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Disgusted – simply disgusted

A quick post to thank god that The Guardian has the balls to show the disgusting behaviour of London`s Metropolitan Police in London during the 2009 G20 summit.

If you`ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks, you`ll have missed the events in and around London, which included residents being blocked from accessing their own homes, dubious responses to protests, and the (currently) questionable death of Ian Tomlinson.

The Grauniad has an interesting video here which includes a dire Billy Bragg performance, the police surrounding a bunch of sat down, singing protesters with one of their infamous “rings of steel”, a shouty ponce, and knobheads smashing into Royal Bank of Scotland. These knobheads [...]

Swerve!

Something that`s currently driving me absolutely potty is the inability of Londoners to pay attention to anyone within a 20m radius. Specifically I`m referring to the constant weaving, backpack brandishing, mobile phone talky stoppery, and 100m sprint fetish that seems to have grabbed the commuter population by the short and curlies and turns the soul-destroying trudge, AKA the daily commute, into a living hell.

My daily commute, from London to London now takes an average of 3 hours each day, and up to 4 if Transport for London are feeling especially incompetent. Just a few days ago I was late into work (again) due to a swan on the line, closely followed by a phenomenon known as “fucked tube”. [...]