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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

To make them really uncomfortable, use your sluttiest code words.

D as in Daddy, M as in Mummy, H as in Harder, P as in Pineapple, that's my safe word, I've never had to use it...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I have a friend who, years later, still brings up when I said "K as In Cat." That poor customer

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Just say you're Dutch, where cat translates to kat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

J as in George is my personal favorite

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

J as in jalapeño

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Let's see if I still remember:

Alpha
Bravo
Charlie
Delta
Echo
Foxtrot
Golf
Hotel
Indigo
Juno
Kilo
Lima
Mike
November
Oscar
P????
Q????
Romeo
S????
Tango
U????
Vector
W????
X-ray
Y???? Z????

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Doing this off the top of my head too but I think it's

  • J for Juliet
  • P for Papa
  • Q for Cucumber
  • S for Sierra
  • U for Uniform
  • V for Victor
  • W for Whiskey
  • Y for Yankee
  • Z for Zulu
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

This is had me rolling, everything else is spot on then cucumber

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

P for Pneumatic

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

P as in Phoebe
H as in Hoebe
O as in Oebe
E as in Ebe

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

I have a had time not saying that when having to clarify what letter

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

My favorite was when a guy was giving me his email and said "B, as in Alabama"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

The number of people that ask if i meant C when I say Sierra is too damn high.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Queuecumber

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

M as in Mancy!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

Q-cumber looks like a name for a tech startup which name was chosen as a bet or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

A tech startup in the Bond universe.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Cucumber is a testing framework (more or less). So I could see it as some company doing consulting. https://cucumber.io/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

Pretty sure there was once a chain of salad bar type restaurants named QCumber

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I bet they manufacture AI-enabled vibrators

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"At Q-cumber, we bring the innovation and synergy of AI into the bedroom, to maximalize your pleasure in the bed, either with a close partner or not."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Which entitles Benedikt Cumberbatch to an unencumbered cucumber cumberbund.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

If ham radio taught me anything is the phonetic alphabet. Some people have been in the military. For me, I’m a ham.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

could always take them for a ride...

R as in dit dahh dit

U as in dit dit dahh

M as it dahh dahh

...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

What's interesting is hearing sugar for S. I looked it up and it looks like there was a different phonetic alphabet that used sugar for S. But yeah, whatever works works.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Q for queue

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

It's not that the 'phonetic alphabet' make any sense either though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

Why should it though, it's just an agreed upon tool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Germans use ČS for "Tschechoslowakei". Yes, really − not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

not only is Č not in the word, it's also not in the German alphabet.

Well, it could be... suppose the German alphabet decided it needed Lebensraum and decided to annex the Sudeten alphabet.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Akshully, the Sudeten annexed in 1938 were specifically chosen as German-speaking regions

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I used to have to be on the phones A LOT, and when I was requested to do this I would use the "Pasta Phoenetic" alphabet. You wouldn't believe how many different types of pasta there is!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Google isn't finding anything for me, did you make it up yourself?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Haha, yes I did. I ended up making a list for my coworkers... I do remember like 3 or 4 letters with no real match, so had to get creative with those.

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