• xeekei@lemm.eeEnglish
    1072·
    2 months ago

    Isn’t Halloween always on 31 October? How’s this possible?

  • Zier@fedia.io
    60·
    2 months ago

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

  • tiotok@lemmy.world
    571·
    2 months ago

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

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
      181·
      2 months ago

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

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

        • Hammocks4All@lemmy.ml
          1·
          2 months ago

          The best I’ve seen was at a beach in Brazil.

          Barraca = shack, post, tent

          Brahma = brand of beer

          This guy had a shack thing on the beach to sell beer and it was called Barraca do OBrahma and it had a picture of Obama.

  • Limonene@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Ultraviolet@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • pseudo@jlai.lu
      51·
      2 months ago

      obscure calendars like the Hebrew, Islamic, or Chinese calendars

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

        • pseudo@jlai.lu
          2·
          2 months ago

          You don’t need to learn about other people calendar but you mentionned about 3 calendars that are very famous and used by a significant portion of the world population. That not something obscure at all. Just something that is not part of your culture and you don’t know.

  • Asafum@feddit.nl
    29·
    2 months ago

    Me: a complete dumbass.

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

    “…Wait a second…”

  • KazuchijouNo@lemy.lol
    28·
    2 months ago

    I remember a friend of mine showing us this image many years ago all excited. To this day he’s mocked for it

  • Th4tGuyII@fedia.io
    211·
    2 months ago

    If you put that in the mirror it’s kinda true, except that it’s also on a Thursday this year haha

  • letsgo@lemm.ee
    191·
    2 months ago

    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… ♫

    • Monzcarro@feddit.uk
      6·
      2 months ago

      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.)