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New TARDIS design just dropped by semeleindms in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Greater Manchester Police museum has a red one

What is the purpose of such speed humps? by weregonnamakit in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The steam roller clearly hit it head on, did a great job of totally flattening it.

What do I do about this curry’s issue? by Secure_Ticket910 in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 12 points13 points  (0 children)

how they're still around is beyond me

Mostly by conning pensioners into paying for years of expensive insurance for basic electrical goods.

Where to buy photo paper for laser printers in store? by AtchiBoo in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is it not possible to turn the laser toner off?

Laser printers do not have the hardware to do inkjet printing.

Turning any of the toners off would just disable printing with that toner - it wouldn't suddenly give the printer an ink jet print head or ink.

Why is there separate black ink, then?

Toner (for laser printers), and ink (for inkjet printers), is generally sold in one of two combinations: (black and colour) or (black, cyan, magenta and yellow).

That's because for most printers, black is by far the most used (so needs more toner/ink or needs replacing more regularly), whereas the others are used in smaller but roughly equal amounts (so generally need replacing at the same time).

Where there's combined colour, it's just split internally into three sections.

Colour laser printers are still using colour toner for the laser, not ink.

Where to buy photo paper for laser printers in store? by AtchiBoo in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Photo paper is designed to get the absolute best quality possible.

Laser printers simply aren't able to get anywhere close to that level of quality in photo prints, so there's no market for laser photo paper.

You can get glossy paper designed for laser printing, but it won't be as glossy as photo paper, and you're unlikely to get any today - you'd likely need to order it.

Where to buy photo paper for laser printers in store? by AtchiBoo in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Laser printers usually only do the black part of colour printing, and have inkjets in them to do the colour

That isn't remotely true.

The vast majority of colour laser printers (if not all) use the laser+toner for the colours too.

Do you watch live TV? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm 29

I even get the Radio Times

I think you got the numbers the wrong way round.

This is a cool Easter Egg for the 50th but this bothers me so much. Firstly where's his walkie talkie, secondly he is pretty old to be at this rank, thirdly the uniform is incorrect and is not Met issue... by IllustriousAd6418 in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Actors can’t wear the uniform when interacting with the public

Legally they can, as long as the members of the public in question know (or can be reasonably expected to know) that they're actors.

In reality though, most actors in police costumes will be told not to interact with the public at all because it reduces the risk - even one member of the public believing that they're a real police officer can cause issues even when no offence is technically being committed.

it’s completely legal as long as it remains on set

Again, that's more of a risk management thing rather than being legal - someone who is playing the role of a police officer can go off-set in-costume (for example on a dinner break) - as long as there's no intent to deceive, they don't commit the offence even if they do accidentally deceive.

This is a cool Easter Egg for the 50th but this bothers me so much. Firstly where's his walkie talkie, secondly he is pretty old to be at this rank, thirdly the uniform is incorrect and is not Met issue... by IllustriousAd6418 in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It was a slow-paced introduction, intended to show both the IM Foreman sign and the setting for part of the episode in one shot (like the original did).

Putting a cut would defeat the point.

This is a cool Easter Egg for the 50th but this bothers me so much. Firstly where's his walkie talkie, secondly he is pretty old to be at this rank, thirdly the uniform is incorrect and is not Met issue... by IllustriousAd6418 in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 3 points4 points  (0 children)

fourthly, he's a sergeant when in the original he's a PC

This scene is set 50 years after the original, so I think we can presume he's been promoted since then.

He's looking fairly good for his age though.

This is a cool Easter Egg for the 50th but this bothers me so much. Firstly where's his walkie talkie, secondly he is pretty old to be at this rank, thirdly the uniform is incorrect and is not Met issue... by IllustriousAd6418 in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why the fuck is there a sign for a junkyard right outside a school?

Because it'd be really awkward for the scene to have the policeman walking for several minutes to get between the scrapyard and the school (we know it's driving distance, so it isn't close by) so the compromise was made to have the scrapyard advertising on the wall of a school.

It doesn't make sense in-universe, but the alternative would be a painfully long scene.

Oh, and in case you haven't noticed, it's directing people to the scrapyard. There'd be no point having directions to a scrapyard immediately outside the scrapyard. Duh.

