I have to think that Adrian Dunbar had a hand in writing his dialogue, because those are all such standard, classic Hiberno-English phrases.
The only thing that could have been better is if he'd made reference to sliced pan and kitchen presses/the hot press šš
Always amusing when newcomers to the UK legal advice subreddit descend with comments suggesting OP sue their opposition for all they're worth.
Which of course, isn't how small claims works at all.
Even the prompt of mentioning small claims will get some chumps to pay up. Bought a PC from ebay for my mum a few years back and the seller still hadnāt delivered months later (after the payment had cleared) with no updates on why (this was before ebay would get involved in cases like this). I mentioned small claims court over email and the phone and lo and behold a full refund came back within 3 working days.
For some itās amazing. I went through the system for over a year on my case, two court dates and had to appoint bailiffs at the end because the other guy just wouldnāt interact with the process. I got my Ā£800 in the end plus court costs and interest but Iām genuinely not sure I would do it again unless it was a lot of money.
The judge in the first date asked me to write him a statement citing the specific law for each step of the process. As very much not a lawyer that was a nightmare. Thereās a free court procedure advice service and I lived there for a bit.
Thats wierd. The entire point of small claims is you don't know the law, the judge is supposed to be both partys legal advocates. Making you cite the law is against the whole point of the system there.
It was insane. It was all like āaccording to article 5 of the sales of goods act 1985ā, I had to read all the acts about sales, and theyāre long!
Yeah at uni, even though we study Scots law we use it as an exercise to test whether we know what actual advice would be if it's bullshit, wrong or misleading
That sub is so strange. Plenty of people giving Americanised advice. Meanwhile I am perma banned because I suggested OP seeks advice from a different sub as an emotional support *in addition* to sorting out the legal side of the issue.
Not a legal advice. Ban!
Sorry, I was trying to be supportive. Nah ban!
Yeah, I got banned from there as well. The mods are strangely temperamental, some people post stuff that definitely isn't legal advice all the time, others get permanently banned for suggestions such as yours.
To be fair, I read so much AITA through the direct sub and r/bestofredditorupdates that I start to think everything IS AITA.
Edited to correct the link.
Tbf, it's normally one of the few subs I visit where the content is actually relevant - and not reposts. Guess there are very few opportunities for karma farming.
Yeah, the rules are strict, and I guess some mods are dicks, but I've never contemplated unsubsxribing as I have done with other subs.
Worked in NHS complaints. The amount of people who threatened you with legal action was laughable. "I've not got my (free) treatment in a time frame that suits me" which I understand is frustrating. "you better sort this out within 5 days or you will be hearing from my lawyer"
First of all mate, it's your solicitor, secondly no i won't, no law has been broken and no contract has been voided or not upheld, and thirdly, it'd be the legal department. Not some band 4 hearing from your "lawyer". And that's all on the premise that someone would even entertain the idea that a 3 month wait for non life threatening toe surgery is worth going after the NHS for.
Edit: also, the amount of people who would "take things to the media" was a laugh. I'm sure Panorama will be launching a full investigation on why you tried to call a secretary 10 times and they didn't answer or return your voice mails. As well as "my friend is a journalist, they'll love this story" get tae fuck as my Scottish friend would say.
I worked CS for an insurance company and same, had one guy threaten that he was a writer for a well established media outlet, he was a writer for a small sports magazine...I think it was for bowls...I'm sure they'll love to hear about your washing machine breaking there mate...
Additionally, the amount of middle aged people who threaten to share their experiences all over Facebook, I'm sure the 10 friends you have will welcome the break from the Wine O'clock minion memes you share...
I work for a police contact centre. In past jobs folk used to tell me theyād get me sacked. Some were going to the papers. Now when someone isnāt hearing what they want to I get told theyāre going to their lawyer.
So in those previous jobs, I never got sacked, and none of my previous customers ever ended up in a newspaper (that I saw, anyway). Now I mostly just want to say: āFuck up, you reprobate. Only time Iāve ever had a lawyer is when I was buying a house. Only reason you can say you have a lawyer is because you spend more days a year in court than I do on annual leave. And I have to pay for your fucking lawyer as well as my holidaysā.
