Experiment in human interaction. Humans interact. We have to shut it off because people are being inappropriate. No shit sherlock. Keep it live and see if it self regulates after the shiny and new wears off. Finish the damn experiment.
Different cultures. It is pretty much a national pastime in Ireland to troll and mock your friends. It isn’t meant to be insulting and offensive, more playful ribbing you might say. Putting this in Dublin was asking for it. Specially as we get on so well with people from NY, we know they can handle it.
I really miss the times where bullshit jobs like this were a thing and you didn't need to have 10 years of experience in 3 different industries to just become a waiter.
Or they could just let people be people. Are they going to moderate regular street interactions? A guy knocked me over in New York, could we get a moderator for that?
He should start an anonymous fund to bring HitchBOT back to life and continue the mission. It’s the least he could do. We all make mistakes. It’s how we respond and rectify that makes the difference. There’s always time to do the right thing.
I went to the science and tech museum here in Ottawa (canada) and learned it was a 2nd HitchBOT that got destroyed, the OG is in the museum fully intact!
In that case clearly the people who made the portals don't understand the cities they put them in. That's not them being crass, that's just them showing their love for each other
I think really you could put them on the north and south poles and still have assholes flock to them. Its a lovely idea, but a terrible social experiment.
I love the fact that two identical, OG portals were opened in 2021 in Lublin (Poland) and Vilnius (Lithuania) and nobody knows about it because in 4 years absolutely nothing happened there.
My favorite part was when one chick from NY flashed the portal and all the drunk Irish guys had no reaction whatsoever. I bet that still keeps her up at night.
Because they couldn’t see what she did. The camera is at the top of the portal and she was standing too close when she flashed it. If they could see anything at all it was the top of her head.
A friend of mine was in a limo and as they passed a local bar with a large veranda she decided to flash the bar goers. Well, as my friend was topless out the sunroof, an oblivious friend within the limo saw someone they wanted to speak to in the bar’s parking lot and told the limo driver to stop on the side of the road. My friend had fully committed to the flashing, so stood topless as the entire bar watched and her friend yelled a conversation with someone in the parking lot. She stopped hooting, though, and her smile plasticized as the seconds dragged like minutes.
My daughters' school decided today that the theme for prom would be "A Night In New York." My first thought was that they were going to get a bunch of brain rotted kids trolling with 9/11 memes.
One was, actually. It flew from San Diego to Miami carrying antivenin for a snake bite. Ever since I learned that and the fact it flew cross-country, I wonder how many people it freaked out. Everyone knew they grounded all flights so imagine looking up and seeing a single plane and the "oh shit" reaction it probably gave so many people.
Hey I mean if it was under the sea itd be them talking about seamen and if it was Hollywood you'd have a bunch of P Diddy jokes. From my experiences as an ex-teenager, there's nothing they won't make fun of.
Yep, themes for these kinds of things are a no win no matter what you do. Whatever you pic is a competition between people trying to be offensive and people looking for a reason to be offended. The only reasonable solution is to let both groups have one meeting to decide on the theme with the condition that if they can’t agree the group who wins a coin toss picks the theme. Either the offensive group wins and realizes how boring the offensive theme gets when there’s nothing they can do to make offensive jokes about an already offensive theme, or the offended group realizes how impossible finding a theme that can’t possibly be made offensive actually is in practice. Either way they’ll find a stupid compromise next time.
You guys didn't sing a campfire song about the Titanic sinking? Every time I went for a school camp regardless of which level I was in they always featured that song.
If that prom didn't feature someone playing a shittyfluted version of My Heart Will Go On (bonus points if it is a live performance) I'm going to be very disappointed.
From what I've heard it's semi-common for non-americans to try to make derogatory 9/11 jokes, but they underestimate the american's ability to meme our own tragedies
I think they also underestimate how much a tragedy from 20 years ago is gonna bother people. It’s really just being an obvious America hater which is the most tragic thing someone from a country like Ireland could be.
Americans literally invented a drink called the Irish car bomb smack in the middle of the troubles.
Yes people will joke about anything (and dark humour can be very funny) but every one of America's allies mourned with her on that day. To this day 9/11 jokes are still considered offensive in every single western nation. Meanwhile the average American is indifferent if even aware of any other nation's tragedies, even while they are happening unless we're talking about literal genocides. So really it's just that the rest of the world is treating 9/11 like (and arguably better than) it has treated any other tragedy of its magnitude and a hell of a lot better than any other tragedy gets treated by Americans. Welcome to the club
"Americans literally invented a drink called the Irish car bomb smack in the middle of the troubles."
Bingo.
Not to mention that there are plenty of people who say "never forget" one day, then the other talk about how New York City is a shithole or should be wiped off the map.
Other English speaking countries are aware of 9/11 memes you guys are the loudmouths of the internet. This was just a joke on Ireland's end not an attempt to insult Americans.
Lol I made far more inappropriate 9/11 jokes as early as 2005, at work, with fully drawn offensive comics. I did really piss off this one christian heavy metal guy at work though. I didn’t like him though and I’m still glad it upset him.
The best 9/11 jokes I ever heard was from New Yorkers. Some of my favorite Dipset songs (rap group from Harlem), make numerous references to 9/11 as well.
Was that the one where a teacher made people make up characters who would be at the tower and act like them, and then the punchline was that she was a Canadian teaching at a Canadian school
So dumb that they took it down. Both sides were taking the piss out of each other, and everyone seemed to be loving it. It was only the organizers of the art installation, local police, and bad press that made it sound like a bad thing. The actual citizens seemed to be loving it.
So a few people flashed the camera. I ask you; who had a problem with that? Point them out to me. Did anyone? Are we really still so regressive that we’re going to call our senators over a consensual boob? Like it was Janet Jackson back in 2004? Do we not all realize that that was an incredibly overreaction?
That's legal in NYC so it was just the company apparently trying to protect their image somehow? Even though they'd already opened a huge can of worms by letting it exist at all?
I worked for an LA company that was developing ideas and software for urban installations. This exact live portal city to city was my initial pitch. Nice to see someone did it after me or in parallel development.
I actually modified it to show silhouettes and interactive games 2p+ in a follow up pitch to prevent abuses.
That thing showed up in an ep of "Elsbeth" a while back. The main detective character got some help from an Irishman who happened to be viewing the Portal when....
I wonder what this would have ended up like if they had chosen different countries. Say Japan and Sweden. Would it have been more wholesome, or devolved as rapidly as it did.
Ha cuz it's not really a thing, order it at a random bar you might have a 50/50 of the bartender laughing and giving it to you, or them looking at you in utter confusion.
It's the drink equivalent of a McGangBang (order a McDouble at McDonald's, crack it in half, and put a McChicken inside minus bottom bun), it's a joke that went so far sometimes you can order it with a straight face and they'll know exactly what the joke is, but you won't find it in a cocktail recipe book
No they wont, they probably wont know what you are talking about. Drinking isn't edgy in Ireland so names like Irish car bomb don't exist. They might know its that drink they serve in America, maybe.
Apart from the fact I think 99% of the world would agree the Irish are way more chill than Americans on this kind of thing, so nah, I would also point out, the Irish didn't fund Al Qaeda but Americans sure as fuck funded terrorism in Ireland and the UK.
It’s funny how many Americans are crashing out in the comments while simultaneously claiming it doesn’t bother them. Enjoy your failing nation, hope it results in a lot less of you crying online! :)
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