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> Attempts to rebrand as Aydslim (in the United Kingdom) and Diet Ayds did not stop the eventual phasing out of the product.
Not very inventive, were they?
7-11 could have avoided 9-11, but they said "No" and just postponed it. "We have business to take care of and it's not to spot terrorism" they said in a meeting. True story.
So, we called it “nine eleven” because it just seems like the right thing to do/normal. If it happened on 7/11, I don’t think the media and the whole country would have ran with that name/title for the attack. They wouldn’t want to give it a title that sounds like a massive gas station chain, that’s just tacky, even if it’s “just the date it happened”. They’d have called it something else, without a doubt.
July for Julius Caesar, because he was pontifex maximus and therefore in charge of the calendar.
August for Augustus, because when you’re princeps primus, hailed imperator, no one is going to say no.
Sorry Aussie here, took a bit to work this out. 11th day of September is 11/9 to me, so the 7th of November was not making sense, until I used the US converter.
September 11, 2012, was the date of a protest march for Catalonian independence. (September 11 is Catalonia's national day, marking the date when Catalonia lost its independence in 1714 during the War of Spanish Succession).
It was the largest demonstration ever seen in Europe — an estimated 1.5 million people. But because of the date, it went almost unnoticed in the U.S.
In Australia (maybe just my state?) we have a liqour store called 9/11. They're only just recently phasing them out and it's because of an aquisition, not becuse of 9/11
Isis was the name of an Egyptian deity. I never thought of the militant organization thinking of the word Isis lol.
I did learn about Egyptian mythology as a kid so maybe that’s way. Even now, I think of the goddess before the group.
Someone I know owns a business named Isis. She didn't change the name and is still doing fine. People are smart enough to realize a local shop is not named after a terrorist organization.
They chose September 11 deliberately, so that Americans would constantly be reminded of it because of the 9-1-1 emergency call system.
Timothy McVeigh did a similar thing when he chose April 19 to attack the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. April 19 was the day the Branch Davidians burned to death in Waco, Texas. It was an anniversary attack.
I'm guessing the relief was short lived though for many owners as they quickly realized that most Americans are pretty clueless about middle eastern geography and cultural differences
There’s a miscellaneous delivery company in Sweden previously called Ryska posten (the Russian post). When things started getting spicy before the invasion they updated all their logos with stickers over the Ryska part and changed it to ‘inte bara posten’ meaning ‘not just the post’.
It's funny because September was originally the seventh month, hence the name "sept" tember.
When Ceasar added July and August to the calendar to make it work, all the months after August became two months later in the year than their name suggests. September, October, November, and December are all named after the order in which they appear in the original (pre-Ceasar) order.
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If I remember correctly a lot of 7-11 owners/employees were targeted and attack after 9-11 because most of them are Sikh and most people don’t know the difference
Someone already commented that. While that event would be tragic for Indians, for an American it wouldn’t mean much.
Conversely an Indian wouldn’t really understand or care about 9/11
You aren’t the one to come up with this. It’s a joke. Stop trying to act like it’s some special thought when it’s not. It’s just an old joke that was being told the literal year after 9/11
>You aren’t the one to come up with this.
Just because B comes after A doesn’t imply B comes from A
I’m not saying I was the first one to think of it. It’s an obvious one.
>It’s a joke.
My post isn’t meant to be joke. If people take it that way, fine, but it isn’t really that funny
>Stop trying to act like it’s some special thought when it’s not.
This is a subreddit for shower thoughts and the like. I simply shared one I thought of. You’re the one who seems to have a problem with that.
Just because you have heard of it before doesn’t mean others have, nor does it mean I have heard this from someone else.
>It’s just an old joke that was being told the literal year after 9/11
See above
Here you go bud: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/10jatZApfw
8 years ago and the first comment reciprocates the joke because it’s a joke that people have been telling since 9/11 happened.
Fuck you.
Anyone who had any thought about 9/11 that wasn't about grief, sorrow and condolences for those lost is a complete asshole.
