Students striking? How does that work? We protest by sabotaging our own education and by shooting ourself in the foot.
Well, yeah. It’s basically a matter of going to the school but, instead of entering the classrooms, picketing outside. After all, sometimes the students who are more vocal in those are also the same ones who are on a first-name basis with every centipede in the cafeteria’s bathroom, if they don’t picket nobody will notice they’re on strike.
Private centers and technically-oriented schools (engineering, physics, chem, math) tend to take the attitude of “classes will proceed as usual; if you guys don’t have notes because you weren’t in and didn’t let any other students come in, tuff luck.” For some reason, those centers are less likely to have strikes than those where teachers will make up the work later.
Much more sadness until the beer takes effect. Then it becomes anger and more glass becomes broken.
Protest =/= rioting though.
This sort of amused me today. Well SORT of amused and sort of appalled and “good grief” at these rioting people. Will they stop when the heatwave stops and rain comes, I wonder.
Sorry, back to the point.
Apparently the Celtic football team from Glasgow will go and play a football match in Belfast.
Oh dear, now that was a silly decision, wasn’t it?
But the really cute bit is this bit of aesthetic concern:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/don-t-wear-celtic-colours-in-belfast-fans-warned-1-3001308
Isn’t that sweet? He makes it sound as though it is purely on aesthetic grounds, like, you know, not wearing brown shoes with a black suit, or not mixing stripes with polka dots, or just not liking a particular shade. 
Can everyone play this game?
Right, people, I hereby announce that I really don’t like the colour pink, and I am quite sensitive about it, so would you kindly be so good as to avoid wearing that colour if visiting Glasgow? Thank you. 
The football man’s advice is, of course, quite wise, but it might just have been clever not to stage the match there, telly coverage or not. And it might be good if something - like police - could stop the recreational rioters. (Lovely phrase, btw)
Trick question - The Wolverines never beat the Buckeyes!
O-H!!
Of course, there is also some precedent for October 30.
True story, MichiganDopers?
Yeah but that would be letting the dickheads win.
Then they should play cross-code games with Ohio State. Because their mascot is a nut.
Well, if we’re going to riot, I say we do it the right way, in zoot suits.
I think your meaning is that playing the match elsewhere would mean letting the dickheads win, but the only reason I suggested such is that it was originally meant to be played in Glasgow and that arrangement was changed just to get a bigger crowd, more money and more television coverage. It just looks like a not-very-good reason, really.
But then I do tend to forget that many supposed “sports” are really just big business and not really for sport. A plague on all football-y houses!
Yes. Of course. Almost ALL rioting is “recreational”. You don’t get paid for it. If you don’t feel like it, you go home.
Lynching is/was the same.
There is a sweet spot for rioting/lynching. It has to be warm enough so that you feel edgy and irritable, but not so hot that you want to lie down in the shade.
No, really, it was genuinely worth wondering. In the U.K. we’re not really used to so many days without rain. 
I read somewhere that many European student riots sort of occur at the same time the schools hold examinations.