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The met wankers
- Thread starter bha25
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Why? Would it not have been easier to stop swearing?
Obviously not enough serious crime to keep the police more usefully employed.
Woodchip
It's all about the bikes
I'm with HKFC. Swearing is only used by those that don't have the intellect to express themselves in a more articulate manner.
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
The short policeman on the platform was a joker. You must have bumped into an arsehole, I was screaming obscenities at a chavy girl wearing big hoop earings and the copper on the platform didn’t batter an eyelid. Very funny evening.
severnside gull
Well-known member
Probably BTP and very reasonable.
Being a football fan doesn't give you the automatic right to inflict foul language on others so the occassional "tone it down" warning does no harm and presumably you heeded the advice .
Being a football fan doesn't give you the automatic right to inflict foul language on others so the occassional "tone it down" warning does no harm and presumably you heeded the advice .
severnside gull
Well-known member
ooh you ARE a big boy aren't you
when you grow up you'll probably get really brave and start hiting women instead of just swearing at them
prat
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Try standing on the platform with your kids and then moan about OB asking someone effing and blinding to tone it down a bit.
Obviously you are a kid yourself or you would'nt have bothered moaning about it...
Obviously you are a kid yourself or you would'nt have bothered moaning about it...
Exactly. If you were swearing excessively, and a copper tells you to pipe down, he's is being perfectly reasonable. In fact he's doing his job.
A 'wanker' could have arrested the offender on the spot, should he really have wanted to.
keaton
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- Nov 18, 2004
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I wasn't there but i'm guessing the policeman was trying to make sure football fans safely boarded a train? I don't think his role that evening was to wander the streets making sure people aren't swearing
waiting to get on to the platform some wanker from the met said " if you dont stop swearing none of you will get on the platform " what a mug ::
I'm with the police on this one too - why should other rail users have to listen to obsenities from drunken idiots?
Nibble
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- Jan 3, 2007
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Believe it or not some people are offended by swearing in public and it's perfectly legit to ask the offenders to tone it down. From a crowd control point of view some less mature people can get themselves worked up when there is a lot of swearing etc, I think the ob call it potential for escalation or summat.
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Personally, for me football is an opportunity to act in a way I wouldn’t elsewhere this includes being a bit loud and obnoxious, however if my behavior causes offence to the general public or if the police asked me to tone I’d shut up without question.
My experience of the police is if you act like an arsehole you’ll be treated like one, with the exception of a few nazi’s most policeman are decent people who are prone to reacting to abuse or rudeness.
Brighton till i die
You havin' a bubble?
Superphil
Dismember
Swearing is big and clever of course, it's such a shame the "met" wanted to stop you doing it, Blair out.
We had the missfortune last night to be stood by a family (I assume it was a family) the father swore non stop, kept congratulating himself for [thinking he had] starting chants (all were full of profanities, "Hate Palace/Shit Fans/No-one there/etc") and encouraged his pretty, but chavy, daughter to sing them too. There was also a boy with them, could have been no more than 10 or 12, in school uniform, was jumping up and down on his seat giving it "let's go f***ing mental" amongst other delightful ditties. Oh the pride he must have given his dad.
We had the missfortune last night to be stood by a family (I assume it was a family) the father swore non stop, kept congratulating himself for [thinking he had] starting chants (all were full of profanities, "Hate Palace/Shit Fans/No-one there/etc") and encouraged his pretty, but chavy, daughter to sing them too. There was also a boy with them, could have been no more than 10 or 12, in school uniform, was jumping up and down on his seat giving it "let's go f***ing mental" amongst other delightful ditties. Oh the pride he must have given his dad.
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Nibble
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poidy
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Watching some 50 odd years old man getting a bollocking on the platform by the old bill for swearing at them charlton kids made me giggle. that copper made him look about 2ft tall.Funny though. Although saying that the old bill did appear to be quite heavy handed tonight
The Grockle
Formally Croydon Seagull
Don’t be such a fool, the abuse was flying across from both platforms I think it’s called banter.
I don’t take kindly to being labeled a women beater either purely on the basis of singing some songs to rival football fans, if you met me you’d realise I’m a decent law abiding citizen who simply enjoys a bit of banter at a football match.
Women beater, you f***ing idiot.
Nibble
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Gritt23
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From a slightly different perspective, I was stood on the opposite platform last night, and it was a pretty childish, embarrassing rabble of Brighton fans screaming abuse and looking all double-'ard inviting a fight when they have the safety net of the track between them.
Obviously, I'm usually stood amongst that, but you don't appreciate just how pathetic it looks until you are facing it. I'm quite sure there was an element of Charlton fans provoking it and being equally purile, but are we really too childish to just rise above the taunts and ignore them. Let's sing about winning, let's celebrate a victory.
Also, just an observation, when we sing "you're too ugly to be gay" are we deliberately doing it with the most contorted, and let's face it UGLY faces we can possibly pull?
Obviously, I'm usually stood amongst that, but you don't appreciate just how pathetic it looks until you are facing it. I'm quite sure there was an element of Charlton fans provoking it and being equally purile, but are we really too childish to just rise above the taunts and ignore them. Let's sing about winning, let's celebrate a victory.
Also, just an observation, when we sing "you're too ugly to be gay" are we deliberately doing it with the most contorted, and let's face it UGLY faces we can possibly pull?