# COPS (The TV Show) and shirtless males **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118 "2015-07-24T23:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2015, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/1 "2015-07-24T23:53:16Z")
It appears to me that a preponderance of US males just go out walking and driving around in public with no shirt on. Listen, it get’s hot here in Canada too in the summer, but no one actually goes out in public without a shirt on. Sure, at beaches, or pool parties or maybe working on the lawn some day, but not in public! How common is this? I’ve never seen someone just driving around or walking around in public without a shirt. Confirmation bias from COPS? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/2 "2015-07-25T00:05:55Z")
I’m all in favor of men showing as much skin as possible. Ok, SOME men. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/3 "2015-07-25T00:09:08Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > How common is this? I’ve never seen someone just driving around or walking around in public without a shirt. I can’t say I’ve \*never \*seen it, but it’s extremely rare in my experience. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/4 "2015-07-25T00:11:13Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m all in favor of men showing as much skin as possible. > > Ok, SOME men. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/5 "2015-07-25T00:13:59Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > I’m all in favor of men showing as much skin as possible. > > Ok, SOME men. Agreed; some men. Have you ever heard the term “Beijing bikini”? I’m in Beijing and it’s a rather prevalent phenomenon that sends people looking for spoons, or any other implement really, to gouge out their eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/6 "2015-07-25T00:24:00Z")
Left out a link: [Beijing bikini](https://gregschina.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/the-beijing-bikini/). ---
**Author:** ![DinoR](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dinor/32/2821_2.png) [@DinoR](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DinoR)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/7 "2015-07-25T00:27:51Z")
You have to remember that this is a pretty tiny subset of the US population. They both got the police called on them **AND** had such loose concern about social codes that they agreed to allow that incident to be broadcast. The middle class domestic involving two educated professionals still in business attire… doesn’t make the air. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/8 "2015-07-25T00:29:00Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > Left out a link: Beijing bikini. Ahhhh, I hate to use a trope, but linky no worky. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/9 "2015-07-25T00:31:53Z")
Just checked it. Works for me (admittedly, I had to run it through a VPN, though). Here’s the link: > **[The Beijing Bikini](https://gregschina.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/the-beijing-bikini/)** > > The Beijing Bikini When the summer heat flares up in China, a strange and unsightly phenomenon occurs. This phenomenon has been given the name “Beijing Bikini” (BB). For those of you who are expect… ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/10 "2015-07-25T00:42:22Z")
I didn’t wait for the link and googled it. Oh, my! Which is not to say I haven’t seen all sorts of things here in the US, too. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/11 "2015-07-25T00:44:12Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > 😃 I’m not sure if she means Anthony, Chad, Flea, John, or Josh… ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/12 "2015-07-25T00:47:38Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > I’m not sure if she means Anthony, Chad, Flea, John, or Josh… She? ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/13 "2015-07-25T00:56:27Z")
I live in the South, I see it all the time. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/14 "2015-07-25T00:58:43Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Listen, it get’s hot here in Canada too in the summer, but no one actually goes out in public without a shirt on. Sure, at beaches, or pool parties or maybe working on the lawn some day, but not in public! Are you kidding? I see this so often I have a word for it, “paso.” Pronounced like “peso.” It’s an acronym for “Put A Shirt On!” ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/15 "2015-07-25T01:04:58Z")
Some guy started a [very similar thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741595) last November. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/16 "2015-07-25T01:11:39Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > Are you kidding? I see this so often I have a word for it, “paso.” Pronounced like “peso.” It’s an acronym for “Put A Shirt On!” Seriously? I don’t see it at all here. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/17 "2015-07-25T01:12:54Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > Some guy started a [very similar thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=741595) last November. And now I’m totally embarrassed that I didn’t remember my last thread. :o ETA: Shucks. Never mind then. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/18 "2015-07-25T01:22:38Z")
I was taught that Canadian miscreants never went shirtless because they [all look like this](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0MgvB6a4LLM/TkoSJUJTzgI/AAAAAAAAHA0/22mIGd0HKTo/s1600/SAVOIR%2BFARE%2BCOLOR%2BCROP.jpg) 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Krupe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@Leo\_Krupe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Krupe)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/19 "2015-07-25T01:27:49Z")
In my area, it’s very common for guys to walk around without a shirt on (sometimes tucked into a back pocket) in the…less savory parts of town. In the classier parts, it’s a virtually unknown phenomenon, with the exception as noted above, of being in a pool, or other expected situation. So in my experience, it’s a class/socieoeconomic distinction. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2015, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118/20 "2015-07-25T01:39:20Z")
Never mind shirtless…I’ve seen episodes where the guys were fleeing while naked. One memorable guy was almost naked…but took time to put on running shoes [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cops-the-tv-show-and-shirtless-males/726118.md?page=2)