Former Sussex University Student Superglues self to Prime Minister

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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Submitted by Jess on 23 July, 2008 - 00:33.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7520401.stm
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/404396.html

He was the Student Union president last year and lived in a cupboard in my friend Sophie's flat because he ran out of money.

He attended a talk I gave entitled "Class Struggle and Environmentalism" in which I criticised Plane Stupid, so this is epic fail for me.

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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23 July, 2008 - 00:33

P.S. Jenni had a huge crush on him.

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
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23 July, 2008 - 04:32
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Speaking afterwards, Mr Glass said: "My left hand was covered in superglue and I stuck it to his sleeve.

"I just glued myself to him and after 20 seconds he tore my hand off - it really hurt. He had to give it a couple of tugs before it came away.

"He was just grinning about it. He didn't seem to take me seriously."

After the incident Mr Glass was allowed to stay in Downing Street for 40 minutes.

When he left the building he tried to glue himself to the gates of Downing Street but had his hand detached by a police officer.

"I didn't have much glue left by that point," he said.

ROFL

juozokas "when i was a youth i used to burn collie weed in a rizzla, now i am a man i just rub collie weed in a chalwa"
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23 July, 2008 - 04:36

lolol

madashell "KSW, LOL"
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23 July, 2008 - 08:55
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Downing Street said there had been "no stickiness of any significance"

grin

weeler "temp banned"
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23 July, 2008 - 09:33
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smuggled a small amount of glue through Downing Street security checks in his underwear

I just read the article out to my work colleagues. What a fucking wanker that guy is. Hilarious.

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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23 July, 2008 - 11:58

No he's not a wanker. I like to think he did it 'for the lulz'.

weeler "temp banned"
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23 July, 2008 - 12:13

I like to think he got pwnd by Gordon Browne.

David in Atlanta ""crude reductionist version of marxism""
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23 July, 2008 - 17:23

Interesting. If all of the worlds political leaders had an annoying university student glued or chained or otherwise attached to them would it limit their ablity to do evil stuff?

Jenni "(proto-)medical euthaNAZI."
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23 July, 2008 - 17:51

JESS! THAT KIND OF THING IS SECRET! embarrassed
My favourite bit is how Indymedia and Plane Stupid's website report that "When Brown went to turn away he found he had been super-glued by his clothing to Plane Stupid, and had no option but to listen to Dan or undress." Fuck. That showed him.

petey "They gonna eat your shoulders."
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23 July, 2008 - 17:54
Jess wrote:
He was the Student Union president last year and lived in a cupboard

a cupboard? is this an american/english translation issue? or is he very small?

Jenni "(proto-)medical euthaNAZI."
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23 July, 2008 - 18:01

It was a walk-in cupboard, so like a very tiny room.

weeler "temp banned"
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23 July, 2008 - 23:22

Plane stupid, aptly named.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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24 July, 2008 - 01:05

It would have been funnier if Brown had thumped him like Prescott did that farmer.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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24 July, 2008 - 01:06

dp

fnbrill ""Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies." - Tacitus"
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24 July, 2008 - 05:41
newyawka wrote:
Jess wrote:
He was the Student Union president last year and lived in a cupboard

a cupboard? is this an american/english translation issue? or is he very small?

Think walk in closet

weeler "temp banned"
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24 July, 2008 - 09:13

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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24 July, 2008 - 15:07

I'd say the cupboard was slightly smaller then the matress of a single bed. Like, it wasn't big enough to lie down straight in, he had to tuck his legs up.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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24 July, 2008 - 15:49

RKelly;s 'trapped in the closet' is one of the best things ever in the history of things

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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24 July, 2008 - 16:52

I disagree, however I posit that the lulz experienced when one of your friends glues himself to the prime minister is one of the best things ever in the history of things.

petey "They gonna eat your shoulders."
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24 July, 2008 - 17:57
fnbrill wrote:
newyawka wrote:
Jess wrote:
He was the Student Union president last year and lived in a cupboard

a cupboard? is this an american/english translation issue? or is he very small?

Think walk in closet

i can't, i grew up in a new yawk apartment

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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24 July, 2008 - 18:24
Jess wrote:
I disagree, however I posit that the lulz experienced when one of your friends glues himself to the prime minister is one of the best things ever in the history of things.

that's probably true, but since I don't know the guy, I'm bravely going to say he's a stupid dickhead wink

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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24 July, 2008 - 19:14

.... he obviously did it to be funny as a publicity stunt. I mean, the bit where he says "but I didn't have much glue left by then". But then he is in Plane Stupid, which makes me think less of him. He could have done it for a better cause.

catch "unpractical[sic] and blinkered"
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24 July, 2008 - 20:32
Jess wrote:
One of my friends ... is in Plane Stupid

weeler "temp banned"
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24 July, 2008 - 21:51

Plane stupid constantly super glue themselves to things, in a serious way. One tried to defuse a tense stand-off with the pigs at the climate camp (i didnt go!) by supergluing themselves to the gates, they were media spokesperson at the time.

Jess "The heart of a heartless world."
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25 July, 2008 - 02:10

For a sec I thought you meant pigs as in the actual animal. Dissapointing.

Bob Savage "brrrapatista."
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26 July, 2008 - 10:51
Weeler wrote:

man I always forget that Omar from The Wire's in it. what a versatile actor he is!

weeler "temp banned"
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26 July, 2008 - 11:16

Shut up you fucking god lover.

xConorx "facts tend to cloud my judgement"
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26 July, 2008 - 15:43

Everytime Bob Savage writes something all I think f is what an absolute dick he made of himself in that thread.
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