me, any regular day, blogging: i hate how fanboys glorify vader as a badass because he’s really such a tragic character
me, in the theater, gripping my darth vader sippy cup and death star popcorn bowl, watching my boy literally brutally murder the good guys: *softly* Oh my god.
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@majesticduxk totally makes sense. I like it!
@majesticduxk how is that pronounced? It might be an interesting alternative.
Why do I even say y’all or all y’all?
I’m not from the south.
Worry not, I’m not even American, fuck, my lative language isn’t even english, and I say y’all.
That does make me feel better. Lol.
Y’all and all y’all make more sense as a plural “you” than just “you”. But that’s English I suppose.
Why do I even say y’all or all y’all?
I’m not from the south.
Just to expand on this post about calling 911 and asking for a pizza to secretly ask for help:
The post is based on a Super Bowl commercial, which itself was based on a Reddit post that’s never been verified as true.
There is no actual pizza code with toppings and shit that dispatchers are trained in. If you come across someone who has heard of the commercial, they might understand. If you come across someone who’s never heard of it, they might think it’s a prank call and hang up on you.
A piece of actual advice to help you in this situation is to dial 911, then hang up without speaking, then turn the phone off. 911 will attempt to call you back, and when they’re unable to reach you, they’ll dispatch a unit to your location under the assumption that you need help and your call was interrupted. This will work 100% of the time, whereas the pizza trick will only work if the dispatcher has heard of the commercial/urban legend.
Also, the toppings thing was a complete and total fabrication and whoever wrote that should be ashamed of themselves, tbh.
As a former dispatcher…this post is bad.
While it is true that there is no “pizza code” that we’re trained in, we are also very intuitive. A dispatcher can tell if a caller is in distress/can’t give away the fact that they’re on the phone with 911, and the dispatcher may then make something up like, “if he has a gun, say you want no mushrooms.” If you need to pretend you’re ordering a pizza, do it (pizza is one of the easiest phone orders, this is why people use it). Just know we don’t have any pre-set code for it, so if you say, “I want onions!” we’re not going to know what you mean. Let us give you the prompts. We’re literally just that good at making it up on the fly to get you help.
Also, DO NOT HANG UP. EVER. NO NO NO NO NO. Not all communication centers have location tracking, also, even those that do are not always accurate (it’s typical for the location to set itself as a few houses away). ALSO, the more information we can give our officers to let them know what they’re walking into, the better (it’s really nice for them to know if they’re walking into a situation with loaded weapons or not). If it’s safe for you to stay on the line, do it. If not, we understand and we’ll do our best to get you help. The best situation is saying “Hi, I’m at ((address)) and I’d like to order some food,” to which the dispatcher will likely ask, “can you speak freely?” and you can say, “no.” We’ll ask you a bunch of yes/no questions.
Also, if you feel like you may ever be in a situation where you’ll have an emergency and need to do this, you may consider saving 911 in your phone as a fake pizza place such as “Fat Jimmy’s Pizza,” so if an abusive person near you grabs your phone, they will actually think you’re ordering pizza.
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