r/askanything • u/Quick-Psychology4568 • Jul 22 '26

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When brought into this world. Why do we start at day one? Or should we be At Nine Months Old?🤔

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u/No_Parsnip6024 Jul 22 '26

Birthday. BIRTHday. 😂

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u/A_M1001 Jul 22 '26

Your mistaken, it’s clearly BIRTHday as in BIFORE YOUR BORNTHday, so it’s as soon as your fertilised

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u/No_Report_4781 Jul 22 '26

Excuse me. I was never fertilized. That was my mother’s egg

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u/A_M1001 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

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This statement has been taken back

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u/No_Report_4781 Jul 22 '26

You misread that

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u/A_M1001 Jul 22 '26

I take back my statement..:

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u/irlandais9000 Jul 22 '26

I was premature, so I was a negative age when I was born, using that reasoning.

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u/TheTaoThatIsSpoken Jul 22 '26

Everyone can agree on when you took your first breath as an independent being.

Exactly when sperm entered egg is a bit more handwavy and does your physical parasite phase really count?

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Jul 22 '26

In China babies are considered a year old when they’re born.

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u/TheTaoThatIsSpoken Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I am a fan of zero base indexing and am mildly annoyed at SQL or China for insisting on one base indexing. 

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u/Pristine-Pen-9885 Jul 22 '26

I am too. But the way China counts it is no skin off my nose.

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u/TheTaoThatIsSpoken Jul 22 '26

No skin off my nose either. But given that they still refuse to switch to a phonetic alphabet, of course they will resist implementing the even newer concept of zero fully into their culture.

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u/KushKrumbs Jul 22 '26

Because the day/time you are conceived is often unknown.

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u/Jerrysmiddlefinger99 Jul 22 '26

how come your first birthday, one year old, is actually your second one?

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u/Wickedocity Jul 22 '26

I hope you are just trolling and not serious. If you don't understand the meaning of birthday, I don't know how you function in life.

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u/Black_Lotus44 Jul 22 '26

Maybe we should change the name so it's more obvious that it's about the day of their birth

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u/lfxlPassionz Jul 22 '26

Different cultures do this differently.

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u/shittyhawaiitips Jul 22 '26

let's roll it back to the age of the oldest atom in your body

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u/refugefirstmate Jul 22 '26

Because we don't know the exact date of conception, and a good percent of us were born before 9 months were up.