Are there really street gangs in London? - Attack the Block (2011) Discussion

[–] Amthermandes 13 years ago

c'mon man, don't be so ignorant. I've never been to Europe and I know they, just like America, are riddled with gangs and violence in various cities.

The whole "tea" thing is a stupid stereotype. And your petty insults are why so many people hate America, stop making us look bad, you twit!

England's got their good and bad just like the rest of us. Only thing is, they got more interesting and cooler accents. And damn. They make some good movies.

"Negative, I am a meat popsicle"

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[–] mrjonz72 13 years ago

lol what Amthermandes said, except I never been to Europe and I'm not sure if I would say their accents are cooler :)

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[–] Bobbyhope2011 13 years ago

To be fair, everything you said is correct apart from the tea stereotype, we really do drink litre after litre of the stuff.

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[–] psdhart 12 years ago

I agree with Amthermandes, besides we had the London riots just over a year ago now...

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[–] Fat_Lives_Matter 13 years ago

LMAO

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[–] thmaccyd 13 years ago

Wow thats like me saying, are their rich people in America? I thought they were all fat ignorant slobs who carry guns and have no teeth.

Stop being so ignorant and racist man.

Don't break my heart, my achey breaky heart.

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[–] JustCallMeAndy 13 years ago

Yep, we got gangs, they even have guns and SOME of them actually drink coffie.
Hard to believe i know.
lol.

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[–] cinsmith1 11 years ago

Sorry but the bad dental care is another one of your things, not the US's.

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[–] omfgitsrohit 13 years ago

Rofl.

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[–] vincent-bullock 13 years ago

Attack the Block was a pretty fair representation of what the rougher parts of London (and Britain in general) are like. You have to consider you didn't get to see many adults. Those are somewhat worse. In any case, any less priveledged area of any city of any country is pretty similar. I can vouch for that.

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[–] sbauer_19 13 years ago

If thats a "tough" neigboorhood in London, I'd love to see them come check out Detroit, Nola, or some places in Florida and Cali, hahahahaha. Pussies.

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[–] vincent-bullock 13 years ago

To be fair, the people in USA are much more screwed up and their moral standards are much lower. In the UK, we don't have anywhere near the same levels of murder, rape, drugs, car accidents, famine and general violence and social dischord that just breeds in the USA. I mean, take school shootings. The idea of a school shooting is alien to me and probably to most people living outside the USA. I could not imagine what sort of decadent society something like that could occur in and yet it happens over and over again nearly solely in the USA.

In any case, that's why I think it's impossible to compare the conditions that children in the UK and the USA or Nigeria are subjected to and their reactions to those conditions. We're talking about completely different scales of magnitude. If I really did try and compare it, I would eventually have to admit that the people in the USA aren't people at all, just sub-human beasts.

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[–] sbauer_19 13 years ago

See heres where the UK gets it. They havent let in all the thugs and illegals into their country like we have, causing all the problems.

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[–] sbauer_19 13 years ago

You guys are lucky, I need to move where theres 2% black population, that would be sweet.

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[–] impulse_kidd 13 years ago

You guys are lucky, I need to move where theres 2% black population, that would be sweet.

Why bother? You'd be a Pu55y there too!

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[–] sbauer_19 13 years ago

You're pretty fu<kin tough over the internet f@g.

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[–] impulse_kidd 13 years ago

It wasnt about me being tough genius, just that you were a b*tch. Big difference.

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[–] sbauer_19 13 years ago

Go sell some more weed so you can keep fu<king up the world and pay for your internet.

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[–] activista 12 years ago

@Sbauer

FYI, America was started by mainly illegal aliens---the original white folks that ran/tried to kill the Indians (the original inhabitants) off and stole all their land, and the slaves (my ancestors) that they kidnapped and brought over here by force to do their work for them. And, also,Australia was a country started BY illegals and thugs itself, and they turned out okay, even though they were occupying the land illegally themselves and stole the land from the aboriginal people. As an American, I've always thought that we are WAY too damn trigger-happy as a nation. Guns over there are associated as an extension of being macho,a symbol of male domination and having some power in a way that they aren't in some other countries. Having grown up watching British films and TV shows (thanks to PBS and and the Canadian channel CBC Windsor Channel 9) it really struck me how in some British films,guns didn't seem to be used a lot, or at all in some cases.

In fact, I remember reading a news article 20 years ago about how a whole batch of English policemen/women were actually sent across the pond to Detroit to receive training from the DPD (Detroit Police Department) in firearms here because it was something they admitted they actually hadn't had to do a whole lot of in the first place. I have to admit, at the time, the concept of a police force actually NOT using guns on a daily basis was frankly incomprehensible to me at the time. Especially with our gun-crazy culture,where people think nothing of shooting each other for the slightest stupid damn thing,or every time someone gets pissed off after an argument with somebody. Or, in the case of the nut who shot up the theatre in Colorado,shoot people just because you've lost your own damn mind in the first place, which showed that he was *beep* insane to begin with. But, yeah, I do wish we had a less gun-crazy culture, because we're so inudated with the power of firearms in movies and TV (and if you live in a rural hunting area) from birth to believe that having some firepower solves all problems when in some cases it only just makes things even more worse--it's a damn shame,really.

I think it's interesting how none of the kids actually have guns in ATB---sadly in real life in the U.S., they would actually have access given to them by an adult occasionaly,which is all kinds of messed up.

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[–] Lolla_O 13 years ago

School shootings don't happen over and over again in the U.S. What an idiotic thing to say. A school shooting is just as alien to a teenager going to school in the states as it is to anyone else. No one goes to school thinking that could be a common occurence, Vincent.

