myrmepropagandist
DSNY (Department of Sanitation New York) has the most aggressive slogan... and NYPD has the most dainty slogan and I find this endlessly funny. #nyc #newyork #nypd #dsny
May 30 at 1:04pmWeb
Show threadcognitively accessible mathMay 30
@futurebird when the ENglish teacher wants an exmple of irony....
Show threadColes Street PotholeMay 30
@futurebird I don't know. I think the CPR adequately states what NYPD demands from the populace. 🤔
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 30

@ColesStreetPothole

I'm absolutely certain that if you did a poll of them that's what they think it means.

(The CPR push is a part of decades long effort to improve the NYPD and there are people who really want them to be better. But those people in the minority within the organization which thinks of itself as unloved and under-appreciated ... persecuted even. It's a bad dynamic. With a big power imbalance too. )

Show threadColes Street PotholeMay 30
@futurebird Indeed. I know a person of color who entered the force, then promptly left because the mindset the further up you go is just increasingly toxic. And while mayors/commissioners come and go, the PBA is forever, it seems. Wild that even the Giuliani and Adams administrations had run-ins with the PBA.
Show threadMichael GemarMay 30

@futurebird The sanitation slogan seems partially borrowed from Texas:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Mess_with_Texas

Don't Mess with Texas - Wikipedia

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 30

@michaelgemar

I always liked the take that the slogan "don't mess with texas" doesn't convey that texas is tough but more that it's ... unstable. And it needs space.

Kind of like texas has been going through a lot ... and just... please don't mess with it right now.

Show threadPeter Kisner ≈May 30

@futurebird @michaelgemar

My brain always mashes up the phrase with a well known country song to produce:

"All my ex's messed with Texas."

Like maybe Texas needs to get its sh!t together and get some counseling before starting another relationship.

Show threadNYSlothMay 30
@futurebird @michaelgemar The lone star is a review.
Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 30

@NYSloth @michaelgemar

shhhhh. we do not talk about that... keep your voice low. texas just needs... just leave it alone OK?

don't mess with texas please...

Show threadNYSlothMay 30
@futurebird @michaelgemar 🤐
Show threadMichael GemarMay 30
@futurebird @NYSloth [whispers] they have a gun…
Show threadMichael GemarMay 30
@NYSloth @futurebird That’s a good one!
Show threadNYSlothMay 30
@michaelgemar @futurebird Not original to me. The source has long disappeared from my memory, alas.
Show threadhazelnot May 30

@futurebird the sanitation department having "Don't mess with New York" is one of the most New York things* I've ever seen

*based on my perception of it from American media as an Eastern European lol

Show threadmyrmepropagandistMay 30

@hazelnot

Sometimes we really are "like that"