American things

*counts number of higgs bosuns in his penis*

Higgs boatswains?!?!

What a disaster for European science and on a personal level my penis, trevor

Should a Boatswain's Mate meet eligibility requirements, he can elect to become an SO (formerly SEAL), SB (formerly SWCC), ND (Navy Diver), or EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technician).

Clarification:

The construction " , Trevor" at the end of a sentence is a reference to English classic colour commentary in football.

My penis is not named Trevor.

which begs the question

If you're not close enough to read the name on the collar then you can safely presume you were not meant to know

It's "Kielbacca" isn't it

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month date year is truly nonsensical

Month/Day/Year is like Minutes/Seconds/Hours, ie insane.

month day year is so obviously insane and stupid that it's kind of awesome

ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY

"when's your birthday?"

"december second"

"you're insane and stupid"

But I suspect folks from DD MM YY areas would be more likely to say 'twelfth of August, 1979'.

Well, it makes slightly more sense than Australians putting wickets before runs in a cricket score - or should I save that for an Australian Things thread?

"remember, remembith, november fifth!"

Until Never Twelfth, and that's a long long time.

There is nothing logical about entering data for processing by aping verbal tics!

ok i'm not saying you have to like it or agree with it but there is a logic. if someone asks you a date, like, what's your birthday, a very common way to say it is "august twelfth, 1979" (if that is in fact your birthday) i.e. MM DD YYYY

“what time were you born?”

“four pm and thirteen seconds and twenty eight minutes”

Well, it makes slightly more sense than Australians putting wickets before runs in a cricket score - or should I save that for an Australian Things thread?

wickets before runs is much more logical, I won't hear of this!!!!

Thing is people do say "ten past eleven" but minute-hour-second would still be dumb

these things that no one does would in fact be pretty dumb yes

i am currently agnostic on the wicket issue but am keen to find a way of taking sides

It would be if the score was being given for the fielding side.(xxp)

Nobody does minute-hour-second for the exact same reason that nobody does month-day-year!

look at the thread title

Yeah America and the Philippines and nobody else in the entire world, for a reason

how do britishes say dates then ? Twenty five October or Twenty fifth October or twenty fifth OF October or twenty something else ?

britishes

world

the correct form is "25 10 17" (or whatever the year might be)

anything that takes longer to say than that is time-wasting and rude iirc

nobody appreciated my "taking sides" cricket joke ;_;

which i didn't realise I'd made tbf

Id imagine you won't be alone in that

lol 5 Live here i come

/britishes/

world

This does not explain why anyone would enter dates into a database in an illogical fashion

Usually ‘the 25th of October ‘ but increasingly in written communication ‘25 October‘. Xp

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as an activist sub-editor i remove those "ths" "nds" and "sts" as fast as anyone can write them

if they start to say them in conversation i clap my hand over their mouths and rabbitpunch them, it's the only way they'll learn

In Spanish it am pretty sure it’d be ungrammatical to speak anything other than eg “el tres de mayo, mil ochociento y ocho”

English speaking world maybe but sure, how do you britishers say dates

FP'd you for this

blood sausaged

didn't actually FP you before, have done so now for doubling down on this shocking racism

abreuve nos sillons

it throws me when every food item that goes between two other food items is collectively called a sandwich, including burgers, french sticks and baps

and the kfc double down, which frankly is genius

Americans are preoccupied to the point of derangement with the ontology and, indeed, teleology of sandwiches

Are breakfast sandwiches an American thing? They surely would never be invented anywhere that already has sausage rolls

i don’t know what constitutes a breakfast sandwich in america, but we do indeed have sandwiches which are specifically for breakfast (bacon, eggs &c.)

....silby do you kno what a sausage roll is for real

it might be much better than you imagine

ooh that reminds me. breakfast tacos are definitely an American thing

You Have Been Yellow Carded By a Moderator: cool it on the date racism, champ

this is the best

....silby do you kno what a sausage roll is for real

it might be much better than you imagine