G20 Protests Wednesday and your commute

TheBoyBilly

You have to wonder what sort of parents take their young. kids along to one of these events

Clever Pun

I've just wandered past the 'campsite' that is going to utterly ming tomorrow, there's a lot of tents and no facilities and a lot of crusty types.

The bit by bank seemed pretty quite tbh although outside RBS the riot police were out in force and there was some shouting

In other news I just got sent this

CITY WORKERS URGED TO DRESS LIKE SCUM AND TALK ABOUT 'CORRIE'






WORKERS in the City of London can protect themselves from violent protesters by dressing like scum and talking about something called 'Corrie', it was claimed last night.



Do not talk about paté

Financial institutions in the Square Mile and Canary Wharf are advising staff after the Metropolitan Police warned that militant activists will use the G20 summit to target any well- nourished person in a suit who looks as if they earned more than £40,000 in the last year.

Guidelines issued by one City firm include:

Instead of a suit and tie wear a 'sweatshirt', ideally with a 'hood'. Give your secretary £10 and tell her to buy one from 'George' at 'Asda'.
If you and a colleague find yourself in a public space, do not talk about your favourite consistency of paté or the outstanding quality of the powder at Jackson Hole .
Instead, use phrases like 'Did you see Corrie last night?' or 'wasn't Corrie really good?'. You do not need to know what 'Corrie' is.
If you find yourself in conversation with a cheaply-dressed stranger, stick to generalities and avoid telling them that they are merely insignificant pawns in a complex, never-ending game that is entirely beyond their feeble, working class minds.
A Met spokesman said: "If your disguise does not work and you are threatened by scum, do not try to impress them with the five games you played at stand-off for the university third XV, or the fact that you used to box for Cambridge

cat_with_no_tail

A mate of mine works at one of these banks, had to laugh when he MSNd me to let me know a group of his co-workers (undoubtedly including himself) had been waving £10 notes out of the window at the protesters.
Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB! :evil:

Soooo glad to be on an Island where we would not tolerate this kind of nonsense.

Someone fetch me my Birch! :twisted:

DonDaddyD

Cat With No Tail wrote:

A mate of mine works at one of these banks, had to laugh when he MSNd me to let me know a group of his co-workers (undoubtedly including himself) had been waving £10 notes out of the window at the protesters.
Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB! :evil:

Soooo glad to be on an Island where we would not tolerate this kind of nonsense.

Someone fetch me my Birch! :twisted:

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Yeah I hate bankers (some) even moreso now. If we are making blanket statements about groups of people. Tell your friend I said

Thanks for the recession!!!"

lost_in_thought

Cat With No Tail wrote:

A mate of mine works at one of these banks, had to laugh when he MSNd me to let me know a group of his co-workers (undoubtedly including himself) had been waving £10 notes out of the window at the protesters.
Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB! :evil:

Soooo glad to be on an Island where we would not tolerate this kind of nonsense.

Someone fetch me my Birch! :twisted:

He should be pelting them with £2 coins, shouldn't he? And yeah, it's odd that they all managed to get a day off work, isn't it? :roll:

lost_in_thought

Clever Pun wrote:

In other news I just got sent this

love it.

lost_in_thought

DonDaddyD wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

A mate of mine works at one of these banks, had to laugh when he MSNd me to let me know a group of his co-workers (undoubtedly including himself) had been waving £10 notes out of the window at the protesters.
Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB! :evil:

Soooo glad to be on an Island where we would not tolerate this kind of nonsense.

Someone fetch me my Birch! :twisted:

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Yeah I hate bankers (some) even moreso now. If we are making blanket statements about groups of people. Tell your friend I said

Thanks for the recession!!!"

You should redirect that bile to the FSA, and the ratings agencies.

cat_with_no_tail

Tell your friend I said

Thanks for the recession!!!"

:roll: I tell him this myself all the time. Thanks for the advice though, I'll be sure to pass on your comments ASAP.

DonDaddyD

lost_in_thought wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Cat With No Tail wrote:

A mate of mine works at one of these banks, had to laugh when he MSNd me to let me know a group of his co-workers (undoubtedly including himself) had been waving £10 notes out of the window at the protesters.
Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB! :evil:

Soooo glad to be on an Island where we would not tolerate this kind of nonsense.

Someone fetch me my Birch! :twisted:

:shock: :shock: :shock:

Yeah I hate bankers (some) even moreso now. If we are making blanket statements about groups of people. Tell your friend I said

Thanks for the recession!!!"

