• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world
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    When you believe in things that you don’t understand then you suffer.

    Superstition ain’t the way

  • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    As a devout Last Thursdayist I invite you all to share in the weirdness this year, as Halloween falls on a Thursday. Join me in celebrating the existential horror of not knowing if the universe was created mere hours ago with the appearance of age while handing out free candy and watching scary movies.

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    This looks like an email my boomer dad would forward to everyone he knows.

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      Fwd: re: re: re: re: Operation Candyman O(s)bama

      check your candy for fentanyl this year because Obama hates white kids!

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    Huh? When are you guys celebrating Halloween? The only Friday 13ths in 2024 are in September and December.

    Also I thought the calendar cycles every 400 years. So if Fri 13th Oct 2024 exists, which it doesn’t, then Fri 13th Oct 1624 and 2424 also, er, don’t exist.

    ♫ In the year 2424, if trolls are still alive… ♫

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      Yes. Since Halloween is the last day of October, the 31st, it’s kinda never on the 13th. So yeah, it’s a shitpost.

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    This makes me feel like I did the first time I saw a full blood moon. Amused but ultimately disappointed that the world didn’t end.

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    Unfortunately this won’t happen until October 31st 2600. Starting on March 1st in the year 2600, the Julian calendar (popular in centuries past, and still used in a few places) will differ by 18 days from the Gregorian calendar (the current worldwide standard calendar).

    It happens that October 31st in the year 2600 lands on a Friday, and so the Julian October 13th, which lands on that same day, is also a Friday.

    There may be a sooner Friday the 13th that lands on Halloween, if you know of other obscure calendars like the Hebrew, Islamic, or Chinese calendars. I don’t know enough about those to check.

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      obscure calendars like the Hebrew, Islamic, or Chinese calendars

      That’s not very nice to say, also very false

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      I love it when people over analyze shitposts. Well done!

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      It’s also always either 5, 6 or 11 years (or 7 in very rare cases, when you’re on both sides of a skipped leap year like 1900 or 2100) between “day X falls on day of the week Y” events unless you’re talking about February 29.

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    Me: a complete dumbass.

    “I could swear it happened once when I was a kid”

    “…Wait a second…”

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      Oh, you don’t like bonfire night? Fireworks too loud? /s

      Edit: Seriously, good luck to you guys - I’ll be watching nervously from the UK (where our election was on 4th July.)

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    You can’t just move holidays. Who do you think you are, the President of Venezuela?