Jesus, Scotland, get a grip.
On Monday 17th May we received a report of controversial stickers having been placed on lampposts within the Viewforth Avenue area of Kirkcaldy.
Should you come across stickers of this nature, please contact ourselves or @FifeCouncil so that their removal can be arranged.— Kirkcaldy Police (@KirkcaldyPolice) May 21, 2021
Of what nature? The people of Kirkcaldy are supposed to let them know if they (the people) see any stickers “of this nature” but they (the police) forgot to say what “this nature” IS. The word “controversial” doesn’t narrow it down enough to be useful.
Maybe all the phones are ringing off the hooks with people reporting every single sticker on every single lamppost in not just the Viewforth Avenue area but in all of Kirkcaldy. Just to be sure, you know.
Updating to add: They’ve deleted the tweet now (feeling stupid?) so we’ll be needing a screenshot.
“Stickers of this nature” – that too is very Hyacinth Bucket. The rest of us just say “stickers like this.” An advantage of this lazy way of wording is that it leaves us time to notice that we never said what “this nature” was.
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Please contact ourselves?
@Colin Day: One might have thought that “us” was a perfectly cromulent first-person plural accusative, but apparently some think otherwise?
Colin, are you questioning the police’s chosen pronouns? Now you’re really going to jail for hate crimes.
Sounds like the sort of things I hear when uneducated people try to sound educated. Simple words won’t do for the educated, right? Us = 2 letters, 1 syllable. Ourselves = 9 letters, 2 syllables. Twice as good…three times as good.
The stickers say “Women Won’t Wheesht”, which means “women won’t be silenced”.
Controversial indeed.
Oh yes, that awful use of the reflexive to sound elegant – very Hyacinth Bucket, that one. “Myself and my husband will be there at 7 p.m. in the evening.”
Or when anyone – educated or otherwise – uses a tannoy. There’s something about public address systems that makes people talk like, well, like Hyacinth Bucket. Who might as well been, for the record, based on my Aunty Audrey.
We need to get more and more Onslow when talking back to the prim and censorious Plods.
And since when are “controversial” whatevers a police matter? Not shutting down the marmite factory are they?
I was shouting that question at them yesterday. They didn’t reply. Very controversial of them.
Lol. You’d think they would react. Shouting is highly controversial.