In Britain Big Brother is Scolding You

Torplexed · 09-17-06, 01:46 PM

The latest Orwellian Nannystate nightmare for Steed to chew on.

Not only do CCTV cameras in Britain watch you...they chastise you for bad behaviour.

Talking Cameras

Bellman · 09-17-06, 02:02 PM

Big Brother is shouting at you ! Very likely to attract a returned half brick these days or at least a two fingered salute.

But never fear the operators will be too busy steaming-up their screens watching the local talent so the broadcast comments will be the same as buildingworkers - Hey gorgeous ! Followed by every female within earshot turning her head.

The Avon Lady · 09-17-06, 02:07 PM

"Sir! You in the striped shirt! Stop picking your nose in public!"

I think it's great!

Torplexed · 09-17-06, 02:18 PM

What would be really creepy would be a quote from one of the climax moments of 1984.

"Here's the candle to light you to bed, here comes the chopper to chop off your head."

Whereupon you are surrounded by gorilla-like guards wielding truncheons and the angry buzz of helicopters.

scandium · 09-17-06, 02:54 PM

Read that article, honestly don't know whether or not it was more amusing or just plain creepy. But that is definitely freaky stuff straight of 1984. Yikes.

Yahoshua · 09-17-06, 05:56 PM

Probably wouldn't work in American cities. Crooks would simply steal the cameras.

And it is 1984 incarnate.

So when are they going to install my wall-screen?

jumpy · 09-17-06, 05:59 PM

Anybody remember the bit in 'demolition man' where Sly had to use the 'shells' to wipe his ass, so instead he swears lots and the uber big brother machine issued him with a load of paper tickets as fines for his bad language?:hmm:

As for the article.... jesus h christ....
Perhaps they could install them at Downing Street: "Attention, could the tosser at Number 10 please stop messing with the country?"

CB.. · 09-17-06, 06:08 PM

first create anti socail behaviour so extreme that ordinary citizens feel sufficiently threatened that they are likely to accept any soloution as long as it works....then introduce totalitarian techniques to solve the probem,,as they have been proven to work over and over again..(to a point) then you not only get to institute a totalitarian state every one thanks you for it ...war without end...news speak...talking lamp posts..it's not a nanny state- it's a mother in law state

09-17-06, 01:46 PM	#1
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	In Britain Big Brother is Scolding You The latest Orwellian Nannystate nightmare for Steed to chew on. Not only do CCTV cameras in Britain watch you...they chastise you for bad behaviour. Talking Cameras __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili--

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Bellman Sea Lord Join Date: Feb 2004 Posts: 1,945 Downloads: 220 Uploads: 0	Big Brother is shouting at you ! Very likely to attract a returned half brick these days or at least a two fingered salute. But never fear the operators will be too busy steaming-up their screens watching the local talent so the broadcast comments will be the same as buildingworkers - Hey gorgeous ! Followed by every female within earshot turning her head. __________________ Liberty, Equality, Fraternity

09-17-06, 02:07 PM	#3
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	"Sir! You in the striped shirt! Stop picking your nose in public!" I think it's great! __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

09-17-06, 02:18 PM	#4
Torplexed Let's Sink Sumptin' ! Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 5,823 Downloads: 43 Uploads: 0	What would be really creepy would be a quote from one of the climax moments of 1984. "Here's the candle to light you to bed, here comes the chopper to chop off your head." Whereupon you are surrounded by gorilla-like guards wielding truncheons and the angry buzz of helicopters. __________________ --Mobilis in Mobili-- Last edited by Torplexed; 09-17-06 at 02:21 PM.

09-17-06, 02:54 PM	#5
scandium Ace of the Deep Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,098 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Read that article, honestly don't know whether or not it was more amusing or just plain creepy. But that is definitely freaky stuff straight of 1984. Yikes. __________________ What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? -- George Orwell

09-17-06, 05:56 PM	#6
Yahoshua The Old Man Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,493 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Probably wouldn't work in American cities. Crooks would simply steal the cameras. And it is 1984 incarnate. So when are they going to install my wall-screen? __________________ Science is the organized unpredictability that strives not to set limits to mans' capabilities, but is the engine by which the limits of mans' understanding is defined-Yahoshua

09-17-06, 05:59 PM	#7
jumpy Admiral Join Date: May 2003 Location: Midlands, UK Posts: 2,139 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Anybody remember the bit in 'demolition man' where Sly had to use the 'shells' to wipe his ass, so instead he swears lots and the uber big brother machine issued him with a load of paper tickets as fines for his bad language?:hmm: As for the article.... jesus h christ.... Perhaps they could install them at Downing Street: "Attention, could the tosser at Number 10 please stop messing with the country?" __________________ when you’ve been so long in the desert, any water, no matter how brackish, looks like life

09-17-06, 06:08 PM	#8
CB.. Ace of the Deep Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: UK Posts: 1,278 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	first create anti socail behaviour so extreme that ordinary citizens feel sufficiently threatened that they are likely to accept any soloution as long as it works....then introduce totalitarian techniques to solve the probem,,as they have been proven to work over and over again..(to a point) then you not only get to institute a totalitarian state every one thanks you for it ...war without end...news speak...talking lamp posts..it's not a nanny state- it's a mother in law state __________________ the world's tinyiest sh3 supermod- and other SH3/SH2 stuff http://www.ebort2.co.uk/ The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. W.B.Yeats