Getting old ...

[Cockney Corner]

A little while back I had to deal with a missing person. In the course of this, I asked a teenaged friend for a telephone number of a friend who she might be staying with. She dutifully checked her cell/mobile phone and showed me the number which was listed as "Kelly (or whoever) Yard". I then said, "So she's called Kelly Yard is she?". Both the young lady and the young whipper-snapper officer I was with then collapsed into a fit of giggles and I learned that "Yard" means "home" apparently.

I then realised that I have become like "Jim's Dad" in "American Pie" - an old bloke who causes endless merriment when he tries to speak to the younger generation.

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[Urban Jedi]

Oh dear me, Cockney. You gotta be down with tha streets dogg!

[J-WS6]

hahahahah

Cockney - tell your young officer that its an offence to use terms like 'Yard' if you are over the age of 14

[packpolice]

I think you should laugh at teenagers. I'm always doing that because they sound stupid. I'm in my mid-twenties and coach track in the Spring.

[ukcop2]

I only started realising how old I am (I AM ONLY 30) when I ask the kid I have just arrested his/her date of birth. When they tell you and you think "hell, I remember what I was doing that day!!", that you realise how old you have become (or how young the people I arrest are these days!)

As for street slang, Im I right in thinking that "THATS BAD MAN" is actually "THATS QUITE GOOD REALLY MATE" ???????

Oh well, I will still continue to go to nightclubs and put up with people looking at me like their dad just walked in.

Uk

[Cockney Corner]

ukcop2

I'm 31. But I'm hip. I'm with it. I can do the Macarena. Surely that must impress them ...

[FLLawdog]

My Sgt. had the same thing. Young pup (21) calls out the description of a suspect running from him and says he's wearing a "wifebeater" shirt. Sarge thought it was a brand name or that it had "WIFEBEATER" written across it.

[p01ic3m4n]

http://www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us/departments/english/slang_dictionary.htm

[ukcop2]

Thanks for the link with the slang directory, it was fat.
I can be like my daug in the five-o with me, Fresh.
I'll break with the old now this directory is with me, no jargon.

Peace out blood.

(HAY THIS IS GOOD, JUST WAIT TILL I GET TO THE NIGHTCLUB ON FRIDAY)


Uk

[Cockney Corner]

Round my way "Wifebeater" means premium strength lager, specifically Stella Artois, if that means anything to those on the other side of the Pond.

[SB]

Ha, I was feeling old (31 btw) until I got to my new unit. I'm the youngest by 12 years and they all laughed when I told them I had 8 years service. I have to make a lot of tea and coffee (although I make sure it tastes really bad )
When all is said and done though, they are a great bunch and don't rag me too much.
My wife picks up the 2 kids of some friends of ours from school, they are 8 and 10. The 8 year old has just been doing D Day at school. When I got in last Thursday, he asked me if I was there

[Chaplain Keppy]

Sounds to me like you're all a bunch of puppies! But then, I have white hair and wear bifocals-- next to me, everybody's a puppy!

[J-WS6]

quote:

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The 8 year old has just been doing D Day at school.

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OK, so you cant own firearms, but your kids can shoot people on a beach in Northern France on certain days?

[ohdet]

I am in the process of retiring medically and while sitting in my dr's office i overheard a conversation between two males.

I know they were talking english but as to exactly what they said, who knows.

I am 49 and used up i guess

[retdetsgt]

I had two bad experiences...
The first, I was at a crime scene and the criminologist showed up with a female college intern. I noticed her, but didn't talk to her or anything. The next day the criminologist was laughing and told me that the girl asked if I was married. ( I was about 44 then). The officer told her that she didn't know, but it didn't matter, I was too old for her. The intern replied, " Not for me, for my MOM!"

The second time I was investigating a police involved shooting and noticed the officer was born AFTER I had become a cop!

Yikes!

Jim