• Hugh_Jeggs
    176·
    7 months ago

    Phrases that make absolutely no fucking sense in 194 countries out of 195

    Elementary school police officer

    😳

    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
      122·
      7 months ago

      I’m an American, and I’ve never heard of this. I think it might mostly be a joke at the expense of the shithole officers of Uvalde.

        • lud
          6·
          7 months ago

          Here, it’s the opposite. The social democrats and their allies were in government for a long time and the second the more conservatives (still pretty left compared to the USA though) got power they proposed a fuck ton of laws including visitation zones where they can search people without suspect. That law actually goes into effect very soon.

          • TimeNaan@lemmy.world
            13·
            7 months ago

            Exactly that. They use police to protect capital’s interests just like the other countries. So they need to expand police powers. Just look at Weimar Germany for historical examples.

            • Kusimulkku
              5·
              7 months ago

              We’re talking about modern day social democrats and you bring up Weimar Germany. There’s a lot more recent examples of social democrats in power lol.

    • AeonFelis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Well, you wouldn’t want to let all these kids play with their guns without an officer to watch over them, would you?

    • grilled_cheese_eater
      3·
      7 months ago

      My country had police officers in all schools for a month or so after the First Ever School Shooting In The Entire Country happened, but only because parents demanded it.

      This was only a bit ago actually.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        7 months ago

        I think most countries will eventually go through one. For the UK it was Dunblane, after which the government went “no more handguns then?” and we all went “yeah, I suppose”, because only a handful of people kept them anyway.

    • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      No, see they’re mostly there so children learn to obey through intimidation talk to police, and they definitely never use it as a punishment detail for officers who got in trouble for anger issues

  • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz
    591·
    7 months ago

    I have a special hate for inspirational water bottles, stickers or notebooks.

      • helpme@sh.itjust.works
        131·
        7 months ago

        Me too, although it’s slightly less than normal ones, the only thing ours ever did was stop kids punching each other and DARE once a year.

        • lud
          121·
          7 months ago

          the only thing ours ever did was stop kids punching each other

          Ngl that sounds pretty good

          • Leeker@lemmy.world
            61·
            7 months ago

            School Resource Officers can’t charge kids with felonies only a prosecutor can do that. A cop can arrest someone. Now you might think I’m being pedantic but I think it is an important distinction. Many times we blame cops and completely over look the fact that some of the blame lies with the prosecutor.

            • BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world
              9·
              7 months ago

              Yeah, but even if they’re arrested and the charges are dropped, they still have an arrest on their record, which many/most colleges ask about on their applications.

              Watch the John Oliver episode about School Resource Officers, you’ll see one girl arrested and charged (I believe they dropped it though) with a felony/bomb charge for popping her water bottle cap like we used to do in school (y’know, twist the bottle, and then unscrew the cap and it pops off).

              Another kid, special needs, was arrested and manhandled because he lightly carved “[Name] was here” into a concrete wall, which his mother had him come back and clean off. John put the kids name on his wall so that everyone would know “a legend was here,” which is the reason the kid gave for why he did it in the first place.

              Schools don’t need cops, they need social workers, counselors, and proper funding. Not a chode with a gun and an authority fetish. Our school officer used to make friends with all the kids dealing drugs/getting in fights, while our principals/vice principals would scream at kids to take their hoodies off. And they wonder why kids think school is a joke.

            • Woozythebear@lemmy.world
              24·
              7 months ago

              That’s just wrong… cops charge people and the District attorney will decide if they want to prosecute those charges and spoiler alert they do it 99.9% of the time.

        • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          7 months ago

          If we’re not joking, I kind of think the liver would go first. Unless your mixing it to like a 4% ABV, then maybe the beetus might get ya first.

          Honestly there is a good chance you stress your liver out so much that the sugar and your food (bc let’s be honest, your probably not eating healthy either) gets turned into a shitload of triglycerides and you stroke out or have a heart attack from too long of hyperlipidemia.

          • Kusimulkku
            2·
            7 months ago

            Some alkies go decades drinking way more than that every single day. Humans are surprisingly resilient. Inspirational, really

            • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
              1·
              7 months ago

              Yeah, but I am just referencing average outcomes. It’s a bit of a selection bias, because you don’t see all the alcoholics in the ground and the liver doesn’t really “hurt” until like end stage liver failure. So alcoholics can seem relatively okay, until one day they are not.

              Oh, and an alcoholic is exceptionally prone to drunk driving. Something like high 80% of people who det a DUI is or will be an alcoholic. So an alcoholic is way more likely to kill themselves wrapped around a tree before their liver blows.

    • RedC@sh.itjust.works
      8·
      7 months ago

      In the good ol USA, schools often have what’s called a school resource officer. Meant to be the connection between school kids and the police department, they have been useful for truancy and other problems that happen with students ( esp. high school age) at schools.

      Although more recently they’ve been the (mostly) reliable first contact in the event of a school shooter, the SRO is usually first on scene and relays into to responding officers.

      • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.world
        9·
        7 months ago

        Although more recently they’ve been the (mostly) reliable first contact in the event of a school shooter, the SRO is usually first on scene and relays into to responding officers.

        Well that was the idea anyways

    • Evil_Shrubbery
      2·
      7 months ago

      Afaik the top bully in school.

      So when a kid gets transferred to a new elementary school they are advised as a newcomer to punch the baddest bully/the officer to establish dominance, preferably during recess, with one of them prison food trays. … no, wait, that can’t be right, US kids dont get food at school.

      (But for real, from the headlines I only ever heard bad things)

  • MxM111@kbin.social
    11·
    7 months ago

    Is not it supposed to be chilled? By noon it will be warm, and drinking warm coke is just disgusting, unless it is mostly alcohol, and then you would just not remember.

  • BingoBangoBongo@midwest.socialEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I have this exact bottle for Dr pepper. The guy at the gas station charges me for a cup of ice when I refill it and it’s much cheaper than a 2 liter.

  • Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca
    2·
    7 months ago

    I’ve usually got about two litres in me by 10am, and have taken my fourth piss. This bottle would not suffice.