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swiftblade wrote: »

What anoys me too is they keep refering back to the police shooting as the trigger for these other events, when in reality people just thought it would be good crack to kick up a fuss.
Mob rule. Pople turn into nothing more than animals when in a crowd. You may even be surprised to find out some of those people rioting have normal everyday jobs, money, well educated. It's not just the lower classes.

But they won't be the ones who pay. They will go home tonight back to their beds, maybe have a brew, while others are left homeless. Lives destroyed. Pure and utter scum. :mad:

Well, the police shooting WAS the trigger.

Only its been spun to seem 'excessive' when infact yon yobbo, shot AT the police, wounding one, and the police were just better shots...
They claim a special bobby also 'pushed' a young woman when they went to protest peacefully at the station... nobody says what she was doing though.. probably going for him... its all perspective
End of the day, they wanted an excuse it seems... anyway, in typical British fasion, looters have been queuing... Only here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ1PL34R6gI&feature=youtube_gdata_player

jill_valentine wrote: »

Just a quick note, it's been established now that the guy in question never actually fired a shot. The police seem to have panicked and shot each other. Bearing that in mind, and given the already-unravelling official account of the incident, and the Met's fairly dubious form in that regard in recent years, I don't think its surprising that people don't take their word for it that the killing was justified.

It spiralled off into something else entirely now - same as the Love Ulster thing here - but the initial disturbance outside the police station was directly triggered by the shooting. Or, I suppose more accurately, the police's liaison people's very clumsy handling of events immediately after the shooting.

you're right, somehow they managed to shoot eachother... however the man in question was armed, they recovered a firearm at the scene (no not an officers one).

Every time there's a police shooting, everyone questions it, over and over and over, every single case. I don't think i can recall one that hasn't been. Its great... the fact we can have a, few enough to question, and b, a society that CAN question the,, is amazing. However, nearly all resulted from operational decisions that were correct. This I expect, will also prove to be the case in this incident.
Hindsight is a beautiful thing. A chairleg now, was an iminent, hidden threat 5 minutes before. Officers dont have that benefit.

If people wish to protest, or challenge a decision, or event, they can do it peacefully. Kicking off and destrtoying life and livelyhood is NOT the answer. End of the day... the police shot an armed gangster, the rioters have done far far worse. They do not occupy any form of moral high ground, or even a bit of a marshy one.

Think you're pretty fearless ... well, I beg to differ. I raise you:

defenderdude wrote: »

Holy Sh1t!
:eek::eek::eek:

Those guys do not feck about Aido!

I was fairly nervous getting them, i was nearly afraid to open them to be greeted with disappointment. Turns out i passed everything and will be starting my college course in 2 weeks! Hope everyone got what they wanted points wise and enjoy tonight! Essay over :P

Firing .22lr M1 Carbine...possibly the most fun I've ever had:pac:

NakedDex wrote: »

Go to the US.
Find a firing range.
Bring your passport and wallet.
Do the prep course.
Ask for a Garand.
Put 150 rounds through it.
Edit your post above.

True..it was fun by Irish standards anyway:o

Damo 2k9 wrote: »

I was fairly nervous getting them, i was nearly afraid to open them to be greeted with disappointment. Turns out i passed everything and will be starting my college course in 2 weeks! Hope everyone got what they wanted points wise and enjoy tonight! Essay over :P

Well Done.

I cant remember what I got in my leaving cert (class of 94).
I know I got an E in Technical drawing despite being very good at it normally. I remember being in the exam and not believing the questions were so easy so I interpreted them wrong and kicking myself later when the idiot in the class done well.

Also when I was in school Computers was not considered an actual Subject that gave you points in most colleges and Uni's except in Limerick at the time. My leaving cert for Computers came from UL at the time.

Doing computers was done at the time instead of doing a foreign language so that screwed me when I later applied to the Army Cadets as I did not meet basic qualifications and it required a foreign language at the time.

I remember getting my results over the phone. I was on the set of Braveheart when it was being filmed in Ireland with the FCA as extras.
I was in a Kilt with my face full of Mud, and there was a queue a mile long
for the phonebox where all people from the FCA who had lied about their age when signing up were waiting to ring the Mammy or Daddy to get their results.

Ended up doing Computer Programming in Limerick, not getting a grant as was not living far enough from the college, Hating Pascal and Cobol, and completely failing my first years exams cos I left early to meet my first girlfriend cos I was a horny teenager. She dumped me that year and I became a drop out. Later went on to do a HND in electronic engineering where I learned absoultly nothing at all via a night course, did a fas course and landed on my feet working for a semi-conducter company in 97 and am stuck in the place ever since hating every single day of my Job.
But it pays the bills!

If I knew back then what I know now what I actually might of liked to do as a career when doing my leaving, I would have kept art after the Intercert and pursued trying to get into something like special effects or designing movie sets. Would have LOVED to have a job working on the likes
of the Lord of the Rings sets making scenery and models etc.

~B

Congrats to all the Leaving Certers, pass or fail, make the best of it.

bullets wrote: »

Also when I was in school Computers was not considered an actual Subject

Lucky you.. when I was in school the feckin things hadn't even been invented yet.. anyone remember spectrum 48's and commodore 64's?

God I'm gettin old.. :rolleyes:

im on tv in 30 mins, see if ya can spot the sa58!

thermo wrote: »

im on tv in 30 mins, see if ya can spot the sa58!

Yeah, spill... :cool:

*hits record*

thermo wrote: »

rte 1, program called bombings, its a documentary on the attack on the miami show band in 1975, im in the re-construction scenes.

I Seeeeeeeeeeeee Youuuuuuuu

NakedDex wrote: »

C64, Atari 2600 and a Spectrum. I still laugh when kids complain about ten second loading times on their Xbox.

Thank god I missed the times of loading games off tapes

swiftblade wrote: »

There were times on the C64 where you really didn't know if it crashed or was still loading. Thats how long the load times where. And the controller (if you were lucky enough to have one) was a piece of poo feat of technical brilliance for the time.

FYP

NakedDex wrote: »

No, he's right. It had all the control qualities of a marmoset on an ice sheet after an oil spillage during a hurricane.

It also had a severe lack of buttons. Some gamse had a weird thing like hold to shoot, but tap to jump. Was confusing as hell.