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Genius, absolute genius.

"Everything is OK 1: Private Property"

"Shopping for CCTV part 1"

"Everything is OK 6: Royal Edition 1of 2"

There's a whole bunch more on his channel. They made me want to join in!

Wonderful stuff!

We need more comedy protests like this. For a masterclass, watch "Serious Organised Criminal" by Mark Thomas. Very funny stuff.

i only watched the first one (well, half of it) - what exactly is their point?

IAIN wrote:i only watched the first one (well, half of it) - what exactly is their point?

They're protesting pointless laws using comedy.

Tomo wrote:Mark Thomas

Did you used to watch the Mark Thomas Comedy Product? That was great, they dropped the comedy part because I think people were tuning in expecting stand-up and didn't get it.

The thing he did with the UK's most secret locations was pure genius;

"Hello? British Gas?"
"Yes?"
"Hello, I wanted to check the location of one of your gas points, the number is 24774 and is located in "somewhere in Wiltshire" can you confirm that for me please?"
"I'm sorry Sir but we have nothing at the location you give or the number you specified."
"I am stood right next to it, looking at it as we speak."
"*Silence*.... I'm sorry Sir I'm afraid I can't help."
-Hangs up-

Pure jokes.

There's a law that states you don't have to pay death duties on works of art if they're available for public viewing. Thomas and co discovered that there's a lot of such works of art, so they formed a group of art lovers who like to dress up as the people in the pictures and paid a few stately homes a visit, demanding to see the works. The owners were not impressed at having to keep up their end of the bargain. Pure genius. A lot of tax was subsequently collected, including from corporations!

It wasn't Mark but did you see that documentary about parking fines?

Some guy had got a ticket and was so annoyed he went through the parking rules and regulations, found a loophole and got the ticket overturned.

He then made this documentary (on Channel 4 I think) where they went around deliberately parking where they knew they would get a ticket but legally knew it had no grounds.

That was quite amusing.

Tomo wrote:

IAIN wrote:i only watched the first one (well, half of it) - what exactly is their point?

They're protesting pointless laws using comedy.

Also the way the media manipulates us, surveillance and how authority makes people forget we are all just human.

And scientology.

Hug a police!

How to escape a terror search Part 1:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch#p/a/u/2/r9bfmW3iMqk

Part 2:
http://www.youtube.com/user/cveitch#p/a/u/2/r9bfmW3iMqk

There was a very funny Daily Show video where they sent their roving reporter to an officially recognised public demonstration area and started effing, blinding and ranting to make a point. I think it was in Chicago?? What happened was the local authority had banned demos after the Iraq war because it was getting out of hand, but to comply with US federal law they had to make somewhere available for public protests. The official protest area was in some right old dump at the edge of the city but in theory you could say what you liked.

So, he set up and started ranting and being generally offensive. When a copper turned up he asked if he was allowed to stage the protest and the policeman agreed that he could as long as he stayed behind the bollards. So the reporter thanked him and carried on shouting all sorts and even called the bemused copper an idiot. He stood and listened for bit then got bored and walked off knowing there was nothing he could do about it.