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[–] HumanTheONLyRace 12 years ago

School shootings don't happen over and over again in the U.S. What an idiotic thing to say. A school shooting is just as alien to a teenager going to school in the states as it is to anyone else. No one goes to school thinking that could be a common occurence, Vincent.

I live in the U.S., and I know many people who go to school worrying if another "white" kid will shoot up the school. IT IS SOMETHING WE THINK ABOUT, wtf are you talking about?

You guys are lucky, I need to move where theres 2% black population, that would be sweet.

Okay, so uhh, then you'd have to worry about sick *beep* dragging you in their basements, and serial killing your ass.

Came to these boards to see if anyone was talking about how stupid this chicks character was in the movie and I find this *beep*

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[–] Lolla_O 12 years ago

I live in the U.S. too and no one I know constantly worries about school shootings. Wtf are you talking about? You must live in a damned paranoid area if everyone's looking over their shoulder waiting for someone to pull out a gun.

Your second quote wasn't even from me, dumb!ss. You obviously can't read a simple message board and, therefore, need to be immediately ignored.

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[–] HumanTheONLyRace 12 years ago

Your second quote wasn't even from me, dumb!ss. You obviously can't read a simple message board and, therefore, need to be immediately ignored.

If it wasn't from me *beep* then why do you care?

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[–] Lolla_O 12 years ago

You are so stupid. Wow.

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[–] pancakeswine 11 years ago

You don't have the crime and accident rate because your population is the size of California. You should probably learn basic hygiene before you start discussing who's sub-human. Look at what England has done in its history. Moral standards...right.

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[–] Bobbyhope2011 13 years ago

You are bragging that your criminals are worse...well that's just super.

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[–] moiness 12 years ago

Do you know what, you are right.

I remember kids I used to teach from Staines banging on about being in the "hood" etc. Influenced by the songs of american hip hop artistes.

Though to put the blame on black culture for UK gangs would be wrong. There have always been gangs and dodgy areas etc in the UK. Since history began.

As there have in all cultures unless they have some sort of police state where you get arrested for farting.

One thing I cannot stand is intolerance.

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[–] ribby45 12 years ago

moiness -

Good post.
And funny too

I used to work with junior bad-guys & they told me that they'd made a conscious decision to be bad-guys.
They weren't victims of circumstance.

It was 1985, though.
And there's been a lot of bridges falling into troubled waters since then. .

I hope the OP was on a wind-up.
Irony gone wrong?

I hope so.

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[–] luccin 13 years ago

You must be so proud to live in a *beep* Anyway I'm off for a cup of tea.

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[–] Bobbyhope2011 13 years ago

Get a load of this internet tough guy. You really must be dumb to be bragging about having worse criminals or living in a bigger *beep* hole. What moron.

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[–] mbproject21 13 years ago

These *beep* Americans always give me jokes. You're really judging the "toughness" of London based off a sci-fi comedy?

Seriously, every single message board I visit that talks about UK crime, there's always some yankee idiot that with their usual "well my town is tougher than your town.....you wouldn't survive five minutes out here.....I live in a bigger shythole than you..." ad infinitum.

As if living in a dangerous environment is a good thing and something to be proud of. I wish the crime in London didn't exist at all, but if this idiot did their research, London is actually more dangerous than NYC. I used to live in Queens, NY myself and tbh I now feel safe in NYC when I visit than I do here. So as you guys would say, "how you like those apples" lol.

Go eat some apple pie and watch a western or something.

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[–] georgegliddy 13 years ago

sir but u r maybe a bad peepz???????? y u be evil n harshes on all peepz?? NY getos must be burned up 2 rid them evils????

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[–] strummer2808 12 years ago

Yo do know you are 10X more likely to get mugged in London the New York..

Nothing to be proud of but all the stereotypes are embarrassing..

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[–] lockon_stratos 13 years ago

The movies from UK are either about the chavs or Nottinghill so that's all we see.

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[–] kaboomboomboom 12 years ago

I'm a Brit who has lived in different UK cities (London, Manchester, Liverpool) and also in America, in particular New Orleans... I'd say that they're all equally intimidating and rough in the expected areas; if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time, it doesn't matter what city you are in. Generally in my experience, England is so much more populated compared to its size and public transport is so much more efficient that it's easier and more likely you'll encounter people like the characters in this film. However to tell the truth, it's been when I've lived outside major cities that I (and friends/family) have actually been a victim of crime. I've had to give 2 police statements within a year and have experienced 'chavs' yell random abuse since moving to a small town full of old people but with a nearby underprivileged area. When living in cities young people who may appear like 'trouble' weren't in my personal experience and generally kept to themselves- I think the younger people in the local area now are more frustrated and bored so go about causing any trouble they can.

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[–] Black_Dahlia 12 years ago

Yes, and they wear coveralls and silly hats and penis faces.

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[–] Suki_Weeks 12 years ago

Wow, and I thought the British were so genteel and sophisticated. Do they pause from their daily vandalism and recklessness to sip afternoon tea?

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What a twat.

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[–] Black_Dahlia 12 years ago

Actually, they're into hanging out at moloko (milk infused with designer drugs) bars.

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[–] HumanTheONLyRace 12 years ago

I'm sure even some of the worst of London has sat down for a cup o tea lol.

-Ignoring idiots.

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[–] strummer2808 12 years ago

that stereotype is true though , Brits love tea ( not me though more of a coffee man)

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