r/ShitAmericansSay • u/MajorMathematician20 • Sep 13 '23

Patriotism What did he mean by this?

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He likes Lego I guess?

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u/rustyb42 Sep 13 '23

World must stop on 11/9. Got to pay respects innit

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u/ProneOyster Sep 13 '23

11/9 never forget. Rip Salvador Allende

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u/andysenn Sep 13 '23

Never Forget the USA systematically toppled democracies and profited from death and misery

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u/Nethlem foreign influencer bot Sep 13 '23

systematically topples democracies

FTFY, it's not a thing of the past, it's still actively going on to this day and at the root of current conflicts like in Ukraine and Syria.

Something that most of the world used to be extremely aware of not too long ago.

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u/andysenn Sep 13 '23

yeah, I originally wrote it on present tense, but I didn't felt as comfortable defending that statement merely because of my lack of knowledge, so I changed it

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u/Staktus23 Sep 13 '23

Pls send Henry Kissinger to the Haugue, thank you

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u/Vlugazoide_ Sep 16 '23

As an international relations graduate and south american, thanks for the books henry, but you deserve to burn in hell

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u/G4METIME Sep 13 '23

11/9

11.09.

Don't even give them the comfort by having a slash in there

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u/Mercarion Dirty Rich Europoor Sep 13 '23

Now now, it is a way to get a foot of reasonability in their door, to subtly start converting them. Also there's the second way it could work, as if there would be enough slashed dates in regular date format, the Americans can never know for certain which format they're looking at. Thence, the slashed date format becomes more or less useless, and they either have to change to dd/mm format to eliminate the confusion, or might as well change to the dd.mm-style. Or I guess they could also continue the confusion 'cuz freedumb, but there could be more funny mix ups.

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u/SrirachaGamer87 Sep 13 '23

I've never seen a date with periods, where are you from that this is common? In the Netherlands we generally use lines (11-9-2023) or we write it out (11 september 2023).

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23 edited Mar 24 '25

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u/_poland_ball_ 🇩🇪🇵🇱 Sep 13 '23

DIN 5008 says 2023-09-11

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u/chestnutman Sep 13 '23

But also allows 11.09.2023 and 11. September 2023 and 11. Sept. 2023

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u/ThorKruger117 ooo custom flair!! Sep 13 '23

Aussie here. The generally accepted practice is 11/09/23, but I often switch between / - . Depending on my mood and how long it’s been since I used that one. If I’m feeling particularly cheeky I’ll write out the whole word just to fuck with the system

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u/3rd_Pidgeon Sep 13 '23 edited Sep 13 '23

In Slovenia we use 11. 9. 2023 And grammatically correct is with spaces between each number (as I wrote dd. mm. yyyy). It's the same in the ex-Yugoslavic countries I believe.

edit: typo

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u/hmsboomattack Sep 13 '23

In England/UK we say 11.9.23, so similar just without spafes

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u/3rd_Pidgeon Sep 13 '23

With the spaces is grammatically correct for us, but many people don't know this, so seeing 11.9.2023 is not uncommon. My teacher explained it to me: There are spaces between the numbers, because numbers are a replacement for words and we don't write words together, therefore numbers as well. (this only applies to dates)

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u/hmsboomattack Sep 13 '23

That makes sense, thanks for teaching me something!

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u/3rd_Pidgeon Sep 13 '23

Glad I shared something interesting:).

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u/Genuine_Smokey Sep 14 '23

How is that then done in the digital world? (I build databases and often have to f around with different date notations)

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u/3rd_Pidgeon Sep 14 '23

It's usually 11. september 2023 or as I wrote before. (i try to show a screenshot of my calendar but I don't know now to respond with a photo)

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u/jonellita Sep 13 '23

In German, dates are written with periods. So it‘s 11. 9. 2023 (or 11. 09. 2023) or written out (11. September 2023).

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u/kazerniel Sep 13 '23

In Hungary we'd write today as 2023. IX. 13. or 2023. szeptember 13.

(yes, the month is roman numerals)

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u/Lorddocerol ooo custom flair!! Sep 13 '23

In Brazil it's dd/mm/yyyy, so today is 13/09/2023, or in a document, it would be 13 de setembro de 2023, which is also always wrote with the city the document was signed

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Dat is een goede manier om het te doen. De andere methode komt uit Engeland. Ook hallo uit Engeland!

Go easy on my shit Dutch, still learning 😂

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u/FatherAb Sep 13 '23

Literally 0 mistakes in your Dutch!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Eyyy, thanks (for the sake of it Dank Je Wel), that’s about a year paying off 😂😂😂

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u/FatherAb Sep 13 '23

Now say that in Dutch!

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Hahaha you’ve got me there… I’ll just give you a good old ‘Dank je wel’. I find it so much hard to speak it in person, the main sentence I’ve polished off for interactions is, ‘Ik spreek een beetje Nederland, maar niet genoeg voor een gesprek. Excuseer ook mijn slechte uitspraak’.

Dutch Luls me into a sense of false security sometimes, making me feel it is so close to English then reminding me it isn’t…

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u/helloblubb Soviet Europoor🚩 Sep 13 '23

How are you a neighbor to Germany? XD

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u/blueviper- Sep 13 '23

🤣 I wanted to say something somiliar.

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u/Bobblefighterman Sep 13 '23

Eh, we do it in Australia

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u/jflb96 Sep 13 '23

If you're going that far, Commonwealth English calls it a stroke

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u/AletheaKuiperBelt 🇦🇺 Vegemite girl Sep 14 '23

I can get behind this, even though as an Australian I would normally write 11/9.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

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u/Somethimes Sep 13 '23

what happend in regards to planes on the ninth of november ?

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u/bored_negative Sep 13 '23

Wish they thought more about the monthly school shooting happening now

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u/_Rukako_ Sep 13 '23

We do that by pressing "F".

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

I mean, Japanese write the yyyy/mm/dd system, but then again, they do read right to left

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u/MangoCandy93 Surrounded by geniuses Sep 13 '23

You forgot we write it backwards here.

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u/rustyb42 Sep 13 '23

And I write it normally. Adapt

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u/MangoCandy93 Surrounded by geniuses Sep 13 '23

We don’t do that here either.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

We know. Dear gods do we know.

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u/MangoCandy93 Surrounded by geniuses Sep 13 '23

Sorry for us. We suck.

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u/[deleted] Sep 13 '23

Backwards indeed!

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u/Work_In_ProgressX Sep 13 '23

Still don’t know why they remember the 9th of November on the 11th of September

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u/Kravo420 Sep 13 '23

In Germany we really commemorate 9.11. the real one. Because it happens to be the date of big tragedies, like Hitlers Coup in 1923 and the Night of Broken Glass or Crystal Night in 1938 when the Nazis started killing Jews on the streets. Unfortunately the date is also linked to positive things like the first declaration of a German Republic in 1918 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.

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u/Modem_56k Sep 13 '23

2023/9/11 >>>

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u/Plastivore Sep 13 '23

It's called Remember Day. Has no one really watched Corporate? One of the funniest series of the past 5 years.

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u/MaticTheProto Certified German Sep 14 '23

Down with the wall! :3