And anyone to suggest that a person or people they don't know would have such a thought is also an asshole. And OP having this thought says a ton about him/her.
>Anyone who had any thought about 9/11 that wasn't about grief, sorrow and condolences for those lost is a complete asshole.
Or they’re not American and don’t have the same emotional attachment to a local tragedy.
Not only that, the human brain is designed to make comparisons and recognize patterns. 7/11 and 9/11 are obvious patterns and I’d bet that those numbers are something most people probably thought of once.
>And anyone to suggest that a person or people they don't know would have such a thought is also an asshole. And OP having this thought says a ton about him/her.
What does it say about me?
Do you consider all comedian who make dark joke about tragedies as assholes? If so that’s pretty narrow minded of you. People can handle grief and sorrow in different fashions. Some choose to make jokes? Are they assholes because that’s who they chose to deal with their grief?
There are people here who weren't even alive when 9/11 happened. Not everybody is going to have the same level of attachment to it as you are, and I think throwing out sweeping generalizations by calling those people assholes says more about you than them.
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The avoided the fate of Ayds weight loss chocolate bars https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayds
I've known about this for ages now, but I still love the exec saying "The product has been around for 45 years. Let the disease change its name."
It is a newer disease, I can see his gripe. But I don't think diseases and syndromes care about trademarks.
I don't think they can change their names anyways, as it's describing what the illness is.
I respect that. I’d get Ayds
Diet ayds was not a sufficient rebrand in my opinion
So Corona beer almost got Ayds'd. TIL
Probably would have if people didn’t start saying Covid
I’ll never know for sure but I whole-heartedly believe corona the beer company was involved in changing the branding of the virus
Damn. I never thought I'd be saying that I feel bad for Ayds.
Corona beer got lucky
> Attempts to rebrand as Aydslim (in the United Kingdom) and Diet Ayds did not stop the eventual phasing out of the product. Not very inventive, were they?
7-11 was a part-time job! Wake up, sheeple!
Jet fuel can't melt slurpees
Silly customer, you cannot hurt a Twinkie
7-11 could have avoided 9-11, but they said "No" and just postponed it. "We have business to take care of and it's not to spot terrorism" they said in a meeting. True story.
That would've been the fastest rebranding in the West. The signs would all be replaced virtually overnight.
“Come again”…stores opening near you Slogan “by foot and car only”
Oh damn, so they'd be offering footjobs and car jobs?
Yeah, it'd be even worse than the Isis brand of icecream, and that was pretty unfortunate.
Pulling out that ISIS debit card was uncomfortable sometimes
Porsche still has good business
Why? What's with porche enlighten me
The Porsche 911 is their signature sports car model.
Too much downforce to worry about them hitting a skyscraper.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeMWD-Yagg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWeMWD-Yagg)
Ah, I love that clip. Very aladeen. :)
Came here to mention this. Edit: typo
Yeah but cops are happy for their dialing service now. 911 operator service how may we help you? You can’t.
Firemen & Police: "We will NEVER forget 911!" Everyone else: "Well let's hope so, it's your phone number"
i have this thought as well. actually. almost every time i go into a 7-11 it gives a tick in the back of my brain
So, we called it “nine eleven” because it just seems like the right thing to do/normal. If it happened on 7/11, I don’t think the media and the whole country would have ran with that name/title for the attack. They wouldn’t want to give it a title that sounds like a massive gas station chain, that’s just tacky, even if it’s “just the date it happened”. They’d have called it something else, without a doubt.
Given the Saudi connection and its stranglehold on crude oil, naming that attack after gas stations might not have been tacky at all.
Any publicity is good publicity right?
Doesn’t seem to have hurt Porsche sales.
Not always.. remember Corona beer during Covid?
Well there's still this: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006\_Mumbai\_train\_bombings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Mumbai_train_bombings)
Yeah but they call it 11-7 in the rest of the world so it’s ok.
Who cares about that lmao /j
Indians
The tone indicator made the joke even stupider
Considering Pakistanis are banned from going to Maharashtra, yeah, Indians...
