Illegal to photograph a police officer now? - Page 5

Westy · 17th February 2009, 9:13pm

Its not bigoted.

I want it in my sig. So its in my sig.

I might change it from time to time and see if anyone can notice eh?

crazydiamond85 · 18th February 2009, 12:19am

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Originally Posted by Westy

Its not bigoted.

I want it in my sig. So its in my sig.

you listen to alot of thornlie boys do you?

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Originally Posted by Westy

I might change it from time to time and see if anyone can notice eh?

what next lines from the sash?
famine song perhaps?

*Potatojunkie* · 18th February 2009, 12:31am

Drop.

This.

Pish.

endless psych · 18th February 2009, 12:33am

Sheep shagging bastard, I'm just a sheep shagging bastard...

Makes about as much sense as the rest of this pish.

**djtoast** · 18th February 2009, 12:38am

[vaguely related]

last time i was in new york we drove along next to the river in a cab at one point, and someone had left an aircraft carrier parked there. if you haven't seen one in real life, they're really, REALLY big - like hugely so, and therefore cool to an overgrown 12 year old boy like me. so i was trying to take pictures of it from the back of the cab as we passed.

spotting this, and trying to be helpful the driver said in whatever accent he had "i pool over aand yoo can shooot better"

so true to his word he swerved in next to the 6,000 US military personal and shouted "QUEEK, SHOOT! SHOOT" to me.

fair to say i cacked it a bit.

[/vaguely relevant]

erithromycin · 18th February 2009, 3:16am

The USS Intrepid? It's actually quite small for an aircraft carrier, at least in comparison to modern ones, but given how grotesquely disproportionate you are to human normal as an adult, I imagine that as a youngling you were probably of negative height, or something. You'd have been fine! I mean, the notion that foreign terrorists would attack a New York landmark is ludicrous.

**djtoast** · 18th February 2009, 3:40am

not sure if it was that one i noticed, it was memorial day weekend when apparently half a dozen ships stop by for the craic.

an order of magnitude bigger than anything i'd ever seen floating before, anyhow!

AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS · 18th February 2009, 9:43am

Crazydiamond85 - Got to say mate, you've taken this far too far. The song's a pile of shite in my book obviously

but Westy's sig's ok as it is.

...And mines is out of a 'rebel song'...but then again so is anyones sig that quotes Rage Against the Machine or the Flower of Scotland.

BACK ON TOPIC LADS.

This seems like another one of these laws they try and introduce without really thinking about it. Edging precariously close to an all out fascist police state. I'm telling you, it won't be long till we are all fitted with trackers & ID cards.

Semprini · 18th February 2009, 10:06am

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Originally Posted by AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS

This seems like another one of these laws they try and introduce without really thinking about it.

A lot of these recent laws have a similar problem - they can be useful, if only they were drafted properly, and had a consultation process that took account of valid objections and amended it accordingly so that the innocents didn't have their civil liberties eroded.

Of course, that would rely on a government that listened to the people and didn't just brush objections aside with the cry of 'Zomg! Terrorism!', so good luck with that happening this side of doomsday.

AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS · 18th February 2009, 10:14am

This is the thing though G, have they thought about it?
I can't decide. It certainly seems not to the outside world, but...have they?
Because it is useful for them (i.e. threatening protesters with arrest...making less people question the polices actions for fear of arrest etc). It's another threatening 'section' for these bastards (as if they didn't have enough already).

It's such a wild and unthought through law to introduce it makes me think that folk 'supposedly' as learn-ed as these law lords in parliment etc MUST have seen its obvious flaws and can only fathom it is/was brought in to have more control over the people and to take another step towards a police state.

Fucking Labour. Not so 'for the people' now eh?

Semprini · 18th February 2009, 10:32am

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Originally Posted by AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS

It's such a wild and unthought through law to introduce it makes me think that folk 'supposedly' as learn-ed as these law lords in parliment etc MUST have seen its obvious flaws and can only fathom it is/was brought in to have more control over the people and to take another step towards a police state.

It's something I've often wondered about Orwell, and if he's partially to blame for (unintentionally) planting the seed.

I'm about 50/50 between whether 1984 was just very prescient, or if the powers-that-be read it and thought "Here, reckon we could actually get away with that?"

crazydiamond85 · 18th February 2009, 2:56pm

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Originally Posted by AWESOMEUS MAXIMUS

Crazydiamond85 - Got to say mate, you've taken this far too far. The song's a pile of shite in my book obviously

but Westy's sig's ok as it is.

...And mines is out of a 'rebel song'...but then again so is anyones sig that quotes Rage Against the Machine or the Flower of Scotland.

I get bored and Westy is usually an easy guy to wind up
didn't bite as much as I'd hoped this time

Westy · 18th February 2009, 2:57pm

Hahaha. Keep believing.

crazydiamond85 · 18th February 2009, 3:01pm

I'll get you next time m8

Old Man · 18th February 2009, 3:39pm

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Originally Posted by Semprini

Of course, that would rely on a government that listened to the people and didn't just brush objections aside with the cry of 'Zomg! Terrorism!', so good luck with that happening this side of doomsday.

I eagerly await the day I hear Gordon Brown say "Zomg!".
Omm