What an utterly depressing Question
Roughly half the replies feature right-on, retired radical types crowing about "earning their left wing stripes" fighting the police on some thinly-attended march protesting the colour of Thatcher's knickers. Lots of backslapping and mutual masturbation from old brazier burners reliving their war stories. Thanks for all your hard work. The world's just fucking terrific now, isn't it? Job done. The other half seems to be a mix of recycled Father Ted gags, a couple of lame puns and some sophomoric debates tailing off into nothing. And a good story about a blind man breaking a dog molester's thumb.

Fuck this. I'm off to the park to look at trees.

All together now:

"What do we want?"
"EVERYTHING IN MODERATION!"
"When do we want it?"
"AS SOON AS IS REASONABLY PRACTICAL!"

EDIT: And a sizeable minority of snarky, smugly superior, post-ironic posts (a bit like this one) mostly complaining about how protesting never fixed anything. The park was lovely by the way, though it was a bit windy.
( Scrumper, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 20:49, 9 replies)

Spitting Image
"What do we want?"
"LEGALISE CANNABIS!"
"When do we want it?"
"Oh...well...whenever, really...you know..."
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 21:33, closed)

Or
What do we want?
GRADUAL CHANGE!
When do we want it?
IN DUE COURSE!
(Mork, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 13:32, closed)

Whenever I see footage or photos of protests against authority in this country, all I ever see is an ignorant mob being a) belligerent and b) almost certainly wrong.
Remember the Paulsgrove marches back in 2000?
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 22:13, closed)

The operative words there being "footage" and "photos"
You think any protest ever got any good press?

The press are there to squash the bits the police cant get to.

Dont believe me? Go dig out some footage or photos of the miners' strike.
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 22:39, closed)

A fine and robust arguement for never complaining about anything.

(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Wed 17 Nov 2010, 22:44, closed)

Oh look, another troll. Yawn.
*clicks ignore*
(WANKERTRON you say "prick", I say "wanker", Thu 18 Nov 2010, 0:19, closed)

dearie dearie me
*lalalala I can't hear you lalalalalalala* hahahaha
( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 9:22, closed)

Hmmm.
kineticnorth.com/StuffAndTing/b3ta/YHBI/Default.aspx
( jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:03, closed)

:D eeexcellent.

( Michael Ellis contributes nothing, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 10:04, closed)

hahah
I love these "I hate this qotw, and yet I've read every reply..." complaints.
( rofl harris, Thu 18 Nov 2010, 13:33, closed)