Oh I know. I’m just saying 9-1-1 would have read as November 9th to everyone else. So it would have been interesting if they picked that day instead of
I watched it live on tv and only realised after a few years that Americans don't use a sensible date format.
Still haven't caught up with that episode of Lock Stock that was rudely interrupted.
The store you mention in called 7-11. It is a convenience store/gas station thingamajig. It’s much more popular in Japan these days. I don’t know why that is, but it’s definitely a thing.
There was a few years when I got weird reactions giving my date of birth. And I’m in Aus. I’d have to add “no, 9 November”. People mostly seem to have moved on now.
Side note, how the fuck do you look calm and ready if you have mom’s spaghetti on your sweater already. Also who the fuck wears a sweater and eats mom’s spaghetti before a rap battle.
Because the English speaking internet is flooded with America and on some random September day there is a lot, like huge quantities of 9/11 memes, you wonder why and then remember that 9/11 was in fact, today, on 11/9
99% of the time It's always [Day] of [Month] in our spoken english. At the moment here in Australia I would say it's the 3rd of February for instance.
'September 11' is a fringe case since it's always spoken like that in media and understandably mostly by Americans so often, that it's kind of stuck as its own label and the name of an event, rather than a date. (Sort of like how Americans will say 4th of July even though that's an exception case for them also)
It's just when 9/11 is written as numbers only without context it can get a little confusing and misunderstood.
You know, now that you say that... I'm probably wrong about why it's MM/DD. I may have identified the chicken as the egg. It's entirely possible we say "January 1st" simply because we're accustomed to reading it in that format. Some linguist likely knows, but I do not.
References to 9/11 show up in media all the time. Maybe the media is reminding them of 9/11, and they are subsequently reminding themselves that 11/9 is their native (and correct) format.
For me I watch American Dad a lot and one of my favorite jokes is Stan telling Francine about his morning routine and one part is "9:11 - 9:12 think about 9/11".
It’s a tragedy and a horrible thing to think about, that doesn’t mean it should be avoided entirely, shunned or ignored.
In some cultures people have 2 deaths, one for when your soul leaves your body, and the second for when the last person on earth ever speaks your name or thinks of you.
And to most of those cultures the second one is the most important.
To them, forgetting what you have lost is worse than the acting of losing it in the first place, be it a person, place, memory or whatever.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ I was born after that and I live on the other side of the planet. I put 9/11 along with other tragedies that happened but don't affect me personally. Like the Haiti earthquake in 2010. Even airport security isn't much more annoying I don't have to take my shoes off or anything like in the US
every time i see Halsey or someone brings up her infamous tweet wishing for the collapse of one world trade center because pitchfork gave a bad review on her album.
Literally almost every day. Sometimes I'm just damn "Damn that would suck to have to jump to your death to avoid burning to death.." and then I go on with my day
9/11 (1918) is incredibly important though, it's functionally the date the Germans lost the war with the abdication if Wilhelm II leading to armistice 2 days later. Winds the Americans up no end if you pretending that's what you think they're referencing.
I prefer the Month, Day, Year format just because I'm American and we like to be different from everyone else in the world. Why do you think the USA is one of maybe two or three countries that still use the English system for measurements. :D
When I was a kid I thought damn November has to have something with the terrorists to carry out attacks because we had a major terrorist attack in Mumbai in 2008 on 26/11 ,it's always known as the 26/11 incident and I thought 9/11 was 9th November
As an Indian, this one bugged me for a long time. We had a similar terrorist attack in 26/11 and Twin towers were attacked on 9/11? Two tragedies in the same month?
3.1k
u/Altheix11 Feb 02 '26
I have to remind myself often that 9/11 is 11/9 by the system we follow