You should redirect that bile to the FSA, and the ratings agencies.

Of course I should its not fair to paint all people working in the finance sector with the same brush much like it isn't fair to refer to all the protestors there as:

Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB!

Nor is it fair to assume that their unemployment is self imposed or that they are even unemployed.



Point. Some have really valid reasons to protest.

And LiT its common hobo knowledge that 50p's hurt more than £2 coins....

Greg T

DonDaddyD wrote:

Of course I should its not fair to paint all people working in the finance sector with the same brush much like it isn't fair to refer to all the protestors there as:

Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB!

You are right.

The only term of stereotypical abuse that should be be used a catch all term for recreational rioters and professional bleeding hearts is Soap Dodger.

Can we all please get on message with this.

Christophe3967

lost_in_thought wrote:

You should redirect that bile to the FSA, and the ratings agencies.

And lets not forget the accountants who signed everything off , the actuaries, who faled to grasp what the smell under their noses might be, and the lawyers, who drafted the regulations that everyone ran rings around. And lets not forget the suspension of belief by the punters, for whom the phrase "caveat emptor" might as well refer to a different variety of sturgeon. Oh, and the Goverment who put the whole regulatory system in place. :evil:

DonDaddyD

Greg T wrote:

DonDaddyD wrote:

Of course I should its not fair to paint all people working in the finance sector with the same brush much like it isn't fair to refer to all the protestors there as:

Grubby, dole scrounging, freeloading, hypocritical, mindless, scummy, cheap cider drinking hippies! GET A JOB!

You are right.

The only term of stereotypical abuse that should be be used a catch all term for recreational rioters and professional bleeding hearts is Soap Dodger.

Can we all please get on message with this.

This is true

Is it a prerequisite that a person must be able to smell their own stink before they are allowed to take part in protesting. what is it about protesting that makes people forget about basic hygiene.

Jeez, if I was a police officer having to smell that I'd go all Darth Vadar with the truncheon.

Greg T

DonDaddyD wrote:

(Go) all Darth Vadar with the truncheon.

I'd have two and go at it like Nemo in the matrix (original - before it went rubbish)

In fact I think I may have matrix soundtrack on my under helmet i-pod to really get me freeing up my swinging arm.

What would be on your five of of overtime AND hickory stick action playlist?

I fought the law and the law won - Clash (Obviously) is your starter for 10

cat_with_no_tail

The only term of stereotypical abuse that should be be used a catch all term for recreational rioters and professional bleeding hearts is Soap Dodger.

Can we all please get on message with this.

Duly noted.

*Hangs head in shame*

Long way home today methinks, make the most of this weather while it lasts.

Good evening all, and watch out for those Soap Dodgers

Christophe3967

Greg T wrote:

[What would be on your five of of overtime AND hickory stick action playlist?

I fought the law and the law won - Clash (Obviously) is your starter for 10

Hit me - Ian Dury (obvious really)
Don't stand so close to me - Police
Hard rains gonna fall - Bob Dylan
Rubber Bullets - 10 CC
I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs

DonDaddyD

Greg T wrote:

What would be on your five of of overtime AND hickory stick action playlist?

I fought the law and the law won - Clash (Obviously) is your starter for 10

Fu*k tha Police - NWA naturally As my response would be "Yeah well FU*K THIS!!!" Protestors wouldn't even know why I'm hitting them upside their head so hard...

This would be dependant on if I would be a police man, I wouldn't. Gotta keep it real and all that.

the_hundredth_idiot

Christophe3967 wrote:

You should redirect that bile to ... the actuaries, ...

Hey! What did we do?

Well, apart from Equitable (that was the lawyers' fault).

And company pension funds (but you can lead a horse/client to water but you can't make it drink).

But aside from that? I've had enough of trying to explain to people that just because I work within sniffing distance (today, obviously, with the soap dodgers in residence) of the City, that doesn't make me a banker. Now I find out I'm damned anyway!? :?

LazyBoycp

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Christophe3967 wrote:

You should redirect that bile to ... the actuaries, ...

Hey! What did we do?

Well, apart from Equitable (that was the lawyers' fault).

And company pension funds (but you can lead a horse/client to water but you can't make it drink).

But aside from that? I've had enough of trying to explain to people that just because I work within sniffing distance (today, obviously, with the soap dodgers in residence) of the City, that doesn't make me a banker. Now I find out I'm damned anyway!? :?

Good question, I was just about to ask what we'd done too!

