I know it’s 100% stereo types but I found it deep in my meme collection and wanted to share!

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    I’m pretty sure hell has American police, healthcare, justice system, education and public transport. Not sure about the rest.

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      No guns, strong social incentive to be polite so even the bobbies aren’t as assholey as other cops.

      At least that’s my theory

    • mobyduck648@lemmy.world
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      The Peelian ideal is genuinely quite good compared to many philosophies of policing in my view, the whole idea that the legitimacy of policing can only come from it being executed from the bottom-up by citizens in uniform rather than top-down from the state’s mandated skull-crackers is pretty progressive for 19th century London. The fact the police aren’t generally armed on this basis is rare internationally and genuinely a good thing in my view.

      The problem is like any theory, it doesn’t often survive contact with reality for very long. The gap between the model and reality, and the value of the model itself have obviously been discussed at length elsewhere on here. Also the first ‘Peelers’ were not exactly popular too.

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      On May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a 46-year-old Black American man, was murdered by Derek Chauvin, a 44-year-old White police officer, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.[16] Floyd had been arrested after a store clerk reported that he made a purchase using a counterfeit $20 bill.[17] Chauvin knelt on Floyd’s neck for over nine minutes while Floyd was handcuffed and lying face-down.[18][19][20] Two other police officers, J. Alexander Kueng and Thomas Lane, assisted Chauvin in restraining Floyd. Lane had also pointed a gun at Floyd’s head before he was handcuffed.[21] A fourth officer, Tou Thao, prevented bystanders from intervening

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd

      It’s a matter of perspective. If someone is abused enough by their own peackeepers, they’ll beg for some that are less abusive.

  • wizzor@sopuli.xyz
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    20 hours ago

    It’s an old joke, but I kind of like it. Even if it’s stereotyping, it also sort of says that we all have our strengths and weaknesses. Although, I think british food gets too much flack and I find french police to be scarier than german.

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    18 hours ago

    It’s always some version of that. Another version involves Russians: in heaven the French are the chefs, British are the organizers, Italians make the suits, Russians do the heavy work. In hell the French do the heavy work, British are chefs, Italians are the organizers and the Russians make the suits.

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    Ruining pluralism is the new status quo for american cultural imperialism. “Imagine a world with only one culture, itd be so cool” Ig this is why U.S has two parties and they are doing their best to become one-party system. True brain activity optimization.

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          I think it also depends which police force and when or why you are interacting with them.

          Had polite interactions with them before, going around a bunch of cunts protesting and wanted to know which roads were closed or not to get around it.

          Late at night when they have more important things to deal with? Yeah, they won’t stop for a chat.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      They get a lot of points for still knowing how to make a good fondue or raclette. All the Brits have are scones and Indian food

        • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          24 hours ago

          We have cheddar too

          Confused french noises

          (To be perfectly honest there’s some good cheddar out there, but don’t tell my countrymen I said that)

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            France is dangerous. Visited Cherbourg a few months ago and spent like €50 on cheese.

            All this thinking of cheese, now I want some Camembert.

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              Welsh cheese is legitimately very underrated. Hafod is a top-tier cheddar for example, I used to live in Ceredigion and if I had to live out the rest of my days with one country’s cheese I’d tentatively give it to Wales.

              But yes France is very dangerous, I’m unfortunately on medication which is not permitted there or I’d spend much more time in France and probably eat considerably more cheese. I sailed to Cherbourg once as a child, was quite a formative experience in terms of cheese and later wine.

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      You have fish and chips, they have fondue. You both have one dish you excel at. Though now I’m thinking fondue dip for fish and chips would be delightful…

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      Bro, Swiss is the food French people look up to. Unless they are from Paris. Then they till their head as far back as possible so they can stair down their nose at people taller than them.

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    Germany is not so known for mechanical superiority these days, and in fact a lot of their infrastructure is aging poorly.

    The history is well earned but they be slippin.

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      It’s not aging poorly. It’s just maintained badly. When you build a road that’s supposed to live 50 years you can’t expect it to be in good conditions after 70 years.

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          I mean, those bridges are exactly what I said - no maintenance.

          Railroad traffic is also in bad shape due to the same reason: the infrastructure was neglected and not maintained over decades. Maintenance is not just repairing a broken piece of track or power line. Maintenance also includes modernisation, expansion and adapting to changing environmental factors, requirements etc.

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      They certainly do still have mechanical superiority in cars. Mechanical. But the important part in a car is infotainment now. And also they don’t like doing EVs (battery cost per kWh being 2-3x higher for them vs Chinese companies like BYD or Volvo being one major factor).

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        Show me a mechanically superior car from the last 10 years without infotainment (i have a phone already) and i might even consider buying one.

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      Even if we ignore all the institutional racism, aggression towards peaceful protesters, kettling practices, undercover officers destroying lives of environmental activists, etc etc etc… I’ve never really had anything other than negative interactions with the police. There’s such uncalled for distrust and hostility in the interactions with them; when it isn’t warranted at all.

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        I can also imagine tge British organizing it all with their queueing and all. Don’t let them draw any borders though

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    Heaven is where the gay men are Belgian, the gay men are Armenian, the gay men are Indian, the gay men are Malaysian, the gay men are Peruvian, and the gay men are Cameroonian

    I’m horny and indiscriminate