Interesting topic i saw on boards. LOOTING 1916

cullen5998

While the fighting was going on many shops were looted.
Right or wrong?!?
Would ya!?

If you were just the average joe with nothing, no food, money, drink.

landsleaving

No, I'd have been to busy loving the queen, spitting on the rebels and generally revelling in my west Brit-ness.

:pac::pac::pac:

Oranage2

What do you think - we're not Japanese!

themadchef

Baby Jesus might cry, so no. He's watching you know...:eek:

fedor.2.

Im doing it as we speak

Badgermonkey

landsleaving wrote: »

No, I'd have been to busy loving the queen, spitting on the rebels and generally revelling in my west Brit-ness.

:pac::pac::pac:

Not forgetting you, I and Binky Carruthers would surely have met for tiffin before taking the train to Kingstown to take the sea air on the promenade.

starbelgrade

Looting sounds like great fun. I'd love to run out of Curry's with a nicked 48" TV in my arms.

It's just a pity there's never any natural disasters or wars here to provide me with the opportunity of doing so.

landsleaving

I think I've let myself and my monarch down. King, I meant to say King.

Nothing a spot of tea can't fix, eh chaps?

PK2008

Thanks OP, it was a while since we had a thread about 1916.....

landsleaving

starbelgrade wrote: »

Looting sounds like great fun. I'd love to run out of Curry's with a nicked 48" TV in my arms.

Somehow I read that as 'Naked with a 48" TV...'

BluesBerry

The story in my family was My great grandad and his brother were enjoying a pint in a pub nearby the GPO and thought the racket going on was building work they were a bit pissed at the "noise" and they couldnt enjoy their pint

Back in those days Id say there was a lot of looting going on around that area loads of people were poor and seized there chance

KeithAFC

I would of been helping the British army.

Arnold Layne

BluesBerry wrote: »

Back in those days Id say there was a lot of looting going on around that area loads of people were poor and seized there chance

Same as these days so, except the looters are now just called gurriers when the shootings start.

galwayrush

**** all to loot back then.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Of course I'd be looting, I think there's looting built into all of us.
Did you ever go away on a bus for an underage football match and then pull up at a small shop where 25 of you run in at once and clean all the lower shelves out. That's instinctual looting, you grow out of it but you always wanna do it.
Society breaks down, f*ck it, go back to your instincts and hunt and gather

gurramok

Did skangers exist in 1916? Actually, were tracksuits invented back then?

vampire of kilmainham

cullen5998 wrote: »

While the fighting was going on many shops were looted.
Right or wrong?!?
Would ya!?

If you were just the average joe with nothing, no food, money, drink.

yes i would

vampire of kilmainham

landsleaving wrote: »

No, I'd have been to busy loving the queen, spitting on the rebels and generally revelling in my west Brit-ness.

:pac::pac::pac:

shoot that man

zuroph

KeithAFC wrote: »

I would of been helping the British army.

*have, use the Queen's English properly, you bastard :pac:

galwayrush

gurramok wrote: »

Did skangers exist in 1916? Actually, were tracksuits invented back then?

Their grandparents did, not sure about the tracksuits though.

Mike 1972

galwayrush wrote: »

Their grandparents did, not sure about the tracksuits though.

Their Great-great-great-great grandparents surely ?

Remember in scanger terms a generation = around 15 years :pac:

Redlion

Realistically, I think I would have, considering the extreme poverty that most people suffered in Dublin City in 1916 and the severe shortage of supplies during the Rising. Looting was at one stage a need for survival for some. Also, there was no CCTV to be used against you :P

That being said, I'd never condone looting or robbing now, as it is a different era, and most people don't need to steal in order to survive.

phasers

yep, I remember when I was younger I read that kids book 'the guns of Easter'. The boy in it saw a huge hamper full of posh food in a shop that was being looted. He took everything he could carry. I always thought I'd do the same, the area surrounding the GPO was poverty stricken to say the least so I completely get why they'd take advantage.

zuroph

Mike 1972 wrote: »

Their Great-great-great-great grandparents surely ?

Remember in scanger terms a generation = around 15 years :pac:

took a month, but was totally worth it

Clareman

It was Easter week and confined to a small(ish) area, wouldn't have thought there would have been much to loot