Or, alternately, we could pretend to be intelligent, rational adults.
So how much should we be paying the government employee who checks every phone number to make sure it can’t come close to anything an idiotic teenager might think is funny?
I bet you people are a hoot at parties.
But it doesn’t even spell anything out. I mean, there’s absolutely no way to insure that a number doesn’t spell out something embarrassing or spell out something kind of close to spelling out something embarrassing.
If it actually spelled it out, that would be pretty bad. But F1U-CKYO? Hell, you could get away with that on a license plate and nobody would bat an eye. Well, okay, thirteen-year-old boys might, but they can find anything to sniggle at (even the word "sniggle). Honestly, it’s pretty childish.
Ah, for comparison, the official text number for the Republican Party spells out “MY WIMP”. Should that be embarrassing, somehow?
I tried to buy Super Bowl tickets one time, and the website didn’t work right.
Clearly, the Super Bowl should have been cancelled.
Did their phone number spell out B1G-T1TZ ?
I’ve been working on this, and the closest I can come to making it sound really vulgar is: Eff one you! Ch-kyo! I guess if your friend Ch’kyo was really upset by the number one, that would work.
OK, I’m Canadian so I have absolutely no dog in this fight, and if I did I’m pretty sure I’d be pro-Obamacare (or affordable health care or whatever the official name is).
But no matter what side you’re on, I can’t believe you won’t admit that it’s kind of funny that the official help line is fairly close to being 1-800-FUC-KYOU. It’s not a big stretch to see “fuck you” in F1UCKYO, is it? I think you’re all giving aceplace way too much shit about this, and I bet that wouldn’t have happened if he hadn’t made that crack about the “Obamacare mess”.
Maybe you’re all a little sensitive about this right now.
Yeah, it is a bit of a stretch, because there are over 7,000 letter combinations the same number can yield. Obviously somebody sat down and went through all the permutations looking for something titillating, and if that is the worst they came up with, it barely rises to the level of a joke one might hear in the fourth grade (“it almost says 'fuck” :eek::eek::eek:)
Hey, now. Everybody ease up a little on aceplaceks.
I’m shocked and furious.
I work for the government and we explicitly ordered 1-800-FUK-U-GOP from the phone company.
Now see?..That’s how you do funny.
I think it’s pretty funny.
I think it’s the “Yet another indication how poorly this Obamacare mess was planned.” bit is why the OP is being given a ration of shit.
I think posters’ reactions aren’t so much about the phone number joke but because it’s yet ANOTHER aceplace57 thread that shows
1- 97% of his information comes from Fox News, the Daily Mail or the Drudge Report.
2- he loves to make clearly partisan jokes … Until someone (or multiple someones) calls him out on it, which is when he becomes TOTALLY shocked and hurt that people took it “that way”.
3- said jokes always rely on his ignorance of whatever the topic is (Obamacare, Bengazi!!!111, the government shut down, and on and on), which isn’t surprising given #1 above.
4- he somehow thinks he comes across as non-partisan in these threads!
And finally
5- his complete INABILITY TO ACTUALLY READ AND COMPREHEND THE REPLIES DIRECTED TO HIM SO HE REPLIES WITH THE SAME CONTENT OR SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, UNRELATED AND JUST AS WRONG SO HE MAY AS WELL JUST TALK TO HIMSELF IN THE MIRROR INSTEAD OF STARTING A THREAD.
:: deep, cleansing breath ::
Christ. :smack: Somehow it didn’t even occur to me that there is more than one possible way to translate a phone number to letters. Duh. I get it now. Sorry.
Take it to the Pit. This is MPSIMS.
twickster, MPSIMS moderator
Just ignore this post. I messed up my search and it looks like 1-800-FUCK-YOU might not be a number for anything.
Apparently this number was first assigned and used as a Medicare hotline in 1999.
Nothing to see here, just another made up scandal, move along.