• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    “Knock. Knock.”

    “Who’s there?”

    “9/11”

    “9/11 who?”

    “YOU SAID YOU’D NEVER FORGET!”

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    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.

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    Maybe because I heard the different variation first, but I like the punchline “…they hit the second tower” a bit more

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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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      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.

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        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?