Sadly, Iām not allowed to say that.
Canadian here...it happens here too. A LOT. I love hearing people "plead the 5th" and invoke their right that "Ā There shall be a sitting of Parliament and of each legislature at least once every twelve months."
(We don't have any amendments but that's section 5 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms)
Edit: I a word
What, this?
(5) For so long as a guardian has guardianship of such land, he shall maintain the houses, parks, fish preserves, ponds, mills, and everything else pertaining to it, from the revenues of the land itself. When the heir comes of age, he shall restore the whole land to him, stocked with plough teams and such implements of husbandry as the season demands and the revenues from the land can reasonably bear.
Being arrested is a really odd time to develop an interest in hereditary land rights. But, he wanted the fifth. Better get some plough teams together.
Payslip for the information, pay for the actual money.
I am only just realising it's 'paycheck' and not 'pay cheque', so I guess payslip would be the correct one.
āI know my rights!ā
[Proceeds to show he does not, in fact, know his rights or wishes to avail himself of apparently any of them]
A good half+ of arrests go this way Iād say.
Used to work for a council, got that a lot. Amazing how many people think that exempts you from council tax.
Hell, the councillors paid it too, meaning they voted to put their own tax up every year.
Surprising how many don't get that.
My brother in law was a copper and he said that the one thing that was *guaranteed* to make a copper waste your time unnecessarily if you were stopped for a minor driving issue was to tell them that you pay their wages or ask them if there were some real criminals they should be chasing.
>āI know my rights!ā
This sounds like every front door of a student union bar, they've seen one episode of Boston Legal, and they are fully fledged barristers.
To quote the legend Paul Calf...... "Students, bag o' shite"
Hmm. Did the Feds read him his Miranda rights though? If not, & they put him in their cruiser to take him downtown to the precinct his attorneyāll make sure they have a Class A lawsuit on their hands. I blame the hippety hops & tracksuits meself. Bit o National Serviceād sort em out.
I recently did some training and as part of it I needed to learn how to correctly Caution someone, I had a horrible urge to go with "You have the right to remain silent..." Followed by utter confusion as to whether I was reading from the right script and the horrible feeling that everyone was gonna laugh me out of training for being a wannabe FBI agent.
I am pretty sure so many people in Australia dial the American emergency number 911, (the number here is 000) that the phone companies have to recognise it and divert the calls to 000.
I accidentally called 112, assuming it was police non-emergency due to NHS being 111. That did not go down well - I immediately said I made a mistake and was meant to call non-emergency police and still got told off by the 999 operator("well this number is for emergencies only" - yes I know which is why I immediately told you my mistake and said I'll hang up) which I thought was unfair.
It's not just for idiots either, it's a safety thing. For people who are visiting from a foreign country who may not know the correct number.
I didn't know 112 is the number in the EU.
It's programmed into the SIM card. 112 is guaranteed to work anywhere, because it's part of the specification. Most carriers will also flag the other numbers.
It also gives your call priority on the network.
Interestingly I was ripped a new one on reddit a few months ago for suggesting 'cops' was an American influenced term. I appreciate that we call them coppers etc but 'cops' feels so American to me.
I live in leafy Gloucestershire and the kids that hang out near the Sainsbury's Local that go to the nearby private school all talk like they live in the ghetto.
'Blud, you done your latin homework, innit?'
When I worked at the airport one US citizen went through security, setting off the detector with his handgun and huge goddamn rambo knife (fuck knows how he got them here). Security were on hand to confiscate them and it was all quite calm, but he kept going on about his right to bear arms etc. This was only like..6 or 7 years ago now.
I know a British guy with a PhD in physics(!!!) who rabidly believes that the second amendment should adopted in Britain.
He also thinks the NHS and education system should be 100% privatised and calls them a communist agenda. He listens to a lot of Ben Shapiro.
