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TheFriar @lemm.ee

1y ago

9/11 fashion emergency

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"Knock. Knock."
"Who's there?"
"9/11"
"9/11 who?"
"YOU SAID YOU'D NEVER FORGET!"
- Knock knock
  Who's there?
  Building 7
  Building 7 who?
  Exactly.
  
  Knock knock
  Who's there?
  9/11
  Rudy?

Maybe because I heard the different variation first, but I like the punchline “…they hit the second tower” a bit more
- In the one I saw they said "the south tower" instead of second, but I might be stupid
  
  Those two things don't seem related, but I might need new glasses

https://xkcd.com/875/

As a reminder, while we try to "never forget" 9/11, we tend to "kick the can down the road" regarding issues of society, civil rights, and other systemic racism issues.
All Buildings Matter: https://youtu.be/AeN_SVoJet0
- I want that t-shirt!

it was a Tuesday on September 11, 1973, 50 years ago now, when the CIA helped the bloodthirsty dictator Pinochet in his military coup against a democratically elected president, Allende, causing more than 3,000 fatalities in Chile. Yes, it is worth remembering it.
- Never Forget

Round about 2005 I was at a Hooter's with some friends and I noticed that their hottest wing sauce was named "911". As a joke, when our waitress brought out our food I pointed to that on the menu and said that I was offended that Hooter's would think to name a wing sauce after the attack on the Twin Towers, which I referred to as our "sacred tragedy". I figured she would just laugh it off but instead she got wide-eyed and said "oh no no no no no" and ran off to bring over her manager. The guy came over to our table and apologized profusely, saying that it was named after 911 the emergency call number and not 9/11 the terrorist attack. He comped our entire meal (over $100) and gave me four $50 Hooter's gift certificates as well. At this point I was afraid to say I'd just been kidding so I rolled with it. I still have those gift certificates somewhere - I didn't avoid using them out of guilt, Hooter's is just terrible food.
- So you could really say hooters is the 9/11 of meals

please explain
- There's an old diss where you make fun of someone by saying "year called, they want their style back". This comic is riffing off of that idea by referring to 2001, when the world trade center in New York City was destroyed in a terrorist attack on September 11th
  
  Man, I really never considered this being an “older” brand of humor. This has been in my saved folder for a long time, it’s a lot about the guy’s face and glasses and that he’s using an old phone to call 2001—and that was all on top of the existing joke. I feel old today.
  
  The 2000s called. They want their joke back.
- "[year] called" is a common way to mock outdated objects or behaviours. It's usally followed by "...they want their [mocked thing] back". In this case, it's about the clothes of the guy.
  The punchline is, instead of mocking him, he's telling him about a major event of 2001 - the 9/11 terrorist attack. It could imply an actual call through time, but that's not important. The comic basically just wants to subvert your expectations and drops something dark instead of the usual punchline.
- People say shit like "2001 called" when somebody is wearing something outdated or doing something outdated. The September 11 terrorist attacks happened in 2001.

Wow Imgur is trash, now, huh? Does all of the “make this site shitty so they’ll use our app” shit now
- Dude it’s been like that for a while.
  Ironically, Imgur was created by a redditor and gained its fame as the de facto image hosted for reddit for years before it tried to become its own social media site.
  
  How is that ironic?
- Interesting, this opened on Imgur for you? I uploaded directly to Memmy, so as far as I can tell, the entire post is hosted in-app. Curious. Are you using an app? Or are you on desktop? (Or just using a mobile browser?).
  Because, yes, Imgur fuckin sucks. From what I understand they’re terrible about privacy now too. We’ve now been users long enough to watch it go from a great little image hosting site to apparently a tech corp.
  
  My app does embed your image, but opening in external or just looking at the host thingy on the Lemmy website shows that it is uploaded to Imgur. May be something Memmy does automatically?

Anyone can explain?
- Someone posted an explanation within a few seconds of you asking if you're still lost

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