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I can't believe it, I'm actually properly excited for the start of a TV programme! 

Totally justified if tonight's episode was anything to go by.

I have not always watched it, but was a little underwhelmed by it. Besides which, how would you know, you're only a CHIS!

Wonder how many people googled CHIS in the last hour

A lot of scene setting, but have faith

Seemed a little heavy handed compared to past series, but I'm ready to give it a while to get back into the swing of things.

Completely understandable: in Line of Duty we have a proper challenger for overseas successes like The Wire and Spiral.

I just thought tonight's episode was a bit Ted light.

There was one gem of a Ted-ism, when he told Steve to "houl yer whisht"

Lost all its sense with the continual use of jargon...wtf. Totally underwhelmed!

And "waiting for the white smoke?"

"WTF" - nice one! I'm sure it will fit in somewhere in between OCG and CHIS.

Habemus Papem.  The declaration that the vatican has decided upon a new pope.

CHIS did get us wondering, but it was reasonably obvious that it meant an informant of some sort. 

They explained it at the end of the episode - Covert Human Intelligence Source.

https://www.entertainmentdaily.co.uk/tv/what-does-chis-mean-and-what-is-dir...

Just like CI in Chicago PD and similar.

I'm in the process of texting a few Irish friends to see if "sucking diesel" is really a phrase much used....?

There's a rumour that Adrian Dunbar makes much of this up ad-lib!

We binged the previous five series last week, as during the previous series we kept asking each other "Who the hell is Hargreaves/Henderson/Hodgekins?"

Well worth doing as you lose track of what appear to be peripheral characters that become relevant  in later series.

The constant ambushing of convoys and 'battle of wits in the AC12 interview room' do seem a bit repetitive though.

And why was no-one watching Midsomer Murders?  People killed by bees.

Not with the sucking diesel, apparently.

I think "the interview" is one of the programme's great strengths ( and the ambushing that goes on within those dialogues is even more compelling than the ambushes out on the streets). 

If you are going to join the Polis, learn to count

I agree, and I love the series, but it is to an extent the 'staged exposition', that crops up at the end of Columbo and other US cop dramas.

If we’re talking about ted-isms, the one about being lucky to spot a pipe band at that speed (armed robbery getaway van, side street) was pretty damn good.

I think Ted is on course for becoming as much a cult figure as his Craggy Island counterpart.

He's even putting his foot in it with vulnerable and protected groups, referring to the Downs syndrome lad as a "local oddball".

" I hear you're an ableist now, gaffer. Should we all be ableist?"

Or that other great Ted 'sorting out the drainage in the lower field'  -  youtube.com/watch?v=svu33n6b9-o&

Promising start to LoD6.

Excellent, new to me, reminnds me a bit of Spartacus:

" Tell me, Antoninus, have you ever eaten oysters?"

I owe you an apology - on rereading the thread it's now clear to me that you weren't seeking an explanation of what the white smoke comment meant!  I'd misread your post as being a reply to Sean's, directly above. I shall not impugn your knowledge of papism again.

I'm delighted to know that sucking diesel is a genuine phrase!

I had to Google MIT. 

That well known institute of science & learning in the States?

I wonder if the white/black smoke is somehow related to sucking diesel. ( I have a vision of some shifty cleric siphoning diesel out of a car in the Sistine Chapel car park)

Yes, I was pleased to hear about sucking diesel. My source  (HIS but not CHIS)tells me that "away for slates" has a similar meaning.

Its amazingly easy, and entertaining, to imagine the LoD scenes with Father Ted replacing the LoD Ted.

but probably slightly harder and less entertaining the other way around?

Except, perhaps, for "that money was just resting in my account!"

Mother of God, you're right!

FGS its HOLY Mother of God!

Jesus , Joseph and Mary, so it is.