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Anyone up for a riot?

  • 24-04-2010 11:50AM
    #1
    Jim236
    Closed Accounts Posts: 956 ✭✭✭


    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?


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  • #2
    Muckie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,761 ✭✭✭Muckie


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


  • #3
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


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


  • #4
    deelite
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭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!!!!


  • #5
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    Richard tea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,266 ✭✭✭Richard tea


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


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  • #7
    partyatmygaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,992 ✭✭✭✭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


  • #8
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    I predict no riot. I predict no riot.


  • #9
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭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?


  • #10
    Posy
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 28,274 Mod ✭✭✭✭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. :)


  • #11
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    SoupyNorman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,257 ✭✭✭SoupyNorman


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


  • #13
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving




    Needs more neck clocks. BOYYYEEEE!


  • #14
    SugarHigh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,265 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    SoupyNorman wrote: »
    Lead the charge phasers, I'd follow you into the fire.
    This is madness!


  • #16
    MagicMarker
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 32,865 ✭✭✭✭MagicMarker


    How many people are needed for a storm these days?


  • #17
    landsleaving
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,345 ✭✭✭landsleaving


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    How many people are needed for a storm these days?

    Just one weatherman.


  • #18
    Samba
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,476 ✭✭✭Samba


    Must be the flouride levels in the water system.


  • #19
    AckwelFoley
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,556 ✭✭✭✭AckwelFoley


    Jim236 wrote: »
    Just seen on the RTÉ website, 10 people have stormed the Anglo Irish Bank head office

    assclowns


  • #20
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,302 ✭✭✭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.


  • #21
    smokie2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 656 ✭✭✭smokie2008


    I'm in ha ha,


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  • #22
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #23
    amacachi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,315 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #24
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--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.


  • #25
    Sofiztikated
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭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.


  • #26
    c0rk3r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭c0rk3r


    Of course not

    We are Irish not Greek ;)


  • #27
    Guy:Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,227 ✭✭✭✭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 ****)


  • #28
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    MagicMarker wrote: »
    How many people are needed for a storm these days?

    Five more than a shower.


  • #29
    Jaxxy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,297 ✭✭✭Jaxxy


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


  • #30
    Saibh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    AH tried to organise a revolution before


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  • #31
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,779 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


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

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



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