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mark occomore



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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 12:08 pm    Post subject: We Are Talking To You Reply with quote

Talking CCTV's are being introduced across the UK not only to cut crime as well to try and stop people dropping litter, etc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/6524495.stm


Now stop being a nusance. So if you drop your trousers you will be told to pull them up. If you are caught in a wrong position they will watch you for a few minutes ( is that how long it takes lol ) and egg you on, come on thats not the way you do it Laughing ( joking )
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You'd better watch what you are doing, then.... Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:50 pm    Post subject: Re: We Are Talking To You Reply with quote

mark occomore wrote:
Talking CCTV's are being introduced across the UK not only to cut crime as well to try and stop people dropping litter, etc
Yup experienced those at a car dealership one weekend when the showroom was shut and I decided to take a walk around their exterior forecourt cars. All I can say is I wont be going back there to buy a car any day soon.
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
You'd better watch what you are doing, then.... Laughing


Yes I better Laughing
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ha ha. had the same thing happen to me.

"attention you are being recorded" Surprised

I couldnt have give a monkeys, i still carried on looking. Razz

will only take notice if i hear the sound of a gun cocking Laughing Laughing

This scheme will not make any difference to how the hoodies louts etc behave. are you really telling me theyre gonna go "oh sorry, i wont shove anymore bricks through the shop windows. let me get a broom"

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nothing like that in sunny Marbella! Smile Perhaps the sun makes us more laid-back.....

You could have an amusing bit of interaction with those cameras, though, couldn't you! Eric Blair certainly got it right....... just 23 years too early!

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 5:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our local Metro stations had problems with youths hanging around the entrances at night and causing trouble - the solution was to install speakers that played classical music. It actually drove the yobs away.... some even complained to the local paper about cruelty Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I liked the suggestion of replacing the loudspeakers with machine guns Laughing Laughing
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 1:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
Our local Metro stations had problems with youths hanging around the entrances at night and causing trouble - the solution was to install speakers that played classical music. It actually drove the yobs away.... some even complained to the local paper about cruelty Smile


The same thing was used in Beverley Bus Station a couple of years ago with very good results
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

someone was smoking in the low level station on glasgow ( about 5 years ago now) and then an announcement came over the loudspeaker... would the man in the (description of clothing - I dunno, somthing like black trousers, red t-shirt and green jumper - yes, I'm making him a walking fashion disaster) please stop smoking

deja-vu or rather deja-lu (read) anyone?
(1984)
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Julia wrote:
deja-vu or rather deja-lu (read) anyone?
(1984)


So you're *that* Julia.... Shocked
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

huh? A dinnea ken what you're on aboot Cher...

deja-vu
(already seen)
deja-lu
(already read)

ie the book 1984 - the signs of the police state in our society started a wee while ago

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

'Julia' is the girl who Winston Smith has an affair with in the book 1984, which ultimately leads to his capture and torture.
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

showing my ignorance, evidently Embarassed
still haven't read the book yet (though of course know the gist of what it's about)
sorry
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No problem.... didn't think you'd picked up on the obvious reference. It was one of my school texts, but I'd read it even before that.

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever."
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 9:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm more a Shakespeare, Lord of The Flies and french/german literature person Wink
oh and also you could drill me on the Woman in Black & The Woman in White ....
going off topic I know but isn't the opening line to The GoBetween excellent - 'the past is a different country, they do things differently there'
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PostPosted: Thu Apr 05, 2007 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Cherskiy wrote:
'Julia' is the girl who Winston Smith has an affair with in the book 1984, which ultimately leads to his capture and torture.


Nobody clocked my clever reference (above) to 1984 via my mention of the author - Eric Blair.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 10:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I was once waiting for a train, when the loud-speaker guy announced, ''Could the lady waiting for Mr Wright, please go to platform 12'' and then all these women ran like f.........Old joke. Feel foolish. I'll get me Kagool Laughing
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