2009 Big Green Gathering Cancelled

[cap n chris]

Assuming the size of the group only averages the IQ among the social group category IQ, then granted 100 is only a benchmark based on the entire populace; therefore if you are postulating that the average IQ of a group of, say, football supporters tends towards 60 (where, by default, ignorance is rife) then you would be correct in your earlier premise. However, being generous, I would still go with the general presumption that the larger a group is, the more likely the IQ will tend towards the established and accepted average of 100*.


* Unless the group is comprised entirely of thickies, enjoying a thickies' outing to do something thick.

 

[Maggot]

* Unless the group is comprised entirely of thickies, enjoying a thickies' outing to do something thick.

Which brings the topic neatly back full circle to a load of soap-dodging hedge monkeys in smoky engined transits, ie, the big green gathering.

 

[Les W]

 

[whitelackington]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6810923.ece
Around 1,000 environment activists descended today on a stretch of open land in south-east London as the location of the week-long Climate Camp was finally revealed.

More than an hour after the expected noon deadline, the site for the camp - Blackheath - was texted to hundreds of people who had travelled to London to take part in the event.

The message was the trigger for the protesters to shoulder their rucksacks and converge from the six separate parts of the capital where they had been waiting. Whooping their enthusiasm, they boarded the Docklands Light Railway and by 2.30pm were arriving to set up camp on a hill overlooking Docklands and Canary Wharf.


Let's see how long it takes before the police kick the living shit out of them
:-\

 

[mak]

That is not the conclusion of this article:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327171.400-why-crowds-are-best-left-to-their-own-devices.html

Having read the article in the link, I reckon the eminent professor of psychology quoted therein lives in cloud cuckoo land, and would be quite happy to stand in front of a crowd of Millwall supporters wearing West Ham colours and singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles"

Wonder if  they'll http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/west_ham_utd/8221590.stm find out it was caused by an eminent professor of psychology  :-\

 

[Slug]

No Mak, the simple truth is that Millwall, and West Ham have a rivalry that goes back decades, and is more akin to Tribal warfare, than Football, that just being a convenient venue for the latest round of Hostilities.

  The closest analogy would be the Hutu, and Tuhtsi's of Rwanda, They fought because they were "The Other Tribe", and not for any real (to us ) reason.

Still, if they MUST fight, I know of a much better venue in Helmand Province.

 

[miketa]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6810923.ece
Around 1,000 environment activists descended today on a stretch of open land in south-east London as the location of the week-long Climate Camp was finally revealed.

More than an hour after the expected noon deadline, the site for the camp - Blackheath - was texted to hundreds of people who had travelled to London to take part in the event.

The message was the trigger for the protesters to shoulder their rucksacks and converge from the six separate parts of the capital where they had been waiting. Whooping their enthusiasm, they boarded the Docklands Light Railway and by 2.30pm were arriving to set up camp on a hill overlooking Docklands and Canary Wharf.


Let's see how long it takes before the police kick the living shit out of them
:-\

About time some people took some of the metropolitan pigs to one side and kicked the living shit out of them. We all knew they are a bunch of thugs looking for a decent punch up, now we have the proof. Its been going on for decades (Blair Peach anyone?). What comes around goes around, those particular pigs deserve whatever shit goes their way,

By the way, what has this got to do with the Big Green Gathering?

 

[cap n chris]

Manure, probably.

 

[whitelackington]

I hope that those officers of "the Law" who removed their number tags recently in London have now been sacked
because if they have not that might lead us to suspect that it had been "suggested" that they do so,
we might also conclude that the very aggressive tactics that were employed, as if by a signal,
was an order, albeit one not written down, more implied.