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[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, David Cropper said:

What does "Stuck the long pole into them mean"? 

Long pole-snitched, The neighbours phoned the police to report a gathering, which strictly adhered to is, ya brother shouldn't be there, but 2 police cars and 4 coppers all stood about these folk?

[David Cropper]

Just now, eggsarascal said:

Long pole-snitched, The neighbours phoned the police to report a gathering, which strictly adhered to is, ya brother shouldn't be there, but 2 police cars and 4 coppers all stood about these folk?

Thank you. I thought it was an outlandish Suffolk custom for Easter. You live and learn, thank you Professor Eggs.

[David Cropper]

3 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Long pole-snitched, The neighbours phoned the police to report a gathering, which strictly adhered to is, ya brother shouldn't be there, but 2 police cars and 4 coppers all stood about these folk?

Actually Eggs, unless the brother lived there, he shouldn't have visited. Thems the rules. 

[eggsarascal]

1 minute ago, David Cropper said:

Thank you. I thought it was an outlandish Suffolk custom for Easter. You live and learn, thank you Professor Eggs.

It's a waterways saying, shafted would be the more common word.

[eggsarascal]

2 minutes ago, David Cropper said:

Actually Eggs, unless the brother lived there, he shouldn't have visited. Thems the rules. 

Yes, correct, but sending 2 cars, and 4 coppers to sort it out?

 

lets apply some logic to what 'we' are doing. 

[difflock]

8 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

It's a waterways saying, shafted would be the more common word.

Speaking of waterways sayings, while growing up(and the process is still some way from completion) my father and his brother would have said sommat like "not much room to get wined in there, better reverse in", i.e. no room to get turned="wined"

Then I saw a reference to "windings" being the wider stretch of water where canal boats could get turned, by "winding" them round with ropes, presumably?

I this correct, and how it found its way into the Co. Londonderry farming language I have no idea.

A quick search gave me;

Winding hole - Wikipedia

EN.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

 

Edited April 12, 2020 by difflock

[difflock]

2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Yes, correct, but sending 2 cars, and 4 coppers to sort it out?

 

lets apply some logic to what 'we' are doing. 

They could have perhaps rather used some of the deployed force to investigate other outstanding uninvestigated crimes, like burgularies.

[David Cropper]

2 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

Yes, correct, but sending 2 cars, and 4 coppers to sort it out?

 

lets apply some logic to what 'we' are doing. 

You say it was a family gathering and suggest that too many coppers attended. If one copper turned up, or even two and the family started performing, what then? The Police are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Lock the stupid bastards up If they flout the rules. Absolute idiots, I can't understand your reasoning even commenting about this. 

[David Cropper]

2 minutes ago, difflock said:

They could have perhaps rather used some of the deployed force to investigate other outstanding uninvestigated crimes, like burgularies.

Marcus, I assume you are being sardonic? If not, that's Bollocks and you know it. Normally burglaries won't kill you, the virus will.

[s o c]

I’m sure there are many cases like that. Probably be cases where neighbours will fall out permanently and cases where don’t like each other to begin with will put in reports