Splash Palace idea (From York Press)
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Splash Palace idea
10:14am Friday 27th January 2012 in Letters
IN response to “Splash Palace to be pulled down” (The Press, January 17) may I suggest to the council that they convert the so-called splash palace into a police and community officers’ station.
It is ideally situated as the above has a spacious office area with kitchen and below could be converted into cells for day or night trouble causers. It would also make a community spot for tourists and York citizens and would be convenient for all.
P J Marwick, North Moor Gardens, Huntington, York.
Comments(15)
YSTClinguist
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4:48pm Fri 27 Jan 12
"It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself – anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face (to look incredulous when a victory was announced, for example) was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime, it was called. "
Whipmawhopmagate
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5:21pm Fri 27 Jan 12
P J Marwick has had a good idea...
Consider today's attack only a few yards away....York isn't safe even in daylight..
Whip
Whipmawhopmagate
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5:21pm Fri 27 Jan 12
P J Marwick has had a good idea...
Consider today's attack only a few yards away....York isn't safe even in daylight...
Whip
Bo Jolly
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7:21pm Fri 27 Jan 12
Whipmawhopmagate wrote:And yet, statistically speaking, it is. Very safe indeed. What on earth would people be queueing up to report to the PCSOs in their little smelly bunker???
Fraid you are stuck in the 80s YSTCLinguist...
P J Marwick has had a good idea...
Consider today's attack only a few yards away....York isn't safe even in daylight...
Whip
Buzz Light-year
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8:41pm Fri 27 Jan 12
Whipmawhopmagate wrote:If it's daylight at 2.30 in the morning then yeah good point.
Fraid you are stuck in the 80s YSTCLinguist... P J Marwick has had a good idea... Consider today's attack only a few yards away....York isn't safe even in daylight.. Whip
Whipmawhopmagate
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9:30pm Fri 27 Jan 12
Whip
YSTClinguist
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11:16pm Fri 27 Jan 12
Whipmawhopmagate wrote:You think that 'fortified post' should be manned 24hrs a day then? Because it will rarely be used to prevent violent crime during the day. I can imagine how unnerving such a building will look to the tourists who come into the centre of town, whose cash the city needs. It will metaphorically become a grey tower stretching into the clouds, overshadowing everything below it. Is this the police state you were looking for?
So the streets of York should not be safe at night, Buzz?
Whip
Whipmawhopmagate
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12:04am Sat 28 Jan 12
The only legitimate reason for the existence of any state is to ensure the safety of its citizens.
Whip
YSTClinguist
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8:15am Sat 28 Jan 12
sembly. If people don't understand this and start offering away the populaces legal rights on a platter then don't act shocked when you wake up one day and realise the mess you've got yourself into. Some of us won't let that situation develop though, we'll provide the voice of reason even if a small minority think they are the voice of sanity.
Whipmawhopmagate
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9:05am Sat 28 Jan 12
Without sufficient authority they cannot be protected.
The result would be anarchy.
Whip
Buzz Light-year
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10:35am Sat 28 Jan 12
Whipmawhopmagate wrote:Not relevant.
So the streets of York should not be safe at night, Buzz? Whip
You used an attack in the middle of the night to illustrate a claim that York isn't safe in daylight.
Either you made a bad argument or you mis-read the story and thought it happened at 2.30pm.
I made a joke about it.
Whipmawhopmagate
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11:16am Sat 28 Jan 12
Buzz Light-year
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12:22pm Sat 28 Jan 12
Everyone makes mistakes all the time, we're human.
Yet fewer and fewer are prepared to just hold their hands up and admit it. Instead they attack others to distract attention.
Sometimes it just ends up with boring internet flaming, sometimes it ends up in road rage, legal action, assault or worse.
If it was the other way round I would have laughed at myself, seen the humour... I'd say something like "Oh yeah silly me, of course 2.30am isn't daylight but you take my point"
To which the obvious reply for anyone would have been "Hoho, no biggie, of course your point stands"
But no, here we are 5 posts later way off-topic.
To sustain truth without humility is doomed - Gandhi.
Whipmawhopmagate
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9:35pm Sat 28 Jan 12
Yes of course I was wrong about the time, but apart from that, my comment was valid in that the attack took place only yards away and the streets should be kept safe 24 hours/day.
Whip
(grovelling)
Buzz Light-year
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11:34am Sun 29 Jan 12
Good point, I agree :)
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