Massive fight breaks out at Sydney airport: one dead

[Orang Utan]

Recently? Maybe you're just desensitized to their behaviour.

Coming off the plane, being told to 'hug' the window area so that the dogs can do their sniffing effectively. Being ordered to walk in a certain manner. Seeing blue uniforms, and other colour uniforms. Having your baggage put through an xray machine. Going through supermarket-like check-out desks while coming out of the airport. Being told you have traces of drugs in your baggage. Not allowed to bring in anything that remotely resembles food or wood products, and to bloody well make sure you put it in the bin if you have done so.

It's a fucking police state when you arrive on that island. Needs a good bit of anarchy, and that's why i like this story.

the main reason they have stringent checks is cos they have such a fragile ecosystem that doesn't need unbalancing by someone bringing in alien species, unwittingly or not

 

[fela fan]

Again, how is this challenging the australian state? This story has nothing to do with the australian government.

If you need to ask the question, then forget me supplying the answer. If you can't see it, then anything i say is not going to help. Because, of course, it has everything to do with the government.

 

[fela fan]

This thread is amazing.

So is life slaar...

 

[Intastella]

the main reason they have stringent checks is cos they have such a fragile ecosystem that doesn't need unbalancing by someone bringing in alien species, unwittingly or not

This.

 

[cliche guevara]

If you need to ask the question, then forget me supplying the answer. If you can't see it, then anything i say is not going to help. Because, of course, it has everything to do with the government.

"I don't actually know", then?

 

[fela fan]

the main reason they have stringent checks is cos they have such a fragile ecosystem that doesn't need unbalancing by someone bringing in alien species, unwittingly or not

Nah, that would be the british who came in and slaughtered the indigenous population.

And why should their massive island have any more a fragile ecosystem than any other nation? They're just so pumped full of their own ego it's untrue.

 

[slaar]

Nah, that would be the british who came in and slaughtered the indigenous population.

And why should their massive island have any more a fragile ecosystem than any other nation? They're just so pumped full of their own ego it's untrue.

For somebody who thinks life is amazing, you have a remarkably narrow-minded and insular outlook sometimes.

 

[Kanda]

Recently? Maybe you're just desensitized to their behaviour.

Coming off the plane, being told to 'hug' the window area so that the dogs can do their sniffing effectively. Being ordered to walk in a certain manner. Seeing blue uniforms, and other colour uniforms. Having your baggage put through an xray machine. Going through supermarket-like check-out desks while coming out of the airport. Being told you have traces of drugs in your baggage. Not allowed to bring in anything that remotely resembles food or wood products, and to bloody well make sure you put it in the bin if you have done so.

It's a fucking police state when you arrive on that island. Needs a good bit of anarchy, and that's why i like this story.

Last year was the last time I was there, have been loads over the years.

The food, wood, drugs thing makes complete fucking sense though.

Have you ever flown to America?

Oz is fucking bliss in comparison.

 

[fela fan]

Have you ever flown to America?

Oz is fucking bliss in comparison.

I've suspected as much. Last time i went to that yank land was 85. I feel it was more normal in those days.

And that's stretching the meaning of 'normal'.

 

[harpo]

Recently? Maybe you're just desensitized to their behaviour.

Coming off the plane, being told to 'hug' the window area so that the dogs can do their sniffing effectively. Being ordered to walk in a certain manner. Seeing blue uniforms, and other colour uniforms. Having your baggage put through an xray machine. Going through supermarket-like check-out desks while coming out of the airport. Being told you have traces of drugs in your baggage. Not allowed to bring in anything that remotely resembles food or wood products, and to bloody well make sure you put it in the bin if you have done so.

It's a fucking police state when you arrive on that island. Needs a good bit of anarchy, and that's why i like this story.

That's all pretty standard airport stuff.

Biker gang violence though, eh? It all seems so 1950s.

 

[fela fan]

For somebody who thinks life is amazing, you have a remarkably narrow-minded and insular outlook sometimes.

Slaar, how did you arrive at that judgement, and do you feel you had any kind of accuracy in this judgement?

 

[slaar]

Slaar, how did you arrive at that judgement, and do you feel you had any kind of accuracy in this judgement?

