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“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Hanlon’s razor
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Amazing! Looks like something from a Tim Burton movie … :D
Ahhh I also remember the song ” grandad we love you ” …..
Great character in the Dad’s Army …..
RIP Clive Dunn
happiness
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No ..it’s not what I would call ballet either Jen ….
Perhaps that why it’s called “Great Chinese State Circus ” …..?
Still astounding as to what they are capable of training themselves to do though…yes definitely more of an acrobatic style performance than a demure ballet ! :shock:
Pumpkin
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“Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.”
@jen_jen wrote:
I know it’s yesterday’s news, but when the police go out looking for a man reportedly carrying a samurai sword and they end up tasering a blind man carrying a white stick I ask you, do we really want our police to be armed?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-19979184 :shock:
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Not sure about all police being armed … Keep things as they are …with just special circumstances. Police officers are issued with speedcuffs, extendable batons and incapacitant sprays. Tasers, I understand are issued (for use against armed assailants by authorised Firearms officers).
As in everything… Inevitably …mistakes can be made …. Sometimes with alarming results.
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@wordsworth60 wrote:
@tom wrote:
Unfortunately, we may have to arm our police.
With police officers being shot at and having grenades thrown at them – this really is a sign of the times.
Especially with the immigrant element of crime now, we’re getting African and Asian gangs armed to the teeth invading Britain.
Our police need firepower to fight back.
Not like the old days: our criminals only robbed people who had money to spare, and gangs only shot/robbed/stabbed/dealt drugs to their own kind. If they were caught by the police they responded with “It’s a fair cop guv, I’ll come quietly”. Those Victorian prisons were only
there for show and the laws against robbery, guns, murders etc were only brought in just in
case anyone turned up at Dover looking a little tanned . . . . . .=D>
Not forgetting in the 18th and 19th century we sent them off to the Antipodes ….
“Most of the convicts were thieves who had been convicted in the great cities of England. Only those sentenced in Ireland were likely to have been convicted of rural crimes. Transportation was an integral part of the English and Irish systems of punishment. It was a way to deal with increased poverty and the severity of the sentences for larceny. Simple larceny, or robbery, could mean transportation for seven years. Compound larceny – stealing goods worth more than a shilling – meant death by hanging.”
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