Imagine dialing 911 and the operator says “Nine Eleven, what’s your emergency?”
“Nine eleven what’s your emergency?”
“Hi, I’d like to report a nine eleven.”
“Oh jeez”
I was eating with friends at a Hooters around 2006 or thereabouts, and totally as a joke I complained about their “911” hot wings, telling the waitress that I was offended by their appropriation of our “sacred tragedy 9/11” to name their hottest wings after. She got all wide-eyed and said “oh no no no no no no no” and went running off to get her manager, who came and apologized profusely and told me they were named after the 911 phone number and not 9/11. He comped our entire table’s bill and gave me four $50 gift certificates as well - it was too late for me to back out of the joke at that point. TBF I still have those gift certificates somewhere, but it was no real hardship to not use them because Hooters is pretty fucking awful.
I’ve noticed it being written like 9/11 instead of 911 a lot lately. Is this how it’s supposed to be or what has happened that’s making people add the slash now…
It has always been 9/11 because it is a date. Some people use 911, but this can be confused for the emergency services phone number (also 911)
Don’t fuck with Amna Nawaz.
She has quickly risen to be one of my S-Tier journalists.
I remember when Judy Woodruff was still the anchor during Jan 6th, she was just beside herself saying “there was no way we could have known!” Cue Amna Nawaz with “We did know. He told us, many times” as she proceeds to list several examples.
So happy to see her take over. Bless you, Amna.
I remember that! I’ve been really impressed with her often on-the-ground reporting both in places like the southern border where she humanizes many of the migrants, and especially her work in Gaza.
She and Nick Schifrin are doing real work.
PBS Newshour is legit.
I can’t think of a single family member I’d vote for if they were running for president.
I’d vote for my mom, and I’d vote for my brother, but I’m way far to the left of both of them. That said, they have decent politics on some things, and great politics on others.
There is no one else in my family I would vote for, save maybe that one cousin who went no contact with the whole family when his dad disowned him for being gay in the 90s. But I don’t know his politics. I just respect the fuck out of him.
his dad disowned him for being gay in the 90s
Jeez that’s some hardcore living in the past, even for way back then. Blows my flippin’ mind how a parent could do that.
I don’t know if any of my kids are gay but shit, who cares? I know if they are they’ll be fine with telling me.
Honestly I’m not even related to any good picks for city council, and that includes myself.
I definitely would, but only because then I could make lots of jokes about how can barely manage a shit house
Those of my family who have good morals have terrible political skills. Those of my family who have good political skills have terrible morals.
No Presidents in my family.
Yeah it’s not the best metric. Imagine it the other way around and you’re a progressive who came from a crazy religious Conservative family. Should whether they support you impact people’s votes?
There’s fundamentally 2 reasons why your family wouldn’t support you for President:
- Because they suck
- Because you suck
It’s not complicated to work out which of these applies to your hypothetical person and which of these applies to RFK, but it would undermine his run to say either out loud.
Man annoyed that he has never been important spends an inordinate sum of money to prove once and for all that he isn’t important.
Just shows that money really can’t buy you happiness, and it certainly can’t buy you common sense.