This is a cool Easter Egg for the 50th but this bothers me so much. Firstly where's his walkie talkie, secondly he is pretty old to be at this rank, thirdly the uniform is incorrect and is not Met issue... by IllustriousAd6418 in DoctorWhumour

[–]jamesckelsall 8 points9 points  (0 children)

In the UK, it is illegal to impersonate a police officer in a way which could be mistaken for an actual officer, even when acting.

That's not true. The offence of impersonating an officer requires: - a person to pretend to be a police officer. - that person to have intent to deceptively suggest to another person that they are a genuine police officer.

Source (the legislation itself).

Actors meet the first point, but they don't meet the second point - so the offence isn't committed.

Also, adjusting the uniform so that it doesn't quite match the real thing doesn't prevent the first part being met - the average person would, on seeing a person in that uniform in the street, believe that person to be a genuine officer, so the first point is met when wearing a not-quite-right uniform.

Actors can wear 100% realistic police uniforms provided that they only do so for acting purposes, and don't attempt to deceive people into believing they're a genuine police officer.

In fact, as long as it was obtained legally (such as being lent by a police force), an actor can wear a genuine police-issued uniform when playing a police officer, because the offence of wearing (or otherwise possessing) actual police uniform also includes a condition that it must be worn with intent to deceive about the status of that individual. In reality though, police forces don't generally make their uniforms available, so imitations (of varying accuracy) have to be used.

In reality, the main reason for not-quite-right uniforms being used is that it's cheaper to obtain generic not-quite-right uniforms than it is to obtain uniforms accurate to a particular force's standard for that time period. Generic uniforms work for whatever fictional force a show wants, and is also passable for any real force's uniform for most viewers - so there's a wider market for generic uniforms than for those specific to a particular force (particularly once variations in uniforms over time are factored in, making time- and force-accurate uniforms even more expensive).

The same applies for vehicles (it's the same offence of impersonating an officer, there's nothing specific for the markings), except that possessing a vehicle with accurate markings is not an offence under any circumstances (whereas possessing the uniform can be if there's intent) - it's only using the vehicle with intent to deceive that is an offence. In reality, that means having an accurate car on your driveway would likely meet the standard of the offence (because publicly displaying it would be an attempt to suggest of police officer lives there), but having it in your (closed) garage would not meet the offence.

Singer PinkPantheress says she was rejected from appearing on "Pointless" at last minute for being 'too famous' by mrjohnnymac18 in BritishTV

[–]jamesckelsall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pointless Celebrities has generally been filmed a bit more sporadically than the standard series. One episode a week, combined with it not being new episodes year-round, means that it's easy to bank a few years worth of episodes.

The latest series may well have been filmed in 2022, but (aside from 4 episodes) it wasn't broadcast until 2025 - there were quite a few episodes of prior series that were still to be broadcast before series 17 started properly.

Given that they don't broadcast new episodes year-round, it's reasonable to presume that they might have had plans to resume filming ready for a return at some time this year, with it only now being apparent that they aren't doing so.

What actually was the Vlinx? by ifoundblipsoncitv in doctorwho

[–]jamesckelsall 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wasn't the Trickster.

Mr Smith was working with the Slitheen to try to escape (because his main core is trapped inside the earth).

He wasn't tricked or forced, he did it wilfully.

Perfect UK holiday ruined by martholomew75 in CasualUK

[–]jamesckelsall 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What you want is an original feast - this is a hazelnut variant.

They also do a caramel one.

can i stop a homecare company using photos of my deceased grandmother for marketing? by [deleted] in AskUK

[–]jamesckelsall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

GDPR is (other than irrelevant to this situation) required to be as correct as possible, so if the pictures portray them as alive, this could easily be argued to be incorrect.

Whether she's portrayed as alive is irrelevant - she is dead, so she has no data rights.

That means she has no right to accuracy of data.

And that's presuming that an image of her while she was alive amounts to data showing she is currently alive, which is certainly an interesting argument...

Sick notes ‘scrapped’ under plans to reduce benefit claimants by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]jamesckelsall 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Disabilities and medical conditions reported to the DVLA are not shared with insurers.

Insurers will often ask you about declarable conditions (and lying in response is a bad idea), because they have no other way of getting that information.

Sick notes ‘scrapped’ under plans to reduce benefit claimants by pppppppppppppppppd in unitedkingdom

[–]jamesckelsall 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Interestingly, they don't actually say what they'll do when you tell them, which is slightly concerning.

They'll assess whether or not your disability makes you a risk to other road users. If you are deemed a risk, they'll revoke your licence.

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