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[–] CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 60 points 1 year 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

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the best cops wear high-viz

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] blandfordforever@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] joyjoy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dmention7@lemm.ee 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Okay, well just remember you made me do this:

Genre - nre

&

Beige - Bei

It's now spelled

Geouge

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] vivavideri@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year 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)

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 19 points 1 year 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.

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year 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.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Liz@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could even get the military in on this.

[–] Liz@midwest.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah? Ah? What do you think?

[–] Omniraptor@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Jimbo@yiffit.net 4 points 1 year ago

Last person that tried to do something like that got fired

We always lose the good ones

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] SacredHeartAttack@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

Edit: I should have just read further.

[–] imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

zhuzh and zhoosh according to Merriam-Webster.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Disagree, their uniform is pretty great!

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok that is kind of styling.

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Really owning the whole dickhead thing.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's spelled "zhuzh", I think.

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] tfw_no_toiletpaper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

look up all meanings of "to serve"

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah we should dress them with more style.

HUGO BOSS STYLE

Haha Nazis funny

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

Naw.

Dressing schlubby is how the Nazis are disguising themselves lately.

[–] SonicBlue03@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Because they know nobody's tipping.

[–] RandomStickman@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 2 points 1 year 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@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Isoprenoid@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

They're here to serve man, obviously.