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Fire up the Quattro, ladies...

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SueBaroo · 13/03/2008 13:25

Alex has.

What I wouldn't give to have him berate me like that. Cor.

Last weeks was a bit meh, but I'm looking foward to tonight..

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JackieBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 22:43

That'll be the Bolly

TigerBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 22:47

I have calmed down now

You will be glad to hear

And sobered up somewhat

JackieBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 22:51

Good news. Mind you, I liked that first picture a lot too. Not sure about the lips here. And Very cuddly (with John Simm).

foofi · 27/03/2008 22:52

Was that taken a long time ago?

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 22:52

Oh God, what am I going to do with the Gene Genie for a whole year....

DH thinks it is hilarious,and now recognises the triggers and starts murmuring....down girl... down girl.

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 22:54

Get out of it. Have a look at that.

foofi · 27/03/2008 22:55

Now that's more like it!

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 22:55

But they look, well uncompromising......

Get up to bed love, I will be up in a minute....

In reality if someone said that to me, I would wither them.

Oh the joys of TV.

JackieBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 22:56

Oo-er Sue - now that's a pic and a half

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 22:58

Sue

Get thee behind me Satan...

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:00

I think I'm a little drunk with power now

JackieBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:01

I need one of these, or maybe we should all get one of these?

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:06

Some die-hard mad-women are suggesting getting matching tattoos on the bum 'Property of G.H.'

Not me, oooh no. Never tattoo anything what sags, that's me rule.

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 23:10

I could be tempted by the armed bastards one.

And our sales director made the team stop a conversation that was going a bit oooh eerr, he said it was not fair to me. He said I was far too refined for that sort of conversation.

Thankfully, no one mentioned Gene Genie.

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:13

erm, I should clarify, never tattoo what may sag, lest you think my backside is anything but pert and lovely.

And on that note, I bid you all goodnight, with a parting gift

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 23:14

LGJ stamps foot in temper...

sNot fair, I want a night cap with the Gene Genie....

policywonk · 27/03/2008 23:15

Have to agree with madamez about that shitey speech - made me really mad. Scarman did bloody good and important work. It's as though the writers have decided to stop being arch about being racist, sexist and homophobic, and just decided to finally nail their colours to the mast. Stupid fuckers.

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:20
policywonk · 27/03/2008 23:22

Look at him. He's not bloody sorry.

SueBollyKnickers · 27/03/2008 23:24

You should be crosser with Alex. She was smirking her head off, and she should know better.

BreeVanDerCampLGJ · 27/03/2008 23:25

It was over the top PW, but on the other hand...

It was not a million miles from the truth, there are areas of London that are now ruled by gangs and if we are lucky knives, not guns.

For every shipment of drugs that make it in to this country there are a few handguns in it.

E.G Shipment should be...£10,000 of drugs, shipment is £9,000 of drugs and several hand guns.

I know this is how it operates, because that is how Dublin ended up saturated with handguns. And that more importantly is how my childhood friend Veronica Guerin was liquidated at traffic lights, for having the audacity to investigate the drug barons.

So it may have been over the top somewhat, but it was rooted in reality.

policywonk · 27/03/2008 23:32

But you know, Scarman's report was about the Brixton riots. It was about how the Met dealt with young black men (the reality of which this series has been far too lily-livered to portray - chauvinism ha ha, racism oh dearie me no don't think we'll go there).

ANyway I realise that this is the wrong night, wrong thread to get get up about it...

edam · 27/03/2008 23:40

It's possible to be against drugs, guns and knives without being an effing racist pig who likes nothing better than putting the boot in, though. Scarman was right.

And we'd already seen Gene putting the boot into suspects in previous episodes. It's hardly a surprise that he'd see Scarman as an attack on his canteen culture rather than a necessary expose of police wrong-doing.

madamez · 27/03/2008 23:47

Policywonk, glad it's not just me. But I am honestly, foot-stampingly put out about it. Because I can only see two ways of interpreting it.
a) Look, all you silly hormonal women, you might be getting all in a lather about fancying a Bad Boy, but this is what he's really about
or b) We the scriptwriters really think that the world would be a better place if police officers were allowed to be racist, sexist and homophobic.

And I support everyone's right to enjoy their fantasies, and to get all steamy over a fictional character, because that isn't hurting anyone, and it's sort of unfair to spoil people's harmless fantasies with too much grim reality. And I don;t think it was at all necessary to administer such a slap to the viewers. And it's not fair, and the Gene of my fantasies wouldn't have done it, waaah! Etc.

policywonk · 27/03/2008 23:51

Yes madamez, I was quite genuinely cross about it too (and I don't even fancy PG)

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