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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Jose posted:

boris is going to come and personally break your legs when he's made PM

Nah me and Boris are big mates, I once cleared his plate away for him when he was working at the Telegraph. I've hedged my bets so I'm known to the Tories as One Of The Good Ones.

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Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Nah me and Boris are big mates, I once cleared his plate away for him when he was working at the Telegraph. I've hedged my bets so I'm known to the Tories as One Of The Good Ones.

you ruined a perfect :69snypa:

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Tesseraction posted:

you ruined a perfect :69snypa:

In the old threads it was subversive because they were banned and so I sniped (and with a drat sight more effort than you young whippersnappers), now they're expected I choose not to do so. I'm the wind, baby.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
i do not think I would like to 69 with boris johnson

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

is there a number that represents me headbutting him in the dick while making GBS threads on his face?

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

Tesseraction posted:

is there a number that represents me headbutting him in the dick while making GBS threads on his face?

That's the Rusty Venture.

ShaneMacGowansTeeth
May 22, 2007



I think this is it... I think this is how it ends

Oberleutnant posted:

Thames Valley just last weekend found the resources to send half a dozen riot vans full of filth and a handful of mounted officers to Portsmouth to intimidate and harass an anti-racism demonstration in Guildhall Square, so they can't be that desperate for cash.

that's because Hampshire doesn't have the cash, manpower or resources to police it themselves. The TVP are here tonight to police the P-mouth League 2 derby, as they have been for every Pompey home game

Dr. Cool Aids
Jul 6, 2009
Luckily I get a weekly view of what my police force does with the always cheerful 24 Hours in Police Custody.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
the police publish all arrests/outcomes/stop and search data if anyone wants to have a look https://data.police.uk/data/ goes down to exactly where the crime/stop and search occured

the stop and search data includes ethnicity

serious gaylord
Sep 16, 2007

what.
Incase anyone missed this little ditty in the new white paper, anyone owning a mobile phone that has access to the apple/google play store will have to in practice have a tv licence just to stop the goons from turning up at your door every other day as proving you havent got the iplayer app will be impossible remotely.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

serious gaylord posted:

Incase anyone missed this little ditty in the new white paper, anyone owning a mobile phone that has access to the apple/google play store will have to in practice have a tv licence just to stop the goons from turning up at your door every other day as proving you havent got the iplayer app will be impossible remotely.

Another fine example of the kind of government competence on which we must rely on in order to keep having a strong economy.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Megaspel posted:

Are the police decent anywhere in England?....
I've never had or heard a positive story about the police in England.

The police are poo poo in southend, but a few years back on xmas eve there was a violent domestic outside and I got the camera out and got closeups of an abusive prick slapping his partner. I give a statement and video to the cops. 6-8 months later I get a letter from the criminal justice system saying he got a 6 month community order with supervision requirement and a small fine. Not much, but the partner was unwilling to press charges for the bits that didn't make it on camera.

I have also dealt with them multiple times when dragging cctv footage off systems I helped install- the vast majority of the beat cops seemed to be utterly average at best ("so these were recording at the same time?" while looking at the same footage from 4 angles), but one detective seemed really, really loving sharp.


My dad was a cop for 13 years in west yorkshire police, and got out eventually for a large part because of how the force was corrupt to the core, but he also explained it that for the most part, every day, in and out, he constantly got to see the worst in people. Sometimes he also got to see the best, but by and large it was all poo poo and misery, and that twists people up over time.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

DesperateDan posted:

The police are poo poo in southend, but a few years back on xmas eve there was a violent domestic outside and I got the camera out and got closeups of an abusive prick slapping his partner. I give a statement and video to the cops. 6-8 months later I get a letter from the criminal justice system saying he got a 6 month community order with supervision requirement and a small fine. Not much, but the partner was unwilling to press charges for the bits that didn't make it on camera.

I have also dealt with them multiple times when dragging cctv footage off systems I helped install- the vast majority of the beat cops seemed to be utterly average at best ("so these were recording at the same time?" while looking at the same footage from 4 angles), but one detective seemed really, really loving sharp.


