[URL]http://seorant.ath.cx/police/ladybird.html[/URL]
Fuckin' excellent. First time around, I only 'looked at the pictures', remembering my ol' dad (z``l), but then got to the bottom and saw the kid rolling a doobie. If I hadn't seen that, I'd never have known it was a spoof ... :| D.
It sort of makes one hark back to the days when we were told, 'if you're lost, ask a policeman'. Nowdays, I wouldn't ask a policeman for anything, lest I get a kicking for my trouble. Where _did_ we go wrong? D.
Obviously. I searched for the link in Google groups, but it didn't show up. My Google-fu is probably fucked.
duh, it's the wavelength of the sort of ginger part of the visible spectrum which is often utilised by those of us who repost something which has been posted several times in the recent past
There was a book in the IUFM Library when I was doing the teacher training, about incidents of police brutality in NYC in the sixties and seventies. One of the theories put forward was that there is a certain 'institutionalisation' of the rank and file, to the extent that they don't just see themselves as enforcing the law, but as _being_ the law. Any personal affront to them (an insult, the finger, whatever) is seen as an insult to the state, to 'the law' that they see themselves as incarnating, and they thus feel morally empowered to react with force or the threat thereof. Sorry for the serious post. I shan't do it again. D.
