The Cops

[likelysuspect]

Bloody Americanisms again

Advert for Alexa or whatever it is, about a bloke expecting his family and getting his swearing out of his system. Alex thing says 'I'll play some loud music so the neighbours dont call the cops'

We dont have 'the cops' in this country we have the police

Its bad enough teens refer to 'da feds' like they're little grimy New York gangsters, we dont need grown ups using stupid terms like 'cops'.

The dibble?

Yes I like Bizzies, even though Im a southerner.

I love how this thread has evolved into various nicknames for Police Officers

an Uncle years ago apparently used to say ‘evening Cuntstable’ if he passed one

Yes stupid little kids do.

Same with po-po, its an American thing

I'm retirement age and have used the cops since childhood. It's short for coppers. I've never used cop shop, it's just the police station.

Cops had been around in this country for years.

Which London riots, the ones in the 80s? No one called them cops when I was growing up in the 70s.

Are you talking about modern day times?

Does anyone remember the cars being called ‘Jam Sandwich’ when the livery was the red stripe

Yes

They had proper sirens in those days as well, you could actually tell which direction the car was coming from.

@CurdinHenry i think ‘Dibble’ is brilliant too 🤣🤣

When I was at school in the days before the red stripe they were called panda cars.

I hate this advert as it has the family ringing the ring doorbell.. Which causes my dog to go ballistic at the front door. It's a scramble to mute the TV every time!

In the late 90s, thete was a BBC TV programme, set in Manchester, called "The Cops".

If its good enough for the BBC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cops_(British_TV_series)

Our cat hates it. She hates visitors. She is a peak mumsnetter.

My niece used to call them "pleepers". Not sure exactly what she was trying to say, she was three. But to me, they are now officially pleepers too.

Pretty sure it was pigs or cops when I was growing up daan saaf. Rozzers is a different region to be but I love it. Po po is quite new to me but I find it funny.

Same 😂 I'm 52, and thoroughly enjoy calling them feds.

The OED says that the term copper originally came from the old English word 'cop' meaning to capture. A policeman was a 'copper'. So perhaps cop came first.

Anyone for "plod"? 🙋

Peelers is my favourite nickname. If you go by blue lights, then apparently we're all calling them cops here in NI but I don't hear it that much in real life. Cops clearly originated in the UK from coppers (remind me where that comes from?) but feels more American nowadays.

Our dog too. We don't even have a doorbell on our house!

She must remember it from before we rescued her.

Coppers are called Plod in our house.

I’m an ex cop. And I used to call myself a cop. It’s well used where I live and preferable to other names that I’ve been called.

Oh I like plod too.

Plod is from Noddy I think. Dibble is from Top Cat. I've also heard Babylon, I don't know where that comes from.

Page two and I'm first to mention the Fuzz? Surely not.