White House confuses Theresa May, UK Prime Minister; with Teresa May, porn star

Unless Rule 34’s been repealed, I guess so.

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GODDAMIT! ISO 8601, PEOPLE!

You know it makes sense.

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That video is blocked for me, and given the title and the still, I am very very grateful.

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Yes.
Once? OK, mistakes happen.
Twice? OK, a bit sloppy.
Thrice? Starting to look incompetent.

If I’m meeting the CEO (or anyone, really) of another company, I make sure that I have the name spelled (and pronounced) correctly before meeting them.

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You’re not the kind of person we’re looking for here at the White House, sorry.

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If I were a gay porn star, I’d definitely call myself Donald Rump.

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It’s a scene from Peep Show. Jeremy is at a sperm bank and can’t find any porn, so he has to use a 20 pound note. He drops the note, and it lands reverse-side up, with Sir Edward Elgar facing up, and he can’t finish

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I think that it was because Teresa started getting attention during Theresa’s campaign due to misspelled searches/etc.

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Us USians still won’t get it…
At work we use 27 Jan 17 (but that still confuses some folks, so I usually do 27 Jan 2017.
The FDA requires ISO8601 now so we use it on official certificates, etc and we get confused calls from customers.

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Also, is the honorable *snort* Cory Doctorow implying there’s something particularly bad if you mistake someone with another person, who happens to be a porn star, which is a totally legitimate occupation?

Is he… god forbid… slut-shaming?

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I usually use 20170127. yyyymmdd. Largest–>smallest, each number written out in full.

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I anticipate this administration being the first to be escorted out of the white house in shackles. Until that day I say we bash this POTUS for everything damn incompetent thing, big or small. Fuck Drumpf.

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A standard? This White House has as much use for standards (esp. international ones) as is it does for “non-alternative” facts.

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–Formerly knows as subaltern Windsor http://mashable.com/2015/04/22/queen-elizabeth-army/

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Close, but slightly different spelling on Glucksberg.

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That much I deduced from the title and the still image. I am still very very grateful the video wouldn’t load.

Peep Show is a bit rich for my blood. It’s a bit too fist-in-mouth, squirming with embarrassment, horror and a kind of twisted self-recognition. Undoubtedly a work of genius, but an uncomfortable one.

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Not Donald T. Rump?

Also, Something, something confusing porn star for a first lady!..

*feels conflict about making joke at the expense of vulnerable woman / obvious hostage and tries not to work too hard on it*

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