theghost

Dubstep has some class, low key stuff. I really enjoy it as a genre. But Skrillex is fucking aids.

Game is brilliant. Only player I brought in was Sakho, he's boss. Sent Flanno, Robbo, Wisdom and Coady on loan.

Is fucking shit. It sounds like someone put a bunch of silverware in a dryer and put a bass track down. People like this fucking drivel?

I'm going to get it and play as Portland Timbers F.C and win everything.

It'll be the only time you see them lift a cup

Wenger has a sniff of the Rafas about him. This won't end well.

Look at me, shooting up the table.

 

Even Skrillex laughs at you.

Yeah, well he's still an ugly cunt that makes horrible, screechy derp/brostep nonsense.

It's crossed my mind very briefly but Portland police are so good at doing the killing I didn't think it was necessary.

It seems our cities have more in common than we've been led to believe.

It's already been touched on that the riots are the result of economic conditions, but just to chuck my 2 pence in I think it's a rebellion against the overarching idea of being governed by people who do not - in the slightest - give a fuck about your welfare as long as their own needs are protected. Politics nowadays attracts exactly the sort of people you do not want looking after your interests; a bunch of power-hungry rich-kids who are divorced from the common man, whether he's dying in the sand out in the Middle East or bleeding to death on a bus in South London, the real problems that a country faces come from a world that the people who are tasked with dealing with them never have to see. And it's crushing.

 

The inescapable fact is that the world under capitalist governance is - by and large - hostile to the curious. It does not encourage it's denizens to think about things or to discover something new (unless that something is marketable), it only demands that they work a job, buy products, and protect economies -- and it is run by people who understand that it is their job to facilitate the operation of this world, and they are democratically elected because they run unopposed. For, at the end of the day, what person understanding the horror of protecting such a dull and uninteresting place would want any part in the game of its machinations? It is a monster too big to be toppled by one man.

 

And because politics is run by these people, politics in itself is incurious. Section touched on it in a post earlier in this thread (which was an excellent post, by the way) -- that politicians are not interested in the root problems behind rioting, or areas of intense social deprivation, or the widespread use of drugs and alcohol, because it does not pay for them to ask these questions or to explore them as long as it doesn't impinge too heavily on the political prerogative of protecting economies. The point at which these issues are addressed is the point at which the wide-reaching financial penalties of not-addressing them are greater than the cost of addressing them. The bottom line being, of course, money, rather than any ideal, principle, moral or ethical code, belief, or sentiment. And, to some degree, it was probably always thus -- but perhaps never so universally or profoundly.

 

The conflux points of this lack of pastoral and economic care for certain sections of society occur in places like inner-city London, in which people are told to buy things, to contribute to society, and to respect its laws and order. They are told this in spite of the fact that there are no jobs, few prospects, and a culture of violence that few people want to deal with. The order to obey and integrate comes from a callous entity that has subjugated their communities and does so under a thin veil of profound regret for their condition and promises to find its remedy. This is the reality of contemporary elected democracy for these people. Is it a surprise they want to burn down that world?

 

There is a lot of talk about 'mindless' thuggery on this thread, but no man is mindless. They may be ill-educated, or psychologically traumatised -- some may be intellectually subnormal -- but everybody has an unconscious to watch over them (in some ways as friend, and in others, a suzerain) and that part of the psyche is there to tell you when things just aren't right, and it tells you in a way that you cannot escape and it is more powerful and intelligent than any sequence of conscious thoughts you can ever put together. The unconscious knows if you're being spread bullshit straight from the top, and whilst a man might attribute his anger to joblessness or circumstance when he is hurling a petrol bomb through a shop window, I would argue that the action is in fact that of a hive mind rebelling against a tyrannical principle. The actions of the individual will still be called to account and the argument may not stand in mitigation, but the shadow of the same point will also stand in the courtroom.

 

In essence although I don't agree with or understand the people who are rioting, I believe that I hate the same idea as they do. Not because I have suffered at its hand, but because I find it turns a beautiful world into a cold and boring place; because it does not make time for the things that elevate humanity like curiosity, wisdom and compassion; and because I can't stand the idea of our elected leaders being such slimy antitheses of every noble human trait. In truth, I feel more comradeship with these people than condemnation for their actions.

Only catching up now, but this is the best post I've ever read on this forum. Well done.

Wonder if it will spread here? I might have to nip out for a pint of milk and a 12 gauge pump action from Walmart.

Living in Portland, you should do that anyway.

Riots spread to Nottingham for some strange reason.

 

Fuck it I'm blasting out Skrillex, I have no cares in the world.

No care for your ears, clearly.

What is it with black folk and looting? First Katrina, now the Tottenham riots. This is a very bad reflection on the Afro-Caribbean community of London.

Okay it wasn't just blacks, Turks, Albanians and other assorted ethnicities as well as white chavs were also involved. But the TV pictures were pretty damning and captured mainly black youths running amok

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out to you, but you have no fucking idea what you're talking about.

I'm glad to see nobody mentioned the GnR cover of Live and Let Die. it is an abortion.

You mean the Timbers giving golden balls and co a 3-0 football lesson? You're welcome. Met some galaxy fans afterwards, gracious in defeat along with sharing an understanding that an unhealthy proportion of sounders fans are utter bell ends.

 

I hope you've seen that ecs 'fight and win' video, it's fucking glorious.

I don't make excuses for what ECS does, I don't agree with a lot of it, but we're a damn sight closer to winning trophies than your lot and ultimately that's what matters. And yeah, a lot of our fans are cunts.

Come on ghost, you work for google don't you?

 

How the US media marginalises dissent - Opinion - Al Jazeera English

Correction, I work AT Google. I am contract.

Oh, and thanks for that last night.

Dennis, can you post a link to that article? I'd like to share it.

And I'm back!

I'm late to the party but would love to get in on this. FK Fanny Batter. You will be destroyed.

They also released a Mariachi record. And it's amazing.

Drive drunk and die? You get what you deserve.

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but the Hobbit is the best of the four books. By some distance.

Ahahaha, you know if I'd sat down and put some real thought into it, I still couldn't have come up with a post as nonsensical, yet incendiary as that. Truly magnificent.

I think he makes a good point, actually.

The Wii is boss, but I doubt I'll be buying one of these.

Err, Halo 4?

200 quid for those shite Beats By Dre? Get these for a quarter of the price.

Sony MDR V6 - Headphones: Amazon.co.uk: Electronics