Should This On-Duty Policeman Now Face Disciplinary Action?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3660020/He-said-yes-Heartwarming-moment-police-officer-breaks-ranks-London-Pride-parade-propose-boyfriend.html

There is a time and place for everything, why do the gay community find the need to flaunt their sexuality at every opportunity?

[sp1814]

AOG

Your post at 12:48 is astonishing.

...and really very funny indeed.

"Where have I mentioned anything about London Pride?" says the person who posts a question about a copper proposing to his boyfriend at London Pride?

It's like you asking this question:

"Why are some canned drinks so full of sugar" and then posting a link about a story about Coca-Cola...and then saying, "But I didn't mention Coca-Cola."

Funny. Very funny.

[Mamyalynne]

Rather sad that some can take a joyous happy incident and wring all the fun out of it until it is without light and just a pile of grey dust.

What a drab world it would be if we all did the same.

[mikey4444]

Mamy...I have never been to London Pride but they all look as if they are having a really smashing time, don't they !

[Mamyalynne]

Certainly do.

[Lie-in King]

The bitter stench of sanctimony pervades the pages of AB - again.

[Dahlia_Lama]

mikey , thank you . No need to apologise , I'm just glad I was able to expand on my statement . Have a happy Sunday :)

[mikey4444]

Glad to hear it Dahlia !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Actually AOG, when I was younger, I really wanted to be in the Brownies, ///

That goes to explain a lot.

[sp1814]

AOG

Mamyalynne - AOG has issues with the Pride marches.

He has been ‘throwing shade’ on it for eight years now.

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1315325.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1267793.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question816185.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1347332.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question1415056.html
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/News/Question781511.html

[sp1814]

Ahem - seven years.

[mikey4444]

SP...some interesting research....thanks !

[Mamyalynne]

I know- sad and repetitive.

[mikey4444]

And very revealing Mamy !

[New Judge]

"Some from your generation are simply not comfortable with gay people."

Bit presumptious, sp. I've no particular feelings about gay people. Live and let live; so long as I don't have to watch or pay for whatever it is they get up to I don't care two hoots. However, I don't understand their need to parade through the streets (and I'm sure there was a similar event last New Year's Day). In fact I don't understand the need for anybody to parade through the streets so my lack of understanding is not confined to gay people. (Cue questions such as "What about Remembrance Day?" etc. etc.)

What I'm not comfortable with is someone wearing a police officer's uniform making a spectacle of himself (for whatever reason) in public, especially when he's at an event that he knows is being covered by national news agencies. The police in the UK are supposed to be a bit special. They already are hard to distinguish from dustmen as they roam around in hi-viz vests. It does their cause no good at all to behave in this manner.

Just as an aside, anyone got any thoughts on why the Metropolitan Police feel the need to be "represented" at such an event?

[mikey4444]

NJ....I think its probably something to do with inclusivity NJ.
Lots of different organisations are represented at Pride.

I'm not sure its such a bad thing to demonstrate that the old bigoted ways are now in the past. Gay people were treated pretty awfully up until recently.
Its within the memory of millions of us that they could have been put into prison for what happened in London, and I am sure that we wouldn't want those dark days to come back again.

Anyway, its just a bit of fun to liven up our drab little lives !

Live and let live !

[anotheoldgit]

mikey4444

/// Its been a long time since I read any quite as bigoted as that ! ///

Try reading some of your own posts?

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// The armed forces also paraded in the parade in full uniform. ///

That was because it also happened to be 'Armed Forces Day' as well.

[jackthehat]

///That was because it also happened to be 'Armed Forces Day' as well. ///

Nooo.......that was because the Armed Forces have relaxed their rules on gay serving personnel.....

They would have been marching even if Armed Forces Day had been held on a different weekend.

[Mamyalynne]

There were two proposals at the march, may be more who knows.

I wish both couples a happy future.


http://home.bt.com/news/news-extra/met-police-officers-proposed-to-their-partners-during-london-pride-parade-11364069966770

[anotheoldgit]

hc4361

/// There were just as many gay people when AOG was a youngster, he just didn't know it. ///

And how could you possible know that, in fact you are wrong, I lived near a lad and also went to school with him, who was gay. He also went to the same barbers as I went to, and he was such a comic he would have the salon in fits of laughter when he was in the chair.

In my later years I would frequent a pub which staged entertainment, and the gay performers were brilliant.

All this but I can never remember them making up and dressing themselves up in garters and stockings etc and marching down the street.

But then in those days we lived in much more dignified times.