Greg T

Christophe3967 wrote:

Don't stand so close to me - Police
Hard rains gonna fall - Bob Dylan
Rubber Bullets - 10 CC
I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Top playlisting for Police State dissent silencing action.

I'd also include

Hammer to fall - Queen
Jailhouse Rock - The King

DonDaddyD

You get paid more than me and get bigger bonuses and you made mistakes!!!!! :evil:

That's what you did!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

Now walk infront of those protestors, drop your strides, turn around, legs apart and bend over... hold on... wrong protest... :shock:

LazyBoycp

DonDaddyD wrote:

You get paid more than me and get bigger bonuses and you made mistakes!!!!! :evil:

That's what you did!!! :evil: :evil: :evil:

Now walk infront of those protestors, drop your strides, turn around, legs apart and bend over... hold on... wrong protest... :shock:

I possibly do get paid more than you, and get bigger bonuses, but I'm not sure how any mistakes I've made contributed to the recession - I work in general insurance (cars, houses, etc), not investments or anything like that. And the company I work for had sod all exposure to those investments either.

What kind of protest are you thinking of?! :shock:

Oh, and maybe I should clarify that I'm only a trainee at the moment (hopefully will have my last ever exam at the end of the month! ) so I have even less responsibility for it all!

Chewy Cheeks

Lazyboy and Hundredth

Hey! What did we do?


Maybe its what you haven't done......what have you forgotten to do......eh! followed by loud voices saying "none of your feeble excuses"

I have not got a clue by the way.

its just the type of thing that runs round my head minute by minute

lost_in_thought

Greg T wrote:

Christophe3967 wrote:

Don't stand so close to me - Police
Hard rains gonna fall - Bob Dylan
Rubber Bullets - 10 CC
I predict a riot - Kaiser Chiefs

Top playlisting for Police State dissent silencing action.

I'd also include

Hammer to fall - Queen
Jailhouse Rock - The King

Like it. My housemate got made redundant today.

Christophe3967

LazyBoycp wrote:

The Hundredth Idiot wrote:

Christophe3967 wrote:

You should redirect that bile to ... the actuaries, ...

Hey! What did we do?

Well, apart from Equitable (that was the lawyers' fault).

And company pension funds (but you can lead a horse/client to water but you can't make it drink).

But aside from that? I've had enough of trying to explain to people that just because I work within sniffing distance (today, obviously, with the soap dodgers in residence) of the City, that doesn't make me a banker. Now I find out I'm damned anyway!? :?

Good question, I was just about to ask what we'd done too!

So, some actuaries on here putting their heads above the parapet?

Guys, I was having a bit of a rant, really trying to make a serious point that things like this can't be condensed into simple solutions, and the bankers (I'm not one btw) aren't solely culpable. However you've answered the question yourselves really. Pension schemes have been underfunded for years and the actuarial profession was asleep at the wheel - and failed to notice that we're all living longer and that investment yields have been falling, so that in all those years when companies were taking contribution holidays, nobody was out there warning of the risks . Allied to this has been some fairly optimistic modelling in the public sector, where the full scale of their pension scheme liabilities is being deliberately hidden with the connivance of all the professions who benefit hugely from Goverment contracts and are therefore reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them. And to Equitable Life you can add most other life office with-profits funds, most of which are now shot to pieces, many with such arcane structures that they are impossible to understand or extricate one's investments from.

So my point was that nobody comes out of this smelling nicely and we should keep things in perspective. Listening to the protestors on the news was sad - there's a lynch mentality, stirred up inadvertently by the government seeking to deflect the spotlight from its own role, with the usual consequences.

Now, back to the footy.

il_principe

Christophe3967 wrote:

Now, back to the footy.

Dozy bloody defence!

the_hundredth_idiot

Christophe3967 wrote:

Pension schemes have been underfunded for years and the actuarial profession was asleep at the wheel - and failed to notice that we're all living longer and that investment yields have been falling, so that in all those years when companies were taking contribution holidays, nobody was out there warning of the risks.

Edited as I think I got a bit carried away in my defence of the actuarial profession!

But I agree with the gist - blaming just the bankers is a bit naive and simplistic. We're all responsible to a greater or lesser degree. The bankers are just handy scapegoats, aided by them being rich and not particularly loveable.

Christophe3967

jashburnham wrote:

Christophe3967 wrote:

Now, back to the footy.

Dozy bloody defence!

Ashley Cole - now he could do with a kicking... :evil: