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continuing the spat of threads on beeb telly...

anyone seen this? i'm a bit disturbed by the way in which civilians faces are shown on TV as they're arrested whilst acting like idiots. the tone of the programme is of course deprecating of these people and makes them look like idiots (despite Jamie Theakston narration). but do the people arrested feel humiliated when they see their face on TV swearing at the police? the younger arrestees in particular were so casual about it all, perhaps not always aware of the cameras, but seeming qutie relaxed about spending a night in the cells (happens most weekends presumably). the other interesting thing was how it presented the police. looking quite heavy-handed at times yet too soft at others (cheery banter with the arrested drunk kids and what have you). i'm not sure anyone comes out of it looking good but it's a depressing picture of this country's drinking culture (which we're already aware of of course) and strange to see on BBC1 before the news with so much bleepage.

― Stevem On X (blueski), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:29 (twenty years ago)

"The offender was warned several times about calling me a cunt. We came to a mutual understanding and he went away in the opposite direction. When I heard him shouting "Goodbye you cunt, you're the biggest cunting cunt out of all the cunts I've ever met. You cunt." I decided to arrest him under Section 5."

I liked the bloke who mooned the police from the kebab shop window. "Did you just do it because there was a camera there? Say sorry then, and we'll leave it at that."

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

"Goodbye you cunt, you're the biggest cunting cunt out of all the cunts I've ever met. You cunt."

did the offender look anything like either of these two men?

http://stabbers.truth.posiweb.net/stabbers/imgs/derek_clive/dandc.jpg

this works so much better if you do the policeman's voice as if it's michael palin...

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:48 (twenty years ago)

I've not seen the most recent one, but I seen a previous series (or maybe just a similar prog) and by god it made me sick. Not being one for going out drinking myself I'm wondering if it maybe annoyed me more because I'm not used to seeing that kind of behaviour exhibited by my own like-minded stay at home watch BBC documentaries peers.

It's seeing all that juvenile yobbish mouthing off pish that puts me off going out.

― Rumpington Lane, Tuesday, 11 January 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

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Drunk And Dangerous - BBC1