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/r/ukpolitics is somewhat similar. What does 18 signify?

• r721 10y ago
  >In neo-Nazi circles, a code word for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8. See also 88. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(number)#In_other_fields https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18_(number)#In_other_fields
  • to3m 10y ago
    Quite. One of my flatmates in the mid 1990s was the brother of a member of Combat 18, a UK-based neo-Nazi group, which fuelled my subsequent suspicion of anybody with 18 in their pseudonym. But there are of course many possible reasons for choosing that number, so I was hoping to hear the truth from the horse's mouth so to speak. This isn't the first time I've asked cb18 why 18. Should I see another comment from them along similar lines, I'll ask again.