Have you have heard of the saying "to read someone the Riot Act", in the sense of warning someone / telling someone off?
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@neil Okay first of all, I expected a rick roll.
Second of all, I didn't expect you to sound so distinguished
I can only apologise for disappointing you on so many levels in one toot.
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Well, the proclamation, anyway...
@neil Oh. I think that was in last week's episode of For All Mankind
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Have you have heard of the saying "to read someone the Riot Act", in the sense of warning someone / telling someone off?
Have you *actually read* the Riot Act?
@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk I know the expression, but am not sure if I've heard it being used outside Jingo.
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In a voice full of pathos and gravitas Neil reads out the 1714 Riot Act Proclamation:
"Our sovereign lord the King chargeth and commandeth all persons, being assembled, immediately to disperse themselves, and peaceably to depart to their habitations, or to their lawful business, upon the pains contained in the act made in the first year of King George, for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies. God save the King."
@simonzerafa It is in the alt-text for the recording. I can see it on Tusky, but not in the Mastodon web client, but perhaps I am doing something wrong.
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@simonzerafa It is in the alt-text for the recording. I can see it on Tusky, but not in the Mastodon web client, but perhaps I am doing something wrong.
I need to check if the ability to add alt text had any known bugs
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I need to check if the ability to add alt text had any known bugs
️It added fine, but whether it is visible/accessible in all clients might be a different matter!
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It added fine, but whether it is visible/accessible in all clients might be a different matter!
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Umm. I don't remember them doing so during the various 1980's riots so probably quite archaic.
Additional: The AI in my Internet search engine confidently states in was the Criminal Law Act 1967 for England and Wales and 1973 for Scotland and Northern Ireland.
That's might even be correct! Not as archaic as I thought
️@simonzerafa @neil the text states the act was made in the first year of King George. I don't know which King George it's referring to, but Elizabeth II had been monarch for 15 years by 1967, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say the AI is spouting bollocks.
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@simonzerafa @neil the text states the act was made in the first year of King George. I don't know which King George it's referring to, but Elizabeth II had been monarch for 15 years by 1967, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say the AI is spouting bollocks.
Those dates probably relate to the *revocation* of the Act, rather than the Act itself.
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@simonzerafa I might have done that - I don't recall.
I've definitely done the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.
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@simonzerafa @neil the text states the act was made in the first year of King George. I don't know which King George it's referring to, but Elizabeth II had been monarch for 15 years by 1967, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say the AI is spouting bollocks.
@simonzerafa @neil Wikipedia says it came into force in 1715 and was repealed in England and Wales in 1967.
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Have you have heard of the saying "to read someone the Riot Act", in the sense of warning someone / telling someone off?
Have you *actually read* the Riot Act?
@neil I think I voted wrong, but I can't change it.
I voted "Heard of it, not read it". I've read the proclamation before, but not the full act.
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@neil I think I voted wrong, but I can't change it.
I voted "Heard of it, not read it". I've read the proclamation before, but not the full act.
@rpbook Fortunately it is just a fun fedi poll, and really doesn't matter
But yes, I imagine that most people who have clicked "read it" have read only a sub-section of it.
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Well, the proclamation, anyway...
@neil The trick these days is getting a group of twelve or more people.
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Well, the proclamation, anyway...
@neil I seem to recall reading somewhere that the threat behind those mild words was "We will summarily murder anybody who ignores this command" - is that right?
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@neil I seem to recall reading somewhere that the threat behind those mild words was "We will summarily murder anybody who ignores this command" - is that right?
> to the number of twelve or more (notwithstanding such proclamation made) unlawfully, riotously, and tumultuously remain or continue together by the space of one hour after such command or request made by proclamation, that then such continuing together to the number of twelve or more, after such command or request made by proclamation, shall be adjudged felony without benefit of clergy, and the offenders therein shall be adjudged felons, and *shall suffer death as in a case of felony without benefit of clergy*.
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@rpbook Fortunately it is just a fun fedi poll, and really doesn't matter
But yes, I imagine that most people who have clicked "read it" have read only a sub-section of it.
@neil that's autistic brain for you. Most people assume "read it" means the proclamation, I assume it means the whole act
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Well, the proclamation, anyway...
@neil This is great, thank you for doing it.
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Have you have heard of the saying "to read someone the Riot Act", in the sense of warning someone / telling someone off?
Have you *actually read* the Riot Act?
@neil There's a very good B&W film called "The Hill", which involves an insurrection in a British army prison in North Africa.
At one point, the RSM, who's been responsible for the conditions leading to the unrest, walks into the prison block.
RSM: <holds a book in the air> "If there's any more trouble, I'll read you the riot act. You know how long it takes. And if that doesn't have any effect, I'll charge the ringleaders with mutiny!"
Prisoner: "Who's the ringleaders?"
RSM: "EVERY FIFTH MAN!"
