Modern Policing

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:03 am

Some nice pictures in the papers of the police ( men and women and x ) painting their nails bright colours and posting them on social media. I bet hardened criminals are running scared.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:04 am

We should have these threads every Friday, prepare for the weekend sort of thing.

This has the potential to be a good one.

Jimmymaccer · Post by **Jimmymaccer** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:05 am

As long as they have a nice car they can sit in that’s all that matters.

duncandisorderly · Post by **duncandisorderly** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:09 am

When I was about 19 I had a gig in a really dark and dingy club in the arsehole of nowhere, a proper rough hole, and the other guitarists told me they were painting the nails of their left hand black to help them see their fretting hand better in the gloom. The bounders and cads that they are didn't do it though, only me.

That's the only time I've ever worn nail varnish.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:18 am

ClaretEngineer wrote:We should have these threads every Friday, prepare for the weekend sort of thing.

This has the potential to be a good one.

I liken it to sitting by the fire with a good book and chucking a bit of coal on every now and then

MACCA · Post by **MACCA** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:28 am

What's wrong with that?

The checkout staff at asda have their nails painted.

I don't think there's a correlation between not being able to do your job and having your nails painted.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:30 am

Blackrod is obviously one of those very simple people who think that having your nails painted for community engagement means you can't arrest anyone.

I also suspect a vague whiff of homophobia.

Bertiebeehead · Post by **Bertiebeehead** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:36 am

UpTheBeehole wrote:Blackrod is obviously one of those very simple people who think that having your nails painted for community engagement means you can't arrest anyone.

I also suspect a vague whiff of homophobia.

What does it smell like?

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:39 am

Bertiebeehead wrote:What does it smell like?

It smells of sweaty old blokes sat on a creaky chair at their ageing computer in their back room, flicking between Mail Online and UTC, with a background scent of a 30 a day smoking habit, last night's booze, dog hair and cat p*ss.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:42 am

I think Blackrod is concerned that the police are trying to portray a tolerant, inclusive, diverse and caring nature; which isn't necessarily conducive to those who are in jobs which involve violence.

I think it's nice though for the others.

Bertiebeehead · Post by **Bertiebeehead** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:43 am

UpTheBeehole wrote:It smells of sweaty old blokes sat on a creaky chair at their ageing computer in their back room, flicking between Mail Online and UTC, with a background scent of a 30 a day smoking habit, last night's booze, dog hair and cat p*ss.

I've just covered the webcam on my old laptop with some gaffer tape.

clansman · Post by **clansman** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:33 pm

Post 9 brilliant!

No Ney Never · Post by **No Ney Never** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 12:57 pm

Would much rather have our style of policing than that bunch of mentally deranged luntics they have in America.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:05 pm

Indeed. Or Spain for that matter

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:08 pm

No Ney Never wrote:Would much rather have our style of policing than that bunch of mentally deranged luntics they have in America.

You only have to worry about them if you're black apparently.

ClaretAndJew · Post by **ClaretAndJew** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:12 pm

Never ceases to surprise me that people don't seem to want to have an inclusive society. It takes a whole host of people to make a world, not everything is black and white.

I celebrate the diversity of everyone and everything.

Well done to the Police for what is a small gesture but a big statement.

Guich · Post by **Guich** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:12 pm

Sidney1st wrote:You only have to worry about them if you're black apparently.

Can we merge this with the Aluko thread. That'd be a belter!

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:16 pm

Bertiebeehead wrote:I've just covered the webcam on my old laptop with some gaffer tape.

I've just covered mine with something else..

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:48 pm

What's wrong with having your nails painted? I used to have mine painted all the time. Though it was a compromise away from having a 6 year old plaster my face with make-up because she wanted to "make me pretty". Lil' ****.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:50 pm

Its asking a lot of a 6 year old to perform that sort of miracle!

duncandisorderly · Post by **duncandisorderly** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:52 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:What's wrong with having your nails painted? I used to have mine painted all the time. Though it was a compromise away from having a 6 year old plaster my face with make-up because she wanted to "make me pretty". Lil' ****.

ClaretEngineer · Post by **ClaretEngineer** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 1:53 pm

duncandisorderly wrote:

I can see the ageing computer in the background that UpTheBeeHole mentioned earlier

CnBtruntru · Post by **CnBtruntru** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 2:07 pm

Blackrod wrote:Some nice pictures in the papers of the police ( men and women and x ) painting their nails bright colours and posting them on social media. I bet hardened criminals are running scared.

Plus tea and crumpets as they are British bobbies not yanks with their doughnuts

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:44 pm

UpTheBeehole wrote:It smells of sweaty old blokes sat on a creaky chair at their ageing computer in their back room, flicking between Mail Online and UTC, with a background scent of a 30 a day smoking habit, last night's booze, dog hair and cat p*ss.

