Olympic torch through London et al

[Alien5]

Olympic Thuggery

[Alien5]

The only people I saw injured in scuffles were the ones launched upon by the police. They are also the only assaults I witnessed. I'm starting to think you were watching Ghandi or something, not the news.

Now come on Squeamous, you missed the opportunity to make a joke out of my dislike of seeing a young woman attacked on the streets of my country... I'm sure you can find a way to make that funny can't you ?

changing the subject yet again, must be brushing up on his news.

[chalice]

You're arguing over the most effective form of protest, like.

That's all relative to whether or not the media gives two fucks.

A Buddhist monk self-immolating will probably get you a day and a half of intermittent reportage but a Buddhist monk trying to extinguish a flame will get you just the same.

There's an inevitable ironing in there somewheres.

[manicgeek]

changing the subject yet again, must be brushing up on his current affairs.

Really ?

So come one then oh smart alien one, what different subjects have I covered ?

As far as I know, it's been about thuggish behaviour and how that has served the interests of the people of Tibet poorly...

[Squeamous]

The only people I saw injured in scuffles were the ones launched upon by the police. They are also the only assaults I witnessed. I'm starting to think you were watching Ghandi or something, not the news.

Now come on Squeamous, you missed the opportunity to make a joke out of my dislike of seeing a young woman attacked on the streets of my country... I'm sure you can find a way to make that funny can't you ?

No, I fully exploited the opportunity to make fun of the fact that you think you saw a woman attacked in the street with my 'Ghandi' comment. I miss a lot of things but that kind of opportunity is too easy to miss. I'm surprised you missed it.

Did you know that every day women are attacked on the streets of your country, in actual real life...I mean not in your head. I'm sure any one of those would look upon your insistance that Konnie Huq was attacked with a measure of disbelief.

[Alien5]

did you watch the news? there were thugs grabbing the olympics thing from somegirl from blue peter.

[manicgeek]

No, I fully exploited the opportunity to make fun of the fact that you think you saw a woman attacked in the street with my 'Ghandi' comment. I miss a lot of things but that kind of opportunity is too easy to miss. I'm surprised you missed it.

Did you know that every day women are attacked on the streets of your country, in actual real life...I mean not in your head. I'm sure any one of those would look upon your insistance that Konnie Huq was attacked with a measure of disbelief.

I'm sure the nutters in our society will take great heart from your willingness to dismiss a man assaulting a woman on the streets of Britain, and may all women feel safe in the knowledge that when someone assaults them and takes or attempts to take something from them they can always say well some woman was attacked in a worse way than me, so it's alright for me to be attacked like this can't they ?

[Squeamous]

did you watch the news? there were thugs grabbing the olympics thing from somegirl from blue peter.

I did....and Harrison Ford grabbed this flaming skewer and threw it at one of the Niponese and it pierced him right through the.....

Hang on. That was Raiders of the Lost Ark . My bad.

[Squeamous]

I'm sure the nutters in our society will take great heart from your willingness to dismiss a man assaulting a woman on the streets of Britain, and may all women feel safe in the knowledge that when someone assaults them and takes or attempts to take something from them they can always say well some woman was attacked in a worse way than me, so it's alright for me to be attacked like this can't they ?

I'm not sure 'the nutters in society' all read FST so prolly not.

See what this boils down to is the ridiculous way some people like to exaggerate very mild events to prove a point. Like the way people often compare modern Western leaders to Hitler. Which I know you hate.

[manicgeek]

I'm not sure 'the nutters in society' all read FST so prolly not.

See what this boils down to is the ridiculous way some people like to exaggerate very mild events to prove a point. Like the way people often compare modern Western leaders to Hitler. Which I know you hate.

Ah! So now you think I'm exaggerating the assault on young Miss Huq... so you admit there was an assault then ? And this assault was committed by a decent respectable upright citizen wasn't it ?