only saw the first episode and found it really dull but I do need to give it another go

I really want to watch it but I haven’t had time, but I got a free this arvo so i might try and catch up with it on 4OD or something (:

What happened in December 2006? o_O

Where I live is pretty skanky. I was in a friend’s flat a few weeks ago with my mum and some guy was calling out the window and we thought he was playing around, but he’d had his throat cut :S I can’t remember if he lived or died but he had to be air lifted to hospital and it was really shocking (two more people later that day both got killed just the same). If people get themselves in trouble, I don’t really have any sympathy but I hate the thought of innocent people, like children, being pulled into these sort of things or even having to witness it all.

@harr!et 400025 wrote:

I really want to watch it but I haven’t had time, but I got a free this arvo so i might try and catch up with it on 4OD or something (:

What happened in December 2006? o_O

major incidents were a shooting at our largest local nightclub – people used to use Ipswich for urban music events as its easy to get to from London and didn’t (until these muppets fucked it up) have such strict licensing rules, anyway some beef started between locals and Londoners and a dude got shot dead

Then just before Christmas a old lorry driver strangled six prostitutes and dumped their bodies in various parts of town. There was a massive Police investigation which swamped our local constabulary’s resources – so cops from just about everywhere were drafted in (as far away as Merseyside. as well as a fair few from the Met).

I cycle to work every day right across town and it was surreal, more like riding through a scene in an American detective movie than somewhere in England due to the sheer amount of coppers. It would a major scene for London, let alone 80 miles away..

This all happened in a fairly crime ridden part of town, but whilst all these cops were there crime plummeted (petty burglaries, bad behaviour in the street, vandalism) as even the dumbest criminal or thug tends not to do crime when there literally is a bobby on every street corner… of course when all the out of area cops went crime started creeping back up again but its a sad indictment on “communities” that some folk just can’t behave unless watched..

round here they mostly just use the PCSOs as a extra set of eyes and ears for surveillance rather than trying to pretend they are real cops. They are cheaper and quicker to deploy than CCTV as for that the authorities have to wait for NTL to put in more fibre optic cable..

if you’ve seen the film “hot fuzz” its exactly like that here except every other copper is like PC Nick Angel (particularly the younger senior officers)

@Tek Offensive 400062 wrote:

some proper comedy bits in all the episodes,

gadgets older woman and the 50cc moped gang in particular!

thats real life in the villages where I work :laugh_at:

smell was hilarious throughout the series. its just the way she talks. what a beaut!

MC Hammer turned (back?) to Jesus and is now a preacher!

Operation Trident also started in 1986 after the Notting Hill Carnival, the Met don’t like to admit to that for fear of being deemed racist by the left wing and not powerful enough by the right wing..

nah against the black community shooting each other (I’m amazed you live in London and have never heard of it!)

are there not posters all over your college (sometimes the branding “stoptheguns” is used and “yoof type” posters) – or do you go to a really posh one where people don’t get enticed into that kind of gang culture?

as for nukes they make them a few miles away from my old house in Reading… these days the industry quietly tries to discourage young women from working in the “hotter” bits of the factories – not because they’re sexist, but because of the higher risk of birth defects, premature birth and stillbirth when they decide to start families…

actually thats another major bit of the 1980s, the world came that close to being blown to shit on at least 3 occasions (literally a few phone calls away from either the USA or USSR launching a nuke)

fucking hell, I didn’t even think there were still schools like that any more! I did get sent to a Catholic school but I knew all about crime and stuff because of the IRA etc (learned about the Troubles when I was 8 years old..).

That said I think a lot of families do know it happens but there’s a culture of “hiding bad news”, in London there’s so little community and even today its so easy for young people to be sheltered from “bad areas” if parents regulate their travel and socialising (plus young folk do have a sense of self-preservation and seek out safe havens..)

karma aside, making nukes is fairly boring TBH. the science bit of it is 70 years old technology – other than the guidance and launch systems they are still comparatively low tech devices (even these systems will be using 20 year old technology as it takes even longer to innovate in secret).

you’d be better off working for EDF at Sizewell, at least electricity is more immediately useful than weapons of mass destruction..

they used to make explosives near where process lived but the entire town got accidentally blown up! there’s still chemicals factory there but they make paints and fertilizer and other slightly safer stuff… I think if any explosives are still made in UK they are up North by the coast where it doesn’t matter as much if it all goes kaboom..