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 just normal everyday currency among working class communities, including 
 the police (and probably lawyers and the judiciary). 
  
 How can things have changed so drastically that mere words - someone's 
 opinion of the worth of someone else - are now seen as an offence worth 
 prosecuting? Not just an offence (there was always "conduct liable to 
 cause breach of the peace" depending on the circumstances) but a serious 
 crime? 
  
 --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05 
  * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)