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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.

    • @[email protected]
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      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).

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      74 months ago

      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

      • @thirteene
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        Iirc they have a script to help try to probe for details in case the call is under duress.

    • @[email protected]
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      The image depicts a know violent asshole. The wife is not calling the Pizza place but instead calling 911.

    • Obinice
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      They’re referring to when someone experiencing domestic abuse calls 999 and pretends to order a pizza, when really that’s a signal to the police that they need help.

    • @[email protected]
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      There was this thing where a woman pretended to order pizza but actually called 911 on her abusive husband.

  • @[email protected]
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    614 months ago

    Pro tip: look up your local police station and dial their full 10 digit phone number instead of 911

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            Dear Sir/Madam,

            Fire!

            Fire!

            Help me!

            123 Carrendon Road.

            Looking forward to hearing from you.

            All the best,

            Maurice Moss

            • @fox2263
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              “Did someone email about a fire??”

        • @misterundercoat
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          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.

          • I'm back on my BS 🤪
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            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.

      • Ignotum
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        Don’t you mean 0118 999 881 999 119 725…

        …3

      • @mlg
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        104 months ago

        Probably better to write an email lol.

    • @shneancy
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      24 months ago

      or mute your phone and mime typing more than you are

  • edric
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    Whoever made this meme is too young to have experienced “dialing” a phone number.

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      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.

      • @SpaceNoodle
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        Who’s “they?” I recall my telco stopping support in the '90s, and we had to upgrade all the phones in the house.

        • @Vandals_handle
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          34 months ago

          May of been original to the house in the 60’s, this wall mount still worked until house sold in '09.

          And is germaine

          • @stoicmaverick
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            104 months ago

            Did you ever have to call for Air Superiority?

            • @Vandals_handle
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              Yes but it was piloted by stoicgoose so it did not end well

              • @stoicmaverick
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                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.

                • @P00ptart
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                  I was forced to change my gamertag soooo many times I can’t remember them all.

          • @SpaceNoodle
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            Why did it stop working after the house was sold?

            • @Vandals_handle
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              Cuz it was part of the estate and I kept it as a momento of my childhood. All the dialing a pain, especially international, so I did not try and use in my home.

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          Good question, I suppose it varies by company, or maybe country. At any rate I used it in the 90s (and later), so I still would’ve met your telco’s cutoff date! Sounds like you used em too, so evidence that it is possible OP did continues to grow. There’s at least two of us!

          • edric
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            Even on modern landlines where you pushed buttons, it was still called dialing. Someone who calls it typing probably only ever called people using a smartphone.

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              Even on touch phones it’s still called dialing though…

              Just like it was for the button phones. It’s the same as typing

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                But on modern smartphones, you probably manually enter in the phone number so rarely that they never even learned the word.
                The on screen dialpad is displayed the same way as the on screen keyboard so they used the same word.

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                  I appreciate your comment it makes a lot of sense how dialing could have decreased in usage. Also love your username!

    • @[email protected]
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      174 months ago

      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.

      • @Shark03
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        Could be accidental down votes. I mean half the upvotes I give are an accidental tap lol.

        • @LordKitsuna
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          I accidentally tapped yours while trying to scroll down and a raindrop hit the screen! I’mma leave it tho because so true

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        I rarely downvote, yet I keep seeing posts and comments marked as downvoted by my account. Seems it’s just very easy to fatfinger it and not notice.

        • @P00ptart
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          On my app I have to hold on the comment to reply or downvote. I can upvote easily but downvoting can’t really be unintentional.

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      84 months ago

      It’s a shit ass joke, but i HAVE to upvote it, because i’m against violence at home. What a normal take.

  • @[email protected]
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    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. :(

    • @Sakychu
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      Too innocent for this world…

  • @Tylerdurdon
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    224 months ago

    I haven’t heard anything about this fella in a minute. Is he still championing Trump while spouting random hate/nuttiness?

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      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.

        • peopleproblems
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          You know, Abilify would have probably cured the Hunter right away from the psychosis induced by the blood administration. Then he wouldn’t have to have his head cut off or fight a giant moon thing

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            To be fair, Abilify would cure the hunter of the energy to do anything other than eat or sleep, which might not make for a very fun game.

            Abilify is fucking awful.

            • peopleproblems
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              Oh yeah. Worst med I was ever told to try. Hated life so much during it and gained so much weight.

              I don’t even know why my doc tried it. I don’t go to him anymore.

              • @[email protected]
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                Yeah it’s apparently a common first choice for bipolar (which is overly diagnosed). It made me gain a ton of weight, and then my doc was exclusively concerned about my weight from that point on, until I stopped going to him.

                Before that though, I was just like “I gained the weight because of a side effect from a med you gave me, for a condition that I don’t have. The weight is an issue that will be fixed if we look at the actual problem here, doc.”

                Ugh.