Fairly, yeah - looks like the paper's from 2016 if you're interested

>>Calling your parents is the real cherry on top of that dick sundae.
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>There's a mental image.
>
That's a special sort of 'ew'

>>I don't have any direct experience with rural small-town cops, but I
>>grew up in a suburban small town... and the six or seven cops
>>on the payroll there at the time were long on "order" and very, very
>>short on "law."
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>(nod) My experience was probably closer to that than, say, the Duke
>brothers' milieu, despite the fact that northern Maine is a strange
>exclave of the shitkicker South. Millinocket in my youth, despite its
>isolation, was culturally less like a rural town and more like a
>suburb in search of a city. There are no farms or anything around
>here, everybody worked at the paper mill, and the town limits are much
>more constrained than most townships around here, so it always felt
>more urban than it ever really was. The cops had their own foibles,
>but they weren't Rosco P. Coltrane types.
>

Rural county mounties in CA are the same sort of special.

>(At least they still dressed like cops back then. Nowadays they look
>like fucking commandos. Commandoes? What's the over/under on that?)
>

I think the spelling with an 'e' would be the UK sort, with the strange sweater patches. Without would be the American sort who dress in tacticool even in flagrantly inappropriate situations.