Occupy Wall Street: "Don't Worry" (sign in Brighton, UK)

via Bob Jaroc: "Spotted in an alleyway over the road from my flat in brighton."

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Just_Ok

They gonna be sued for illegal use of the word ********
Nic Seymour-Smith

Cool. Bob Jaroc lives near my house.
Paul Renault

I suppose it would be an perfect example of the freefall of of good manners, and an even better (plu-?)perfect example what the person who posted the sign is very politely railing against, to suggest that the text is missing an Oxford comma- so I won’t.

Great find, Xeni and Bob.
Thanks, whoever made the sign.
Purplecat

I wish to protest at the absurd stereotypes that this sign perpetuates against the UK’s weasel population. They often have to endure awful, unfair comparisons to politicians and sleazy businessmen. Now it seems that terrorists are being added to this shameful list of slurs. I will have you know that the British weasel population are law abiding and honest. Not one of them was arrested for a serious crime last year, and crude stereotypes of this nature hold back the entire Mustelidae community.

I would also like to protest about the previous posters protestations surrounding the usage of the comma. Let it be known that such colonial affectations are not considered necessary on this side of the pond.
ocker3

I am from the internets and I approve this message.
Cowicide

Hey, you…

http://i.imgur.com/R1h6f.jpg
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Scurra

As someone who doesn’t believe there has been a particularly noticeable decline in standards of good manners and common decency (because I live in the real world, rather than in the one the Daily Mail likes to pretend it is), I object to the final clause of the first sentence. But since I agree with most of the rest of it, I can live with that.
pthree

and as soon as the Olympics are over I’m sure some new heartwarming story about the young royals will crop up to distract the British people from dangerous free thought.
Jonathan Badger

Of course, with the exception of a few cities like New York, the transit system *anywhere* in the UK would be a wonder anywhere in the US.
- novium
  
  In some ways, yes. On my last trip, I had my attention called to how extraordinarily unfriendly the system is to those with disabilities. Mostly because of the signs they’d posted in preparation for the Olympics. If you were in a wheelchair or just not a very steady/strong walker (like my grandmother), you’d be SOL. There were a few stations (train and tube) that had attempted to make improvements, but on the whole, it was a nightmare of stairs and steps up and narrow elevators that lead to…stairs.
  
  I do envy the public transportation system in the UK, though I do recognize that it’d be extremely difficult and probably a huge waste of money to replicate in most of the US…you need higher population densities for such a system to be of any use, I think. But on the other hand, I never quite appreciated how much the americans with disabilities act has achieved.
gwailo_joe

Great sign. I can only quote in the voice of Homer Simpson: “I wish the Olympics were coming to MY city!!”

Not really…good luck Londoners.
miasm

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
oldtaku

It’s a cute sign, but I assure you there has been no ‘freefall in general standards of good manners and common decency’. Or rather, it has been freefalling for as far back as we have recorded records. Those damn kids and their music and lack of manners!
OldBrownSquirrel

panem et circenses
bocomo

ugh, allcaps
Inspectigator

Funny stuff  SHOTS FIRED IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD GOTTA GO
jfmarchini

That sign could apply to Brazil as well. The world cup AND the olympics are coming up soon. Hurray.
phisrow

Incidentally, how does the Olympics still manage to line up suckers to not only host, but compete to host, it after all these years?

Every time, it ends up being wildly expensive, less well attended than ‘projected’, and usually accompanied by some sort of scandal.

Does the event mysteriously maintain sufficient popular support or is it recognized as being a massive sinkhole but cynically supported by the few parties who will benefit from having it in town?
- oldtaku
  
  Govt. officials and their private sector buddies still make out like bandits with Olympics in town. Any shortfalls come from public funds. So the people who matter are all highly motivated to bring the Olympics to town even if it’s a boondoggle. A bit like building a $30M football stadium for the team with taxpayer money and then guaranteeing attendance rates like San Diego did.
- http://theladyfingers.blogspot.com/ Ladyfingers
  
  The bidding process is sold to the public as a civic pride/tourist investment, and the bid committees are composed of groups of development firms who stand to make a lot of money at the expense of the taxpayer.
- http://shadowfirebird.tumblr.com shadowfirebird
  
  Bribery.
awjt

Everything went to hell when we standardized spelling and punctuation. A buncha rulemongers.
Jack Majewski

Admittedly, I don’t like the sentiment. While I recognize the panem et circenses quality, I believe this only reinforces the idea of anyone interested in serious change being a humorless stick-in-the-mud. Why can’t we be proud in our nation’s successes and upset about its failures? Why can’t we cheer on the Olympics and work to improve the school system?
- Austin Moses
  
  Maybe some of us see the billions being spent on a fortnight of sport could be far more useful and long lasting in a school/hospital hence why not proud of having picked up a 2 week hyper expensive waste of time that goes to london anyway (because no other parts of the UK could of benefited from regeneration, are easier to get to and won’t have a transit system melt down)
- atimoshenko
  
  What is there to be proud of about hosting the Olympics?
webwbr

The Olympics IS coming up or ARE coming up?
- oldtaku
  
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- hassan-i-sabbah
  
  ARE coming up.
  - Tichrimo
    
    Depends on whether you’re using it as a title or a collective noun.
    
    The Avengers is coming. (There’s a new movie due out in May.)
    The Avengers are coming. (Iron Man, Hulk, Cap, and Thor are en route to my house.)
benher

I love when the circus comes to town! They always bring bread!
regeya

Here in the United States, if that were put on display, how seriously it was taken would depend upon whether it was a Tea Partier or an Occupy Wall Streeter. If the former, it would be serious; if the latter, it would be another example of how kids these days hate successful people and just want things handed to them for free, and that mainstream press is completely against the Tea Party and completely on the side of OWS.

p.s. has anyone else noticed the word ‘Soviet’ popping up more and more? Really? Anarchist Soviets?
- John Aspinall
  
  re: p.s. has anyone else noticed the word ‘Soviet’ popping up more and more?
  
  It’s the new way to say “communist”. (Which was the new way to say “poopyhead” – i.e. an insult carrying no actual policy content.) They (RWNCs, mostly) finally clued in to the fact that shouting “communist” at the left-most 75% of the political spectrum was just making them look old and clueless. For some who came of age during the Cold War, communism was and is the ultimate scare word. For the rest of us, either born later, or paying attention to the huge changes in the last sixty years, it’s just a shibboleth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth) marking the speaker’s mindset as being formed in the 1950′s.
  - Jonathan Badger
    
    It’s no different from “fascism”, which as Orwell recognized in 1946 “has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’”
- Guest
  
  Their dog-whistles, not all are inaudible.