Title text:
In 1899, people were walking around shouting ‘23’ at each other and laughing, and confused reporters were writing articles trying to figure out what it meant.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3184/
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0118 999 881 999 119 725 3
I’ve had a bit of a tumble
I think it’s more of a 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3
Oh, that’s easy to remember!
Tree fiddy
“Now, my story begins in nineteen dickety two. We had to say dickety 'cause the kaiser had stolen our word twenty….”
For millennials, like me: 1337 means “LEET” which is short for “Elite”.
Sorry, what? I’m a millennial, this is common knowledge for anyone who played a videogame in the last quarter century.
What the h311 is wrong with you? Us millennials invented 1337!
Nope. Source: am gen X.
Yep I think pops here has this one, us Millennials grew up with leet speak, it already was a thing in the 80s.
That’s the first time anyone called me pops! NOW I feel old!
Sorry to hear that, gramps!
(Am also Gen X. Sigh…)
Teens in different countries have different funny numbers too funny enough. There is a thing influencing multiple civilizations to do this.
31 is funny in Turkey.
all the older ones at least had some kind of meaning behind them, this new shit is actual brainrot.
67 is the police code for a homicide. Kids just didn’t understand it and thought it referred to something else.
Missing “about three-fitty”
Tree fiddy
Dammit Loch Ness monster…
67 sneaking onto the ‘funny numbers’ list is hilarious—teens are basically a standards committee now.
Bot account? Comments seem like your average “short and humorous response” bot.
Definitely a bot, not sure what the point of them is on Lemmy.
I feel like (6, 7) should definitely be a tuple
Where’s 3.50?
Get outa here ya lock ness
It was about that time that I noticed that sweet little verilyfemme was a three story tall crustacean from the Mesozoic era!
I was reading Wikipedia about the origins of 23 and came across this neat tidbit:
On the RMS Titanic there was a watertight door on E Deck numbered 23 which was informally called the “skidoo door” according to the testimony of the Chief Baker Charles John Joughin.
What about Schfifty-Five?
Three fiddy?
Tree-fiddy came so close to making the list I think but it feels right that it didn’t.
twennyone