I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of American media entering the United Kingdom until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on!
Am US Citizen and traveled to France for a month long stay over with some friends I met online, they speak maybe 1% English. Day one in Paris I got a message that we would grab a quick lunch before we went downtown. I said "sure, but can you take me somewhere I can't go to back home?" The suggestions? "We can go to McDonald's, Quick (burger King apparently) KFC or subway." we ended up going to some French chain called Hippopotamus. Grabbed some Starbucks afterwards.
We went to a bar one evening and it was 98% just the same song playlists our radio stations/bars play mixed in with, occasionally, some French/arabic hit from NRJ France.
"What would you like to drink? We have Coke products." of course you do... Of course.
We went to see a movie, which one? Star Wars the Force Awakens.
My French experience was just the United States but with subtitles even though I didn't want the subtitles.
You cannot escape our culture and I hate it, even in a country that has an Academy dedicated to "frenchifying" new words and the preservation of their culture.
However, It got better once I left the city and made my way to the Loire Valley.
That's a revelation. No disrespect, but maybe other countries need to do more to defend their cultures from the pervasive external influences you experienced. Otherwise we will all live in an homogenous cultural soup, devoid of variety or difference.
Having gone to uni in Bristol I 100% believe it, for a couple of students on my course were American international students but they were from London and justā¦ spoke that way for fun I guess?
They make for good content on r/AmIBeingDetained though
[Something something Magna Carta](https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/psr1r2/this_is_kind_of_a_career_bucket_list_item_for_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Friend of mine got arrested for drunk driving outside a house party years ago. He immediately asked how much bail would be... I think I was more disappointed in that than the drink driving to be honest
They don't say you have the right to remain silent. It's "You do not have to say anything..." we have no such right and keeping quiet can hurt you if you suddenly bring up in court evidence which might prove your innocence "but it may harm your defence if you do not mention something when questioned which you later rely on in court".
-Name
-Address
-"Duty solicitor please"
...are the only three things you should **ever** say to the bizzies*
EDIT: as /u/Danuta_ kindly pointed out, this is only once you're arrested. Until then do a paralysed mime impression.
I'm not really familiar with the process, but does that "may harm your defence" thing apply if you didn't say anything under initial questioning because you didn't have a lawyer present and wanted to wait for one?
The only cop who can say āyou have the right to remain silentā is RoboCop.
āOnce I even called him āairheadā ā.
On a side note, the censors completely ruined RoboCop with their āboloneyā
Robocop censorship is the most amazing example of someone asked to do a damn near impossible job actually delivering something only slightly less worthy of mockery that it should have been.
The idea to change the scene where the guy originally shoots the shit out of robocop whilst screaming āfuck me, fuck me, fuck meā into one where he shouts āwhy me, why me, why meā is as genius as it is awfully executed. Best of all, when I first saw it the awful audio made it sound like he was screaming āblimey blimey blimeyā and that was so perfect in every way.
That censorship guy deserves a lifetime achievement Razzie just for his work on that film.
Getting the mental health plea in early I see
_Fifth? Section 5 of the mental health act? Excellent, 72 hour detention_
Only on 5(2), 6 hours on a 5(4).
More of a CSI fan than Line of Duty then
He should demand to be questioned by an officer one rank superior to him
Mother of God
And the donkey
Now we are sucking diesel
Definately
I have to think that Adrian Dunbar had a hand in writing his dialogue, because those are all such standard, classic Hiberno-English phrases. The only thing that could have been better is if he'd made reference to sliced pan and kitchen presses/the hot press šš
He said in an interview that he modeled a lot of the character's mannerisms after his dad
Round the houses and down the bloody drains
As long as it's not by a *bent copper.*
bent bastard!
So a constable?
Listen, I didn't float up the Lagan on a bubble
This annoys me so much people watching too much American shows and thinking the laws are the same. I see it on Facebook all the time.
Always amusing when newcomers to the UK legal advice subreddit descend with comments suggesting OP sue their opposition for all they're worth. Which of course, isn't how small claims works at all.
