I hate

Because budgets I imagine, I'm sure that'll change in coming spending rounds. You could have a whole flotilla of them up there for a fraction of the cost and keep an eye on all of us 24/7. A terrifying thought.

There’s one buzzing around right now. It’s 05:15 and all our windows are open

Imagine how much surveillance they could do with drones for the price of the helicopter fleet. Looks like around 120M quid of helicopters... that's a lot of drones to be spying on people.

What are you going to find out by looking at the heads of people? Bob met Fred in the park for 20 minutes? Isn't that already available by tracking mobile phone location from base station data?

Phones you can only get "Bob was in the same park/same bit of park as Fred" and that requires them to have the phone you're tracking. Anyway, wasn't serious, just I think if the police have, say, a budget of 20-30M a year for choppers, thats a fuckload of drones.

I'll see your helicopters, and raise you jet skis - fucking hideous things, not least when you're just trying to trip the fuck out Infront of a fire on a deserted beach at the arse end of Sheppey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_aviation_in_the_United_Kingdom

They use fixed wing stuff too. If it's for aerial tracking of cunts in cars then I'm probably in favour. if you're gonna swap it for sending up 100s of drones to spy on locals in parks "possibly" doing drugs or whatever, then no thanks, this country doesn't need more fucking cameras, it needs fewer cunts.

In 2010, The Guardian reported police forces and government agencies across the UK are exploring the potential of unmanned drones for covert aerial surveillance, security, or emergency operations. They said at least four forces – Merseyside, Essex, Staffordshire and British Transport police – have bought or used microdrones. Microdrones can be fitted with video cameras, thermal imaging devices, radiation detectors, mobile-phone jammers and air sampling devices. Hovering at heights of around 60 metres (200 ft), they are said by manufacturers to be virtually invisible from the ground. The costs of operating the drones are considerably less than operating helicopters.[9]

I'm never going to annoy you, with your powers of laying on a curse!

Two jetskiers have been rescued by the RNLI from mudflats in the Swale, their jetskis were left there. Both suffered mechanical problems.

Edit: Sheppey only has an arse end.

One drone is noisy enough and when some dick head gets one out at some event or a viewpoint to get yet another swooping flyby shot it ruins it for everyone. Can't imagine if the police just had 100s of them flying around through the day.

Yeah fuck drones

.https://youtu.be/sfFVt6VD5cM

🤣 If it reassures you, I tend only to lay curses on myself

Epic WTF >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Also when you've just woken up from riding your face into a rock at over 35mph

@andyp 's new avatar, which I always mistake for @gbj_tester

Dutch drivers - Maybe we only see the worst here but over summer, the majority of close passes are Dutch cars, frequently with a caravan they seem to have forgotten is attached to the back so the close pass gets REALLY close.

I'm not sure I like it that much, so it may change again.

the cunt who previously owned this house. i would very much like to meet and the twat hime right in the face. He was was apparently incapable of doing diy without absolutely fucking at least 50% of the fixings to the point they are destroyed and literally impossible to remove.

have lost over 3 hours this week alone trying to navigate around the pricks handiwork on 2 simple odd jobs that should have been knocked out in less than 30 minutes combined.

I love the cause but it's a shit avatar. Go back to your old one (which I can't remember but that says more about me than you)

Same as our joint. But I'm really good at combining a screwdriver with rage so have dealt with most of the easy stuff.

Nearly every single screw in this place was rounded out.

I cannot comment further as I hate DIY and am totally shit at it.

I love the cause but it's a shit avatar. Go back to your old one

cough Catmask cough

Reinstated due to popular demand.

(I still don't see it)

In our house he’s called Mr Bodger. Lives nearby too so on occasion has come back to tell me about the durability of his handiwork. I dream of telling him the truth: the reason why it’s survived is because it’s too expensive to put right his incompetence.