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French Riot Cops: We Require Our Daily Alcohol!
France (or as I like to call it, Cheesecrime Nation) is the worst country on the planet, and now this worst country is all hopped up in a scandal and growing worser, because they are planning on denying the right of their riot cops to drink alcohol with lunch.
Is there really more to say on this topic?
The police union is—sorry, some of the MULTIPLE French police unions are—calling for keeping the right to get toasted at lunch, which will come in handy, because it's so much easier to go searching for women in headscarves to treat poorly when you've had a few. Honestly I'd rather take my chances in Ciudad Juarez than Paris.
France, The Police, It Sucks
Also: Would have though 'Briecrime Nation' to be house style.
The most amazing part of this story is that there is apparently more than one riot police union in France.
The most heinous of cheesecrimes is vegan cheese.
Yes, of course the constitutional republic that is France is surely “the worst country on the planet,” heading a list where Sierra Leone, Sudan, Somalia, Western Sahara, and North Korea are barely discernible in nine-point Arial on Page 3.
They had a news report about this on the BBC World Service this morning. The police union representative was trying to explain that ALL government workers are allowed to have a glass of wine or beer with lunch, and refused to consider the possibility that someone whose job involved a little of the old ultraviolence should maybe be on a different diet than someone doing paperwork at a desk.
Fuck me, when did the Awl come out against drinking?
@lbf For real. I think we're all smart enough to compartmentalize here! Headscarf ban = bad, glass of wine with lunch = good.
@boyofdestiny la police is not the only ones clamoring for subsidized liquid lunch. University students demand their "big stainy red", as the expression goes, at the cafeteria.
Edit: what, are a href tags not working now? Link: http://lemonde-educ.blog.lemonde.fr/2011/04/21/un-petit-ballon-de-rouge-au-resto-u-ca-vous-tente/
This combines the two favorite activities of the French: drinking wine and striking.
I've always thought of the French as mellow, flirty-type drunks rather than the angry kind. When I think of the French at all, that is.
Hmmm…Juarez or Paris? Paris or Juarez? I gotta say I'd rather hang out in Paris. Sorry, Choire.
@El Matardillo And you've got a Spanish username so it's not racist!
France would pretty much have to sign another separate peace with Germany for me not to love it.