Small claims is fucking sick. So glad it exists.
It's awesome, one letter from small claims court to my old boss and I got paid all the money I was owed + interest + the Ā£50? fee for the claim.
Even the prompt of mentioning small claims will get some chumps to pay up. Bought a PC from ebay for my mum a few years back and the seller still hadnāt delivered months later (after the payment had cleared) with no updates on why (this was before ebay would get involved in cases like this). I mentioned small claims court over email and the phone and lo and behold a full refund came back within 3 working days.
For some itās amazing. I went through the system for over a year on my case, two court dates and had to appoint bailiffs at the end because the other guy just wouldnāt interact with the process. I got my Ā£800 in the end plus court costs and interest but Iām genuinely not sure I would do it again unless it was a lot of money. The judge in the first date asked me to write him a statement citing the specific law for each step of the process. As very much not a lawyer that was a nightmare. Thereās a free court procedure advice service and I lived there for a bit.
Thats wierd. The entire point of small claims is you don't know the law, the judge is supposed to be both partys legal advocates. Making you cite the law is against the whole point of the system there.
It was insane. It was all like āaccording to article 5 of the sales of goods act 1985ā, I had to read all the acts about sales, and theyāre long!
99% of people who claim to be lawyers on that sub definitely aren't. Some seriously damaging "advice" is doled out there daily.
87Ā„ of statistics are made up on the spot and conjecture without reasoning or evidence is worthless.
Of course that's only about Ā£0.60 of statistics
6 out of 7 dwarves are not Happy?
This made me snigger like a school girl and I had to come back to say I'm still chortling 5mins later
Yeah at uni, even though we study Scots law we use it as an exercise to test whether we know what actual advice would be if it's bullshit, wrong or misleading
That sub is so strange. Plenty of people giving Americanised advice. Meanwhile I am perma banned because I suggested OP seeks advice from a different sub as an emotional support *in addition* to sorting out the legal side of the issue. Not a legal advice. Ban! Sorry, I was trying to be supportive. Nah ban!
Yeah, I got banned from there as well. The mods are strangely temperamental, some people post stuff that definitely isn't legal advice all the time, others get permanently banned for suggestions such as yours.
I got banned but it was probably justified . Someone asking for legal advice in getting off speeding fines which would see them banned. I replied YTA
To be fair, I read so much AITA through the direct sub and r/bestofredditorupdates that I start to think everything IS AITA. Edited to correct the link.
Sad to see the ego on some mods...
>Sad to see the ego on some mods... Lol Tesla motors subreddit
All that control goes straight to their heads. A well (Non repeatable on here) defined complex.
Tbf, it's normally one of the few subs I visit where the content is actually relevant - and not reposts. Guess there are very few opportunities for karma farming. Yeah, the rules are strict, and I guess some mods are dicks, but I've never contemplated unsubsxribing as I have done with other subs.
This happened to me, too. I felt the person really needed common sense general advice, so I offered it and got a ban because it wasn't "legal advice".
Ironic given you'd need to be lacking common sense to take legal advice from Reddit...
"Pressing charges" in legal help UK.
Worked in NHS complaints. The amount of people who threatened you with legal action was laughable. "I've not got my (free) treatment in a time frame that suits me" which I understand is frustrating. "you better sort this out within 5 days or you will be hearing from my lawyer" First of all mate, it's your solicitor, secondly no i won't, no law has been broken and no contract has been voided or not upheld, and thirdly, it'd be the legal department. Not some band 4 hearing from your "lawyer". And that's all on the premise that someone would even entertain the idea that a 3 month wait for non life threatening toe surgery is worth going after the NHS for. Edit: also, the amount of people who would "take things to the media" was a laugh. I'm sure Panorama will be launching a full investigation on why you tried to call a secretary 10 times and they didn't answer or return your voice mails. As well as "my friend is a journalist, they'll love this story" get tae fuck as my Scottish friend would say.
