rant · moment 8 of 17
British Cops as Historical Idiots and the 'Adolescence' Netflix Show
from Backrooms, Spencer Pratt, & The D’Amelio Family Disaster | The Tim Dillon Show #498 · #498
8 min
Tim riffs on the historical role of British police as club-wielding thugs poorly suited to modern 'equity' policing directives, tangents into doing British/Australian/Scouse accents, and praises the acting (but mocks the heavy-handed messaging) in the Netflix show Adolescence.
- British cops for 200 years only beat drunks in the street with clubs, now asked to assess cultural ramifications of incidents
- Tim notes it's funny that drunk people lie about being stabbed, and cops immediately disbelieve them
- The Netflix show Adolescence is about a kid inspired by Andrew Tate to stab someone, with phenomenal acting but heavy-handed messaging about Joe Rogan and radicalization
- Cop dismisses the white kid's claim of being stabbed because he assumes the Sikh is the victim
- Two reactions to the stabbing incident: attacking random brown people, or ignoring it completely and saying it has no meaning
- London comics live in fear of BBC calling them racist, which would destroy their livelihood on the city's traditional media landscape
- Britain has a more top-down paramilitary system of customs and rules that inspires compliance, unlike America's looser approach to speech
- UK society is currently experiencing its 2020 moment six years later, with people sick of not discussing what's actually happening around them
- The dam is breaking in Britain because people feel stymied by customs and requirements they never signed up for
- When you try to shut people up it works for a period, then you have to start killing them, because most people's primary activity is talking
BBCAdolescenceAndrew TateUnited KingdomRicky GervaisJimmy CarrJoe Rogan