Mainly the fact that, with no evidence whatsoever, you've written off any prospect of Australia having a fragile, peculiar and interesting ecosystem - which it does - just to fit in with your narrative. Before then it was just quite funny.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2000/541.html

"Australia has a fragile ecosystem where the soils are significantly depleted in nutrients," said Miller. "I would speculate that even if all the exotic animals were removed, it would take the ecosystems a long time to recover because the soils lack resiliency."

 

[fela fan]

Mainly the fact that, with no evidence whatsoever, you've written off any prospect of Australia having a fragile, peculiar and interesting ecosystem - which it does - just to fit in with your narrative. Before then it was just quite funny.

http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2000/541.html

No mate, that was just your judgement.

I actually questioned whether australia had any more a fragile or peculiar ecosystem than any other nation. No evidence required.

But you just read into it what you want. Up to you mate. As long as it fits into your own narrative, no worries eh...?!

 

[editor]

Nah, i've not lost anything. It's just good to see the state being challenged. To see them not able to use their power to control citizens. To see citizens acting in the way they want to act without being held to account by agents of the state.

If the state acts like a thug, then don't expect the citizens to be any different.

No, i don't. But i like anything that challenges the australian state. They're a law unto themselves.

You're a barking nutpellet and make no mistake.

 

[Vintage Paw]

*adds barking nutpellet to this week's best new insults list*

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oh, I see, fela got picked up for dope in Sydney Airport.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Oh, I see, fela got picked up for dope in Sydney Airport.

I noticed that too.

 

[Blagsta]

I kind of think this is a good happening. Anybody who's flown into sydney airport, or any australian airport, will have experienced how deeply the state has interefered with the citizens.

It's just good to see how people can live their lives despite the state.

Anarchy lives on. Just what urban was born from, no...?

 

[phildwyer]

I have to say, I miss the football hooliganism of the 70's. It was fun to watch from a safe distance, and they only bashed their own.

 

[Fedayn]

Oh, I see, fela got picked up for dope in Sydney Airport.

And this is soooooo much payback don't you know!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

A copper once gave me an entirely unjustified dirty look in a tube station, which is why I welcomed the July bombs. That'll show Babylon.

edit: actually, even that's not quite the same as what he's saying - I should have said that I welcome people getting pushed onto the tracks during fights or something.

 

[Fedayn]

I have to say, I miss the football hooliganism of the 70's. It was fun to watch from a safe distance, and they only bashed their own.

It's very weird these days, especially up here.

 

[Fedayn]

A copper once gave me an entirely unjustified dirty look in a tube station, which is why I welcomed the July bombs. That'll show Babylon.

But of course, why would you think any different.

 

[brix]

 

[Spymaster]

Recently? Maybe you're just desensitized to their behaviour.

Coming off the plane, being told to 'hug' the window area so that the dogs can do their sniffing effectively. Being ordered to walk in a certain manner. Seeing blue uniforms, and other colour uniforms. Having your baggage put through an xray machine. Going through supermarket-like check-out desks while coming out of the airport. Being told you have traces of drugs in your baggage. Not allowed to bring in anything that remotely resembles food or wood products, and to bloody well make sure you put it in the bin if you have done so.

It's a fucking police state when you arrive on that island. Needs a good bit of anarchy, and that's why i like this story.

You're a fucking tit.

 

[phildwyer]

It's very weird these days, especially up here.

They still do it up there do they? Probably the old firm games will be the last redoubt. The last full-scale pitch invasion-style riot I saw was Cardiff v. Swansea circa 1995.

 

[Fedayn]

They still do it up there do they? Probably the old firm games will be the last redoubt. The last full-scale pitch invasion-style riot I saw was Cardiff v. Swansea circa 1995.

Other clubs still have it.

Well the Glasgow Derby has a bit of all kinds from mindless sectarian violence to casuals trying to get at each other. After the Derby earlier this year the police actually walked a mob of Celtic right into some Rangers lads..... A massive f**k up by Strathclydes finest.

 

[editor]

Football forum's over thataway guys. -->

 

[Fedayn]

Football forum's over thataway guys. -->

Ok ok.... it was a wee sidetrack.

 

[Strumpet]

Fuknell