My dad was a cop for 13 years in west yorkshire police, and got out eventually for a large part because of how the force was corrupt to the core, but he also explained it that for the most part, every day, in and out, he constantly got to see the worst in people. Sometimes he also got to see the best, but by and large it was all poo poo and misery, and that twists people up over time.

Man, why is it always the Yorkshire police?

StoneOfShame
Jul 28, 2013

This is the best kitchen ever.

serious gaylord posted:

Incase anyone missed this little ditty in the new white paper, anyone owning a mobile phone that has access to the apple/google play store will have to in practice have a tv licence just to stop the goons from turning up at your door every other day as proving you havent got the iplayer app will be impossible remotely.

Not paying a TV license and getting away with it is really loving easy, you wont have to pay one, you may be meant to but you wont have to.

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

Darth Walrus posted:

Man, why is it always the Yorkshire police?
It's not always. The Leicestershire police got done a while back for confiscating large amounts of cannabis from mid-level dealers, sending off bales of shredded paper in secure bags off to be burned, selling the weed back to slightly higher level suppliers, and repeating as it made its way down. Also playing poker in a van while someone was bleeding on the floor not 10 yards away.

And then there's the Met...

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010

Pay your license

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Namtab posted:

Pay your license

What if I don't have (or watch online) TV?

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.

Darth Walrus posted:

Man, why is it always the Yorkshire police?

I need to get stuck into a bottle of scotch with him about some of the corruption he hinted at. He was involved during the very early miners strike stuff, but as soon as it started becoming a big thing any "local" cops were kept away from contact with miners because for many of them they were friends and relatives. He maintains he saw no serving troops deployed, but a lot of the specialist riot cops they had were normally ex forces.

Malcolm XML
Aug 8, 2009

I always knew it would end like this.

Private Speech posted:

What if I don't have (or watch online) TV?

If you don't watch tv live online or not you are not required.to have a license

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
I am spending the night in Mayfair and its full of absolute wankers

StoneOfShame
Jul 28, 2013

This is the best kitchen ever.

Malcolm XML posted:

If you don't watch tv live online or not you are not required.to have a license

Not for long!!!!

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

JFairfax posted:

I am spending the night in Mayfair and its full of absolute wankers

Well it is now, yes. Did you get the last room?

Private Speech
Mar 30, 2011

I HAVE EVEN MORE WORTHLESS BEANIE BABIES IN MY COLLECTION THAN I HAVE WORTHLESS POSTS IN THE BEANIE BABY THREAD YET I STILL HAVE THE TEMERITY TO CRITICIZE OTHERS' COLLECTIONS

IF YOU SEE ME TALKING ABOUT BEANIE BABIES, PLEASE TELL ME TO

EAT. SHIT.


Malcolm XML posted:

If you don't watch tv live online or not you are not required.to have a license

I thought that was the point. Although TBH I wouldn't mind if the TV license was paid from taxes, as long as it kept being independent anyway.

Alan BStard
Oct 25, 2003

Izzy wizzy, let's get Byzzy!

JFairfax posted:

I am spending the night in Mayfair and its full of absolute wankers

Go directly to jail, to not pass go, do not collect £200.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
I've got a TV license I think it's great value.

StoneOfShame
Jul 28, 2013

This is the best kitchen ever.
I said Wales was good earlier because of the Manics, having heard their European Cup anthem for Wales I take it back and hope all the Welsh goons here are ashamed.

Pissflaps posted:

I've got a TV license I think it's great value.
I agree and despite what I said I do pay mine, I just didn't as a student but then I didn't have a TV, they did knock asking to check if there was a TV once I told them they weren't coming in and they left.

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

Malcolm XML posted:

If you don't watch tv live online or not you are not required.to have a license

one of the proposed changes is to make all iplayer use fee-dependent

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Well it is now, yes. Did you get the last room?

close enough for :supaburn:

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

Pissflaps posted:

I've got a TV license I think it's great value.

I.... agree with... Pissflaps.

This is probably bad for Corbyn.

dispatch_async
Nov 28, 2014

Imagine having the time to have played through 20 generations of one family in The Sims 2. Imagine making the original two members of that family Neil Buchanan and Cat Deeley. Imagine complaining to Maxis there was no technological progression. You've successfully imagined my life

Guavanaut posted:

It's not always. The Leicestershire police got done a while back for confiscating large amounts of cannabis from mid-level dealers, sending off bales of shredded paper in secure bags off to be burned, selling the weed back to slightly higher level suppliers, and repeating as it made its way down. Also playing poker in a van while someone was bleeding on the floor not 10 yards away.

