Police told to empty crisps into plastic bags to avoid advertising rival brands at Olympics

[Lo Siento.]

Oh give over.

Why would you think otherwise? Cause I'm always starting shit with dozens of 6'4" built like brick shithouse types in full body armour, with truncheons and with zero accountability for any violence they inflict on me.

 

[Spymaster]

Then there's the list of 'banned' words. For real.. these words are actually BANNED from use during the games and protected by the law:

"gold", "silver" and "bronze", "summer", "sponsors" and "London" "2012" "medals"

That's right.... "London" is a banned word! Welcome to your games!

More...http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...brand-police-to-protect-sponsors-7945436.html

You missed-out the caveat and misrepresented the statement:

Olympics organisers have warned businesses that during London 2012 their advertising should not include a list of banned words, including "gold", "silver" and "bronze", "summer", "sponsors" and "London", if they give the impression of a formal connection to the Olympics.

Still fucking stupid though.

 

[Idaho]

i would say that a lot are prevented from the mere threat of retribution and more violence

..therefore nurses should be allowed to meet (mete?) out punishment beatings?

 

[ddraig]

..therefore nurses should be allowed to meet (mete?) out punishment beatings?

oh ffs, yes that's obviously what i meant!
come on...

 

[Pickman's model]

Medical staff, generally, see people at their best. They may be scared, vulnerable and in pain but they generally WANT your help and intervention and are grateful for your presence.

Police see the total opposite end of the spectrum. Their working lives deal with cunts. People who steal, attack, rape and abuse other people. They are treated with at best hostility, and often outright aggression and violence. Even from people they are trying to help e.g. drunk twats.

If you can't see that very obvious difference then your not thinking very hard.

and what reasons do you think lie behind this hostility to the police?

 

[ddraig]

and what reasons do you think lie behind this hostility to the police?

cos they iz from the "criminal classes" obviously gov

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Oh give over.

when they do...

 

[Pickman's model]

..therefore nurses should be allowed to meet (mete?) out punishment beatings?

They have thd option of more terminal solutiond

Dnr

 

[Pickman's model]

cos they iz from the "criminal classes" obviously gov

By criminal classes you mean 'not members of the police'

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

So is a cunt a bad thing?

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

in of itself no being one yes...

what are you proxy butchers today, captain obtuse??

 

[Blagsta]

They have thd option of more terminal solutiond

Dnr

That's not a nurses decision to make.

 

[ddraig]

By criminal classes you mean 'not members of the police'

and 'obviously not posh or connected'
easy to spot so we are!

 

[Pickman's model]

That's not a nurses decision to make.

Three letters added to notes...

 

[Pickman's model]

and 'obviously not posh or connected'
easy to spot so we are!

Yeh you're not in uniform

 

[Blagsta]

Three letters added to notes...

Three more letters - NMC, with the words "fitness to practice panel" appended.

 

[Spymaster]

most people think certain criminals should be hung. agree with that too?

Yes.

 

[GarfieldLeChat]

Yes I do see the difference. And tbh the way police act as the states security and aggressors on protests is them at their worse and I'm not defending that.

can you point to when they are not state security... (hint: this never happens).

 

[Pickman's model]

Three more letters - NMC, with the words "fitness to practice panel" appended.

If only the police were so accountable

 

[Idaho]

Three more letters - NMC, with the words "fitness to practice panel" appended.

My first job in London was for the GMC Fitness to Practice section. 6 months of playing solitaire and doing a few photocopies once or twice a week [/derail]

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Bats are a protected species too, so I don't see why they're banned. What did the bats ever do to them? Although they may be concerned about bats' radar capacity interfering with the effectiveness of the ground to air missile capabilities, I suppose.

All animals are banned. How that affects the rats that run the private security operation is yet to be seen.

 

[Blagsta]

If only the police were so accountable

Indeed.

 

[Idaho]

oh ffs, yes that's obviously what i meant!
come on...

I don't know what you meant, I was groping for some possibility based on your confusing posts. Feel free to clarify at your convienience.

 

[dylanredefined]

Three letters added to notes...

D.N.R. do not resuscitate orders cannot be applied as either a punishment or just because you don't like someone.I know I may have suggested such things in the past.

 

[dylanredefined]

Mental health nurses are allowed to give people substances that they know may well cause them permanent brain damage by force.

Normally as their is not much alternative. If sitting down and talking was all someone in the grip of psychosis needed everyone would be much happier.

 

[Edie]

D.N.R. do not resuscitate orders cannot be applied as either a punishment or just because you don't like someone.I know I may have suggested such things in the past.

The stuff that's been said about DNRs on this thread by Pickmans is unbelievably ignorant and stupid. Was it a joke?

 

[ViolentPanda]

So because you personally have no experience of the police having a useful function you conclude they are pointless. Fantastic.

Policing per se isn't pointless, it's a necessary social function, but what are police forces/police services for? They used to at least show willing in terms of preventing crime, but nowadays? Crime in poorer areas is pretty much unchecked. You'll get a visit, some security advice, and a crime number if you're insured, and that's it. The police forces have pretty much ceded any role in tackling anti-social behaviour to local authorities, and a lot of them just go through the motions of engaging in stuff like Community Safety partnerships.
Most of the stuff you mention the OB doing is stuff that was done, usually more effectively, by town constabularies, where the local coppers were either elected, or they were appointed by the local authority. They were more effective because they knew the people they were policing, and could use community shaming as an effective tool to minimise or stop DV, theft and drunken disorder, and while they were committed to "upholding the law of the land", they weren't at the beck and call of Whitehall. How smoothly do you think your local policing is going to run when 30% of the coppers in your area are seconded to the Met for the duration of the Olympics?

 

[dylanredefined]

The stuff that's been said about DNRs on this thread by Pickmans is unbelievably ignorant and stupid. Was it a joke?

Yes black humour of the darkest kind

 

[Edie]

Yes black humour of the darkest kind

Oh ok, fair enough!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Just this morning there was a crash between a bus and a car outside Leeds bus station. The police were there dealing the traffic, so the paramedics could do their job You are telling me that is a pointless function? Your just talking rubbish.

You're mistaking policing functions for the police as an institution.

 

[Edie]

Policing per se isn't pointless, it's a necessary social function, but what are police forces/police services for? They used to at least show willing in terms of preventing crime, but nowadays? Crime in poorer areas is pretty much unchecked. You'll get a visit, some security advice, and a crime number if you're insured, and that's it. The police forces have pretty much ceded any role in tackling anti-social behaviour to local authorities, and a lot of them just go through the motions of engaging in stuff like Community Safety partnerships.
Most of the stuff you mention the OB doing is stuff that was done, usually more effectively, by town constabularies, where the local coppers were either elected, or they were appointed by the local authority. They were more effective because they knew the people they were policing, and could use community shaming as an effective tool to minimise or stop DV, theft and drunken disorder, and while they were committed to "upholding the law of the land", they weren't at the beck and call of Whitehall. How smoothly do you think your local policing is going to run when 30% of the coppers in your area are seconded to the Met for the duration of the Olympics?

I don't understand the difference between a constabulary and a police force? I thought constable was just the official term for a copper?

The days when coppers know most or even many members of the local community are long gone, if they ever existed. And what is 'community shaming' and surely that's what West Yorkshire police are doing by flyering the local community with working girls faces if they breech an asbo. I'm not generally into that, I think it's out of order and an abuse of their power to be honest.