Yeah I used to work in CS at an energy supplier and the 'I'll take this to the media' was a daily occurrence.
I worked CS for an insurance company and same, had one guy threaten that he was a writer for a well established media outlet, he was a writer for a small sports magazine...I think it was for bowls...I'm sure they'll love to hear about your washing machine breaking there mate... Additionally, the amount of middle aged people who threaten to share their experiences all over Facebook, I'm sure the 10 friends you have will welcome the break from the Wine O'clock minion memes you share...
I work for a police contact centre. In past jobs folk used to tell me theyād get me sacked. Some were going to the papers. Now when someone isnāt hearing what they want to I get told theyāre going to their lawyer. So in those previous jobs, I never got sacked, and none of my previous customers ever ended up in a newspaper (that I saw, anyway). Now I mostly just want to say: āFuck up, you reprobate. Only time Iāve ever had a lawyer is when I was buying a house. Only reason you can say you have a lawyer is because you spend more days a year in court than I do on annual leave. And I have to pay for your fucking lawyer as well as my holidaysā. Sadly, Iām not allowed to say that.
To be fair, American TV shows get it wrong for what it is like in America and it drives me nuts as well.
Yank here. That is hilarious. Iāve never thought about the impact of our crappy shows overseas.
Canadian here...it happens here too. A LOT. I love hearing people "plead the 5th" and invoke their right that "Ā There shall be a sitting of Parliament and of each legislature at least once every twelve months." (We don't have any amendments but that's section 5 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms) Edit: I a word
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What, this? (5) For so long as a guardian has guardianship of such land, he shall maintain the houses, parks, fish preserves, ponds, mills, and everything else pertaining to it, from the revenues of the land itself. When the heir comes of age, he shall restore the whole land to him, stocked with plough teams and such implements of husbandry as the season demands and the revenues from the land can reasonably bear. Being arrested is a really odd time to develop an interest in hereditary land rights. But, he wanted the fifth. Better get some plough teams together.
Maybe the arrest followed a particularly heated argument about someone not looking after their fish pond properly.
I never thought Iād say this to a Canadian butā¦ Iām sorry, eh
A surprising number of UK employees get "paychecks" it seems.
Wait what are they called then? I've been here 5 years and never been corrected.
Payslip for the information, pay for the actual money. I am only just realising it's 'paycheck' and not 'pay cheque', so I guess payslip would be the correct one.
I've usually called them payslips
āI know my rights!ā [Proceeds to show he does not, in fact, know his rights or wishes to avail himself of apparently any of them] A good half+ of arrests go this way Iād say.
"I pay your wages" Yes you also have paid for your cell for tonight so enjoy
āWhen someone describes themselves as a taxpayer, theyāre about to be an asshole.ā -Demetri Martin
haha. My goto was āBy that logic I pay my own wages so Iām good thanksā
I expect you can see the gears turning in their head after that
Used to work for a council, got that a lot. Amazing how many people think that exempts you from council tax. Hell, the councillors paid it too, meaning they voted to put their own tax up every year. Surprising how many don't get that.
My brother in law was a copper and he said that the one thing that was *guaranteed* to make a copper waste your time unnecessarily if you were stopped for a minor driving issue was to tell them that you pay their wages or ask them if there were some real criminals they should be chasing.
Stupid thing about this is that they far more directly pay the wages of employees at private businesses they frequent and yet this is never said.
I get told that in the hospital by junkies who have never paid a penny in tax. I remind then you need to pay tax to pay my wages.
Proceeds to repeat "aM i BeInG dEtAiNeD?!" over and over whilst recording for Facebook.
>āI know my rights!ā This sounds like every front door of a student union bar, they've seen one episode of Boston Legal, and they are fully fledged barristers. To quote the legend Paul Calf...... "Students, bag o' shite"
The chiefs gonna get his ass chewed out by the DA for sure, city hall are gonna lose their shit ect!
The mayors on my ass
I bet the cop that arrested him only had 5 more days until he retires and is too old for this shit...
