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The former director takes a picture of a shell pattern with the numbers "86 47", and Jack Poso complains. Yet his post from 2022... 🤔 (slrpnk.net)

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[–] x00z@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

What does a shell pattern mean?

Please explain it for everybody that isn't American.

[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to new removed from the menu (i don't know why that is the code). So "to 86" something is to remove it, get rid of it, or be done with it. Some have extrapolated that to also mean to remove someone by killing them, but that is not at all a common way to interpret the phrase. And 47 is referencing Trump who is the 47th president of the US. 46, then, referenced Biden.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

86 is a code in restaurants for items that are sold out and need to new removed from the menu

lol and this obscure thing is general knowledge to american people?

anyways, thanks for the clarification

[–] devils_advocate@sh.itjust.works 2 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

Americans have so many weird number associations

420

10-4

7/11

401k

5150

187

411

Etc.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 minutes ago

i only know about 420 and 69 thanks to memes😅

[–] atomicorange@lemmy.world 1 points 47 minutes ago

It’s pretty commonly used slang in the US, especially back in the 80’s and 90’s.

[–] vivi@slrpnk.net 23 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Shells on a sandy beach, arranged to form numbers.

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

I thought it was some bullet lore.

And what do the numbers mean?

[–] DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

86 is a restaurant term, basically meaning that there is no more of a dish.

46 in this context is the 46th president of the united states.

And for a serious response on shell pattern, its referencing shotgun shells; if you are using birdshot, you get a very spread out pattern of impact points, with buckshot it would be a tight grouping of impact points (shotgun shells are packed with metal BB's instead of a single, larger chunk of metal).

[–] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 15 points 6 hours ago

The shell pattern is actually referencing a picture Comey tweeted of sea shells in a pattern on a beach that formed the numbers "86 47"