Mushu Mushu
Edison
Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Tja@programming.dev 11 months ago
ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used. Apparently it’s also just a casual way of saying “I’m ready to talk” and was used by early telephone operators in Japan. It’s most likely people just ended up copying the phrase from operators and aren’t worried about being tricked by foxes.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Mosh moof
Fuck, I can’t do it, they’re right!
bort@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I like the explanation that devious spirits cannot say this phrase and that’s why it’s used
Evil spirits can not say the same word twice in a row. Foxes can not say “moshi”. With “moshi moshi” you get a 2-for-1 special.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
Japanese people answer their phone like that, everything is fine.
I answer my phone like that, I’m branded a weaboo for the rest of my life.
Furbag@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t read this phrase anymore without reading it in Admiral Kizaru’s voice automatically.
Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Fuck Edison.
Dippy@beehaw.org 11 months ago
Graham-bell isn’t better. He was super duper ableist and pressured Helen Keller to identify with her blindness instead of her deafness
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I love the fact that Burns answers the phone this way. Subtle jokes like this are the reason why The Simpsons is infinitely rewatchable.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Edison deserves hate for more than that
Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world 11 months ago
<slow heavy breathing>
BossDj@lemm.ee 11 months ago
open mouth chewing on potato chips “Yeah?”
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“TIMMY, put those down!”
[child shrieking in the background]
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Angry Silence
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
With adjusted volume to make it louder for the listener
fiend_unpleasant@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Edison was a cunt.
ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Edison was quite successful, to the point where some languages other than English have a word that sounds like “hello” (for example, Russian “allo”) which is used only when answering the phone.
onion@feddit.de 11 months ago
French as well I think
mister_monster@monero.town 11 months ago
Yeah there’s a whole TV show about that from the 80s.
deus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That makes sense cause in Brazil we say “alô” when answering the phone, a word that only seems to exist for this single purpose.
Quereller@lemmy.one 11 months ago
In Thailand, they use the the German hallo (hello).
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
In Finnish we also say “haloo”
waigl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Funny thing: “Hello” was actually not a common greeting until that point.
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
I’ve always been curious how people greeted each other before “hello”. Did we just say “good day” and variations thereof?
Assman@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Most English speakers actually used “wazzup” like those Budweiser commercials
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Well, Howdy is a contraction of “How do you do?”, hence the somewhat rarer “Howdy do!”, and Goodbye is a contraction of “God Be With You!”
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 11 months ago
opens phone, “…moshi mo…” infinibonked for weebery
maculata@aussie.zone 11 months ago
So apparently the new shit spam evil calls can record the most minimal sample of your voice and then spoof it to your friends and family…
It almost seems worth saying nothing until ‘they’ say something, but then, what if they are a spoofed caller…
Oh shit. Just don’t use phones any more.
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
If you don’t recognize the number, answer in a funny accent. That’s how you defeat the voice harvesters.
ring ring Sombrero repair, como es?
ring ring [deep voice] Investigations.
ring ring HJECKIN?
ring ring [high pitched voice] OOIIO BO IMA SO GLAD YE RANG DOLLINGA
ring ring thinkyefurcullinpapajhonzzewoodyalacktatryourpapalopadoussoosageasperigusdoughdopoloostoday?
ring ring [monkey noises]
ring ring OOOOOHHHHHHHH COME ON EILEEN, I BEG OF YA PLEASE
ring ring [raspy voice] Jerome?
ring ring [dictation voice, right up against microphone] THANK YOU FOR FALLING KMART. PLEASE LET US KNOW WHAT YOU ARE CALLING ABOUT SO WE MAY DIRECT YOUR CALL
ring ring [moaning so intense it would make Sarah Grey blush]
ring ring WEAR MAH CHIL’ SUPPORT AT JEROME
ring ring [play Gilbert Garfield directly into microphone]
blackbrook@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Then they just scam your friends family with you doing a funny voice.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ring ring “Drinking urine and help with kidney stones”
kameecoding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unless I am expecting a call, such as a delivery I just dont answer phone calls, if it’s important they will call again, if it’s less important they can message me like a normal human being.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I mostly don’t ever answer calls I don’t recognize, and even the ones I do I don’t often answer if I’m at work etc. I’ve only answered calls when it’s for something important being delivered, fixed, or scheduled (recent examples in same order: TV, Internet, renting a place(less recent, but all I could think of)).
Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I had a friend try to use AI to mimic my voice and make me say some goofy stuff and it sounded nothing like me, so I think I’ve lucked out on that front
It has been a while though, and it’s possible the technology has progressed to be able to clone my uncloneable voice
!I was tempted to say chat member but I hate advertising or talking about that at all, so enjoy this spoiler explaining something that didn’t need explaining!<
chauncey@hexbear.net 11 months ago
Fun fact - this is why Mr. Burns always answers the phone with “ahoy”
CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Had to look it up, and the story is actually really cool. Heres a great article from NPR
davemeech@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Ahoy, guys.
Be the change you want to see in this world, don’t let Thomas Edison continue to shit on everything from his grave.
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
my go-to when im forced to answer unknown callers is “who is this?”. then i disconnect if they dont answer my question
Sotuanduso@lemm.ee 11 months ago
“Who dares to disturb my slumber?”
bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
That’s kind of bizarre tbh but I guess you just never get contacted by folks who aren’t in your phone?
Glowstick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
To me it sounds like OP’s opener is exactly for people who aren’t contacts saved in his phone. It sounds perfect to me
jarfil@beehaw.org 11 months ago
The only folk who have trouble identifying themselves when calling my private phone, are spammers.
Randelung@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Let’s compromise!
Alloy.
Or what we can agree on: HO. Omg Santa was right all along.
chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Great, now I’m fighting metal dinosaurs.
niktemadur@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Imagine Edison trying to patent the “hello” greeting to get royalties every time someone answered the phone.
Then the incel fanbois defending Edison, insisting he invented the term 'hello".HawlSera@lemm.ee 11 months ago
At this point I think there are more incel fanbois overhyping Tesla, still believing he really did have perpetual energy death rays invented by Ancient Egyptian aliens
Dude was brilliant, but he was also very, very crazy… and a name that comes up a lot when I’m on the “Spirit Science and Ancient Aliens are perfectly valid methods of self-education in comparison.” side of Youtube
MoonJellyfish@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Thomas Edison kinda looks like my granduncle who was beating his wife.
citrusface@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your Gruncle, you say?
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
daveywaveyboy@feddit.nl 11 months ago
Pronto
pH3ra@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Based Meucci enjoyer
mumblerfish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is it just to swedes “pronto” sounds like it would mean “hurry up”? Or is that everyone?
nefonous@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In Italian it just means “ready”, but in English is used in a completely different way. Probably Sweden got the usage from English
aeki@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Vad har det med Sverige att göra? As a Spanish speaker, that’s just one its meanings in Spanish.
TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ive always heard it to mean “hurry up” or “be quick” too.
… I am 1/4 swedish though so I dunno?
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
When in see a post like this, ibsee a new friend.
Fuck Edison you idea stealing cuck.
prex@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I heard he electrocuted an elephant.
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
Yeah because he wanted to make Teslas ac electricity look evil, but just made everyone there hate him.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 11 months ago
dumbass@leminal.space 11 months ago
_sideffect@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I answer with “Yes?”
It gets straight to the point
dogsoahC@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Holy shit, the Captain had it right all along!
johsny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yo bitch.
01011@monero.town 11 months ago
“What do you want?” is how I’ve been answering the phone of late.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Cicraft@lemmy.world 11 months ago
does nobody remember Antonio Meucci anymore?
tslnox@reddthat.com 11 months ago
If there is any Cimrmanologist around
Hola hola, tam Weigel.
Stern@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just as the ducks at the park are free, there is also no legal requirement to answer the phone in particular way. Hit folks with a, “Ahoyhoy”, “Howdy”, “Whats good brother?”, or for the more adventurous, “Ralphs Roadkill Cafe. You kill it, we grill it.”
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Dave’s pizza and abortion clinic, your loss is our sauce” is a particularly spicy one I’ve heard.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Jim’s abortion clinic … We deletus your fetus
PiJiNWiNg@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
“You rape em, we scrape em”
(I do not condone this message)
joelfromaus@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I usually get people with: “Anons Morgue: you kill ‘em, we chill ‘em.”
harmsy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In my family it was variations of “Hello, Joe’s whatever. Insert rhyme here.”
One of my favorites was “Joe’s mortuary, you stab 'em we slab 'em.”
renormalizer@feddit.de 11 months ago
“You bag 'em, we tag 'em”
philoko@ani.social 11 months ago
My go to is “Yellow”
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Mine is somewhere between yellow and howdy. If you call a Texas Drunk you should be prepared for a “Yeowdy”.
KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I usually hit my friends with the “sup fuckface”
Kalothar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I throw a fucko out there into the world every now on then
plantedworld@lemmy.world 11 months ago
“Duffy’s Morgue, you stab em we slab em.”
Vinny_93@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Snackbar Harry, Harry speaking