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I may have t-shirts older than OP.
Tbf, having a shirt for over 40 years and not have it completely disintegrate is pretty impressive!
But yeah, for a minor history buff, I'm TERRIBLE with dates 😂
Thank you for taking good natured ribbing... good...naturely. Cheers.
No worries lol, laughing at yourself is one of the funniest things you can do 😁
I'm not very good at judging how long ago things were 🤷
I'm pretty sure 1990 was ten years ago.
this sounds right
It’s true. I know because I looked it up in my gut.
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I did the exact same thing. I've been using the name for decades and recently found out about this. My initial reaction was, "Fuck them. I've had this username for years and I'm not gong to change it just for them." Unfortunately, while I know that it isn't related to them, no one else does. It sucks that they get to take possession of it like that but I prefer the inconvenience of changing usernames over the mistaken association with that shit, so I changed the ones I could and abandoned the ones I couldn't.
United States federal ambulance regulations got the unfortunate designation of "KKK" (edition *a, b, c, d etc). So now when I search for information for both compliance and product purchasing I have to figure out a way to enter things into a search engine that won't get them blocked at work or get me on a list I don't want to be on. Recently the term triple k has been usable but a lot of products still start with the three letters and then their model number, worse yet many have a space between the three letters and the number.
I go by Klear these days, but originally picked King Klear as a nick, since I liked Shakespeare and Serious Sam. Obviously.
Anyway, there's someone out there taking my name on certain sites, so I use KKlear as a backup. I'm always joking that I don't know what I'd do if KKlear was taken as well...
In my country we have a chain of stores owned by the K-group, the K comes from 'Kesko'. The used to have small, medium and large stores. The small ones were one K stores, mediums were two K stores and the large ones were three K stores. I shit you not, there used to be huge lighted signs outside the large ones that read 'KKK-Supermarket'. You can find pictures of these on the internet still.
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my brother's email ends in '88' because it's his fav number. he likes it because it looks like two sideways infinity symbols. he's had his email too long and it used it for too many accounts to (easily) switch to a new one. so you're not the only one lol
My birthday is 8/18 (18.8 if you aren't in North America), so I have a few accounts that end 818. I legit had someone ask me, in all seriousness, if I was an idiot nazi who screwed it up.
I once had a meth head start a conversation with me in Clash of Clans because of my username.
Same. I used my school username "1831942". Later, I found out that was the date the American Nazi party was founded...
On the 83rd day of January in 1942?
Yknow what. Maybe I got I trolled a decade ago lmao.
Ehh, then a lot of Chinese people are nazis. We love the number 8. I've got 88's in some user names.
Also bonus cause I'm born in 1988
8888?
I wouldn't worry about it. Only those most obsessed with hitler would care or notce. Hell, drinking milk now is white supremacy, and I like having strong bones.
That’s a common misconception.
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2018/08/christopher-gardner-busts-myths-about-milk.html
The countries with the highest milk consumption also have the highest levels of osteoporosis. Plus the cows are important.
I wasn’t going to mention this but yes, the evidence is pretty conclusive. There is also evidence that suggests you lose calcium if you drink milk. The entire agenda of milk=calcium was produced by big farm.
You get a lot more wary of that sort of stuff if you are the kind of person who white supremacists like to harass. I think 88 by itself is probably not too suspicious, but if anyone has 1488 you are dealing with a real piece of shit.
Unless you really care about the Netherlands Navy, and the year it was founded. Its just a number bro, and its not even 69.
I literally gave you context but good for you that you don't need to think about these things. Not everyone can feel so safe and comfortable when extremist symbols start to pop up. It is "just a number" and "just a symbol" and "just a joke" until you are surrounded by extremists calling for the heads of those who they hate.
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My randomly assigned 4 digit discriminator on Discord back when I joined was "1488". Didn't know it was a Nazi calling card until one of the members in the community I was participating in tried to get me banned over it.
Fortunately it only took a month or so with Discord support to get them to change it. I contemplated buying nitro so people wouldn't think I was a nazi lol.
I know that's not the definition being referred to, but it being called a discriminator is tragically hilarious in this case 😁
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