JD Vance is sick of 67: ‘Ban these numbers forever’
Vance said his five-year-old ‘went absolutely nuts’ over the phrase
I like it slightly more now.
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.
To day I learned that 6 7 is the police code for non-consensual sex with a couch.
69 butt with backrest and seat
And 6x7 is 42, so now every generation can be happy.
This is my response as well.
Makes even more sense when you consider how they say it as "six seven" not "sixty seven" so it would imply notational (6)(7).
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.
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.
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.
he'd probably ban 69 too
His wife already did, along with a lot of other stuff.
That's alright he's trading down to Erica "sex is only for reproduction" Kirk. So he'll just have to 69 the couch.
Does the ban count for 69ing with BarcaLoungers?
yes because the notion that jd vance would ever give is bonkers
68 missing out on all the fun by being a normal number and not subject to memes.
Streisand effect, fucking idiot ruined any chances of it going away now..
I feel like 6-7 is just another version of the made you look hand gesture.
The kids still do this too
We still play this at work.
There it is! I was just saying we had something like this back in the day.
Hah got 'em.
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.
There are exactly 67 seperate Epstein files still to be released
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.
So Americans should now count 65, 66, 68, 69? At least this is in line with measuring things with non-metric units.
Fuck the metric system,
the USA is going to base8.
Base 11 is superior!
UNDECIMAL SUPREMACY!!!
No, just 5, 8, 9. Number 6 is also banned😭
24 is the highest number
This might be the only time I will enjoy hearing 67..
"Oh no, a number, that's threatening the greatness of the US and we must act immediately!"
That was my number in high school football.
What was? 🤭
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?
Being mad at something kids do is the saddest thing ever. Let them yell their numbers and move on to the next thing.
I still don't get what 67 refers to. I missed it'd orgin story!
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?
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.
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.
The same people who would say "let them eat cake"
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.
It dosen't mean anything. Asking what that mean if what reveal that you're not in the know.
I think it started as a sports thing. But you're right. It's gonna burn itself out quickly.
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.
Watch South Park then you'll surely get it
I was mildly annoyed by them, but now I think it's time we go full tilt on them.
Conservatives when something harmless is popular: "This needs to be criminalised".
If it isn't a couch he probably wants to ban it.
Party of personal freedom and free speech y'all
I for one believe people should have the freedom to be annoying.
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.
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.
Thats right, were moving to an octal system. Skip from 5 straight to 8 from now on!
He's just mad his kids don't say it to him
It’s cause he doesn’t get it. It confuses him.
Like magnets.
Always the nuclear option with them.
I don't like the couch fucker either, but you do realize that's a joke, right?
But how will we know his IQ now?
ehhh 6 7
America is one step away from reimplementing Editor’s Law.
Is no one going to point out that he's clearly joking?
Poe's law literally doesn't exist in an administration calling fonts woke. Fuck "couch fucker" JD, he isn't allowed to joke.
Well we are woke Arabic numbers.
This man has zero chin. He had to grown that stupid beard to make his face distinct from his neck. Why is Thiele obsessed with funding this dumbass? Like, if you're going to raise up a minion to do your bidding, find a half way intelligent one
Man and I thought imperial was nonsensical before. Octals gonna be really hard to explain in the future.
Hopefully he learn about it on South Park
Motherfucker thinks he's the dictator of Turkmenistan, coming up with weird laws.
Why don't you guys get some meaningful fucking work done improving the lives of your constituents instead of hating on memes for kids?
So he’s just telling the kids that it’s working
I think more people would like to ban 67 than this article realizes... it truly is insufferable at times.
At least he’s living in this century, as opposed to Trump, who is still stuck in the 80s watching cable TV and talking about his “ratings.”
He can always move to Mars if he dislikes it. Actually, we should just deport him to Mars.
