Totally made up with Storph' and Nox' owning their institutions.

Excellent fred all.

Pretty sure it changes with altitude, or rather, temperature.

Also great thread, enjoyed it lots.

What, the frequency with which lies tumble from Elm's lips?

I thought you had to put a tornado into top speed which isn't quite speed of sound but by pointing the nose down and using gravity you hit it.

I presumed the piss was when out of the barrier and not during as the speed was told, taking a piss at sub 700mph is pretty impressive.

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

Doesn't it get faster the higher you go though, as the air is thinner?

Where there are less particles to vibrate and bounce off of each other?  Extrapolate that out to a vacuum.

Yeah, it's not that being violent necessitated that (although violent custodies will often be given alternate clothing for various reasons) more that her violence necessitated the use male officers to carry that out, which obviously isn't ideal.

The rest of that story is that, while she's screaming, and gnashing her teeth, and spitting, and swearing, and lashing out, and generally behaving like a wild, rabid animal, she looked at me, stopped completely and asked, "Are you the only gay in the village?"  I had a laugh with her about it, and the others were able to finish the job without her going bananas.  She then needed to be a constant supervision, because she was madder than a box of frogs, and since I was the only one who'd been able to build a rapport with her, that was my job.  Scary lady.

If they are so violent that the custody officer can't go through the welfare questions, which includes questions about any history/thoughts of self-harm/suicide, then the cell block have to err on the side of caution and grade them as high risk.  That means they'll be in a suicide suit.  There's also the fact that, if they're violent, they're more likely to be inclined to use clothing as a weapon.  That means they'll be put in a suicide suit.  Then there's the fact that a violent custody cannot be properly searched, so removal of clothing is the safest, easiest, and only certain way to ensure they have nothing on them.  Then you get things like needing their clothing for evidence.  Now, we don't need the clothing of anyone who is violent, but we need the clothing of people who have committed what may turn out to be a serious assault, or a sexual crime, and for fairly obvious reasons these are the crimes associated with violent custodies and high risk custodies.  Even of those who strip willingly, a great many think we take pleasure from getting them to remove their crispy, stinking socks, or look at their poorly-wiped arsehole.  I've heard more horrific stories from female cops of the things they've seen.  I've always said, you get used to angry men shouting at you, you get used to be alone in a room with a body for a while, you get used to loads of stuff, but you never get used to the smell of people we deal with.

I'm one of the few people in the world who has been on both ends of a strip search, so I have more empathy than most, but you'll struggle to find a cop who doesn't find the whole process disturbing.

Well this thread got dark

I want a suicide suit. They sound natty.

I'll see what I can do.

Holy shit

Yossarian wrote:

Imma wear one whilst strolling along Beachy Head.

Give it a month and they will be wearing them in shoreditch!

igorgetmeabrain wrote:

Doesn't it get faster the higher you go though, as the air is thinner?

No, it gets slower as you get higher, but due to temperature changes rather than just density, as the changes in density are cancelled out by decreases in pressure, if I remember right. For a constant Mach number, you'll be flying a much lower indicated air speed at altitude, but IAS is based purely on the number of molecules hitting your jet, so is much lower at height. It's still valid as a speed as it's those molecules that give you aerodynamic control, but it's no longer an accurate representation of how fast you're actually moving through the block of air you're in; for that you need TAS, or true air speed. 

Anyway, I work in knots, so the speed of sound at sea level is 660kts.

Also FFS, my stories involved kissing a fairly famous singer, and pinching the ass of the future Queen, and you're all talking about the speed of sound??

*hugs*