rightly so.

Bugger. Count me out so.

dsmythy

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Jesus, for a horrible second I thought it was May 1st already! Nearly had a heart attack...

I'd say some people will try confront the police on that day. Of course sensible people would laugh at them and scumbags would start looting.

entropi

As I've said on another popular forum many times already: Not your personal army.

Michaelrsh

Personally I think that most left-wing protesters are knackers.

problemchimp

I have an idea, let's sit on our holes and do nothing and wait for the next election in 2 years time and vote for FF and some hole licking independents. In the meantime when our kids and grandchildren grow up we can tell them we did fukc all to rid them of the big debt that they now carry. I'm sure they'll be proud of us. Oh and let's scoff and roll our eyes up to heaven when someone suggests protesting.

problemchimp

Michaelrsh wrote: »

Personally I think that most left-wing protesters are knackers.

very constructive, well done. our country can rely on you thank God.

Michaelrsh

problemchimp wrote: »

I have an idea, let's sit on our holes and do nothing and wait for the next election in 2 years time and vote for FF and some hole licking independents. In the meantime when our kids and grandchildren grow up we can tell them we did fukc all to rid them of the big debt that they now carry. I'm sure they'll be proud of us. Oh and let's scoff and roll our eyes up to heaven when someone suggests protesting.

Well we could vote for Fine Gael, their not exactly left wing now are they.

Pete M.

medicman2009 wrote: »

I'm 2 hours from Dublin, so listen ye get started and I'll bring up fresh reserves when ye get tired.

Don't panic. We'll have one local soon enough

RMD

Can we use the riot as an excuse to loot shops like footlocker and champion sport? You know like how we did in the 06 riots.

Pete M.

dsmythy wrote: »

I'd say some people will try confront the police on that day. Of course sensible people would laugh at them and scumbags would start looting.

Sensible people here meaning apathetic sympathisers who reckon the banks should be saved, Fingleton was worth his pension, S. Fitz is a decent chap and given a chance FF/FG would turn it around types

and scumbags being people who earn less than they do or heaven forbid are on the dole and are pissed off with how the place is being run :rolleyes:

corkcomp

it must be my failing eyesight but when I was scrolling down thru AH I thought this was "anyone up for a roide"

Jay D

hehe I should have posted my last post in this thread instead

Jay D wrote: »

when the hell are Irish people going to learn we're a nation of fcuking cry babies and never achieve anything through protest outrage etc?

Outrage needs to be stepped up a gear and I would love something similar to what happened in Thailand recently to happen here. Public execution to follow would be an ideal icing on the cake for me personally. That would be a dream come true.

Rotting to the core. Civil servants doing f all then going on "strike" and doing more f all.

Corrupt social workers, police, politicians among many others.
We've no one imposing accountability for anything. Imagine what happened in the uk recently was to happen here? If in the US do you think these fcukwits would still be walking the street never mind working in such a highly paid job...

Ireland is a fcuking pathetic joke.

L.Jenkins

All in all, probably not my best post, but in my honest opinion, I'd be up for a good old fashion pitch fork and burning stick demonstration at the front gates of the Dáil. About time some cúnts starting taking responibility for what's going on or get out in favour of someone who will!

deelite

If there is to be a riot - I'll bet there'll be a tax or levy put onto it.....

Elenxor

great idea! but can we have it around 8pm, ? I have to work and it'll take a couple to get to Dublin.

kraggy

Stekelly wrote: »

Yeah lets run around smashing the place up, that's how stuff gets fixed.

Sometimes it is how stuff gets fixed.

The French don't have the best health system in Europe and longest annual leave entitlement for nothing.

Helix

havent read beyond the first post, but if something was to be done wouldnt it be best to storm the banks head offices and destroy their servers/backups whatever else to get people out of debt?

Jim236

Helix wrote: »

havent read beyond the first post, but if something was to be done wouldnt it be best to storm the banks head offices and destroy their servers/backups whatever else to get people out of debt?

I like your style.

Dionysus

Helix wrote: »

havent read beyond the first post, but if something was to be done wouldnt it be best to storm the banks head offices and destroy their servers/backups whatever else to get people out of debt?

Impressive thinking. The Dublin Brigade of the IRA, under the command of Oscar Traynor, did this on 25 May 1921 when they attacked Dublin's Customs House, where most British tax records were held. 5 volunteers were killed and 80 were arrested so there's a few lessons to be learned.

But your general thesis is solid. Keep working.

Dionysus

Stekelly wrote: »

Yeah lets run around smashing the place up, that's how stuff gets fixed.

Yeah, and Cowen, Lenihan and the rest of those mé féiner fúckwits are really fixing something other than their numerous pensions, their ridiculously inflated salaries and obscene perks (while demanding that we give up our much inferior financial remunerations)?

F ucking it up and fixing it up are two entirely different concepts. Pumping billions in Anglo-Irish Bank has nothing to do with fixing this economy. It is delusional, wishful thinking of the worst sort, to contend that these current methods are working.

The Irish people will be paying billions of euro per annum in interest for an eternity- we will never repay the principal, that is the reality - as a direct result of these arseholes and their fellow travellers. If this system is "working" ....


PS: Not forgetting the chief culprit of this "working" system, Mr Bertie Ahern of Drumcondra, Dublin.