Only in Academia. I don't think I've met anyone post-college who self-identifies as an Anarchist.

Thats all I saw, to be honest.

She's quite a few levels above "cutie".

Theres a bit of Cat Deeley about her.

But it looks like Barnard is more intersted in the blond half in frame, although it may not be attraction, it may be hatred.

That might be :) I always thought that your username sounds familiar.

See, the obviously intentional use of the worst obfuscate there is the problem I have with Protests. The police aren't the "enemy", and never are. They're just doing their job. If I was just trying to do my job, and a bunch of belligerent, angry students came up to me, potentially drunk and throwing rocks, punches and whatever else they could get their hands on at me, I'd want to retaliate. If I back off, people call me cowardly and the mob presses forward (because let's face it, mob mentality is always, without fail, brutal. If I stand my ground, people get hurt. If people refuse to move, I am obliged to use any force necessary to remove them, because guess what, that's my job.

I know that what you're saying is that you'd like it done in a non-violent way, but to obfuscate is defined as "the concealment of intended meaning in communication, making communication confusing, intentionally ambiguous, and more difficult to interpret". In essence, attempting to confuse, bewilder and undermine a group of people who have been tasked with an already difficult job which they might not agree with, but are obliged to do, as it is their job

I'd say more, but this is a picture thread, not a "Debate the pointlessness of protests and anger against the police" thread.

In context to obfuscate means to bewilder.

I'd say your view of the police would be different if you'd been there. In Bristol we got kettled just for wanting to walk and chant, my friend was threatened with arrest for sitting down and not moving, I saw someone else arrested for being stood too close on the outside of an expanding kettle. They brought out police dogs where there was no violence present, they threw goading (and sometimes racist comments) at the protestors and used blind threats to try and force protestors to play by their own, arbitrary rulebook (some schoolkids were having a sit down protest and a police officer told them to leave or he'd phone their parents. Suitably they laughed in his face.)

As for London look up the Guardian website which has a video of police at Trafalgar Square charging their warhorses into a crowd or kids, leaving them in states of hysteria. Look up the police van coincidentally left abandoned (in my entire day on the Bristol protest not once did I see a riot van without someone behind the wheel, nor did I on the 10th Nov demo) in the middle of a kettle of thousands. My friend whose sister had gone to the Whitehall protest had arrive at 11am wanting to march and then not moved for 9 hours without a pot to piss in, food or water. She was 16, and there were kids younger in the middle of that too.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't hate all police equally. When I was in a kettle I sat down next to the police lines. I made jokes, sang badly and humanised them so that when they were told to close tighter they dithered, half heartedly asked us to move and eventually went around us. This is what is means to obfuscate police: they're trained so that people will either brick it and run away or get violent and get themselves arrested. When their tactics focus around that and yet you, knowing your rights, know that you don't have to do just everything they say but aren't going to get aggressive about it, buy yourself a lot more safety and time and maintain the protest much better than if it devolves into the chaos the police want to create. The overwhelming anti-police chant of the day was "your job's next!" (not "**** the police") which we used at one point to break up a kettle (soon after which my friend got the **** kicked out of him with no arrest made). But when the police block our human right to peaceful demonstration, when they use tactics to make people either react with terror or rage and when they try to create a fight to kick up a media fuss so that Government bump their budget instead of slashing it then I will do whatever I can to obfuscate them because their illegal actions don't deserve compliance.


Naw, it was someone many rows back.

i suppose it's about time

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...e/bloddyme.jpg
with beard
*i was in a play and i was Stonewall Jackson....every night i was beaten with mannequin arms and had a couple gallons of blood dumped on me.....

http://i599.photobucket.com/albums/t...tridge/me2.jpg
without beard

Do you have "POOP" tatooed on your knuckles? If so, wtf?

:laughing:

no i do not have "poop" on my knuckles....but i could see why you would think that....it says 'dead'

Ahh. Thank god.

