The cop who pulled Nikki and Helen over asked if they were nurses, and then gave Helen a wink, what was that about? Is being a nurse a code for lesbian in the UK????

Yeah that was a weird one wasn't it i dont get it either i only know that copper gives me the creeps :eek

Did anybody notice that she said bed and not beds????

Yes, that's part of what makes it so suggestive that the cop is a lesbian, letting them off, because she thinks they are.

Now, I wonder, if she really thought they were nurses or if she just thought they were kinky lesbians or both.

The first time I assumed, she was actually letting nurses off, as a sort of professional courteousy, because saving lives/helping people heal is their job. Just a compassion for women who were out late, working hard, wearing a uniform, because maybe that's how she saw it for women cops. I mean, I know people sometimes let doctors off the hook for little things, as well. Of course I did take the wink and bed line to imply she was letting them off for more than just being nurses.

Course, since she was scary, maybe she just had a nurse fetish & serious gaydar, lol.

I don't think nurse is code for lesbian in the UK or anywhere else. Nurses are more known for hooking up with doctors, which are still more often than not, male.

Id just like to say here that I used to work in a Hospital not a nurse but a Radiographer.

And that here in New Zealand if all the gay people left the Hospital system both men and women nurses and other staff that the Hospitals here would collapse and be grossley understaffed.

So I always took the Woman Police Officer to think immediatly that they were gay because they were nurses.

Just my spin from NZ.

Maybe the girls from Shed have dated Nurse's :lol1

LOL! Not that I know of!

I took it that the cop thought they'd had a lovers quarrel and that's why they swerved. As Washuai suggested, the "nurses" reference I took to mean that she was going to let them go without any more fuss as a professional courteousy (which does sometimes happen in the UK). I think the conspiratorial wink and bed line was to let them know that she thought they were lesbians and to imply (albeit a bit scarily) that she was too!

ETA - I'm not too sure that she would have let them off simply because she thought they were lesbians so I'm assuming that's why the nurses line is important.

Cassandra, you put that very well.

silverballnz, I'm not saying the entire medical profession is straighter, than humanity in general. That's interesting that the particular hospital you worked at was less so. Really my experience is technically of Southern California hospitals serving neighborhoods considered more consservative. Although, really calling some SoCal Republicans is a joke, compared to real right wingers. The point is, maybe NZ is just more liberal or has a higher gay population, where you are silverballnz? Where I was maybe the population is lower. I'd definitely say there are more queer health care professionals in the Bay Area, than where I grew up.

My time and knowledge of nursing and nurses is largely, because my mom has been a nurse my entire life, which meant a lot of time around hospitals and other nurses. I got trained as an EKG Tech & cardiac monitor technician, which meant time in the hospital as a worker.

Although, in this case we're talking about the cop's perception. I might as well bring up men more so, but women as well would seriously hit on nurses, as if they were in a single's bar. My thinking is sheesh, they're working professionals, not someone dressed up at your local strip club.
I wasn't happy that some women, in this day and age, would actually become a nurse in order to marry a doctor, either. I see nursing, more as Dominic saw his job at Larkhall. A very tough, but a secure paying job, where he has the opportunity to do some good.

silverballnz, that's kind of what I meant, ahhh New Zealand.....


casssandra, I hadn't thought of the lovers quarrel, makes sense though, sharp!

I agree that letting them go was probably a professional courtesy. The policewoman probably thought that Helen was getting up to no good on her day off while poor Nikki was slaving away at the hospital, which resulted in the lover's tiff. Little did she know. The wink I took more as the policewoman being a conspirator, showing them she was on their side because she was, well, on their side. Maybe the policewoman had a fetish for nurses, and that is why she let them go?

In SA a fairly large segment of our nurses are also gay, both male and female. That's not to say they are all gay, but a lot of them are. Not enough though for us to jump to the conclusion that if you're a nurse, you're gay.