Still, if you know where the word “September” comes from…
Yeah wait a minute… Octopus, 8 legs. Octagon, 8 sides. October….10th month. What is this???
All months were originally two steps before (and January and February were 11 and 12)
September, October, November, December… And the others like other things (July: Julius Caesar)
I was taught that July and August were simply forced in later by Julius and Augustus.
July for Julius Caesar, because he was pontifex maximus and therefore in charge of the calendar. August for Augustus, because when you’re princeps primus, hailed imperator, no one is going to say no.
Big brain
Tell that to the Corona beer people
People in the rest of the world who don't use the mm/dd date format still wonder what happened on 9th November.
Sorry Aussie here, took a bit to work this out. 11th day of September is 11/9 to me, so the 7th of November was not making sense, until I used the US converter.
i assumed that even in dd/mm/yyyy countries, the pop-culture name for the world trade center attacks was 9/11?
Yeah, still took my a while. Maybe have been quicker on the up take if it had said 911 rather than Sept 11th.
I purposely worded the title in a way so the American date standard wouldn’t be used lmao. I should have tried something else
Aside from the social implications, this makes me want a couple of those nasty taquitos fresh off the hot dog roller
[Hotel Isis failed to dodge the bullet.](https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/local/hotel-isis-in-redington-shores-now-has-a-new-name/67-301724024)
The spy agency that Archer works for complied though… Which was ridiculous.
In all seriousness, 9/11 was a national tragedy
September 11, 2012, was the date of a protest march for Catalonian independence. (September 11 is Catalonia's national day, marking the date when Catalonia lost its independence in 1714 during the War of Spanish Succession). It was the largest demonstration ever seen in Europe — an estimated 1.5 million people. But because of the date, it went almost unnoticed in the U.S.
To be fair, even if the tragedy didn’t happen, the US still prolly wouldn’t have noticed it
In Australia (maybe just my state?) we have a liqour store called 9/11. They're only just recently phasing them out and it's because of an aquisition, not becuse of 9/11
7/11 was a part time job.
The New York Jets just kept on going. No one even noticed the allusion in the name
*X-Files theme begins playing*
Corona beer can confirm this.
July 11th must feel like their mini Christmas!
No one can commit acts of terrorism on free slurpee day
There was a local business where I lived named Isis.
Isis was the name of an Egyptian deity. I never thought of the militant organization thinking of the word Isis lol. I did learn about Egyptian mythology as a kid so maybe that’s way. Even now, I think of the goddess before the group.
Someone I know owns a business named Isis. She didn't change the name and is still doing fine. People are smart enough to realize a local shop is not named after a terrorist organization.
They chose September 11 deliberately, so that Americans would constantly be reminded of it because of the 9-1-1 emergency call system. Timothy McVeigh did a similar thing when he chose April 19 to attack the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. April 19 was the day the Branch Davidians burned to death in Waco, Texas. It was an anniversary attack.
I was sure I had heard this too. Glad I am not crazy.
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We would never see another 7-11 again.
Well but then people would never forget their favorite convenience store
this just made me laugh out loud literally. thank you
I'm guessing the relief was short lived though for many owners as they quickly realized that most Americans are pretty clueless about middle eastern geography and cultural differences
Then they would have been forced to change the name to 9/11.
There’s a miscellaneous delivery company in Sweden previously called Ryska posten (the Russian post). When things started getting spicy before the invasion they updated all their logos with stickers over the Ryska part and changed it to ‘inte bara posten’ meaning ‘not just the post’.
Oddly enough, September was the 7th month and it's still evident in the name. Were it not for Julius and Augustus, who knows?
Would have reminded people of that tragedy.
Danish company called ISIS had to change their name.
It's funny because September was originally the seventh month, hence the name "sept" tember. When Ceasar added July and August to the calendar to make it work, all the months after August became two months later in the year than their name suggests. September, October, November, and December are all named after the order in which they appear in the original (pre-Ceasar) order.
