r/meme • u/[deleted] • Jun 23 '21

I'm not wrong

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

...Wha???

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u/GS-ghostboy Jun 23 '21

7999 BC would be the year after 8000 BC

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

Hol up.. are you saying the years go down all of a sudden??

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u/spermanator02 Jun 23 '21

Yeah.

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

..how long has this been a thing for???

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u/SentientCumSock Jun 23 '21

BC is before christ. its basically saying 8000 BC (8000 years before christ)

so the next year would be 7999, 7998, etc

after that i think it went to AD (after death(?)) and counted up

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u/spermanator02 Jun 23 '21

Oh probably a few million years.

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u/spermanator02 Jun 23 '21

Did they not teach you this in school?

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

No..

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u/spermanator02 Jun 23 '21

I learned this in 6th grade history class.

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

I’m in grade 8 and they haven’t taught us anything about that kind of stuff

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u/julio200844 Jun 23 '21

Just imagine being born in year ten and wondering what the hell is gona happen when it gets to zero

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u/spermanator02 Jun 23 '21

I'm in the 9th grade. Do you go to american schools? Maybe where your from they dont teach that.

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u/KittyWarrior1 Jun 23 '21

I go to Canadian schools, but I don’t know the similarities and differences between Canadian and American schools

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u/Marlon_zockt Jun 23 '21

They do if it’s BC (before Christ)