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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The last article I read was an American high school football coach using the word Nazi as a play call against a school that's 90% Jewish and the players using antisemitic slurs throughout the game.

That deserves an investigation and firing, this kind of Tom Foolery requires an eye roll and a change of call sign, if that.

[–] Jesse@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago

This thorough, week long investigation has concluded that it was kind of humorous.

[–] TotallyHuman@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no! The people we pay to train to kill others might use gasp mild swear words!

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is NA, we'd rather see people's brains exposed than their nipple.

[–] pbjamm 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I saw a headline regarding this the other day, it called it something like "offensive call sign" and I immediately thought it would be something deeply awful and probably racist. Imagine my relief when I read on and learned it was instead something stupid and sophomoric.

The pilot deserves no more than a talking too for making a silly joke.

[–] joelghill@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago
[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's my understanding that pilots don't get to choose their callsigns. Instead, it's their teammates who choose them, which is why they are often jokes at the expense of the pilot. E.g. the callsign of Ewan McGregor's brother was OB-2.

[–] Hype@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Callsigns for pilots, yes. This article is conflating callsigns with the plane's identification/flight number.

[–] frostbiker@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for clarifying. Do you know who chooses that?

[–] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 1 year ago

I guess he ALWAYS had the high ground

[–] Rocket@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And the investigation reveals that nobody cares.

Bubbles is in the air force now?

[–] AngryMulbear@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Delta India Charlie Kilo Six Niner

[–] TubeTalkerX@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Broken Lizard presents......Air Academy!