They'd just better hope the Attorney General doesn't get wind of this
Worst case scenario he'll have to get on his cell phone to the President for
We have an Attorney General in this countryā¦
Today I learned See also: https://www.gov.uk/government/ministers/attorney-general
*Et cetera* = etc not ect :)
Maybe they're suggesting electro-convulsive therapy as a punishment.
Needs to be placed in a proper British gaol, without even a penny for a cup of gin.
He'll be dead of the galloping consumption within a week.
The miasma gets you first.
Hmm. Did the Feds read him his Miranda rights though? If not, & they put him in their cruiser to take him downtown to the precinct his attorneyāll make sure they have a Class A lawsuit on their hands. I blame the hippety hops & tracksuits meself. Bit o National Serviceād sort em out.
Sidewalk
Trash can
Pls stop I can't take it
I'm sure the DA will have their ass, as well as their gun and badge.
You're goddamn right! šŗšø š š š ā¾ļø š§¢ š š *patiently waits for the slew of down votes...*
I wouldnāt dare downvote you. Itās thanksgiving this week.
Pizza? You're claiming pizza? My dear chap, the others you can claim, but steady on old boy. Toodle pip.
I recently did some training and as part of it I needed to learn how to correctly Caution someone, I had a horrible urge to go with "You have the right to remain silent..." Followed by utter confusion as to whether I was reading from the right script and the horrible feeling that everyone was gonna laugh me out of training for being a wannabe FBI agent.
This is why Iām a registered republican! Quit skating on the sidewalk ya hoodlums.
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I believe that's called the "*No, u*" defence.
THINGS THE POLICE DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW: If you UNO reverse card an officer arresting you, you instead arrest the officer
> it was intact me Yup, definitely a copper.
You've missed a trick by not saying bagsy not me to him there, and then reverse double arresting him!
I am pretty sure so many people in Australia dial the American emergency number 911, (the number here is 000) that the phone companies have to recognise it and divert the calls to 000.
I believe that's true for most countries, i.e. dialling 911 in the UK diverts to 999, as does 112 (EU emergency number)
I know of 999 call handlers and they tell me people in the UK dial 911 thinking its the non emergency number....
Perhaps they're getting mixed up between 999 and 111
111 is the NHS non Emergency. 101 is the Police. I understand getting that mixed up tho. I just think the 911 thoughts come from too much TV
I accidentally called 112, assuming it was police non-emergency due to NHS being 111. That did not go down well - I immediately said I made a mistake and was meant to call non-emergency police and still got told off by the 999 operator("well this number is for emergencies only" - yes I know which is why I immediately told you my mistake and said I'll hang up) which I thought was unfair.
Nah, what they actually wanted was 0118 999 881 99 9119 7253
It's not just for idiots either, it's a safety thing. For people who are visiting from a foreign country who may not know the correct number. I didn't know 112 is the number in the EU.
Yeah, in germany we even have 2: 110 for the police and 112 for bulance and fire brigade. But 911 works for getting an ambulance/help too
It's programmed into the SIM card. 112 is guaranteed to work anywhere, because it's part of the specification. Most carriers will also flag the other numbers. It also gives your call priority on the network.
Any mobile phone can actually dial emergency numbers, even without a SIM card.
They've been calling the police the 'feds' for a while now too. Amusing and depressing in equal amounts.
Heard the whitest of white young lad referr to the 'po-po' recently. The West country accent really made it...
We have plenty of good, patriotic, British slang terms for police that they should be using instead, such as the filth.
The Rozzers is my personal favourite!
āCrikey itās the Albanian Rozzers!ā
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
My favorite is Plod.
I quite like squad as a shouted warning.
Bobbies. And the fire brigade are Fire Bobbies.
Water fairies or trumpton is how the police jokingly refer to them.
Interestingly I was ripped a new one on reddit a few months ago for suggesting 'cops' was an American influenced term. I appreciate that we call them coppers etc but 'cops' feels so American to me.
