Imagine dialing 911 and the operator says “Nine Eleven, what’s your emergency?”
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.
Haha thank you I couldn’t figure out what 9/11 had to do with all this
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…
The emergency phone number has always been written as 911. I have no idea why people are writing a phone number as a date suddenly.
No, these are people who are either incredibly dumb or have somehow never seen anyone write “911” down but have heard somone joking about “dialing nine eleven”
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)
In this case they WERE referring to the phone number.
Well…yeah, it’s what they meant, but how many phone numbers do you know of that have forward slashes?
Might be an autocorrect thing though depending on the phone
You know, that’s a really good point! It probably has something to do with autocorrect.
That’s the thing. I’m pretty sure OP meant 911, not 9/11.
In the original post? Yeah, they meant 911 (the phone number)
“Nine eleven what’s your emergency?”
“Hi, I’d like to report a nine eleven.”
“Oh jeez”
Oh no…they did a 9/11 in Minnesota??
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.
Lisa Desjardins (sp?) is also incredible.
Absolutely. Her steadfast reporting at Congress over the years has been awesome. Really, the whole team is top notch and I’d be proud to work with any of them.
Gonna need to change her name to Sirhan Sirhan after that kill.
PBS Newshour is legit.
Love PBS Newshour.
Also love the effort they put into making sure everyone can access the program.
Full episodes on YouTube the day of and they also livestream the episodes on YouTube as they air.
I can’t think of a single family member I’d vote for if they were running for president.
Huh, I’m the opposite, i would vote for almost every family member
Someone had a good childhood
Not really, but i mostly agree with their politics
The key is whether you trust they have solid moral character. That they may not be perfect but have a moral backbone, humility (as in capacity to look to experts for advice), and are trustworthy. If your own family doesn’t see those qualities, well… Yeah.
I could care less about their backbone as long as the submit to whatever I think is best for the future of world and human rights.
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.
Yeah, that whole side of the family is nuts. Like, anti vax, stolen election, dead people coming back in Texas nuts. Honestly, both sides of the family. It’s just a few select members who aren’t.
Honestly I’m not even related to any good picks for city council, and that includes myself.
I wouldn’t vote to put my brother in charge of a pay toilet.
I definitely would, but only because then I could make lots of jokes about how can barely manage a shit house
How do you know my brother?
Sorry I meant i would do that to fuck with my brother
I’m aware. My brother doesn’t even believe in the Lost City of Atlanta so there’s no way he’s met you (yes, I went and looked to see where you are in order to make that awful joke).
I just like to make jokes that make me laugh.
Edit: shit, you’re on the west coast now. The joke no longer makes sense. I’ll leave it here as a testament to my hubris in only skimming.
Jokes on you, I only used to live there!
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.
Hate to tell you but it’s like that for pretty much everyone.
I know.
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?
It doesn’t have to be a great metric, she’s saying the bar is on the floor for this one. “They don’t agree with me on everything, but they agree with me enough not to vote against me.” That’s as low a bar as anyone can clear, and he doesn’t clear it.
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.
- They may agree with you in everything but know you have 0% chance of election so they will not waste their vote an a first past the post system.
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.
Such a sick burn that I damaged my eyes reading it.
lmaoooooooo
I heard this in Sloan Sabbath’s voice
Ha, good show.
I don’t know what’s going on. Someone explain it to me?
The photo has two individuals in it. The interviewer is on the left, Amna Nawaz, and RFK Jr is responding to a question by asking one of his own, “does everyone in your family agree with you?” Amna’s response is to reply that, “I think that they’d vote for me if I ran for president.”
RFK Jr family has come out against his presidential campaign. I believe they have aligned with the Biden campaign.
The burn here implies that: if you can’t even get your own family votes, how can you expect to get American voters?
Edit: clarification of people
You just hit me right in the wholesome. I appreciate your response very much. I have been conditioned to expect condescending responses and yours was informative to answer the persons question.
May the road rise up to meet you.Thanks, I originally read that backwards first and was confused.
Why does he have a name and not her?
Because this story is about him, not her. You don’t have to see gender conflict everywhere.
I don’t actually care about gender? Who inserted that? Wtf?
It’s about her to me.
Sorry that you are offended.
Journalists are never the story. The profession is completely designed around that their job is to present the story and when other people write about how the story was presented in that they need to mention the journalist, they’ll mention them by their news org, such as here where she is referred to as a PBS NewsHour presenter. Its not a slight, its just the best way we’ve found to reduce the number of Brian Williams and Matt Lauers we have in the world
Nope she made a great comeback
I’m not into American politics
Sorry it is offensive to you
Not offensive. Just saying why it was presented this way. it’s pretty typical stuff. The argument can be made that amonymizing reporters only benefits capital holders. My current stance is undecided. Pragmatically, I think as long as we’re stuck with capitalism its better to present things like this but that doesn’t mean I feel great about it or like it
Yeah it makes sense. It was just annoying when I get American trauma all over, I am really disinterested in your gender wars and politics and how journalists should be named. I just wondered and in comes the shit train.
Obvious troll account is obvious.
Ok
Not ok. You inserted gender. I was trying to be polite? never seen such reactions on lemmy before. Sad that American politics is ruining exactly everything
He’s always inserting his gender, essingmyaich.
We are referring to her by her title, as her preferred form of address.
Ait
RFK deserves the dunking-on, but “I think my family would vote for me if I ran for president” is petty and speculative in order to generate views. Does PBS engage in 24 hour news cycle punditry now?
It’s neither petty nor punditry when she’s honestly answering the simple and direct question her guest posed to her.
Exactly. Forcing ourselves to respond to trolls as if they’re legit is A HUGE PART OF HOW WE GOT TO THIS PLACE OF INSANITY.
This motherfucker is crazy and unqualified. And he’s putting us all in danger, with his narcissistic third-party run, in this election of all elections. We don’t owe him anything. We need to stop answering lunatic shit with “well, hold on now, we have to treat this fringe whacko and all his dumbass, sophomoric, pulled-straight-out-of-his-ass opinions with just as much gravity as any real political scientist would command.”
Fuck that. It needs to stop. It has gone on far too long, already. Make incompetent morons feel like morons again.
Two thirds of your name is a lie. Please tell me the 69 is still true. PLEASE!
Do I have some good news for you
