Whoever made this meme is too young to have experienced “dialing” a phone number.
It is still called dialing despite no longer being rotary phones, but also, they didn’t end the ability to use rotary phones until like 2005ish. I’ve used one before they ended it and I still have one that I wish I could use! Never know, OP could be like me lol.
Who’s “they?” I recall my telco stopping support in the '90s, and we had to upgrade all the phones in the house.
May of been original to the house in the 60’s, this wall mount still worked until house sold in '09.
And is germaine
Did you ever have to call for Air Superiority?
Yes but it was piloted by stoicgoose so it did not end well
Nice. This was the gamertag I picked to use on the DAY that Xbox Live came online. It’s followed me like a specter ever since.
I was forced to change my gamertag soooo many times I can’t remember them all.
I haven’t heard anything about this fella in a minute. Is he still championing Trump while spouting random hate/nuttiness?
Who cares what this living example for why you should take your meds has to say?
I feel like all this attention it brought him only amplified his mental disorders. I sincerely hope that he is getting the help he clearly needs and that the media will leave him alone for the sake of his sanity.
What?
She’s calling to order a pizza but dials 911 instead
The image depicts a know violent asshole. The wife is not calling the Pizza place but instead calling 911.
Kanye is violent?
The sun is bright?
Cheese is round?
Abusive, yes, but as far as I’m aware not violent. Still fits (calling 911 as per the post), but not for physical abuse.
He has been known to publicly harass and threaten (it’s why he was barred from the Grammy awards), he’s been sued by employees for harassment, intimidation, retaliation,and discrimination, and even failure to pay his employees, and he’s also being sued by his former personal* assistant for sexual harassment, including him masturbating in front of her.
Kanye is 100% an abusive PoS. Just not, as of now, physically abusive afaik.
Edit: Stupid autocorrect typo personally/personal
Edit 2: Some violence
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/01/kanye-west-reportedly-under-investigation-for-battery
Second article starts with an amazing line:
Kanye West, the disgraced former shoe salesman and dinner companion of Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
There was this thing where a woman pretended to order pizza but actually called 911 on her abusive husband.
Oof I was hoping this was a joke about ordering a pizza from an app and the spouse didn’t like that they were only entering the security code and not the whole card number… Because the joke is about having the credit card saved. :(
Too innocent for this world…
87% upvotes on this post.
So wait the down voting 13% beat their spouse or something?
Downvoting in general confuses me so often. There are times where a simple stated a fact, not even something controversial, will be downvoted. I’m like, who goes around just downvoting at random? The most recent one I recall is someone saying that everyone comes back to life in fighting games and I pointed out that Kliff from Guilty Gear never came back and I got downvoted for that. Like what??? I was hoping to get some replies and have a decent conversation there, but my comment got hidden due to the downvotes.
Idk about lemmy but on Reddit up/down are for relevance not whether you like something
Could be accidental down votes. I mean half the upvotes I give are an accidental tap lol.
It’s a shit ass joke, but i HAVE to upvote it, because i’m against violence at home. What a normal take.
Pro tip: look up your local police station and dial their full 10 digit phone number instead of 911
I’d use 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
That’s so easy to remember. Let me try.
0118 999 881 99 9119 725
One, seven, three, four, six, seven, three, two, one, four, seven, six, Charlie, three, two, seven, eight, nine, seven, seven, seven, six, four, three, Tango, seven, three, two, Victor, seven, three, one, one, seven, eight, eight, eight, seven, three, two, four, seven, six, seven, eight, nine, seven, six, four, three, seven, six. Lock.
One of my awesome repeating jokes was to tell people my telephone number as one number. So say my number was (305) 558-9151, I’d give my number as three billion, fifty-five million, five hundred and eighty-nine thousand, one hundred and fifty-one. I made sooo many friends that way.
3
Dear Sir/Madam,
Fire!
Fire!
Help me!
123 Carrendon Road.
Looking forward to hearing from you.
All the best,
Maurice Moss
“Did someone email about a fire??”
Don’t you mean 0118 999 881 999 119 725…
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I think this meme is about the old story of calling 911 and pretending to order a pizza. This was a viral story almost a decade back and stayed in social media platforms as a real thing. However this widespread social media publicity actually helped a victim. Details are in the previous link. This worked only because the operator was aware about the internet lore and was able to connect it.
In summary don’t do it. Operators will disregard your call.
I don’t think they’d completely disregard your call. At least in the UK there are procedures to seeing whether or not an emergency call is erroneous or not. In a lot of cases they will end up ringing back before sending someone to check the location if one is called but there is no response on the other end
Iirc they have a script to help try to probe for details in case the call is under duress.
If you do have to do it, you can hit 1234 or any other 4 digits after the 911 and you will still be connected to emergency services.
Source: accidentally called 911 when trying to make an international call and not understanding when the phone system needed the 9 prefix (only for internal extensions).