Thankfully none of those things apply to me. For someone who preaches tolerance you sure like to give people labels and put them up in boxes, when they don't agree with you of course. The usual looking to be offended nonsense by a sandal wearing white flag waver.

UpTheBeehole · Post by **UpTheBeehole** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:48 pm

Blackrod wrote:Thankfully none of those things apply to me. For someone who preaches tolerance you sure like to give people labels and put them up in boxes, when they don't agree with you of course. The usual looking to be offended nonsense by a sandal wearing white flag waver.

You're obsessed with sandals aren't you?

Your entire OP read like someone looking for offence.

Why do bobbies in nail varnish offend you so much?

Would you much prefer they stuck to thrusting their truncheons and having big helmets?

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 4:51 pm

I love it when people who are offended by things like transgender people being recognised in government documents start mocking other people for looking to be offended by things.

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:13 pm

I see the BBC website says Avon and Somerset police force has been inundated with complaints. Some people really are short of something proper to moan about.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:18 pm

We must have the least scary police "force" in the world.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:19 pm

taio wrote:I see the BBC website says Avon and Somerset police force has been inundated with complaints. Some people really are short of something proper to moan about.

You're not joking

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Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 5:22 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:We must have the least scary police "force" in the world.

Could make them much scarier by giving high school graduates guns and a warrant card.

Also, why are you disrespecting our military?!

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 6:30 pm

I think there is some middle ground between trigger happy us cops and police painting nails.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:04 pm

Blackrod wrote:I think there is some middle ground between trigger happy us cops and police painting nails.

Leftists only deal in extremes.

If you want tighter immigration laws, you want a total stop on immigration because you are a xenophobe.
If you criticism Islam, you are a nazi racist who hates all muslims.
If you disagree with a protest in America by NFL players, you hate black people.
If you think that US police are demonized unfairly by the media and activist groups, you are a racist (again)
If you vote Tory, you are selfish, cruel and greedy.
Etc etc etc,

Common sense and middle ground just don't seem to pop into their thinking.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:14 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:Leftists only deal in extremes.

If you want tighter immigration laws, you want a total stop on immigration because you are a xenophobe.
If you criticism Islam, you are a nazi racist who hates all muslims.
If you disagree with a protest in America by NFL players, you hate black people.
If you think that US police are demonized unfairly by the media and activist groups, you are a racist (again)
If you vote Tory, you are selfish, cruel and greedy.
Etc etc etc,

Common sense and middle ground just don't seem to pop into their thinking.

And if you want to scrap tuition fees and reimburse a small number of students then that means you want to spend £100 billion on scrapping all student debt. If you want to accept immigrants and refugees at a higher rate than most on the right then that means you want unlimited immigration and refugees.

Oh, and if you carefully and thoroughly demonstrate a person's prejudice against a minority then that's mischaracterised as you accusing someone of racism purely because they "disagree with a protest".

And yes, i'm talking specifically about you. But also people quite like you. You're the very definition of someone who only deals in extremes.

Blackrod · Post by **Blackrod** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:22 pm

Thankfully we had men made of sterner stuff when we went to war than these weak whinging surrender moneys.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:22 pm

I wouldn't worry about being called a Nazi, I got called it recently and no one's ever proved that I am.

I've just stopped clicking my heels and saying heil when I'm out.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:24 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:And if you want to scrap tuition fees and reimburse a small number of students then that means you want to spend £100 billion on scrapping all student debt. If you want to accept immigrants and refugees at a higher rate than most on the right then that means you want unlimited immigration and refugees.

Oh, and if you carefully and thoroughly demonstrate a person's prejudice against a minority then that's mischaracterised as you accusing someone of racism purely because they "disagree with a protest".

And yes, i'm talking specifically about you. But also people quite like you. You're the very definition of someone who only deals in extremes.

Maybe sometimes I can come across that way, but I'm only a product of the socio-political environment around me. When you have one set of people hysterically calling you every type of "phobic" under the sun whenever you disagree with them, you can't help but start to fight the same way.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:30 pm

Sidney1st wrote:I wouldn't worry about being called a Nazi, I got called it recently and no one's ever proved that I am.

I've just stopped clicking my heels and saying heil when I'm out.

Who called you a Nazi? (I'll accept "fascist" as a proxy)

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:36 pm

Will the black clad lefties be fire bombing nail salons, now we've all been made 'aware' of what 'might' happen?

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:38 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:Maybe sometimes I can come across that way, but I'm only a product of the socio-political environment around me. When you have one set of people hysterically calling you every type of "phobic" under the sun whenever you disagree with them, you can't help but start to fight the same way.

So lefties only deal in extremes, and when people on the right do it that the lefties' fault.

I think you're prejudiced against black people (racist). I've explained and demonstrated exactly why i think you're prejudiced against black people by showing a pattern of you objecting to black people doing things that you are are OK with when white people do it. And how do you characterise that? Like this: "If you disagree with a protest in America by NFL players, you hate black people."

