Great Britain's Police: Government is 'criminalising middle England'

The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | May 14, 2007 | John Steele

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Not French, but if you’d bother to read the post that I was responding to, it was in regards to the situation deteriorating here in the U.S. where we do have an RNC. Try reading, it works every time.

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. - Frank Herbert

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Clam down and stop balming whitey.

[rednesss]

"Clam down and stop balming whitey."

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[subterfuge]

Where is the pic of a clam?

Clam down, get it?

You self-loathing whites are something else.

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"Clam down and stop balming whitey."

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[CaptRon]

securing ticks in boxes

Well, I suppose I can see how that could take some time if I knew what the heck he was talking about.

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There. Happy????

[subterfuge]

Thank you.

[rednesss]

Happy to oblige.

[AngryJawa]

The cure, create bigger disturbances than the Blacks and Muslims.

And risk being labeled a angry white reactionary racist militant?[/s]

You're absolutely right, of course. But this foolishness hasn't yet reached a tipping point in relation to the average American's daily life - yet.

The left surely knows the benefits of boiling the frog slowly.

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That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.

[AngryJawa]

I seem to remember reading that same passage in some dusty old history book...8^)

[Stoat]

securing ticks in boxes

Well, I suppose I can see how that could take some time if I knew what the heck he was talking about.
 

I'm pretty confident that in this case what is NOT being referred to is the collection of the vile insect that is popularly known as a 'tick' and placing it into a box, ostensibly for etymological study.

Rather, I am virtually confident that what is being discussed is a (mainly British) colloquialism for what we in the USA might refer to as "a check-mark in a check-box" , popular among Socialist paper-pushers who make long lists of irrelevancies for others to fill out mainly in order to justify their jobs.

It's oftentimes expressed thusly or with some artistic variation:

 

"a tick secured in a box"

securing ticks in boxes

Well, I suppose I can see how that could take some time if I knew what the heck he was talking about.
 

[Stoat]

etymological study.

Correction, should be entomological study.

[CaptRon]

Thanks! I hate it when I don’t get those colloquialisms! (Every time I think I’m educated I learn something else. Keeps me pretty busy).

[fortunecookie]

Conservatives want real crime punished—things like drug pushing, rape, murder, and being a leftist—while at the same time returning authority to parents and teachers to discipline juvenile acting out appropriately.

Well said, dsc! BTTT!

And lefties want to feel good about getting tough on crime, and that means creating the appearance that they are tough on something, sadly, just not 'real' crime. Too many lefties feel for the real criminals, they feel sorry for the rapist, the arsonist, the drug pusher, that they must have had a tough life and need compassion. Of course compassion for the real victim is not in their realm of feel-goodness.

[fortunecookie]

Record numbers on anti-depressants (Great Britian)

Could there be a connection? It would be depressing to watch the bad guys go free and the misdemeanor behaviors criminalized...

[Stoat]

Thanks! I hate it when I don’t get those colloquialisms! (Every time I think I’m educated I learn something else. Keeps me pretty busy).

You're quite welcome and I'm delighted to have been of some help.  I agree about learning....at the point when I decide that I've learned everything I hope that there are enough caring people around me who will shoot me and put me out of my arrogant misery   :-)

Re British slang, there are a number of GREAT specialty dictionaries for that on the internet that may be worth bookmarking.  Some of my favorites are:

BBC America - British American Dictionary

Dictionary of English slang and colloquialisms of the UK

Be warned, however, that there will be many bawdy and off-color terms and expressions dealt with on these pages and so they may not be suitable for children and those faint of heart (not meaning to imply that you would fall into such a category, of course)

Slang dictionaries exist for many other variations as well, including but not limited to Australian, Irish, etc.

You can find a boatload of them by searching with such keyword phrases as "Australian slang dictionary", "British slang dictionary" etc.

[CaptRon]

Funny you should mention British slang books. I have one I bought years ago, but I doubt this would be in it. I actually bought it to write a book about an episode in American history (still in the planning stages after 30 years) which was close enough to the Revolution that I thought it would be relevant!