um...fyi, "sod" in Ireland/England/Scotland/Wales is a perjoritive term, albeit a mild one.
"I saw that face mask, you silly sod."
Translation
"I saw that face mask, jackass."
(It aint LIMEY dawg for nothing.)
"The freedom of individuals to verbally to oppose or to challenge police actions without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state."