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| A peeler, two hoodies and a spide eating Monster Munch...ahh Belfast |
1. The Peelers
2. The Police
3. Copper
4. Cop
5. The Old Bill
6. The Bill
7. The Fuzz
8. The Peels
9. The Plod
10. Black Bastards (which refers to the Police Service of Northern Ireland’s uniform not to race (although this uniform is in fact a very dark green))
11. Bobbies
12. Rozzers
13. The Filth
14. The Scum
15. The Pigs
16. The Guards (the Irish police only)
17. The SS RUC
18. The Johnnies
19. The Five O’s
20. The Stench
21. The Yardies
22. The Sweeney
23. The Kojaks
24. Bacon Sarnies
25. The Roberts
26. The Rashers
27. Peeler Pete and his Porky Pals
28. The Looney Tunes
29. The Wilburs
30. The Screws (more usually prison officers)
31 comments:
Love that picture, dude. Got a bit giggly because I've a packet of Monster Munch on my desk right now. Flamin' Hot flavour, though... The leftovers after the rest of the family got into the variety pack.
gb
Ger
Did you ever see An Idiot Abroad? That show ran on Monster Munch.
No, man. Haven't caught on to it yet. Is it any good?
Ger
Dont subscribe to Sky just to get it. But check it out on youtube or project free tv or something. There are a couple of good ones from season 1. Havent seen s2. Karl goes to China in one of the episodes and lives on 4 packets of Monster Munch for the entire week.
Jesus! Don't know whether to admire the guy or talk him off the ledge. I'll look it up next time I realise I'm dicking about on the computer getting nothing done. Probably tonight, then...
gb
Yep.Thats a comprehensive list. The police seem to have brought about more linguistic creativity than any other thing in history.Id say Filth and Old Bill are the most popular where i am. If your from Liverpool the Bizzies (If i remember from scouse based soaps)
Are you aiming to fit all of these in somewhere?
This makes North American slang seem pretty deficient. I can't think of any slang terms for cops in Canada other than pigs, and that's pretty dated. I'm guessing the number of names for cops in Northern Ireland is an indication of the depth and the long-term nature of the animosity between the police and the civilian world. By the way, the many different Eskimo names for snow translate as: goddamn snow, bloody snow, effing snow, more lousy snow, and so on.
Haha and I thought we in Oz had a few...looks like language has leapt across cultures though as we use, as you prolly already know the pigs, the filth, the plod, boys in blue, the monarchs and the jacks (a real Melbourne one from when Police HQ was in Rusell St before the bombing....russel, jack rusell terrier therefore the jacks..weird I know).
Great list!
I can add a couple from the US.
Dicks
Boys in Blue
Black and Whites
Gmen
Feds
Heat
Does anyone ever call the cops "polis," or is that just a Scottish thing?
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Frankie
I like the Bizzies. I'll bet in Manchester there are some good ones too.
I think I'll use about half a dozen of them.
Cary
Have you ever seen The Fast Runner? I havent but I think that might be the place to test the whole snow myth, either that or go to the top of Canada.
N. Ireland's big problem is that we didnt get any Jamaican immigrants because they also have dozens of words for the cops. We could have had a really creative time.
Dan
I'd heard of the Jacks and I like that one. Nice bit of cockney rhyming slang there. Its a shame Helen Hunt didnt become a bigger actress or the use of the Helens might have stayed in vogue and not died as it did.
Lew
I love the Heat. In fact I think I may have used that one myself on occasion.
I also loved the movie, esp the scene in the diner.
Peter
Yes I forgot about that one. And I've used that myself in a book.
Here come the bloody poliss, someone says.
I have seen The Fast Runner (excellent) and I've gone to the top of Canada. In 1979 I had a summer job that took me all over the Arctic. The landscapes were often beautifully surreal, but the weirdest thing was living in 24 hours of daylight for weeks at a time. Not a having a night is a very hard concept to live with. You lose all concept of time and end up treating all hours of the clock as the same. In some of the villages I was in the kids would be outside playing at 3 or 4 a.m. Unfortunately going to the Arctic as a tourist is really expensive. It's probably cheaper for someone from Toronto to go to Australia than it would be for them to go to the High Arctic.
My nephew was talking about the police the other day but called them "the po po." That was a new one on me but most on your list are new to me, too.
I loved Fast Runner.
Sir Robert Peel, what a man. Repealed the Corn Laws, founded modern policing (thanks for that) and, according to possibly the world's most boring drunk who accosted me in a Warwickshire pub, bred the first Tamworth pig.
In Limerick, easily the most popular term for them is "the shades", or more commonly, "the fuckin' shades". It's only the armed response boys who wear sunglasss, but every guard in limerick is still a shade.
I like it for the ghostly, shadowy suggestiveness.
The shades. That's brilliant. That's a title.
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Cary
I'd like to see The Fast Runner but its hard to track down in Oz. I'd also like to go way up there.
I wouldnt mind spending a year in Nuuk in Greenland. I think that would be an interesting experience. Just have to persuade the family.
Holden
Po po works great if you ask me.
David
And he did a hell of a lot better job on the famine in Ireland than the Whigs.
Conor
Shades is good. I read a cyberpunk anthology called The Shades I think. Or possibly it was the Mirror Shades.
Peter
There's got to be some good police slang in Philly.
None that I can think of off-hand, oddly enough.
Well,having personal experience on the receiving end,numbers 1-4,10,15 and 17 would be relevant here,the rest I've never been called.
Paul
I just heard that that killer of PC Yvonne Fletcher and the man who indirectly killed dozens of policemen in Northern Ireland, Colonel Gadaffi has been killed by his own people.
Thats got to be good news for the Libyans and it brings with it a measure of rough justice.
Seen that and he's no great loss.I just hope the negotiations re compensation for the arms smuggling still go on.Despite this we should have never got involved.
Our governments never seem to learn that trying to export so called Liberal Democracies is not their job.
The whole shambles has been a huge waste of money.
Paul
Supporting the Libyans cost almost nothing. And it got rid of a monster. Worth every penny if you ask me.
In fact I'd be hard pressed to think of a better use of tax payers money outside the NHS.
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