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[+] 112 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    I have autistic kindergarteners that picked it up and it's become one of their favorite scripts. Kind of annoying but I didn't really care that much. Knowing it annoys this little freak though? Gotta say I'm warming up to it.

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  • [+] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)
  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I'm sorry I'm confused. I mean script as in scripting as in the form of Delayed Echolalia where an autistic person will like repeat a phrase they've heard before usually entirely divorced from the context or use of the original. They heard the phrase "6 7" and it's become something they just repeat randomly. Not like a font.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    Get them to use calibri since that font is too woke for the government.

    Maybe that's what the person above was alluding to? I don't know, that's the best guess I've got. I didn't catch anything font related from your original comment but it could be a language thing.

    Edit: or an autocorrect ;)

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  • Oh thank you for reminding me about the Calibri thing. My teenager will be thrilled to learn that and incorporate it into every one of cleverly disguised shitposts he calls school assignments for the sole reason that it would bother the Chuds that currently occupy the Federal Government.

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  • [–] 63 points 11 months ago (6 children)

    Nobody has to take shit from a furniture fucker with a orange mustache stain.

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  • [–] 56 points 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    To day I learned that 6 7 is the police code for non-consensual sex with a couch.

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  • [–] 45 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    And 6x7 is 42, so now every generation can be happy.

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    When we were kids all of our viral trends at least had an origin story.

    Like that one where Marilyn manson removed some ribs so he could fuck his couch better.

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  • [–] 19 points 11 months ago (5 children)
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    Streisand effect, fucking idiot ruined any chances of it going away now..

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

    I feel like 6-7 is just another version of the made you look hand gesture.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    There are exactly 67 seperate Epstein files still to be released

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago

    It's the best meme I've ever heard now. Watch me put it 6 7 times in every comment.

    ... Wait no. I can't if you're watching.

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  • [–] 33 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    This just in: adults don’t get kids’ memes. More news at 11.

    I think it’s all fascinating, how adults flip out over kids’ trends every generation, without fail, without ever recalling that they followed silly fads/memes when they were kids, too. Like the “cool S” from the 90s.

    I remember adults coming up with all sorts of absurd ideas, straining to connect it to something meaningful, failing to acknowledge that… it’s just a fun thing to draw. And if it’s fun, that’s all kids need. It didn’t mean we were in a cult, or that it’s a gang symbol, or any other ridiculous narrative. Some teachers got so annoyed or suspicious as to ban it from their classrooms, too.

    I’m not bothered by 6-7. I’m not excited by it like kids are, but I get that it’s fun for them in a way that it isn’t for adults. One of the kids I work with said it the other day. I just laughed and told him, “Congrats on learning your first meme.”

    If it wasn’t 6-7, it would’ve been something else. There’s no point in fighting it - just as other fads and memes have come and gone, this too will fade someday. Possibly to be replaced with something more obnoxious. We’ll have to wait and see.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago

    Exactly. Do I find it annoying? No, but if I interacted with children much I probably would. Kids are annoying, but stuff like this is culturally valuable because it's them practicing growing and changing culture. Things that annoy the old people like us are also part of how teenagers get us to leave them alone so they can grow up in peace. From there younger and younger kids copy older kids because that's how kids work. Then eventually the parents and teachers that understand kids will get in on it poorly when they're well and truly sick of it.

    Hell, every once in a while the kids get into something good, though it's usually music or books.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago

    Funny. I'm from the seventies and when we were daydreaming back then about the year 2025.... we saw people flying around in transparent bubbles, living in full harmony in futuristic scifi buildings... Who could have thought we would be thrown back in time almost perfectly similar to the nazi regime of the Germans and dangerous idiots like that Orange Satan and its dog Fence being "chosen" as the most important people of a country... It's devolution.

    I vote for recolonisation. This one has failed.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    So Americans should now count 65, 66, 68, 69? At least this is in line with measuring things with non-metric units.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    "Oh no, a number, that's threatening the greatness of the US and we must act immediately!"

    • Some couch fucker, probably
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  • [–] 12 points 11 months ago

    This might be the only time I will enjoy hearing 67..

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  • [–] 10 points 11 months ago

    Why do we care what the vice president thinks? Shouldn't he be meeting with a ladies book club or attending a donor's funeral somewhere? Is he just spouting crap and waiting and hoping for someone's death?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I am speechless, how can it all be so absurd. How do they come up with even more stupid ideas than before every single day.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (17 children)

    I still don't get what 67 refers to. I missed it'd orgin story!

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  • [–] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laZpTO7IFtA is worth the 15 minutes, but the TL;DW is that the kids are just using it as an in-joke marker (i.e. the phrase is a shibboleth), but its origin is in lyrics* by the rapper Skrilla referring to police codes for a dead body.

    * are rapped words lyrics?

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  • [–] 9 points 11 months ago (10 children)

    Just as an aside, most police codes aren't really standardized across different agencies.

    There's a handful of 10-codes that are pretty much universal, like "10-4"

    67 isn't one of those codes. A lot of departments do use it for a report of a death

    But it's also commonly used to advise of an important incoming message

    And other agencies may have other uses for it

    And other agencies use other systems besides 10 codes, I believe some departments in CA have been known to use penal code numbers

    But so because of that, there's been a big movement in emergency service to use plain language over codes for the last decade or two, mostly since Katrina since different agencies using different codes lead to a lot of miscommunication there.

    I work in 911 dispatch, at my agency and pretty much everywhere around me it's all plain language. One or two 10-codes linger around, more as informal slang than anything that gets official use. 10-4 sometimes gets used, but that's practically just part of the English language now.

