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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everyone's days are numbered, it's called being mortal you silly dumb-dumb.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I bet "your days are numbered" is one of the most racist things an elf can say to a half-elf..

[–] [email protected] 25 points 11 months ago

"You'll pay for that!"

Yes, I know how stores work.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A more compelling viewpoint was proposed by Woody Allen, back in his standup comedy days of the 1960s:
"Why are our days numbered, and not say... lettered?"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because Julius Caesar and Pope Gregory XIII decided on this when they made the calendar we use today. And nobody dared to say no to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The irony of using letters to refer to that Greg

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

A number doesnt become a mere word, just because you representatives it in another way. A American style 1 also isnt A letter (written as "I")