Extinction Rebellion

[not-bono-ever]

Winners of the hotly-contested worst police force in the UK award 39 years on the bounce.

I might be wrong and they may indeed be met but the brogue was incongruous to the location. Also they are all wearing generic police baseball caps rather than the met or city fedoras.


Maybe they should wear the bb cap with the peak to the side to get the flavor flav vibe going and get down with the kids

 

[SpookyFrank]

London Bridge has about 35 coppers along its length this morning- there’s a red badger ordering them about but the shock troops are not badged as met - South Yorkshire by the accents. Also this seasons on trend fashion item is the good old NI troubles glove. Not seen these for a long time

If you're referring to sap gloves, they count as unauthorised weapons for UK police. Oddly enough though, they've turned out to be mere 'padded gloves' every time plods have been spotted wearing them in recent years. I've had one of these padded gloves in my kidneys more than once and I can confirm that the padding is extremely ineffective

 

[Pickman's model]

I might be wrong and they may indeed be met but the brogue was incongruous to the location. Also they are all wearing generic police baseball caps rather than the met or city fedoras.

never seen a cop in a fedora

 

[Pickman's model]

If you're referring to sap gloves, they count as unauthorised weapons for UK police. Oddly enough though, they've turned out to be mere 'padded gloves' every time plods have been spotted wearing them in recent years. I've had one of these padded gloves in my kidneys more than once and I can confirm that the padding is extremely ineffective

the trick is to avoid being punched in the kidneys

 

[YouSir]

London Bridge has about 35 coppers along its length this morning- there’s a red badger ordering them about but the shock troops are not badged as met - South Yorkshire by the accents. Also this seasons on trend fashion item is the good old NI troubles glove. Not seen these for a long time

Waterloo had Staffordshire police yesterday. Lots of festive overtime for sitting in vans in the rain.

 

[SpookyFrank]

the trick is to avoid being punched in the kidneys

Easier said than done when you've got another copper holding both your arms.

The old kidney jab, like the 'quick grope of a female protestor's arse', has the public relations advantage of being invisible to cameras in a close-quarters public order situation.

 

[not-bono-ever]

the trick is to avoid being punched in the kidneys

Never get close enough to be in a grapple scenario with a copper- they are usually better at it than citizens as we generally err on the side of caution because authority, whereas they don’t care

 

[Pickman's model]

Easier said than done when you've got another copper holding both your arms.

The old kidney jab, like the 'quick grope of a female protestor's arse', has the public relations advantage of being invisible to cameras in a close-quarters public order situation.

i think you need to work on your 'not having my arms held by the cops' skills

 

[not-bono-ever]

I am supposed to be getting more right wing as I get older, now I am channeling the miners strike again. Fuckibg hell

 

[SpookyFrank]

i think you need to work on your 'not having my arms held by the cops' skills

Meh. If it takes three of them to get in one good punch then I reckon I'm winning tbh.

 

[Pickman's model]

Meh. If it takes three of them to get in one good punch then I reckon I'm winning tbh.

how many of their kidneys have you punched?

 

[SpookyFrank]

how many of their kidneys have you punched?

Nil. It's a coward's blow that.

 

[Pickman's model]

Nil. It's a coward's blow that.

be that as it may, at the moment it's about 3-0 to them

 

[Spymaster]

Nil. It's a coward's blow that.

All's fair in love and public order violations.

 

[Pickman's model]

All's fair in love and public order violations.

like luring cop vans into housing estates and then setting on them with missiles

 

[Gramsci]

The XR boat on Thames this morning

 

[Marty1]

The XR boat on Thames this morningView attachment 187431 View attachment 187432

Looks like a sunny pleasant morning there, absolutely chucking it down where I am.

 

[Gramsci]

Looks like a sunny pleasant morning there, absolutely chucking it down where I am.

Sunny by Lambeth bridge.

 

[Pickman's model]

the mail on the ball as ever here

Police Scotland prank their Met colleagues by plastering STICKERS onto their vans | Daily Mail Online
those are plainly city of london cops in the picture

 

[FridgeMagnet]

At Oxford Circus rn - a big wooden thing with people on it being removed with a cherry picker, and some folk on the ground. Also quite a few XR walking around the edge in circles.



ETA: wooden thing now down, still loads of cops round the junction.

 

[Libertad]

If Stinky Rebellion are walking round the edge then should plod wish to arrest them then would they use s12 or s14? Asking for a friend.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Someone just announced an action going on on Whitehall now. Might as well head down I suppose.

 

[Marty1]

At Oxford Circus rn - a big wooden thing with people on it being removed with a cherry picker, and some folk on the ground. Also quite a few XR walking around the edge in circles.

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ETA: wooden thing now down, still loads of cops round the junction.

Dailymail referring to it as a pyramid structure.

Extinction Rebellion occupy Oxford Street in latest stunt | Daily Mail Online

 

[editor]

Someone just announced an action going on on Whitehall now. Might as well head down I suppose.

Take pics!

 

[editor]

If Stinky Rebellion are walking round the edge then should plod wish to arrest them then would they use s12 or s14? Asking for a friend.

"Stinky Rebellion"?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Dailymail referring to it as a pyramid structure.

Extinction Rebellion occupy Oxford Street in latest stunt | Daily Mail Online

Tetrahedral, not pyramidal the quality of journalism these days

 

[Libertad]

"Stinky Rebellion"?

That's what our little boy calls them.

 

[andysays]

"Stinky Rebellion"?

It sounds like an affectionate diminutive to me

 

[editor]

It sounds like an affectionate diminutive to me

OK Stinky Andy.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Take pics!

I'm shooting film today (EASTMAN DOUBLE-X Black & White Negative Film 5222/7222 | Motion Picture Film for the record) but I will get some on my phone as well.