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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:37 pm    Post subject: Facebook and Family BBQ Reply with quote

http://www.metro.co.uk/news//article.html?Facebook_police_raided_my_family_barbecue&in_article_id=704672&in_page_id=34

The more I think about it, I would rather have a family BBQ raided by a SWAT team than to actually sit through the entire BBQ. A far better story.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's what you get when you fuck with facebook.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's ridiculous is this bullshit poll on the newspaper site.

http://www.metro.co.uk/polls/results.html?in_poll_id=15637&in_page_id=1&in_question_id=14958&in_exists=N&in_answer1=16869
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lugo wrote:
What's ridiculous is this bullshit poll on the newspaper site.

http://www.metro.co.uk/polls/results.html?in_poll_id=15637&in_page_id=1&in_question_id=14958&in_exists=N&in_answer1=16869


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the link lead you somewhere else. The poll I got was about whether you thought pagan police officers should get their holy days off from work.

43% say no, it's ridiculous.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lugo wrote:
Maybe the link lead you somewhere else. The poll I got was about whether you thought pagan police officers should get their holy days off from work.

43% say no, it's ridiculous.


I think they should get them off but they should also get made fun of for it.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
lugo wrote:
Maybe the link lead you somewhere else. The poll I got was about whether you thought pagan police officers should get their holy days off from work.

43% say no, it's ridiculous.


I think they should get them off but they should also get made fun of for it.


That really would be the best of all possible worlds.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:52 pm    Post subject: Re: Facebook and Family BBQ Reply with quote

hankr wrote:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news//article.html?Facebook_police_raided_my_family_barbecue&in_article_id=704672&in_page_id=34


Weird.

As for that poll... how about everyone just gets some number of (paid?) days off, and they can take them whenever they want for whatever holidays they want.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Facebook and Family BBQ Reply with quote

epb wrote:
As for that poll... how about everyone just gets some number of (paid?) days off, and they can take them whenever they want for whatever holidays they want.


Except that businesses and whatnot close on Christmas, thus there is no way for people to work on that day, so everyone has to have it off. Not that this applies to police officers, since they don't "close" but in some sense they should, since there are days where there is more crime and days where there is less. I'm sure that crime rates and injury rates increase on Halloween as they do on the Fourth of July and St. Patrick's Day. You want more people working then, not less.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:04 pm    Post subject: Re: Facebook and Family BBQ Reply with quote

epb wrote:
hankr wrote:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news//article.html?Facebook_police_raided_my_family_barbecue&in_article_id=704672&in_page_id=34


Weird.

As for that poll... how about everyone just gets some number of (paid?) days off, and they can take them whenever they want for whatever holidays they want.


Look, police officers have to work on Halloween because that's when a lot of hooligans do stupid things. Just like firefighters have to work on Christmas Eve because a lot of Christmas trees tend to catch fire then.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:19 pm    Post subject: Re: Facebook and Family BBQ Reply with quote

lizakova wrote:
epb wrote:
hankr wrote:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news//article.html?Facebook_police_raided_my_family_barbecue&in_article_id=704672&in_page_id=34


Weird.

As for that poll... how about everyone just gets some number of (paid?) days off, and they can take them whenever they want for whatever holidays they want.


Look, police officers have to work on Halloween because that's when a lot of hooligans do stupid things. Just like firefighters have to work on Christmas Eve because a lot of Christmas trees tend to catch fire then.


There's a whole ER episode about Halloween being weird and dangerous.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 6:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Halloween is mentioned specifically, but we're looking at 8 days in total. Seven of them aren't Halloween.

"Policemen shouldn't get any specific guaranteed days off" is certainly a valid stance.

So how about those douchebags who decided a BBQ was a rave?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 7:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

lugo wrote:
So how about those douchebags who decided a BBQ was a rave?


Steer roast?
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 8:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mchicken wrote:
lugo wrote:
So how about those douchebags who decided a BBQ was a rave?


Steer roast?


If only we had thought to put the event up on facebook...
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