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

Text reading "Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organised by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics French, the lover's Swiss, the police German and it's all organised by the Italians."

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[–] 119 points 18 hours ago* (10 children)

...why would police be allowed into heaven?

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  • [–] 20 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 14 hours ago

    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.

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  • [–] 46 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

    Surely the cops would be American in Hell.

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  • [–] 42 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

    The British police part maybe not so much.

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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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  • [–] 35 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 8 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 14 points 17 hours ago (1 child)

    Wow, I remember hearing some version of this when I was a lil kid back in the 1980s, and it was ancient then. This might even be a joke from the pre-WW2-era.

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  • [–] 12 points 16 hours ago

    Never had cause to complain about Swiss women before 🤷

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  • [–] 12 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

    Hell is a bookshelf 7.161 billion light-years wide

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  • [–] 10 points 12 hours ago (1 child)

    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

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    [–] 9 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    I get all the professions, but I always thought this joke's big flaw is that any nationality would have a monopoly on being lovers. In heaven, you'd expect anyone can love anyone. And in hell, love is definitely not anywhere on the agenda.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

    I don’t think it’s suggesting that people can’t love whoever they want. I think it’s suggesting that the Swiss aren’t very passionate.

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  • [–] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    I know that, obviously, but it just doesn't fit the premise of the rest of the joke.

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  • [–] 13 points 16 hours ago (1 child)

    American police would like a word about the hell assignment.

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  • [–] 8 points 13 hours ago

    Anywhere humans aren’t should be considered heaven

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    I know people like to rag on British food, but it hurts a little bit to see it rated below Swiss.

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  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 child)

    Swap the lovers and cooks in Heaven imo, I don't need some hoity toity chef just gimme some pasta

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  • [–] 2 points 11 hours ago

    Don't ask me about this. I assume all British police are like this person. 💙

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  • [–] 1 point 9 hours ago

    Heaven would have no hierarchy

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