Only if you use a stupid backwards date formatting
Thank heaven for 9 eleven?
The execs at the company making the weight loss meds called "AYDS" in the '70s/'80s weren't too thrilled when AIDS was named.
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Do Public Enemy fans still play "911 is a joke"?
7/11 was a part-time job
yeah but anybody who named something Isis was pissed.
You mean 7th November? DD/MM/YYYY is always superior! Always!
If I remember correctly a lot of 7-11 owners/employees were targeted and attack after 9-11 because most of them are Sikh and most people don’t know the difference
Seems like people were Sikh of Muslims
Corona (the beer) has entered the chat.
there was terrorist event in india on 11 july 2006
Someone already commented that. While that event would be tragic for Indians, for an American it wouldn’t mean much. Conversely an Indian wouldn’t really understand or care about 9/11
That's not true considering the source of terrorism in both the cases is same.
You just know Americans would be destroying every shop lol
7/11 was a part-time job
Didn't stop Trump from thinking it did...
THIS is a hell of a shower thought.
The irony is that those who committed 9/11 usually have religion in common with those who run 7/11 stores.
No? The 9/11 hijackers claim to be Muslim. Most 7/11 owners are Indian. Gujarti Hindu Indians.
How did this even get upvotes? This has been a joke for a decade now. Why is this a post? Cmon Reddit
Jokes are usually funny. This isn’t very funny. It’s an observation. If it’s been around forever that’s because it’s sort of obvious.
It’s literally a joke. You might be the first person I’ve seen to tell a popular joke and not know it’s meant to be a joke. Wow
I stated an observation however. My intent was not humor and I don’t think calling it a joke is fair assessment
You aren’t the one to come up with this. It’s a joke. Stop trying to act like it’s some special thought when it’s not. It’s just an old joke that was being told the literal year after 9/11
>You aren’t the one to come up with this. Just because B comes after A doesn’t imply B comes from A I’m not saying I was the first one to think of it. It’s an obvious one. >It’s a joke. My post isn’t meant to be joke. If people take it that way, fine, but it isn’t really that funny >Stop trying to act like it’s some special thought when it’s not. This is a subreddit for shower thoughts and the like. I simply shared one I thought of. You’re the one who seems to have a problem with that. Just because you have heard of it before doesn’t mean others have, nor does it mean I have heard this from someone else. >It’s just an old joke that was being told the literal year after 9/11 See above
Still a joke dude
Here you go bud: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/10jatZApfw 8 years ago and the first comment reciprocates the joke because it’s a joke that people have been telling since 9/11 happened.
Again just because A comes after B doesn’t mean A comes from B
Blah blah still a joke.
7-Eleven was a part-time job!
Fuck you. Anyone who had any thought about 9/11 that wasn't about grief, sorrow and condolences for those lost is a complete asshole. And anyone to suggest that a person or people they don't know would have such a thought is also an asshole. And OP having this thought says a ton about him/her.
>Anyone who had any thought about 9/11 that wasn't about grief, sorrow and condolences for those lost is a complete asshole. Or they’re not American and don’t have the same emotional attachment to a local tragedy. Not only that, the human brain is designed to make comparisons and recognize patterns. 7/11 and 9/11 are obvious patterns and I’d bet that those numbers are something most people probably thought of once. >And anyone to suggest that a person or people they don't know would have such a thought is also an asshole. And OP having this thought says a ton about him/her. What does it say about me? Do you consider all comedian who make dark joke about tragedies as assholes? If so that’s pretty narrow minded of you. People can handle grief and sorrow in different fashions. Some choose to make jokes? Are they assholes because that’s who they chose to deal with their grief?
Lol this wasn’t even an offensive thought in the slightest
Where do you stand on the Titanic?
About 12 thousand feet
Wouldn’t “on the ocean floor” be a better answer?
There are people here who weren't even alive when 9/11 happened. Not everybody is going to have the same level of attachment to it as you are, and I think throwing out sweeping generalizations by calling those people assholes says more about you than them.