At a bar and need help? Order an "Angel shot".

-"with lime" means call the police.

- "on the rocks" means you need a taxi called.

- "neat" means you need an escort to your car.

You can also ask for Angela, as in "is Angela working tonight?"

See also the "help me" hand gesture: https://beige.party/@amiserabilist/114876091506990343

#Safety #Signals #PSA

paul (@amiserabilist@beige.party)

Attached: 1 video i did not know about the hand signal for help me, and my stupid ass thought she was flirting. The Signal for Help (or the Violence at Home Signal for Help) is a single-handed gesture that can be used over a video call or in person by an individual to alert others that they feel threatened and need help.[1] Originally, the signal was created as a tool to combat the rise in domestic violence cases around the world linked to self-isolation measures that were related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[2] The signal is performed by holding one hand up with the thumb tucked into the palm, then folding the four other fingers down, symbolically trapping the thumb by the rest of the fingers.[3] It was designed intentionally as a single continuous hand movement, rather than a sign held in one position, so it could be made easily visible. The Signal for Help was created by the Canadian Women's Foundation and introduced on April 14, 2020.[4] It soon spread via the TikTok social video platform and was adopted by the international Women's Funding Network (WFN). It received widespread praise from Canadian[5] and international[6][7] news organizations for helping provide a modern solution to the issue of a rise in domestic violence cases. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_for_Help

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@alice oh, I hadn't heard of Angel shots before. Looks like they're served down here too!

And I could've sworn the hand signal was older than that (but I'd apparently be wrong πŸ˜…)...

@alice I wonder how effective this is. But then I'm rarely in a bar.
@alice My local grocery store has stickers at the entrances now mentioning the "ask for Angela" thing.

@alice potentially also: Ask for Clive

Dunno how widespread it is in practice, and even then probably has similar problems to Ask for Angela, but still, it's around and potentially worth a shot.

@alice There was an incident a couple years ago where someone on the freeway saw a woman in another car making the hand gesture out her car windows. They called 911, the other car was stopped; and it turned out the woman was being kidnapped.
So it seems like the hand gesture is at least well enough known to work sometimes.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/video/2021/nov/08/girl-rescued-in-us-after-using-tiktok-domestic-violence-hand-signal-video

Girl rescued in US after using TikTok domestic violence hand signal – video

A teenager was rescued after using a hand gesture described on the social media app TikTok to signal to motorists that she was in trouble

The Guardian
@alice Bars need to be better at training their staff for these things too. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c789nn3d918o
Ask for Angela: BBC exposes pubs failing to enforce safety scheme

The Ask for Angela initiative aims to provide a discreet lifeline for those feeling unsafe.

BBC News
@alice in germany one can ask for luisa in many locations, see https://luisa-ist-hier.de/#kampagne
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Luisa ist hier!