SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 23 hours agoWhy are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese?message-squaremessage-square95fedilinkarrow-up1298arrow-down110file-text
arrow-up1288arrow-down1message-squareWhy are American cops allowed to be morbidly obese?SnausagesinaBlanket@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 23 hours agomessage-square95fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarePolydoreSmith@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up41·edit-222 hours agoReminds me of my favorite Simpson’s quote. Marge (to Bart): “Your father wanted to be a police officer but they said he was too heavy.” Homer: “No the army said I was too heavy, the police said I was too dumb.”
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26·20 hours ago the police said I was too dumb.” Well that sure didn’t age well! https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·14 hours agoConsidering how dumb the police chief is on that show, I think it was an intentional joke
minus-squarejagged_circle@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-24 hours agoIf he’s dumber than the police chief, then he’d be more qualified. The point is that the police prefer dumb workers. They won’t hire you if you score too high on am IQ test
minus-squareentropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 hours agoI understood their point. My point is that it was a one line throwaway gag on The Simpsons. Not necessarily a commentary on real world police hiring practices so much as a joke about both the police in that show and Homer.
Reminds me of my favorite Simpson’s quote.
Marge (to Bart): “Your father wanted to be a police officer but they said he was too heavy.”
Homer: “No the army said I was too heavy, the police said I was too dumb.”
Well that sure didn’t age well!
https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836
Considering how dumb the police chief is on that show, I think it was an intentional joke
If he’s dumber than the police chief, then he’d be more qualified.
The point is that the police prefer dumb workers. They won’t hire you if you score too high on am IQ test
I understood their point. My point is that it was a one line throwaway gag on The Simpsons. Not necessarily a commentary on real world police hiring practices so much as a joke about both the police in that show and Homer.