The latest in a long line of using a date to signify a terrorist attack, making the journalists job easier as they have shorthand...but misses the point entirely.
The reason? How can two dozen men being arrested on suspicion of looking Arabic be at all related to 3000 people being killed on 9/11? There was no attack, so therefore the term is meaningless, journalistic slang that led to paranoid airport security.
The fact that, a month on, those not released quietly are being held on not giving evidence of a terror attack is quite fishy, don't you think?
The reason? How can two dozen men being arrested on suspicion of looking Arabic be at all related to 3000 people being killed on 9/11? There was no attack, so therefore the term is meaningless, journalistic slang that led to paranoid airport security.
The fact that, a month on, those not released quietly are being held on not giving evidence of a terror attack is quite fishy, don't you think?
Journo 1: "The police are trying to appear important by randomly arresting two dozen people without evidence, and can't get their story straight!"
Journo 2: "Quick, in order to make it easier and scare the readers into buying our paper for the way forward, give it a date. What's today's date?"
Journo 1: "10th August, 2006."
Journo 2: "10/8 it is, then!"
Journo 2: "Quick, in order to make it easier and scare the readers into buying our paper for the way forward, give it a date. What's today's date?"
Journo 1: "10th August, 2006."
Journo 2: "10/8 it is, then!"
by OD Smith September 16, 2006
Originally a popular British TV show starring semi-successful comedian Jimmy Carr. Now is used to describe any group of any foolish or comic people. Can be used to describe an activity.
"Aren't you a little concerned we look like 8 out of 10 cats?"
"Nah, everyone wears suspenders sometimes."
"Nah, everyone wears suspenders sometimes."
by The Range March 09, 2022
by Matt11111 January 01, 2012
by I am a cat and u now know this July 23, 2018
Teacher: lets count to 50!
Students: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50!
Students: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50!
by KeindlyGamer123 October 08, 2019
A form of competitive gooning, edging, or mutual masterbation between 2 competitors. The rules are generally as follows: Each player starts with a pool of hit points. Then a category is chosen. The athletes then take turns sending one another material, usually images that match the category with the intent of sexually arousing their opponent. The opponent then rates the image on a scale of 1-10 in terms of how much the image sexually arouses them. The number the gooner rates the image is subtracted from the gooner's overall hit points. Both competitors must be edging the whole time. If one of these athletes rates an image either an 8, 9, or 10, in addition to losing the hit points, the gooner is punished typically in the form of a publicly humiliating act, usually in a dedicated humiliation punishment discord channel. The battle ends when someone either runs out of hit points, or is brought to premature orgasm, and the loser is subject to a particularly bad humiliation punishment agreed to at the beginning of the 8/9/10 battle. The 8/9/10 battle requires honesty about your arousal and due to the fear of lying, alternate rules that include a third party judge to rate the images can be used.
Hey Greg, I challenge you to an 8/9/10 battle, the category is frames from the Ghostbusters franchise.
by OldF4therTime May 30, 2025
8/10 is a mark that everyone should try to get. It’s far more important than 10/10 and people dream of it. It all started when a famous mathematician in Ioannina city ranked the greek government with an 8/10. He is so wise and talented that nowadays 8/10 is used to describe a perfect situation (since he is perfect as well). If someone ever tells you that you are 8/10 you should consider it a compliment and feel like a god/goddess!
by Eimai bad boy November 20, 2021