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.
I don't think he's being loose with his words. This type of coy wordplay is obviously tightly controlled, as he's skirting right up on the line of overt / actionable speech, without clearly crossing it.
He's trying to demonstrate that he's untouchable. Would love to see him proven wrong.
I'm not saying he is being loose, he absolutely knows what he is doing unless he really is that stupid, which I can't rule out based on everything else about him.
But to give him any benefit of the doubt is to say people of his level and political standing can be loose with words, which absolutely should not be the case.
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.
I don't think he's being loose with his words. This type of coy wordplay is obviously tightly controlled, as he's skirting right up on the line of overt / actionable speech, without clearly crossing it.
He's trying to demonstrate that he's untouchable. Would love to see him proven wrong.
I'm not saying he is being loose, he absolutely knows what he is doing unless he really is that stupid, which I can't rule out based on everything else about him.
But to give him any benefit of the doubt is to say people of his level and political standing can be loose with words, which absolutely should not be the case.