http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sun, 26 May 2013 08:11:53 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138111 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:47:47 +0000 Ironduke 138111@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Send it in to The Sun's letters page. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138110 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:45:34 +0000 dvo4fun 138110@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@writinginbsl: "did you meam grammar or is a really subtle joke ive missed??"</p> <p>Should of read grammer &amp; speling but left off the 'speling', which thus made no sense of the 'grammer' </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138107 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 21:36:05 +0000 Yikes 138107@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>*looks around* ... laughs nervously ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138078 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 18:26:29 +0000 writinginbsl 138078@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>did you meam grammar or is a really subtle joke ive missed??</p> <p>stars anyway </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138055 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:47:35 +0000 Anonymous 138055@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>For my money, the more you layer on, the 'heavier' it all gets..</p> <p>It's bitingly trenchant Dvo. It's sarcasm is fully deserved and well placed..</p> <p>But it doesn't dance and it doesn't sing..</p> <p>IMHO.. and for the little that's worth.. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138053 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:40:08 +0000 dvo4fun 138053@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@Sinnick -pension suggestion squeezed in as well ta </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138051 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:22:31 +0000 Sinnick 138051@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Nicely done, but I'd be happy with just the headline. The rest would seem to be a bit too true.</p> <p>If you keep the full length, perhaps try the phrase "Do you want to rely on your Police pension?" - it's probably nearer the truth. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138050 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:20:34 +0000 De-scribe 138050@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes that's the line I was looking at - something like the Chief Constable said "It is quite clear to me that the hooligans were to blame - I will be dismissing several of them immediately". </p> <p>Difficult one to judge - thought best to leave well alone. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138048 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 15:12:31 +0000 dvo4fun 138048@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ta</p> <p>I thought of levering in the following</p> <p>"It’s all very well to criticise the Police’s crowd-control units from the comfort of a cosy office. But week-in and week-out our specialist football ground squads are working with some of the most foul-mouthed aggressive yobs you’ll ever meet. And members of the public as well." </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138045 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:52:08 +0000 Perks 138045@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep. I'll be honest, I saw your name and the word hillsborough and started to sweat, but you have done a good job. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138040 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 14:18:50 +0000 waylandsmithy 138040@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Very nice! Is it OK to like your subs again now? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=48025#post-138036 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 13:39:27 +0000 dvo4fun 138036@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>South Yorkshire Police Service's Director of Corporate Mendacity has responded to suggestions, made by David Cameron in the House of Commons yesterday, that the Police had over decades sought to cover up their own responsibility for the Hillsborough disaster, where 96 football fans died. </p> <p>Superintendant Mark Martin for S.Y.P.S. spoke at a press conference today - "It’s all very well to criticise the Police’s crowd-control units from the comfort of a cosy office. But don't forget that week-in and week-out our specialist football ground squads are working with some of the most foul-mouthed aggressive yobs you’ll ever meet. And with members of the public as well." </p> <p>Moving on to the specific allegations surrounding this case Martin said “Look, after witnessing a tragedy like Hillsborough, even a highly trained Police Officer might allow emotions to cloud his thinking. For instance, immediately after such an event and in the heat of the moment, an Officer might easily write something in error like ‘It was complete chaos outside the stadium and to be honest we’d really lost it. Hundreds of fans couldn’t get in and although they were good-humoured we didn’t know what we could do with them if they got a bit grumpy. They were scousers after all. Our Guv., who was in charge of the outside team, said we should open the gates and let Bob, his opposite number inside the ground, deal with them. He and Bob had had this practical joke thing going for years.’”</p> <p>Mark Martin went on “The next day, after some reflection, that Officer might want to slightly refine his statement to read, perhaps, ‘The Liverpool fans were all drunk and abusive, attacked us with hammers, pissed on our boots, said our sister were slaggs, rushed the gates and forced their way into the ground.’” </p> <p>However, it seems that some Officers only remember what really happened after some external prompting, as Superintendant Martin explained “We’ve found the simple phrase 'Do you still have plans for a long-term career in the Police, with an index-linked pension?' is what the medics call a powerful ‘psychological trigger’. But if even that doesn’t do the trick, we have a fall-back position and let a senior colleague amend the statement to reflect what actually happened.” </p>