• sorter_plainview@lemmy.today
    11·
    4 months ago

    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.

    • bss03@infosec.pub
      8·
      4 months ago

      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).

    • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      4 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

        • misterundercoat@lemmy.world
          3·
          4 months ago

          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 🤪@lemmy.autism.placeEnglish
            2·
            4 months ago

            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.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      2·
      4 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.

    • SuperSaiyanSwag@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      4 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.

  • i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    1·
    4 months ago

    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. :(

  • Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world
    11·
    4 months ago

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

    • Lupus@feddit.org
      11·
      4 months ago

      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@lemmy.world
          0·
          4 months ago

          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

          • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            0·
            4 months ago

            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@lemmy.world
              0·
              4 months ago

              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.

              • fishbone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
                1·
                4 months ago

                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.

  • edric@lemm.ee
    11·
    4 months ago

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

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      4 months ago

      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.