I'm pretty sure that if this hapened in the US, many people would be doing decades in jail, if not being executed for treason. How is it OK that those whose job it is to protect leading figures in society should be able to accept money from newspapers for private/sensitive information? It makes your country look like Bulgaria.
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Quaz
offlineMemberI don't think anyone could have been suprised that some met cops take cash from the press for information. That they were selling on 'the green book' of Royal contact information is a new one however.
I think someone will get nailed to a piece of wood over this, but I suspect it will be a sacrifical lamb. Despite the best actions of the majority of good cops, there are still cases of corruption going back to the late 80s/90s that have collapsed like a cheap date at a shots bar.
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FraserWords
offlineMemberRikkor, the way things are going most of us would sooner be in Bulgaria...
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rikkor
offlineMemberI'm sure you would. On some level, all the people who really run Britain know each other and went to the same schools, or are these same people reporting to a couple of zillionaires. The US is in no shape to be boasting right now, but at least we are run by many mini-cabals, not one big one.
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doggone
offlineMemberThe dog peed on my leg again, that little Bulgarian homosexual!"
Back in the day, the Catholic Church was really intolerant of other religions. "The day," in this case, refers to every day from the founding of the church to, well, yesterday. The word "bugger" stems from "Bulgarian," or someone from Bulgaria, but medieval Catholics used it as a catch-all term for all members of the East Orthodox Church. Members of that church were considered heretics, and heresy is, of course, a slippery slope to sodomy. An awful, gross, terrible, slippery slope.
But that was the belief. Catholics at the time honestly thought that if your beliefs deviated even slightly from theirs, it followed that you were engaging in all sorts of perverse sexual acts. Such as monogamous sex between two consenting adults who happen to be the same gender. EVIL!
Rikkor are you Catholic BTW
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FraserWords
offlineMemberI believe the women in Bulgaria are very hairy.
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Within this organ, SugarTits69 tried to dub it phone-hackinggate, and Charlie Brooker had a wee poll on twitter with ideas such as "everythinggate" and "OMniGate" gaining support due to the implication of media, celebrities, police, and politicians in the whole thing.
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Quaz
offlineMemberIt's News International, so how about NIgate?
Strangely, I fished this off the net
"What does Nigate mean in Japanese? when you dont like something or you are not good at something. for example if u say 'suugaku ga nigate' that would mean you're not good at math or you dont like math."
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