Is Incitement To Mass Murder A Crime??

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-56627642
Who do these morons call when their car is stolen, their house is burgled, they or their family are mugged?

[Ellipsis]

> The TV series was named 38 years ago, and the phrase has just about died out. It certainly is not widely used by youths today.

I'm not arguing that it's widely used, I'm arguing that they know what it means.

The alternative argument is:

- "Young people" are behind the protest
- "Young people" named the protest
- "Young people" didn't realise that "The Bill" could refer to "The Police", when they named the protect

That may all be true, but I don't think so. And if it is true, those young people are remarkably ill-informed.

[Ellipsis]

protest*

[Untitled]

//Untitled, if you know any young people, as I do, just ask them what "The Bill" is.//

Got out my phone and did exactly that Ellipsis.

The 5 people I asked did not know what it meant.

I am sure that if pressed they probably would know it was an old-fashioned word for the police but it isn't what most people under 40 think of when they see the words... at least in my opinion.

[Untitled]

I don't think it's "remarkably ill-informed" to use the language differently to the elderly. I must say I did not realise the possible double-meaning until TTT's post...

[youngmafbog]

//The 5 people I asked did not know what it meant.//

Of course they did.

Just asked two young people I know (under 20) and they both thought of plod. My kids (25-36) also think of plod by the term.

Perhaps you should widen your circle of friends and get out a bit more. When Boris deems it is ok for you to go out that is.

[Jackdaw33]

Other terms for the police you don't hear these days:
The Fuzz, The Busies, The Rozzers, The Filth.

[Atheist]

The Peelers

[Atheist]

The Cops?

[New Judge]

The Peelers :-)

[New Judge]

Sorry Atheist, you beat me to it !!!

[Ellipsis]

> And if it is true, those young people are remarkably ill-informed.

Then my above comment applies, Untitled. If the protest organisers are so ill-informed that they don't realise the double meaning of their protest name, it doesn't say a lot for them.

[Untitled]

Also it is not inaccurate to say "the bill" if referring to a particular act of parliament.

Sit on your high horse all you wish about how other people use the language... it does not make you right and them wrong.

[Ken4155]

My mate used to refer to the police as 'Master William'.

[Ken4155]

Others i can think of are; Bluebottle, Plod and Bobbies.

[Sunk]

Perhaps it is regional. It sounds like a London term.

I knew the term, but when I was young in Manchester we never used the term preferring coppers or fuzz.

[Sunk]

Brief research suggests that it was the Met that were referred to as ‘Old Bill’ not police in the rest of the country. On AB, TTT and YMB have use the term several times.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Sayings/Question266612.html

[ToraToraTora]

I assume this bill will become an act of parliament so why not remove the ambiguity with something like "stop the act"?

[jno]

because they want to stop it while it's a bill?

[bednobs]

because it's better assonance to say kill the bill

[ToraToraTora]

yes the assonance works but the message doesn't