And then there's the Met...

Don't forget the West Midlands police.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

Are they the ones who helped Jimmy Savile be a massive nonce

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

I was not pleased with the performance of the police in Birmingham during my years there

the lowlight was when my best mate (who's black) was handing out anti-BNP leaflets in the city centre and got hassled by the police because an old lady (white) reported him for intimidation of civilians

StoneOfShame
Jul 28, 2013

This is the best kitchen ever.

Tesseraction posted:

I was not pleased with the performance of the police in Birmingham during my years there

the lowlight was when my best mate (who's black) was handing out anti-BNP leaflets in the city centre and got hassled by the police because an old lady (white) reported him for intimidation of civilians

I think its pretty obvious what your mate did wrong there. When I was like 16 and used to spend Saturdays hanging around by Birmingham central library the police would regularly show up search everybody there and then demand they not be seen in the area for another 24 hours, they of course never followed through with anything as it would be too much effort but having you lump of hash confiscated was a nuisance and I'm sure there was something better for them to be doing. It did teach me a knowledge of where to keep your drugs on your person that I still use today though.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
the last time i saw northumbria police in the news it was because they dispatched a helicopter and armed response squad to shoot a cow that had escaped its field onto the coast road

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal
Was it a brown cow?

General China
Aug 19, 2012

by Smythe

StoneOfShame posted:

The Welsh are good because they gave us the Manics who made one of the best albums of all time with The Holy Bible.

Edit:Wait where did General China's post about the Welsh go?

I slagged of the Welsh Miners for their absence at Orgreave.

Which was a bit rich seeing as I was 14 years old at the time and didn't bother turning up either.

But I'm fine with the Welsh, it's those Notinghamshire Democractic Union of Scabs that still bother me.

The Welsh are fine, if absent, it's those cunts from Nottinghamshire that get me.

The scabs.

I've never liked that town. It's full of cunts.

StoneOfShame
Jul 28, 2013

This is the best kitchen ever.

General China posted:

I slagged of the Welsh Miners for their absence at Orgreave.

Which was a bit rich seeing as I was 14 years old at the time and didn't bother turning up either.

But I'm fine with the Welsh, it's those Notinghamshire Democractic Union of Scabs that still bother me.

The Welsh are fine, if absent, it's those cunts from Nottinghamshire that get me.

The scabs.

I've never liked that town. It's full of cunts.

Sleaford Mods are cool and good (yes I am aware that once again I'm just mentioning musicians I like from those towns as if that makes up for scabbing).

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

StoneOfShame posted:

I think its pretty obvious what your mate did wrong there. When I was like 16 and used to spend Saturdays hanging around by Birmingham central library the police would regularly show up search everybody there and then demand they not be seen in the area for another 24 hours, they of course never followed through with anything as it would be too much effort but having you lump of hash confiscated was a nuisance and I'm sure there was something better for them to be doing. It did teach me a knowledge of where to keep your drugs on your person that I still use today though.

is this just an overly long "black people are addicts" joke

General China
Aug 19, 2012

by Smythe

StoneOfShame posted:

Sleaford Mods are cool and good (yes I am aware that once again I'm just mentioning musicians I like from those towns as if that makes up for scabbing).

Nice socio-geographical analysis, why not take up art criticism and tell us about the good qualities of Rolf Harrises later works?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

General China posted:

tell us about the good qualities of Rolf Harrises later works?

they're made behind bars

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XMNN
Apr 26, 2008
I am incredibly stupid

StoneOfShame posted:

I think its pretty obvious what your mate did wrong there. When I was like 16 and used to spend Saturdays hanging around by Birmingham central library the police would regularly show up search everybody there and then demand they not be seen in the area for another 24 hours, they of course never followed through with anything as it would be too much effort but having you lump of hash confiscated was a nuisance and I'm sure there was something better for them to be doing. It did teach me a knowledge of where to keep your drugs on your person that I still use today though.

is it your underpants

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