i honestly prefer the lighthearted poking fun of our police,
I’m not sure of OP means the meme is true of the cinematic portrayal, or if the cinematic portrayal is true of the actual police forces?
Americans love their guns and I wouldn’t feel safe with a police force that actively needs them in regular duty.
British police have specialised armed response and that is how it should be IMO. But the average plod? Yeh, he’d rather chase a swan than actually deal with a crime…
There is a gun fight in the British movie
Meanwhile British police on British TV ….
Yanks enforce the law, Brits keep the peace. There is the real difference.
Almost as if hot fuzz was written to take the piss
American police irl “hes black! Get him”
British police irl “hes black! Get him”
Truth be told, that Swan was a menace (and white, so the Americans wouldn’t shoot it)
Checks out to be honest.
*real life
I would say it’s true.
American police shoot and ask questions later while British police help the community whatever the problem
Proving, you don’t need to solve crime with a gun. All you need is a Cornetto
Am British. Wouldnt swap.
Art imitates life
In real life too
Listen. I’m an American from a small, small city in East Tennessee. The home of NASCAR, country music, and moonshine. We love our guns, it’s true. But on a day to day basis, most people go years and years without seeing one. My dad was a cop, retired after 26 years at the city, never fired his gun once in the line of duty, only in training.
But Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies because it showed me that being a cop in a small British town is NOT that different from being a cop in a small American town.
You chase swans, we chase dogs or pigs. You chase down Auntie Jackie’s sisters brothers boy, we chase down Sarah Lou’s Step Daddy’s Sisters Kid.
You stop at the shops, we stop at the Food City.
There’s even one guy stuck running the front office at the station who never gets told nothin’. And sometimes you pull someone over and you can’t understand them, so there’s that one guy you have to call because he’s from two counties over can interpret the mountain dialect.
I mean, it is a well researched, accurate portrayal.
But did you die?……..
**See Sheffield right now.*
No it’s not.
You’re juxtaposing a down to earth super realistic drama with a comedy film about small village policing.
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Had no luck catching those swans then.
i honestly prefer the lighthearted poking fun of our police,
I’m not sure of OP means the meme is true of the cinematic portrayal, or if the cinematic portrayal is true of the actual police forces?
Americans love their guns and I wouldn’t feel safe with a police force that actively needs them in regular duty.
British police have specialised armed response and that is how it should be IMO. But the average plod? Yeh, he’d rather chase a swan than actually deal with a crime…
There is a gun fight in the British movie
Meanwhile British police on British TV ….
Yanks enforce the law, Brits keep the peace. There is the real difference.
Almost as if hot fuzz was written to take the piss
American police irl “hes black! Get him”
British police irl “hes black! Get him”
Truth be told, that Swan was a menace (and white, so the Americans wouldn’t shoot it)
Checks out to be honest.
*real life
I would say it’s true.
American police shoot and ask questions later while British police help the community whatever the problem
Proving, you don’t need to solve crime with a gun. All you need is a Cornetto
Am British. Wouldnt swap.
Art imitates life
In real life too
Listen. I’m an American from a small, small city in East Tennessee. The home of NASCAR, country music, and moonshine. We love our guns, it’s true. But on a day to day basis, most people go years and years without seeing one. My dad was a cop, retired after 26 years at the city, never fired his gun once in the line of duty, only in training.
But Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies because it showed me that being a cop in a small British town is NOT that different from being a cop in a small American town.
You chase swans, we chase dogs or pigs. You chase down Auntie Jackie’s sisters brothers boy, we chase down Sarah Lou’s Step Daddy’s Sisters Kid.
You stop at the shops, we stop at the Food City.
There’s even one guy stuck running the front office at the station who never gets told nothin’. And sometimes you pull someone over and you can’t understand them, so there’s that one guy you have to call because he’s from two counties over can interpret the mountain dialect.
I mean, it is a well researched, accurate portrayal.
But did you die?……..
**See Sheffield right now.*
No it’s not.
You’re juxtaposing a down to earth super realistic drama with a comedy film about small village policing.
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