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It must be humourless twink weekend then! Sue's 'Help us to help you' thread was whooshed last night.
As GR gave her permission to start it and it is made up of mostly [as Frank so lovingly puts it] 'old fogies', chatting about life in general, why would it be deleted?
Would humourless twink own up please?
Cx
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That means my info about Australian Culture has also gone missing. Blast and bother to the humourless twink.
Now for a news item from my part of the world.
Two men were arrested in a suburban street after police followed a trail of cannabis. It appears these fellows were pushing a green wheelie bin full of the substance between two houses. When the police tracked them to one house they found hydroponics equipment. They then followed the trail of green material to another house where they found a similar hydroponics set up. The two men will appear in court at a later date.
And yes we too are hearing all the news about the G20 conference.
This is the latest info we have about it.
Police and anti-G20 protesters engaged in tense — and at times violent — confrontations and standoffs in several parts of downtown Toronto for a second day on Sunday, with 562 people now under arrest.
Twice on Sunday, the makeshift G20 police detention centre on Eastern Avenue in the city's east end emerged as a flashpoint between police and protesters.
At mid-afternoon, police in riot gear began partially surrounding a group of bicyclists who had first staged a protest through downtown demanding more rights for cyclists.
For a while outside the centre, the cyclists called for the release of the detainees, saying "Let them go, let them go."
Police guard the entrance to the detention centre on Toronto's Eastern Avenue, where officers clashed with protesters. (CBC)
Previously at the same location, police fired at least half a dozen rubber bullets, arresting several people. The confrontation began when an estimated 150 protesters started staging a peaceful gathering while police in riot gear looked on.
At one point, plainclothes police arrived, entered the crowd and began to arrest several people.
"They knew who they were looking for," said the CBC's Bill Gillespie. "These are trained police snatch squads using intelligence on finding suspected troublemakers
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/politics/story/2010/06/27/g20-toronto-protest.html#ixzz0s5hIOTO0
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Ms Grumpy, you may have "humourless twink" with my compliments. ;)
Yes, we've had the Black Bloc come to visit us. Some domestic (likely some from Toronto, with reinforcements from Quebec and elsewhere), and some foreign (mainly the US).
And Toronto's Yonge Street has been smashed to bits, the store windows anyhow. And a few cop cars burned, and the like.
We're waiting for some official statements before passing judgment on the police, e.g. One theory, which I find quite credible, is that a few old cop cars and a school bus were deliberately planted in harm's way to provide distractions for the obnoxious "disaffected youth" bent on mayhem.
My favourite bit so far is the three individuals who emerged from a sewer via a manhole in the downtown area this morning to find some cops there to arrest them. Don't know whether that was just carefully planned, or the cops just struck it lucky.
I'm willing to give the cops a fair bit of credit here for knowing who they were needing to keep an eye on and knowing what they were doing. The flying squads of Black Bloc, though -- at one point there seem to have been four separate groups of 50-100 roving about, doffing and donning their black outfits and balaclavas in between -- did make it difficult for them to react.
If they were making the point that their job was to protect the G20 site and people, and they couldn't be expected to protect storefronts throughout downtown Toronto at the same time, I'm with them. The thing should never have been held here, and the $1.2 billion spent on it should come out of the Conservative Party's pocket.
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It was late for you when I posted it, I guess -- don't know how long it survived.
You can read it here, unexpurgated!
http://newsterrorist.wordpress.com/2006/08/04/the-reason-america-
appears-this-way-greg-proops-montreal-comedy-festival-2005/
And there I thought it was kinda pro-England ...
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Can I use "humourless twink" as an insult from now on please?
I noticed you had trouble in Toronto as it was all over my yahoo page when I signed in earlier ... tsk tsk.
But yes, agree with Joy, some people need a sense of humour implant or maybe a removal of their over-sensitivity gland ...
Jill
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I didn't even see it lol was it in the middle of the night?
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HUMOR IS LOST ON SOME PEOPLE
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Who's the humourless twink (should that be: who are the humourless twinks?) who reported the thead about how the US got to be what it is today?
Perhaps someone managed to uglify the thread after I left to eat and sleep and watch all the fun on the streets of Toronto ... that nobody here has probably noticed ...
Anyone enlighten me?
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