Not really defending Comey, but more critiquing that Viva didn't make his argument well. "86" is so often not used in the murder sense. To act like it's outrageous that it could be used in any other way - such as the way it's used 99% of the time - is pretty disingenuous from Viva, in my opinion. But probably the biggest issue is the focus on the food item, as if that is the only other meaning, when it is probably most well known as slang for kicking someone out. If someone is being troublesome, you throw them out; they've been 86ed.
Now, sure, contextually I think this is intentional shit stirring, and I think the Krassensteins definitely know what they're doing, since they were dumb enough to put more words to it, but I don't think the case is quite as solid as Viva acts.
I think "8647" is in pretty damn poor taste, and could be taken as a call to violence if you stretch, but it's also easily viewed as 'fire,' 'kick out,' or otherwise get rid of.
Graves are 8' long and 6' deep and this is the only origin explanation that's not just random. "Deep six" originated around the same time in the roarin' 20s. It's been listed in every slang dictionary as "to kill" since before the 70s.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
No, this means to kill. It certainly means that to Comey.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
You don't have to be a waiter to know what '86' means. As I said in my other comment, at least in my experience, it's almost exclusively used to mean kick someone out.
Maybe it's a regional dialect? I've rarely heard it used straight and unironically. Closest I've seen was talking about firing someone in a joking way, alluding to mob movies, when our team manager discussed another coworkers poor performance review and said "Yeah we'll need to 86 him" and did the cutting motion across his neck. That's probably how that idiot Krassenstein meant it, but Comey posting out of nowhere is sus.
Mob movies were a literal staple of American media for decades. Multiple instances of mob slang have become common parts of American English and most of us probably use words/lines from them without having seen them ourselves.
Its really one of those things where its usage is commonly hyperbolic, but its literal meaning is very direct. And a person with the level of power and political standing of Comey (current or former) cannot be that loose with his words at any point.
Not really defending Comey, but more critiquing that Viva didn't make his argument well. "86" is so often not used in the murder sense. To act like it's outrageous that it could be used in any other way - such as the way it's used 99% of the time - is pretty disingenuous from Viva, in my opinion. But probably the biggest issue is the focus on the food item, as if that is the only other meaning, when it is probably most well known as slang for kicking someone out. If someone is being troublesome, you throw them out; they've been 86ed.
Now, sure, contextually I think this is intentional shit stirring, and I think the Krassensteins definitely know what they're doing, since they were dumb enough to put more words to it, but I don't think the case is quite as solid as Viva acts.
I think "8647" is in pretty damn poor taste, and could be taken as a call to violence if you stretch, but it's also easily viewed as 'fire,' 'kick out,' or otherwise get rid of.
Graves are 8' long and 6' deep and this is the only origin explanation that's not just random. "Deep six" originated around the same time in the roarin' 20s. It's been listed in every slang dictionary as "to kill" since before the 70s.
And do you really think Comey ever had a job as a waiter?? Uh, no.
No, this means to kill. It certainly means that to Comey.
You don't have to be a waiter to know what '86' means. As I said in my other comment, at least in my experience, it's almost exclusively used to mean kick someone out.
I haven't waited and knew it only as "to kill" for my entire life.
Maybe it's a regional dialect? I've rarely heard it used straight and unironically. Closest I've seen was talking about firing someone in a joking way, alluding to mob movies, when our team manager discussed another coworkers poor performance review and said "Yeah we'll need to 86 him" and did the cutting motion across his neck. That's probably how that idiot Krassenstein meant it, but Comey posting out of nowhere is sus.
Mob movies were a literal staple of American media for decades. Multiple instances of mob slang have become common parts of American English and most of us probably use words/lines from them without having seen them ourselves.
Its really one of those things where its usage is commonly hyperbolic, but its literal meaning is very direct. And a person with the level of power and political standing of Comey (current or former) cannot be that loose with his words at any point.