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minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68arrow-down3·8 days ago“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoBecause it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.
minus-squareamorangi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·8 days agoIt’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-27 days agoNo, there used to be 9/11 buildings there. Don’t know about the two missing ones. Two buildings were attackes. Now there’s 7/11
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoNoo, you see, there where 11 buildings and after the 2 towers got taken down, there where now 9/11 buildings!
minus-squareBigDiction@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up24·7 days agoI’ve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit
minus-squareiocase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 days agoThat’s quite the euphemism for what many would call a hand-to-hand edged metal disagreement (in my experience at least. Also metric vs US customary metric)
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·7 days agoThe country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.
“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
Because it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.
It’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
No, there used to be 9/11 buildings there. Don’t know about the two missing ones. Two buildings were attackes. Now there’s 7/11
Noo, you see, there where 11 buildings and after the 2 towers got taken down, there where now 9/11 buildings!
I’ve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit
That’s quite the euphemism for what many would call a hand-to-hand edged metal disagreement (in my experience at least. Also metric vs US customary metric)
The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.