Until you face up to your own prejudices, and stop lying to yourself and others about being treated unfairly by people like me, you're never going to be among those who I and millions of other lefties respectfully disagree with. You'll continue to be treated with the disrespect and contempt of the average Britain First nutter.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 7:52 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:Who called you a Nazi? (I'll accept "fascist" as a proxy)

You were pretty close to it, but it's usually your default setting on certain discussions.

Rileybobs · Post by **Rileybobs** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:02 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:We must have the least scary police "force" in the world.

The police aren't supposed to be scary.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:06 pm

Sidney1st wrote:You were pretty close to it, but it's usually your default setting on certain discussions.

I don't believe i've called anyone a Nazi who hasn't express Nazi beliefs. Like, for example, internment camps for people of a particular religion.

If you can demonstrate an example of when i've called someone a Nazi without an associated expression of a Nazi belief or support for a fascistic policy then i'll be happy to retract it. But i think you and I both know there is no such example. Because the irony of you saying that calling people a Nazi is my "default setting" is that it's not true, and in fact you accusing me of that is your "default setting".

The truth is that I never call someone a racist, or Nazi, or an idiot, without being able to explain why i'm calling them it. And it's never because they disagree with me. Tiao tried to prove this false once and he couldn't. You're more than welcome to have a go.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:08 pm

Rileybobs wrote:The police aren't supposed to be scary.

I don't know.

I reckon a 40 odd year old male copper from Somerset could get quite scary if he chipped a nail after just having them painted.

Sidney1st · Post by **Sidney1st** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:11 pm

Calm yourself down Turtle.

I've never expressed beliefs that could be associated with the Nazi party and I can't be arsed getting into that tonight.
I've got some work to do tonight and most of my thinking ability is going into that instead

taio · Post by **taio** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 8:31 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:The truth is that I never call someone a racist, or Nazi, or an idiot, without being able to explain why i'm calling them it. And it's never because they disagree with me. Tiao tried to prove this false once and he couldn't. You're more than welcome to have a go.

I've referred to you regularly calling people stupid, an idiot or dumb because they disagree with you. I provided examples. You're renowned for it but have no self-awareness.

I can't ever recall saying you incorrectly call people racists or Nazis. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Imploding Turtle · Post by **Imploding Turtle** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 9:54 pm

taio wrote:I've referred to you regularly calling people stupid, an idiot or dumb because they disagree with you. I provided examples. You're renowned for it but have no self-awareness.

I can't ever recall saying you incorrectly call people racists or Nazis. Feel free to prove me wrong though.

You provided examples of when i called people an idiot or stupid, but none of those times was because they disagreed with me. I can say this with certainty for two reasons, 1. I remember. And 2. you'll never find an example of me calling someone a racist or an idiot purely for disagreeing with me because that's never why i apply those labels. It's a favourite tactic of idiots to claim that it is, and I think we all know why.

I also never claimed that you said i call people racists or nazis incorrectly. I was saying you previously accused me of - and failed to demonstrate - applying such labels purely because they disagreed with me.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:13 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:So lefties only deal in extremes, and when people on the right do it that the lefties' fault.

I think you're prejudiced against black people (racist). I've explained and demonstrated exactly why i think you're prejudiced against black people by showing a pattern of you objecting to black people doing things that you are are OK with when white people do it. And how do you characterise that? Like this: "If you disagree with a protest in America by NFL players, you hate black people."

Until you face up to your own prejudices, and stop lying to yourself and others about being treated unfairly by people like me, you're never going to be among those who I and millions of other lefties respectfully disagree with. You'll continue to be treated with the disrespect and contempt of the average Britain First nutter.

My girlfriend at uni was black. It's funny, she never got the impression I hated her because of her skin colour. I did hate her for her scouse accent though.

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:26 pm

Imploding Turtle wrote:You provided examples of when i called people an idiot or stupid, but none of those times was because they disagreed with me. I can say this with certainty for two reasons, 1. I remember. And 2. you'll never find an example of me calling someone a racist or an idiot purely for disagreeing with me because that's never why i apply those labels. It's a favourite tactic of idiots to claim that it is, and I think we all know why.

I also never claimed that you said i call people racists or nazis incorrectly. I was saying you previously accused me of - and failed to demonstrate - applying such labels purely because they disagreed with me.

The fact that you believe you can justifiably call me a racist due to some mental gymnastics about me disliking a protest sort of makes you an idiot.

Bin Ont Turf · Post by **Bin Ont Turf** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:29 pm

ClaretMoffitt wrote:My girlfriend at uni was black.

So you aren't a racist then?

I've never had the opportunity to associate with black people due to where I live (which obviously makes me a racist).

ClaretMoffitt · Post by **ClaretMoffitt** » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:30 pm

Bin Ont Turf wrote:So you aren't a racist then?

I've never had the opportunity to associate with black people due to where I live (which obviously makes me a racist).

You saying you too rich to live with the downtrodden black folk? Wow racist.