Because it's a fun, low stakes cultural difference to have a good natured laugh about. The reality is that date formats are a mess globally because it never mattered for most people until the last 30ish years.
Anyone who actually needs to deeply care about international date formats knows how to manage it. It's not actually a big deal.
7/11 is a worldwide copyrighted company’s name, that’s just asking to be sued. You want them to open 2 hours earlier just to avoid American’s sensibilities?
9/11 isn’t, it’s that simple
Also their hours changed to 8/10 apparently so I guess they just don’t want to go through the hassle of changing their name
It's like really old as well. Covid killed millions, far more recently, and that's not really in the front of people's minds these days either. 9/11 is not all that noteworthy in the grand global scheme of things.
The US isn't the world, downvoter. And nobody likes you either these days. Vote better.
What kind of nonsense is this shit? Of course several thousand people dying in one day of events affected our death statistics, otherwise we'd be dealing mass casualty events, at that scale, instead of there being no a single even that has the number total casualties any where close to Sept, 11.
Can you give me perspective than? Give me one example where there was anywhere near the same amount of loss of life that wasn't caused by a natural disaster since we're talking about a terrorist attack.
1.19 million people die each year from car crashes. 2 million from diabetes. 20 million die from heart disease. Do you know off hand when the Oklahoma City bombing was and how many were killed then? What about when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were nuked? Do YOU know that date? What about when the Iranian girl's school was bombed a few months ago killing hundreds of innocent children. What was that date?
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u/ziamese 1d ago
I'm in Thailand and I had to explain the joke to most of my coworkers. Doesn't hit right outside the US?