Thank you

I'll take links from anyone. Anyone.

This might be going too far.

Still, thanks for the thought. Nice to know my efforts are appreciated.

Who knows, perhaps the author of the linked site has an ex-girlfriend who was a copper. Or perhaps it's all a wind-up. Then again, I get that kind of language on a weekly basis on the streets of Blandmore. For some, as soon as a woman gets a teeny bit of authority, she automatically transmogrifies into a lesbian or slapper, or both.

Here are some things I have been called in the last month by people who have never met me before:

• "Whore."
• "Slag."
• "Big fat dyke."
• "Bitch-fucking mother-cunt."
• "Sad little pathetic power-trippin lesbo. Innit."
• "Blond trollope." (I am NOT blond. But the speaker clearly felt that "nondescript-shade-of-brown trollope" didn't have the same ring to it.)

Here is what I called the people in return:

• "Sir."
• "Kind sir."
• "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention... oh just shut up!"
  

There are a lot of people who hate the police, just because they are the police. There are just as many people who hate women, just because they are women. Funnily enough, it tends to be the same group of people. I gave up taking it personally after about three weeks.

Anyway, I got three referrals from the above site in the last few hours alone, so who's complaining...

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