    10-96 also kind of lingers around in my agency, which in the set of 10-codes they used before I started was for a subject with mental health issues. We're not really supposed to use it but no one has really come up with a better shorthand for it so it still pops up from time to time, mostly from our officers.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Interesting stuff, thanks for writing it up.

    I did know that US codes weren't standardised, partially because the video covers it - perhaps I should have phrased it as "a police code" to be more technically correct. Edit: or bothered to check the video so could have written "Philadelphia police code" - but then I would have missed out on your reply.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Funnily enough, I actually work in an agency that's very close to Philly and deal with my counterparts in the city fairly regularly.

    I don't get (or want) to listen to a whole lot of PPD radio chatter, we have plenty in our own county to keep us busy, so I don't know for certain if they're actually still using 10-codes or any other similar system or not. I can't think of any time I've heard a Philly officer or dispatcher use one with me, but it's certainly possible that they're still in use there internally.

    Also even though we're using plain language, there's still some weird miscommunication that happens.

    I remember one time needing to advise Philly of a report of gunshots we received that might have been relevant to them, it was near their border.

    So I called over to their dispatch and advised them that "we received a report of shots fired in the area of..."

    Which kind of sent their dispatcher into a bit of a tizzy because in Philly dispatch lingo "shots fire" basically means an officer has fired their gun, but to us it's just any report of gunshots (which, more often than not, means fireworks or something that the caller mistook for gunshots)

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Sounds like perhaps unified codes would be the answer to that problem!

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    It is and it isn't

    Certain things absolutely need to be standardized

    But in other cases it can just kind of bog things down.

    I remember one training thing we had to do to keep our certifications up to date, part of it had to do with fire dispatch.

    And at the beginning of that, our instructor basically said "Almost nothing in this course is at all relevant to us. But it's a national standard and we have to teach this to you"

    It had a lot to do with wildland firefighting and some other specific situations that have nothing to do with how things operate in our area or with the kinds of situations we deal with.

    It was interesting, I learned some fun facts, but I haven't yet had any reason to use any of the knowledge I picked up from that training.

    And that time could have probably been better spent doing something else.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    In Philly (where the song 6-7 originated comes from and the code being referenced) a 72 hour involuntary mental health hold is a 302 (and then 303/304 if the hold is extended beyond 72hrs). 5150 is a California code, I think, but it’s def not national

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    A 302 can actually be up to 120 hours

    303 is up to 20 days

    304 is 90

    There's also a 305, which I believe is up to 180

    And technically a 306, but that has to do with transferring involuntary commitment patients to another facility or something.

    Like I said in another comment I work in PA and my wife happens to work at a psych hospital so I get to hear all about this stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Well I’ll be damned.

    I also work in pa and while I do outpatient now I worked in inpatient for years. Whoops! To be fair it’s been years since I did hospital stuff and admissions was never my deal. I couldn’t remember the longer ones for the life of me. I could’ve sworn 302 was 72, but you’re definitely right

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    All good, I always feel like it's 72 hours, and I think the equivalent in most states is only 72 I think we're the odd one out on that, and I feel like in most cases patients managed to get stabilized enough to be discharged after the 72 hours.

    I kind of feel like the extra two days are mostly so there's time to get everything set up for a 303 in case the patient tries to fight it and it goes to court. I had to be a witness for that over a call I took once, I only got like a day or two's notice because it all has to happen on such a condensed timeline

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Genuinely have no idea what 67 means and if I wait a year until they tire of it then I won't have to learn.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I think it started as a sports thing. But you're right. It's gonna burn itself out quickly.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    It's a meme of a meme of a meme. Some guy was making YouTube shorts about a rap song about a basketball player that plays like he's 6'7" even though he's 6'2".

    The kids do it just because of the short and it being goofy shit with the hand movements and funny looking characters. The YouTuber was memeing because the song was about one of the Ball brothers.

    It literally means nothing. Just kids being silly.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    If it isn't a couch he probably wants to ban it.

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    I was mildly annoyed by them, but now I think it's time we go full tilt on them.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That was my number in high school football.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    Party of personal freedom and free speech y'all

    I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (3 children)

    Man seriously. Kids are always going to have some inside joke/nonsense they'll use as a way to separate themselves. 67 I believe is on the nonsense side after watching a language Jones video about it. But let kids be kids. I'm sure we had some dumb shit we did back then. Just there weren't cameras everywhere live streaming us being idiots.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Hell I'm young enough my generation's stupid shit was posted to the internet. We yoloed and had rage comics about le epic bacon, as we asked what the fox says and sang about Friday and calling us maybe, and now it's cringe but it's also good memories of our youth. Hell that doesn't even touch on the hell that was the homestuck kids (who are now adults, many even have ok taste now). And it all happened right here on the devil's own internet. It's still up as Tumblr likes to dredge up from time to time.

    Someday 67 will be that for the kids these days. And more will come. Some may be like rickrolling and become classic, but in a less omnipresent form, while others will be like homestuck and be weirdly influential on future culture when you look at how terrible it is in retrospect. But it's theirs to do.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    He's just mad his kids don't say it to him

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I don't like the couch fucker either, but you do realize that's a joke, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It’s cause he doesn’t get it. It confuses him.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    America is one step away from reimplementing Editor’s Law.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Always the nuclear option with them.

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    Conservatives when something harmless is popular: "This needs to be criminalised".

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Well we are woke Arabic numbers.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Thats right, were moving to an octal system. Skip from 5 straight to 8 from now on!

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Is no one going to point out that he's clearly joking?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Hopefully he learn about it on South Park

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Motherfucker thinks he's the dictator of Turkmenistan, coming up with weird laws.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Why don't you guys get some meaningful fucking work done improving the lives of your constituents instead of hating on memes for kids?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Man and I thought imperial was nonsensical before. Octals gonna be really hard to explain in the future.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    But how will we know his IQ now?

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