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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 11, 2007 17:12:58 GMT
A retired man, who was a Muslim and very much getting on in years, liked nothing better than gardening and growing his own vegetables in his London backyard. But as he got older, he found the work more and more difficult, until one day parts of it became more than he could manage.
That evening, when the man's son happened to drop in for a chat, he lamented the fact that his potato patch urgently needed digging but he no longer had the strength to do it.
"Don't worry," his son reassured him. "I'll get some men to do it for you. I know some people who'll do it"
"But that will cost money!" the old man complained.
"Don't worry," the son replied. "It won't cost you a penny"
The next day, the old man was sitting in the kitchen looking out onto the garden when to his astonishment a number of police officers came charging down the side passage of his house, into his garden and headed straight for the potato patch, which they dug up before making some communication on their radios and then rushing out again. Somewhat shaken by this, the old man puzzled over what he had just seen. Eventually, he decided to contact his son at work and ask if he had any explanation.
When he opened his email inbox, he found a message already waiting there from his son. It said:
"I've got the stuff. It's buried in your potato patch. You know what to do"
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Post by bh on Oct 12, 2007 16:57:46 GMT
Ho Ho, very good lass.
Slightly off subject, while walking to work today i saw some Police and lots of the Community Cops walking up and down a local road, turned a corner and on to the main road and there were even more.
They weren't doing the usual, nicking motorists, but directing them, pulling some over and just speaking to them. Funny I thought, what's going on. It then dawned something must be happening at our local Mosque. I was correct the old bill were directing traffic and helping these people to find parking because of an event at that place. There must have been over a hundred Police and Community Cops protecting (?) helping these people.
Sorry but my first thought was what a waste of resources, why weren't these people nicking criminals not wasting their time doing this.
Mind you there may have been a threat, I don't know, but thought what a waste.
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 12, 2007 20:28:10 GMT
It depends on what the event was, doesn't it?
How many police are present for, let's take an example, an England World Cup game at Wembley, or the annual Bonfire Night celebrations in Lewes? Far more than that, I'd guess (OK maybe more people involved, but I wasn't there so don't know how many there were). I've never heard you complain about that.
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Post by pies on Oct 14, 2007 18:30:56 GMT
Wasn't it the final Friday prayers of Ramadam/before Eid this Friday, which is the main religous festival for Islam?
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 14, 2007 20:27:34 GMT
Well exactly. If it had been Christmas, there'd have been a lot more fuss than a few police officers.
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Post by bh on Oct 15, 2007 6:04:24 GMT
Sorry peps, wasn't really trying to be controversial but just could not believe that for what is a religious festival it was necessary for so many Police to be involved. Thanks NAFI if that's what it was.
I've seen people turn up in their hundreds there before but never with the interference of the Police. There must have been some specific threat for this kind of attention.
I agree with you regarding policing at the large events you mention, but those events can be a lot more volatile than what was a religious festival. Just a shame really that people can't worship without police protection.
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Post by thevicar on Oct 15, 2007 10:04:26 GMT
The incredible number of very stupid people in this country continues to infuriate me. I can understand why there was a large police presence around the prayers at Eid-al-Fitr but think it was probably an overreaction to whinging from the local community.
My personal bug bear is the gormless 'fearful' people - case in point being stopped by the old bill at Clapham Junction station because some loony on the train thought I was a potential terrorist (apparently reading a book on Islam now counts as suspicious behaviour). Waste of my and police time. I pity people who actually have to put up with ignorant moronity day in and day out.
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Post by malxscfc on Oct 15, 2007 18:19:39 GMT
The incredible number of very stupid people in this country continues to infuriate me. I can understand why there was a large police presence around the prayers at Eid-al-Fitr but think it was probably an overreaction to whinging from the local community. My personal bug bear is the gormless 'fearful' people - case in point being stopped by the old bill at Clapham Junction station because some loony on the train thought I was a potential terrorist (apparently reading a book on Islam now counts as suspicious behaviour). Waste of my and police time. I pity people who actually have to put up with ignorant moronity day in and day out. You've never been to insert ->country/county/town/race/religion/football team then?  Better to read 'Mein Kampf' or 'The Little Book' at home too, I suspect. I don't suffer this kind of sensitivity living in a County where fewer than 1% of the population are from the ethnic minorities, but when in Luton we always used to send our Neighbour an Eid card. Must confess I hadn't noticed that it was last Friday either, and I should know better too. Makes you wonder about our Media. Or maybe about how poorly Islam sells itself through the Media...? The Police were probably merely doing the job of the local Traffic Wardens who knock off at 5, and sunset isn't until later of course. Bad parking's bad parking everywhere! Bahá'í, anyone? |
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 15, 2007 19:21:50 GMT
No thanks, I've given them up.
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Post by ojiveojive on Oct 15, 2007 23:00:47 GMT
Ommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Incidentally, I don't recall having heard a dirty joke particularly about muslims
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Post by ambersalamander on Oct 17, 2007 17:28:21 GMT
I have! Not very nice ones.
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Post by ojiveojive on Oct 17, 2007 22:03:52 GMT
My hindu friend Vinay often tells me jokes about hindus but I usually forget them!
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Post by Meadow on Jul 17, 2008 16:24:50 GMT
EDIT: quote of abusive and racist post deleted from this post- not your fault Meadow, but we don't have stuff like that on this forum, not even as quotes
F**k me!!!
I see stuff like that posted on some of the messageboards I frequent. The posts don't last for long thank goodness.
I s'pose most boards have their racist scum, but at least most of them have the decency to register.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 17, 2008 20:00:32 GMT
That's the first time I've ever seen a post like that on here, and I've been moderating it from the moment it started two and a half years ago. Let's hope it's the last one too.
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Post by Meadow on Jul 17, 2008 20:09:49 GMT
Fair enough on modding my post. Just wanted to make sure you knew it was aimed at the one poster, not the whole thread.
BTW, does this board have the facilty to report offensive posts to the admin? Many others do.
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