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[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 26 points 5 months ago

Helpful chap at the back is holding a policeman's helmet.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 21 points 5 months ago

I love how he's the only one that looks uncomfortable, really adds to the surrealness of the scene.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 7 points 5 months ago

He'd love to pose for the camera but now he is holding the police helmet he is worrying that the next copper along would assume he was taking the piss and clobber him. It's a complex mask of conflicting impulses.

[-] DrWeevilJammer@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

That's the local "Bobby Lives Matter" representative

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Nobody has a pint or a kebab. Must be fake.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 8 points 5 months ago

And only one of them has a fag? Clearly fake.

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 22 points 5 months ago

As an American I don't understand what's happening here. They are clearly some kind of police force but I don't see any military hardware, there's no blood, there's no guns anywhere, and the people near the police are still not beaten up and arrested.

Those must be the most stoic brave superheros that manage to survive despite all the danger!

:P

[-] Audacious@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

accidental renaissance pic

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 6 points 5 months ago

Someone with greater artistic talent than me should apply whatever filters or wotnot to make it look in the style of the Dutch Golden Age paintings: Rembrandt or Vermeer or one of those lads.

[-] dogsnest@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

There's a tonne of culture right there.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Many states in the US have laws that you cannot get that close to police without being arrested yourself. Louisiana's passed just last week. Arizona tried to ban filming them a year or two ago. Just thought the dude with the US flag jacket should know!

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

The law in Louisiana was not about getting this close. That law was about getting close enough for your camera to work.

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Clarifying: the Louisiana law is literally you must stay 25 feet away when told and says nothing about recording. The (old) Supreme Court told Arizona that it's against the Constitution to have laws against filming.

The wink wink of it is likely so people can't easily film, but it isn't what the law says

[-] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 11 points 5 months ago

We've got loads of culture, it's just that the rest of the world has appropriated it and no longer recognises it as ours.

E.g. the suit. George Bryan "Beau" Brummell is responsible for that (he died 'shabby and insane' in France, perfectly British). It could easily have gone a different way and we'd all be wearing lederhosen to work, weddings, and funerals, but there you go.

[-] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

appropriated

I think you're forgetting a little bit of history

[-] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm waiting for our tradition of milkshaking fascists to catch on.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

It's better than throwing a shoe

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Wot's all this, then?

[-] cynar@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

I think professor elemental summed it up better than I could.

https://youtu.be/FkF_XpA5P48

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

He does sum up everything British so well - I often go back to Fighting Trousers.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

it's such a great diss track. he's so much better than Mr B

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Holy shit, that was amazing!

[-] snooggums@midwest.social 7 points 5 months ago

A fight broke out after the 29th tie in rock paper scissors.

[-] mrmule@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I'm betting Newcastle train station on a Sunday morning

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