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[–] [email protected] 60 points 2 months ago (1 children)

tbf, usually when the police and military type agencies start being given outfits specifically designed to look cool, its often because of an authoritarian group getting power and wanting people to idolize or join up with those professions, so having unusually good looking police outfits can be a bit suspicious

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

All the best cops wear high-viz

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I support our ~~meter maids~~ parking attendants and crossing guards.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

For real, though. Pick the cop least likely to be on a power trip.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I'm thinking... the one in a skirt and heels.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know the correct way to spell zhouzh, but I know for a fact it is not "jooj".

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Believe it or not I think the correct answer is genuinely in the middle for once

Jouzh

The start is slightly shorter than the end

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Okay, well just remember you made me do this:

Genre - nre

&

Beige - Bei

It's now spelled

Geouge

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

It’s tough but fair. I’ll have the t-shirts made up in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is it french? (don't come for me I can't conjugate in french to save my fucking life 😂 but jouez looked...more pleasant to my eyeballs lol)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I do not understand either of those, what do you mean?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Is it anything like juche, the Korean-supremacist ideology of North Korea?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

As a kid I always wondered why most police uniforms were black. Bad guys wear black. As an adult, I get it now. Bad guys wear black.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Now I'm picturing a cop trying to walk all confidently out of his squad car during a traffic stop while wearing a frilly maid outfit.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We could even get the military in on this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah? Ah? What do you think?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This thread isn't complete without that pic of WW2 British soldiers operating coastal defense artillery in drag

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Last person that tried to do something like that got fired

We always lose the good ones

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

This is also how I spell it, but is it the correct spelling?

Edit: I should have just read further.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They claim it's jouzh but I don't agree, the Oxford dictionary has zhuzh

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

zhuzh and zhoosh according to Merriam-Webster.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Disagree, their uniform is pretty great!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ok that is kind of styling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Also no guns, so I don't have to worry to be shot for shits and giggles :)

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 months ago

Really owning the whole dickhead thing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's spelled "zhuzh", I think.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The internet didn't seem to agree on one spelling so I went with phonetic.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is by far the pettiest complaint about law enforcement I’ve heard in my entire life.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

look up all meanings of "to serve"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

While we're at it, why aren't the cops brining donuts to my house?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Dressing schlubby is how the Nazis are disguising themselves lately.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Oh - hahaha - yeah, no . . . Ehhhh, no they’re not here to serve. Heh.

Naw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we should dress them with more style.

HUGO BOSS STYLE

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Haha Nazis funny

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Because they know nobody's tipping.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is this it? Am I finally too old to understand The Youths™?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand the reasoning. The serving class has never been pretty to behold. Wealthy people are the pretty ones.

We know that they're wealthy because they haven't got shit all over them.

[–] felsiq 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

The joke is with the double meaning of “serve”, which is also slang for looking good or having good style

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Ah, thank you, young lad for helping this old person cross the language road today.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

They're here to serve man, obviously.