I think the comparison to Watts is on target. especially given how these riots started.
Giles: I'm sure we're all perfectly safe. Dawn: We're safe. Right. And Spike built a robot Buffy to play checkers with. Tara: It sounded convincing when I thought it.
'Dirty Girls'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2011 4:24:33 pm PDT #19792 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
smonster - Aug 08, 2011 4:25:23 pm PDT #19793 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Forgive me my ignorance - the riots were touched off by the shooting of Mark Duggan and consequent poor handling of the situation by police?
le nubian - Aug 08, 2011 4:26:58 pm PDT #19794 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yes! as I understand it. please correct me if I'm wrong. This is also a predominantly (?) Black area of London.
Dana - Aug 08, 2011 4:31:22 pm PDT #19795 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
That's what I understand as well.
smonster - Aug 08, 2011 4:32:40 pm PDT #19796 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
DavidS - Aug 08, 2011 4:34:58 pm PDT #19797 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The press is already going for the Nero angle on the Prime Minister, David Cameron:
David Cameron was on Monday night still refusing to cancel his family holiday in Tuscany, where he is embarking on a second week of tennis lessons at his rented villa. The PM is due to return home next Monday.
Dana - Aug 08, 2011 4:39:38 pm PDT #19798 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I thought Cameron was returning. If not....damn.
London's mayor and the Home Secretary were also both out of town on holiday.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2011 4:48:22 pm PDT #19799 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I'm with Dana. I heard this morning he was returning.
DavidS - Aug 08, 2011 4:48:30 pm PDT #19800 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Having been in Miami for two riots I can predict the narrative going forward.
Over the short term it will cause some damage to the ruling policies of the Conservative party in power, but long term the poorer black neighborhoods where the riots started will really suffer. They'll become economic black holes where absolutely nobody will reinvest their money, particularly the small, local shop owners who don't have the resources to start from scratch.
Riots happen when people feel completely disenfranchised, if they see the ruling structure as grotesquely unjust and without hope of equitable treatment. But the riots themselves are like microeconomic nuclear bombs. Those neighborhoods will be economically radioactive for decades.
le nubian - Aug 08, 2011 4:49:27 pm PDT #19801 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
yep.
see: Detroit