Comments on: Feral youth http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/ Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:54:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: StevenL http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/#comment-11275 StevenL Tue, 09 Aug 2011 17:59:43 +0000 http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/?p=3372#comment-11275 Not 100% sure, but isn't it the account that gets activated? You should be able to put a pay as you go in. But if they do a stock-take and find which IMEI numbers have been stolen they can bar them from the networks pretty quickly. Not 100% sure, but isn’t it the account that gets activated? You should be able to put a pay as you go in. But if they do a stock-take and find which IMEI numbers have been stolen they can bar them from the networks pretty quickly.

]]> By: asquith http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/#comment-11273 asquith Tue, 09 Aug 2011 10:35:22 +0000 http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/?p=3372#comment-11273 The actions of local residents, many of them immigrants, who have driven rioter bellends away, protected firms, and helped in the cleanup proves that community spirit is definitely still alive. It's a rebuke to those who talk non-stop about how bad their local area is without lifting a finger to sort it out. As you say earlier, there is a lot of unemployment, and I don't blame people if they are looking for jobs but can't find any. (And I certainly have no time for anyone that vilifies people because they happen to be unemployed). Yet they can still do useful things, such as voluntary work (don't like cuts? join an organisation that isn't government-funded), or things such as the riot clean up. It was seeing this that brought home the fact that most poor people are not on the streets rioting, they're more likely to be trying to uphold their dignity and that of the area they live in and want to thrive. The actions of local residents, many of them immigrants, who have driven rioter bellends away, protected firms, and helped in the cleanup proves that community spirit is definitely still alive. It’s a rebuke to those who talk non-stop about how bad their local area is without lifting a finger to sort it out.

As you say earlier, there is a lot of unemployment, and I don’t blame people if they are looking for jobs but can’t find any. (And I certainly have no time for anyone that vilifies people because they happen to be unemployed). Yet they can still do useful things, such as voluntary work (don’t like cuts? join an organisation that isn’t government-funded), or things such as the riot clean up.

It was seeing this that brought home the fact that most poor people are not on the streets rioting, they’re more likely to be trying to uphold their dignity and that of the area they live in and want to thrive.

]]> By: AJS http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/#comment-11270 AJS Tue, 09 Aug 2011 09:17:02 +0000 http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/?p=3372#comment-11270 TTBOMK a mobile nicked from the store is next to useless -- I thought the vendor had to activate it at the time of sale. And all those one-metre plasma tellies they're nicking will be *really* useful, when they shut off the transmissions ..... TTBOMK a mobile nicked from the store is next to useless — I thought the vendor had to activate it at the time of sale.

And all those one-metre plasma tellies they’re nicking will be *really* useful, when they shut off the transmissions …..

]]> By: paddyfields http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/#comment-11269 paddyfields Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:51:02 +0000 http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/?p=3372#comment-11269 The community is, no doubt, rife with rumours, regarding the shooting of Mr Duggan, in the back of a taxi, in a busy street, by armed police, last Thursday.Had he not been shot, then there would have been no riots. Cause and effect is always the Law. The community is, no doubt, rife with rumours, regarding the shooting of Mr Duggan, in the back of a taxi, in a busy street, by armed police, last Thursday.Had he not been shot, then there would have been no riots. Cause and effect is always the Law.

]]> By: Single Acts Of Tyranny http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/2011/08/09/feral-youth/#comment-11268 Single Acts Of Tyranny Tue, 09 Aug 2011 08:02:53 +0000 http://behindblueeyes.co.uk/?p=3372#comment-11268 Well said indeed, you do rather wonder what political offence of youth oppression the T-mobile shop could have committed. Well said indeed, you do rather wonder what political offence of youth oppression the T-mobile shop could have committed.

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