metro this morning
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- kelpie0
I think the Polis' "bore them into submission" policy has been OK so far - I'm waiting to see how it goes when the peoples front of judea turn up in the rainbow tanks and start shooting jenners...
- kelpie0
and the only good bit of the metro is the letters page btw
- CaP0
what happened in Barca?? (you meant barcelona?)...
i was actually thinking about asking you MX, was it really how media reported it?
- ********0
what happened in Barca?? (you meant barcelona?)...
i was actually thinking about asking you MX, was it really how media reported it?
CaP
(Jul 5 05, 02:31)A football final and the police went screaming about with sirens blaring to show their presence and make everyone a little edgy (para was telling me about it on Saturday...)
Not from where I was standing, there were hundreds of police vans tearing up and down the road outside my house but no evidence of anything actually kicking off...
- ********0
and the only good bit of the metro is the letters page btw
kelpie
(Jul 5 05, 02:31)The kind of well informed crap you find in there is strangely familiar...
- paraselene0
dunno if you were there in the spring of '99, cap, but that was when the ajuntament ill-advisedly lobbied to have the eurocup (?) final in barcelona, thinking that it would be barca v. munich.
much to their dismay, it ended up being man u v. munich and the city went a bit fucking nuts. i was wondering out loud to mx this weekend whether or not this business of the sirens and the creation of municipal anxiety was intentional. a tactic to assert police presence, if you will.
- kelpie0
and the only good bit of the metro is the letters page btw
kelpie
(Jul 5 05, 02:31)The kind of well informed crap you find in there is strangely familiar...
determinedmoth
(Jul 5 05, 02:39)yeah, it's quite NT-like, a select few idiots with too much time on their hands competing for column space :)
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
which way does this rag swing?
- paraselene0
which way does this rag swing?
PonyBoy
(Jul 5 05, 02:45)depends how many cats you've hung with it.
- kelpie0
the cats round here don't hang wid the metro
- PonyBoy0
which way does this rag swing?
PonyBoy
(Jul 5 05, 02:45)depends how many cats you've hung with it.
paraselene
(Jul 5 05, 02:48)
___Enter response:
cat's do not die on NT, dude. They're like.. mascots... magical creatures - don't you play in the photoshop battles?
- CaP0
oh, yes, i remember that final game, but i was living in chile at the time...
about the sirens business, well, it depends on the "crowd" you are trying to control. when i was living in italy and there were the G8 protests in genoa, that same tactic (and also hard police repression, for naming it one way) led into the problems and the consequences we all now. later, when we were protesting in florence, police presence was actually the oposite: they stood silent, almost trying to be unnoticed except when you look for them: then you could see this "wall" of blue-dressed people.
so... i guess this attitude leads to dodgy atmospheres...
- ********0
which way does this rag swing?
PonyBoy
(Jul 5 05, 02:45)depends how many cats you've hung with it.
paraselene
(Jul 5 05, 02:48)hahaha......
or.... oh nevermind.
might want to sign in as kilroy for that...
- paraselene0
cat's do not die on NT, dude. They're like.. mascots... magical creatures - don't you play in the photoshop battles?
PonyBoy
(Jul 5 05, 02:51)shed nary a tear for the felines, mr. equine. just an old joke that i can't resist resucitating.
- kelpie0
later, when we were protesting in florence, police presence was actually the oposite: they stood silent, almost trying to be unnoticed except when you look for them: then you could see this "wall" of blue-dressed people.
-----------------yeah, the scottish coppers have taken to standing in a big square around the illegal protestors and boring them sensless till they either start a fight (and get battered, less common) or get fed up and ask to leave - they are then allowed unhindered to go on their way. Time will tell if it's a total success, but so far less violence than in Genoa for instance. I've heard horror stories about the italian riot squads tactics there (pre-emptive raids and such). Embra centre was practicaly closed down though, so in a sense the protests are working even if not too many are getting to go to war...
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
i see paraselene's been polishing the old thesaurus.
- paraselene0
i see paraselene's been polishing the old thesaurus.
PonyBoy
(Jul 5 05, 03:03)actually, there's no single object on this planet that i hate, loathe, detest and despise more than the thesaurus.
- kelpie0
that's a bit harsh, I can take it or leave it personaly...
- kelpie0
never liked the dictionary much though, trying to tell me what wurds mean and shit. pffft
- PonyBoy0
Enter response:
hehe