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| Thu 11 Mar 10, 9:45 PM othyim NL, 2 yrs |
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIAFHjL3ZMg This is real. Not a hoax. It is currently broadcasted on radio stations around the UK. "Keep your curtains closed" Hej, I happen to like to wander around not fully clothed sometimes. Very suspicious, I admit. "Pays in cash"' Hell.. smaller shops here dont even have a pin machine? "Chit-chat with the neighbours" If they speak any of the 7 languages I do, we usually talk regularly. But I dont speak like 20 languages? Sorry.... my fault I guess. Um... I live at the other side of the pond, guys. But to me, from abroad, it seems that things like neighbours calling in like in this tread: http://www.informedconsent.co.uk/posts/265464/0 And the police thus finding a "valid" reason to interfere and expose... is very worrying for anyone into any sort of kink in the entire UK (so yes, Scotland and Ireland and Wales and everything?)? Please remind me again.. what year is it we are living in?
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| 11 Mar 10, 10:45 PM rubberduckay UK(B), 2 yrs   |
That is just frightening.... Not only is it the whole 1984 thing but it also confirms our "authorities" have totally given up the ghost and lost whatever control they had. I bet they're overwhelmed with calls from the reactionary dipsticks it's aimed at all saying "that man down the street wears funny clothes and has a funny name."
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| 11 Mar 10, 11:10 PM CPeccavi 3 yrs |
Having very recently had a number of bizarre conversations with a number of different police people - I will expand further at a later date - regarding the ins-and-outs of pro-domming among other BDSM stuff, I can say that they were amazingly vanilla but totally non judgemental and seemingly not interested in anything other than what I had asked for help with. They annoy the hell out of me when they stop my car at such regularity but when you do have a need for them, they're there. I think everyone should like everybody ..... Andy Warhol | |
| 11 Mar 10, 11:34 PM EventHorizon UK(KT), 2 yrs |
I feel that I should be outraged but I'm not surprised. Our society seems to be becoming less tolerant of anyone straying from the "norm" at an alarming rate. Fear is a handy way of manipulating the population. | |
| 11 Mar 10, 11:59 PM Stillyet UK(DG), 2 yrs |
Don't get me started. Here in Scotland, it is now illegal to have a picture of rape. How can you tell from a picture whether or not there is consent? We are rapidly entering a police state which makes the former East Germany look like a bastion of liberality. ;; Semper in faecibus sumus, sole profundum variat. | |
| 12 Mar 10, 12:22 AM voodookid37 UK(DD), 6 yrs |
well......whatever they do they will twist it to their own ends anyway. and lets face it the police can't/don't enforce laws anyway.it is just a case of clocking up the appropriate ticket quantities,yes they do have targets to meet. after a recent traffic stop,despite national campaigns they never breathalysed me,lied that they couldn,t check something i asked and then when i went to make a complaint they broke the data protection act in that they gave an an employee's person details to me. and yes the complaint is in......... www.voodoorestraints.co.uk | |
| 12 Mar 10, 12:26 AM Milchvienhalter US, 23 mths |
I keep my curtains drawn precisely because so many others have found themselves on the wrong end of the law due to peepers (your pervert NOSY next door neighbor or passersby) who complain they "saw something nasty in the woodshed'. Do THEY get prosecuted for being peeping perverts? No. You do for not having your curtains drawn. This is a pure case of 'Damned if you do, damned if you don't'. Being non-social (as opposed to being UN-social or ANTI-social) with your neighbors means you're a terrorist??? What a load of dung!!! | |
| 12 Mar 10, 1:04 AM Kreeger UK, 3 yrs |
I do all three of them. | |
| 12 Mar 10, 8:28 AM Ian_2007 UK(N), 4 yrs |
Then you'll know that it was an American book, "Superfreakonomics", which first suggested using the fact that one pays in cash and doesn't have life insurance to profile suicide bombers, won't you? Call me old-fashioned, but the depressing thing about this is that people need to be told all this stuff in the first place. It's surely no coincidence that asymmetrical terrorism (as opposed to the symmetrical terror inflicted by the likes of Alexander and Tamburlane) only appeared on the planet when socialists and anarchists discovered that industrial cities and societies were places in which nobody looked out for each other and in which one could be completely anymous. You'd never find a terrorist in Candleford now, would you? | |
| 12 Mar 10, 8:44 AM Clodmin UK(OX), 3 yrs |
This pattern of encouraging the identification of suspicious behaviour is not new. I remember some friends in Sydney relating a very similar advert on how to identify a drug dealer. Lots of people visiting the house, curtains drawn, stays at home a lot... Basically just be suspicious of anyone who didn't turn up to the residents' association meeting. YKIOK but my kink is also okay and I get off on judging you. | |
| 15 Mar 10, 5:52 PM violet_haze UK(TN), 2 yrs |
we have yet to get decent working blinds in our place, and as a result all the old men in the village are really nice to us all.. and some of the old ladies....
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