No. Not from us, any road, there's been some ports where things 'ave gone very pearshaped indeed - but when that 'appens we'll be right up to our necks in it along with you. No.
[Iris leans back in her seat and knocks a Sobranie Black Russian out of her packet, although she remembers not to light it while Ricki's still eating.
She also leaves the pack on the table, with a nod intended to mean help yourself if you like.]
We've got a couple of wardens from the British Navy in Napoleon's time, and more'n one inmate straight from twentieth, twenty-first century prisons. A lot of people arrive wondering when we're going to break out the floggers or the mindwipes or the neural stimulators or the solitary confinement. But we're not aiming for punishment 'ere - I wouldn't've used that word at all if I'd written the leaflet. All you can teach someone with punishment's 'ow to keep their 'ead down and do as they're told - which 'as its place on a wooden ship in wartime, admittedly, but not at all 'ere.
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[Iris leans back in her seat and knocks a Sobranie Black Russian out of her packet, although she remembers not to light it while Ricki's still eating.
She also leaves the pack on the table, with a nod intended to mean help yourself if you like.]
We've got a couple of wardens from the British Navy in Napoleon's time, and more'n one inmate straight from twentieth, twenty-first century prisons. A lot of people arrive wondering when we're going to break out the floggers or the mindwipes or the neural stimulators or the solitary confinement. But we're not aiming for punishment 'ere - I wouldn't've used that word at all if I'd written the leaflet. All you can teach someone with punishment's 'ow to keep their 'ead down and do as they're told - which 'as its place on a wooden ship in wartime, admittedly, but not at all 'ere.