Hello bob! :beer:

It actually looked like it said 'poep' to me. Which is even more likely.
Poep means Poop in Dutch. So that's pretty much the same.

really wondering: Why have you got 'dead' tattooed on your fingers?

i had planned on getting "Mary" and "Land"....well because i'm a bit of a dork and have quite a bit of pride for Baltimore (where i was born and raised)....but a bit before i went and did this my unborn daughter died in utero and i decided to get "born" and "dead"....

without beard looks better, and you're much older than I was expecting

but I guess that's always the case on the 1ntern3tz

You look like some of the neighborly artists around these parts. That first photo makes you look like G.G. Allen.

Either "poop" or "dood". Undecided.

you might want to check the explanation above :)

About the beard: Bit of beard suits you fine. Lot of beard doesn't seem to work (says the man with quite some beard)

Not what I imagined at ALL. I don't know if you ever told us your age here, but I expected you to be about 15 years of age. Edit; This is not because I'm judging the way you act or anything, I actually don't think we've come across each other often.
Also, you're very good looking. :love:

Ah, I thought I was on the last page of the thread. It took me to unread posts.

Sorry to hear that, bob.. :(

I was thinkin' the same thing. Yum.

Ladies, please...
Stop drooling, think about the poor keyboards!

I'm also sorry to hear about your child, bob.

I have a cousin whose first baby, a little girl, died at 5 months in utero. I know how attached emotionally (and literally) I was to my baby when he was just an embryo, so having your child die in utero (or at any time) must be horrible, since you wish so very much for your child's life to be a happy one. :(

No idea you had kids VEGAN.

Here's my two;

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...s/P1010190.jpg

I used to have a sister who only grew to be one month.
Even after almost 30 years it's still a very soft spot for my parents.
It's supposingly one of the worst things that can happen to anyone.
I hope the tattoo helps you carry on.

Probably a strange thing to say considering the knives and the looks on their faces, but they actually look like really sweet kids to me :)

Exactly how I'd pictured your kids... mischievous and knife-wielding and adorable.

Peter Pan was a Manch, eh?

I knew it was far from London, but "second star to the right, straight on till morning" is a little much.

interesting hair choice on your kid there, RT :P

Getting ready to send your kids out to cut purses and throats on the streets of Manchester?

Manchester's the anarchy capital now, haven't you heard?

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LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOW! LET IT SNOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWW!
Awesome. I'm the one standing up holding the makeshift turkey dish sledge.

10 *******s ****ing around in a street, 1 guy shovels.

Scotland outings are a lot like American construction projects.

Heh heh. I know your mom forced you to wear that scarf.

Sad but true.

Headed out to go tubing yesterday, but they were sold out. Sad faces all around. Then we realized we had some bin lids and a bare snowboard in the car, so we found a hill and improvised. Didn't even use the bin lids...the snowboard was killer. I did several runs in this fashion, and we also did several with 2 and 3 of us on the board sitting. The lone head-first ones were the best! Last one is after burrying my head in the snow at the end. I picked up some major speed, wish I had a picture of that before I got up.

http://i56.tinypic.com/20upch4.jpg

http://i52.tinypic.com/2lcbpe8.jpg

http://i56.tinypic.com/dvm0yo.jpg

What? I don't strike you as maternal? Well, you're right, right-track. I don't have kids.

I have KID! And he looks surprisingly like your two when he gets that maniacal gleam in his eye and cutlery or toothpaste or whatever in his hand and starts to rasp, "Kill you, I will!" Kids. :rolleyes:

You know, if you ever actually read any of my posts, you might know this by now. ;) *I've* known about *your* two darlings for, oh, around 15 months. Right-tracks. :rolleyes:

It's a primitive life you lead up there in Scotland, isn't it, James. :p: At least Sidewinder has a board rather than...a turkey dish sledge. :/

Wow, those are some hip kids.

that's a nice addition to your beard :D.