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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard (imgs.xkcd.com)
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xkcd #3232: Countdown Standard

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Anyone who is caught counting 'three ... two ... one ... zero ... GO!' will be punished with a lifetime of eating only ISO standard food samples.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3232/

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[–] thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In Norwegian we operate with "førstkommende" which translates more or less directly to "first-coming". It's extremely practical when planning dates, because you can always just say "Not the first-coming Thursday, but next Thursday", or "On the first-coming Thursday", and it's completely unambiguous that you mean the first Thursday we encounter from the moment of speaking.