"Hants Rat" Social Media Star

[mel]

mel said:

Not implying it's our "Hants Rat" but I guess they share a locker room.

I guess the very first sentence of the Original Post just didn't make it clear enough.

[singlecoil]

mel said:

mel said:

Not implying it's our "Hants Rat" but I guess they share a locker room.

I guess the very first sentence of the Original Post just didn't make it clear enough.

I'm sorry your thread hasn't gone the way you wanted it to.

[Mill Wheel]

singlecoil said:

Used to be against the rules to post a picture of another forum member

It can't be, not for some time now... Steve Callaghan once posted a doctored picture of me with a (badly) Photoshopped Santa hat on without censure. Perhaps if the other poster were to complain it might be viewed as against the rules?

He has multiple accounts which is something others have said was against the rules...
Steak & Cheese, Pitmansboots, dfr765, 4040vision, Tapereel, to name but a few.

He got thrown off the UKPOLICEONLINE forum for those very same misdemeanours!

[singlecoil]

Mill Wheel said:

singlecoil said:

Used to be against the rules to post a picture of another forum member

It can't be, not for some time now... Steve Callaghan once posted a doctored picture of me with a (badly) Photoshopped Santa hat on without censure. Perhaps if the other poster were to complain it might be viewed as against the rules?

In the top right of each post there's a 'report' button.

[AndrewEH1]

singlecoil said:

I'm sorry your thread hasn't gone the way you wanted it to.

Sorry you're so unnecessarily difficult.

[singlecoil]

AndrewEH1 said:

singlecoil said:

I'm sorry your thread hasn't gone the way you wanted it to.

Sorry you're so unnecessarily difficult.

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

[TooMany2cvs]

singlecoil said:

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

This rings no bells?

[Terzo123]

Shambles of a thread.

[singlecoil]

TooMany2cvs said:

singlecoil said:

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

This rings no bells?

No, 'fraid not. Obviously I recognise it's a somewhat anthropomorphic cartoon of a rat.

[AndrewEH1]

TooMany2cvs said:

singlecoil said:

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

This rings no bells?

This is the first time I've ever agreed with TooMany2cvs...maybe I am in the wrong!?!

'Rat' is pretty well known within UK car culture I feel, I live at the opposite end of the UK and I've still heard about Met Traffic Police.

[WinstonWolf]

singlecoil said:

AndrewEH1 said:

singlecoil said:

I'm sorry your thread hasn't gone the way you wanted it to.

Sorry you're so unnecessarily difficult.

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

You could start an argument with yourself in an empty room, it's a very common term that's been around for ages.

[carinaman]

http://www.blackratmerchandise.co.uk/2.html

Googling Black Rat Traffic Police Badges also reveals a badge with the words 'Orphan's Club' that suggested to me that it was a Black Rat club involved in the welfare of children that had lost a Traffic police officer parent.

[carinaman]

Seems they buy gifts for orphans, not as I previously stated support the orphaned children of traffic police officers.



Seems they have a Black Rats Geometry club too. I'm surprised there's much call for a Geometry club after the rise of Computer Aided Design in the 1970s and 1980s.

[CAPP0]

Apparently some people have even acquired Black Rat Buffs, and sometimes wear them on their commute, although whether this confers any immunity from prosecution is unknown

[AndrewEH1]

carinaman said:

Seems they buy gifts for orphans, not as I previously stated support the orphaned children of traffic police officers.



Seems they have a Black Rats Geometry club too. I'm surprised there's much call for a Geometry club after the rise of Computer Aided Design in the 1970s and 1980s.

Don't feed the troll

[singlecoil]

AndrewEH1 said:

TooMany2cvs said:

singlecoil said:

I'm not, I had never heard the term 'Rat' used in that meaning before.

This rings no bells?

This is the first time I've ever agreed with TooMany2cvs...maybe I am in the wrong!?!

'Rat' is pretty well known within UK car culture I feel, I live at the opposite end of the UK and I've still heard about Met Traffic Police.

Nevertheless, it's not one I've come across before. I know a fair bit about cars and have driven for a good many years but that one has passed me by.

[CAPP0]

singlecoil said:

Nevertheless, it's not one I've come across before. I know a fair bit about cars and have driven for a good many years but that one has passed me by.

Don't know whether it is still a "thing" but use to see the stickers on the back of private cars regularly. As per my Buff thread, the presence of the sticker, back before it was so widely recognised, was supposed to convey the "don't pull me over, I'm one of you" message. Probably all urban myth though.

[CoolHands]

Have we got a link yet to whatever this thread was meant to be about?

[loose cannon]

It was a sly dig at the bib who post here but got
Attacked immediately
and suddenly was supposed to be something else ?

[HantsRat]

Wow spend a day away from the forum, come back and a thread about me.

That's not me, I don't recognise the officer either nor have I seen this fb post.