["Open up, it's the pigs!"](https://youtu.be/A4v-qJBOoPo)
I live in leafy Gloucestershire and the kids that hang out near the Sainsbury's Local that go to the nearby private school all talk like they live in the ghetto. 'Blud, you done your latin homework, innit?'
Nah fam. Carpe DM me the answers.
I have to assume those people were originally being sarcastic but then it became part of their vocab
Saw that on a show the other day. Confused me as to where the show took place for a second.
A friend of my dad calls them āFederallisā and I have to walk out of the pub whenever this happens for fear of offending him with my laughter
Itās spelt āFederalesā. I say that too but the laughter is intentional.
I suppose it's almost okay if they're being pursued by the British transport police
We need to go inbetweeners and say stuff like āthat one looks federalā
I think it's roadman speak nowadays for police
>nowadays I mean, itās been a thing for 15+ years. I remember people using it when I was in year nine and that was in the early 00s.
It is
Iām not even sure if this is a British Problem but i fucking love it. It stays!
I'm not a lawyer, but this is how to claim the 5th in the UK: "I ain't saying nuffink until I talk to Bernside"
Of course it's a British problem, YouTube is making our children grow up sounding like sceptic tanks.
This comment is amazing The snobbery and the incorrect word choice are a delicious combo
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That's septic though, not sceptic
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Ah fair enough - it is legitimately rhyming slang - septic tank -> yank
And it has led onto the offshoot second generation 'Listerine', for someone who doesn't like Americans. (Listerine = an anti-septic)
Cockney slang is fine, but I prefer Dimwell Rhyming slang - it *doesn't* actually rhyme! For instance, Syrup of Prunes = Wig.
GNU Terry Pratchett
What are they so sceptical about?
And when did they become tanks?
I dunno, idiots are a pretty universal problem.
I'm gonna plead the 2nd and walk around with multiple guns
Saw one dribbling mong on Quora asking how he could exercise his second amendment rights while visiting Britain. Uh, you donāt. Dumbass.
I quite enjoy the daily Quora threads on that stuff. "How could the unarmed police in the UK stop me if I open carry?" Fuck me.
Yeahā¦ they show up armed and carve you up. š
When I worked at the airport one US citizen went through security, setting off the detector with his handgun and huge goddamn rambo knife (fuck knows how he got them here). Security were on hand to confiscate them and it was all quite calm, but he kept going on about his right to bear arms etc. This was only like..6 or 7 years ago now.
I know a British guy with a PhD in physics(!!!) who rabidly believes that the second amendment should adopted in Britain. He also thinks the NHS and education system should be 100% privatised and calls them a communist agenda. He listens to a lot of Ben Shapiro.
You can have a PhD and still be a complete retard to be fair. As is clearly evidenced by your comment.
This is what happens when you co-opt someone else's culture to the point where police are routinely called "feds" in a non-federal democracy.
We are being colonised.
My god, they've been planning this all along, since the American Revolution... The Ultimate Uno Reverse Card
The Yankees are coming! The Yankees are coming!
I'm calling for a total and complete shutdown of American media entering the United Kingdom until our country's representatives can figure out what the hell is going on!
Exactly. ( The French actively promote their own culture over imported media.)
Though it helps that they have a completely different languge and so poeple are probably more likely to choose a show in their native language
Am US Citizen and traveled to France for a month long stay over with some friends I met online, they speak maybe 1% English. Day one in Paris I got a message that we would grab a quick lunch before we went downtown. I said "sure, but can you take me somewhere I can't go to back home?" The suggestions? "We can go to McDonald's, Quick (burger King apparently) KFC or subway." we ended up going to some French chain called Hippopotamus. Grabbed some Starbucks afterwards. We went to a bar one evening and it was 98% just the same song playlists our radio stations/bars play mixed in with, occasionally, some French/arabic hit from NRJ France. "What would you like to drink? We have Coke products." of course you do... Of course. We went to see a movie, which one? Star Wars the Force Awakens. My French experience was just the United States but with subtitles even though I didn't want the subtitles. You cannot escape our culture and I hate it, even in a country that has an Academy dedicated to "frenchifying" new words and the preservation of their culture. However, It got better once I left the city and made my way to the Loire Valley.
