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minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68·1 month ago“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
minus-squareamorangi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·1 month agoIt’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-21 month 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·edit-21 month 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-up24·1 month agoI’ve just barely survived a date format discussion and this is the first comment I read after. God dammit
minus-squareiocase@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 month 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-up3·1 month agoThe country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.
minus-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoBecause it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.
“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
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.
Because it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.