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And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

Ben Aaronovitch

…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Jumping Sports Wrestling
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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Bamboo Close Enough Explain Expression Legendary Top
What frustrated me was the thought that with three thousand years of history someone in China, some monk in a monastery halfway up a mountain, must have developed a magic kata.
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Expression Magic Tree Years
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it.
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Drunk People Thinking
Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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Coffee Espresso Excellent
Conflict resolution,’ said Nightingale. ‘Is this what they teach at Hendon these days?’ ‘Yes, sir,’ I said. ‘But don’t worry, they also teach us how to beat people with phone books and the ten best ways to plant evidence.
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Books People Phones
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it’s your safest bet.
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Advice Police Talking
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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Call Close Hug Moments
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.
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Book Dream Winter
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
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Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
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East Potatoe
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Holy Nightingale Paranormal
It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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Guilty Member Police
Are they really gods?” “I never worry about theological questions,” said Nightingale. “They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen’s peace – that makes them a police matter.
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Police Queen Worry
What do you think you’re doing?
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Lucky Charm Psycho Thinking

And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

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And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

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