I know it’s 100% stereo types but I found it deep in my meme collection and wanted to share!
My god, that is ancient. My teacher in French class used to tell that joke. That was over 35 years 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.
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.
Yeah the thing British cooking part is about as outdated as thinking Americans are rugged pioneers lol.
I’m pretty sure hell has American police, healthcare, justice system, education and public transport. Not sure about the rest.
Food’s pretty good though
That’s because of the Mexicans.
With british food then
Mexican tequila and tepache? Where does that come in?
Why do you think British police are good?
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
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.
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.
It’s an old meme, I don’t think OP is making any judgements about the British police.
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.
I rather have Dutch police though. They will even do your dishes in certain cases.
Spanish people, despite being more catholic than all those countries, do not fit into heaven or hell.
id rather it be antarctican cops
I know people like to rag on British food, but it hurts a little bit to see it rated below Swiss.
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…
We’ve got Beef Wellington and Lancashire Hotpot as well. Not to mention the fact that every town in the North has a cake named after it.
You clearly never tried a pie and mash
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
This is a slander to great Brittish pie culture.
We have cheddar too. What about deep fried haggis?
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)
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.
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.
Firstly, you can’t just melt cheese and call it a cuisine. Secondly, are you forgetting the glorious British carbonara?
Hey it takes skill to really nail a fondue. Raclette though, it’s basically all about choosing good quality ingredients, I’ll grant you that
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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.
I’m surprised by Italians being the lovers here, I thought I was atypical for apparently being into people who are short, loud, and very opinionated
They do good work with their hands.
It’s talking about Italians, not New Yorkers who’s great grandma was Italian.
It never rang true, and it perpetuates idiotic stereotypes.
Still, it made me laugh.
…why would police be allowed into heaven?
Why would they be needed?
Heaven has no place for people who violently uphold the status quo at all costs in a vain pursuit of their concept of “order”.
I know the police cause you trouble
They cause trouble everywhere
But when you die and go to Heaven
You’ll find no policemen there– Hobos Lullaby
I hear there’s a lake of stew. And whiskey, too!
You paddle all around it in a big canoe!
You can paddle all around it in a big canoe.
Have you read about the Christian god? He’s like the ultimate cop.
You are thinking of Santa Claus 😉
No, Santa is much nicer, coal rather than eternal torture.
That’s a valid question. Well probably because their hell is needing to do their jobb right XD
It feels like an easy upvote as an American, but…there are countries where police are dutiful, helpful, and measured in force.
Where? In Madeupland? The United Kingdom of Doesn’t Exist and Northern Imagination?
Our police may not be as bad as American police but they’re certainly not dutiful, helpful, or measured in force.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional_racism_in_the_Metropolitan_Police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforcement_officers_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot-to-kill_policy_in_Northern_Ireland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_undercover_policing_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Custodial_deaths_in_the_United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_corruption#United_Kingdom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_the_United_Kingdom#Issues
Shit…USA, UK…are there any other countries in the world to consider?
Ok, to be serious, I have heard much better stories of Japanese police, German police, New Zealand police, and several others. I definitely didn’t plan to include the UK’s Zionists in my “good examples”.
German police currently have a serious neonazi problem
Japanese police are famous for only investigating crimes they are confident they can solve. Also for finding a culprit once they start investigating, even if there isn’t enough evidence to convict. Something about losing face if you accuse someone and turns out it’s not true.
So yeah, you may find individual OK cops, maybe even good. But I’m yet to see evidence of a good police force.
It’s a thread about British police…
But while we’re here, none of your examples fit the description either.
No it isn’t. The meme image collects a bunch of European nationalities and isn’t even specifically about cops. The top comment here is about police getting into heaven. Maybe most comments are about American or UK cops, but that’s because that’s where the complaints are.
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Heaven is where the police are British
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…why would police be allowed into heaven?
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It feels like an easy upvote as an American, but…there are countries where police are dutiful, helpful, and measured in force.
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The second line implies there isn’t a single good cop in the entire world that would get into heaven. Otherwise it would have said “why would British police be allowed into heaven?”.
So this entire comment threat is about every single police on Earth.
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Far too many are mostly just a tool used for oppression by governments everywhere nowadays
Maybe, all I can say tell for sure is many places look down at the spectacle of US police brutality in an attempt to convince themselves the police where they live don’t have the same fundamental void at the heart of them.
Sooo no Good Cop?
ACAB
Surely the cops would be American in Hell.
Yeah think this meme is just a little old XD
Indeed. The cliché about friendly British police is also well and truly outdated.
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.
Um. Surely there are no police in heaven, at all!? Yet another reason I have no interest in heaven, I guess.
