My most joyless, pedantic, Niel DeGrasse Tyson ass take is that I find the “Biblically Accurate Angel” meme annoying. I cannot see that joke without going “UHM ACTUALLY-”
For those asking: Listen, within Judaism, angels can look like whatever they want to look like. They are formless, and the og Bible has angels appearing as everything from strange wheels of eyes and winged faces, to ordinary guys.
Within Christianity, there are actually nine defined types of angels, each with their own distinct types of appearance and role in creation. The abstract looking angels are actually the minority. The term “biblically accurate angel” includes “regular looking guy”
All this said, the angels with the wheels of eyes and the winged faces are -and I think we can all agree on this- cool as fuck.
Okay, but this is genuinely adorable. I love how the first kid, after entering the number, was like “what do I do now?”. I bet the kid was trying to figure out where the “call” button was, because if you’re only used to cell phones, it’s not really intuitive that the call will automatically go through once you finish entering the phone number
These days, the concept of a dial tone is rather obsolete for a cellphone-centric world, so it isn’t a surprise these girls are young enough to be unfamiliar with it or the hookswitch. Only place you see traditional telephones are in office buildings and older homes that still use it.
When dial service was introduced, the Bell System had to put together instructional films to educate telephone users. So many people were used to being able to pick up and tell the operator who to call for them, so you had to suddenly learn where to find phone numbers. They didn’t even have pushbuttons telephones yet, just rotary dial.
