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minus-squareFluidBeef@quokk.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up68arrow-down3·4 days ago“Why’s it called 9/11 if it happened in September though?”
minus-squareamorangi@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up31·4 days agoIt’s named after their emergency number. Lots of people dialed 911 that day.
minus-squarelauha@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-24 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-up2·3 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-up24·4 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-up6·4 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-squaredavidgro@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 days agoBecause it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.
minus-squarehowrar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up3·4 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?”
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)
Because it happened on 2001-09-11 in the One True Date Format.
The country sobered up and decided to write dates correctly, only to relapse the very next day.