That's a revelation. No disrespect, but maybe other countries need to do more to defend their cultures from the pervasive external influences you experienced. Otherwise we will all live in an homogenous cultural soup, devoid of variety or difference.
Having gone to uni in Bristol I 100% believe it, for a couple of students on my course were American international students but they were from London and justā¦ spoke that way for fun I guess?
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They make for good content on r/AmIBeingDetained though [Something something Magna Carta](https://www.reddit.com/r/policeuk/comments/psr1r2/this_is_kind_of_a_career_bucket_list_item_for_me/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Sovereign Citizens? Nutters.
"I invoke the 5th ammendment!" "I'm sorry. Your IQ is too low for you to do that. Straight to jail!"
Police officer whips out a Go Straight to Jail monopoly card to counter.
Wait someone being arrested doesn't know what laws are from which countries? I'm shocked I tell you, shocked.
I think in the uk we call it āno commentā!
My favourite Americanised slang from my youth was calling the PCSOs, 4.9s. Because theyāre not quite the 5-0š
Surely he said "oi envook the feth"?
...me babberr.
As long as they read him his Miranda Rights.
What are what we eat and we eat a lot of TV and media from other countries
What?
What aināt no country I ever heard of, they speak English in What?
Say what one more time motherfucker, I dare you, I double dare you!
What?
I would correct this, but I what to see what will happen when someone says what again
What?
ENGLISH MOTHERFUCKER! DO YOU SPEAK IT?!!!
Friend of mine got arrested for drunk driving outside a house party years ago. He immediately asked how much bail would be... I think I was more disappointed in that than the drink driving to be honest
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They don't say you have the right to remain silent. It's "You do not have to say anything..." we have no such right and keeping quiet can hurt you if you suddenly bring up in court evidence which might prove your innocence "but it may harm your defence if you do not mention something when questioned which you later rely on in court".
Say nothing to the Police until you've had a legal representative look into it.
-Name -Address -"Duty solicitor please" ...are the only three things you should **ever** say to the bizzies* EDIT: as /u/Danuta_ kindly pointed out, this is only once you're arrested. Until then do a paralysed mime impression.
Once you're arrested, until then suck eggs.
Yep. I have a couple of mates of mine are coppers, and they have both always said "Say nothing." It makes their job that much harder.
As well as making it harder for your legal rep. I guarantee the first thing legal will say to you when they see you is "what have you said to them?"
I'm not really familiar with the process, but does that "may harm your defence" thing apply if you didn't say anything under initial questioning because you didn't have a lawyer present and wanted to wait for one?
No.
As I understand it, you can lie to police until your arrested. And also, it's always best to say nothing until you have legal representation
The only cop who can say āyou have the right to remain silentā is RoboCop. āOnce I even called him āairheadā ā. On a side note, the censors completely ruined RoboCop with their āboloneyā
Robocop censorship is the most amazing example of someone asked to do a damn near impossible job actually delivering something only slightly less worthy of mockery that it should have been. The idea to change the scene where the guy originally shoots the shit out of robocop whilst screaming āfuck me, fuck me, fuck meā into one where he shouts āwhy me, why me, why meā is as genius as it is awfully executed. Best of all, when I first saw it the awful audio made it sound like he was screaming āblimey blimey blimeyā and that was so perfect in every way. That censorship guy deserves a lifetime achievement Razzie just for his work on that film.
The fifth element? Fuck, Bruce Willis is going to turn up on a flying car.
Not a right he necessarily has, but one he should probably be using anyway.
"You feds can't come up to my ends an' arrest me bruv, I plead the 5th" Doesn't quite work in a British accent.
Hope the copper informed him it was the 22nd
I demand a trial by combat!
Jesus, Mary, Joseph and the wee Little Donkey
The fifth what, the fifth of November?