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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 1 year 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 1 year 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")