Britain burns - Chavs ruin civilization

[Martinus]

22.50 Earlier tonight Turkish and Kurdish shopowners in the Stoke Newington area of North London were guarding their premises with baseball bats. There are reports now of "hundreds" of young turkish men chasing a group of young black men down nearby Kingsland Road, Hackney.

1) Turks are cool.

2) Where is the fuck do brits get baseball bats from? You'd think that would be fairly rare.

3) Are they wood or aluminum bats?

I have a strong suspicion that they are the kind of bats you couldn't play baseball with. They used to sell them a lot in Poland in the 1990s when crime was much more rife. People who never played baseball would carry one under their driver's seat. They are very good at smashing faces.

[Tamas]

One would think that baseball bats which can break in skulls can also hit a ball.

[Tamas]

OMG a thread of mine has been: stickied

[Brazen]

Well it did come back to Enfield last night. They burned down a Sony Warehouse. Probably because they found it only stored games, CDs and DVDs, not TVs. No Playstation games for months, silly homies.

[Brazen]

OK, they got Playstations too. Didn't see the coverage last night, hell of a blaze.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dK5ecuxXyYM&feature=player_embedded

[Syt]

2) Where is the fuck do brits get baseball bats from? You'd think that would be fairly rare.

They probably call them rounders bats.

[Brazen]

Listen to this lady. She knows what it's all about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYKKt2vCqLQ

[Brazen]

We were discussing at work when it's likely to stop. The consensus was "When the schools go back," sadly.

Edit: or when it rains.

[Brazen]

The England friendly against Holland at Wembley tomorrow has been called off. Doesn't bode well for the Olympics next year.

[Tamas]

Well, all of them could furnish their home fully, then just stop?

[Brazen]

Someone asked earlier whether homes were being hit. Yes, people live above all the shops that have been set alight.

[Martinus]

Your choice of an anti Royalist rant by a racist, militantly vegetarian nutter is inappropriate and distasteful. You need to look back to the late 70s and 80s riots for a sound track for disaffected youth. Try Babylon's Burning by the Ruts or Ghost Town by The Specials.

There are no protests songs any more - Cher Lloyd, JLS and The Wanted are the top 3 FFS. There may be youth messages in rap, but neither helpful or as widely listened to as people would have you believe.

I was just following a Brit friend of mine who thought the song appropriate, considering the riots were spreading to Birmingham. I also thought you were a The Smiths' fan. I've never heard of the other bands you mention. 

[Martinus]

We were discussing at work when it's likely to stop. The consensus was "When the schools go back," sadly.

Edit: or when it rains.

Do these people even go to schools?

[Josquius]

First I heard of this was this morning. Strange times.

[Brazen]

I was just following a Brit friend of mine who thought the song appropriate, considering the riots were spreading to Birmingham. I also thought you were a The Smiths' fan. I've never heard of the other bands you mention. 

I was a Smiths fan back in the 80s but I can't stomach Morrissey's EDF-friendly anti-immigration rants, especially now he refuses to live in Britain because of an "immigration explosion".