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bald butte (∞), Monday, 26 February 2018 03:35 (seven years ago)

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

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:12 (seven years ago)

"when's your birthday?"

"december second"

"you're insane and stupid"

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:13 (seven years ago)

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

Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:14 (seven years ago)

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?

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:16 (seven years ago)

"remember, remembith, november fifth!"

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:27 (seven years ago)

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

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:29 (seven years ago)

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

Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:36 (seven years ago)

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”

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:43 (seven years ago)

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!!!!

milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:44 (seven years ago)

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

scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:46 (seven years ago)

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

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:47 (seven years ago)

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

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:48 (seven years ago)

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

scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:48 (seven years ago)

look at the thread title

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:49 (seven years ago)

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

scotti pruitti (wins), Monday, 26 February 2018 10:50 (seven years ago)

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

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:16 (seven years ago)

britishes

world

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:20 (seven years ago)

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

mark s, Monday, 26 February 2018 12:03 (seven years ago)

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

which i didn't realise I'd made tbf

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:21 (seven years ago)

Id imagine you won't be alone in that

Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:23 (seven years ago)

lol 5 Live here i come

illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 26 February 2018 12:24 (seven years ago)

/britishes/

world


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

where I live we say eg vingt cinq octobre so no OF but I wanna know how britishes do it

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:43 (seven years ago)

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

Simpson L. (darraghmac), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:46 (seven years ago)

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

Wag1 Shree Rajneesh (ShariVari), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:47 (seven years ago)

8 Ventôse CCXXVI

Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Monday, 26 February 2018 13:49 (seven years ago)

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

mark s, Monday, 26 February 2018 13:52 (seven years ago)

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

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Monday, 26 February 2018 15:47 (seven years ago)

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

FP'd you for this

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:21 (seven years ago)

blood sausaged

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:32 (seven years ago)

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

Haribo Hancock (sic), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:34 (seven years ago)

abreuve nos sillons

droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 26 February 2018 19:35 (seven years ago)

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

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:08 (seven years ago)

and the kfc double down, which frankly is genius

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:09 (seven years ago)

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

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:27 (seven years ago)

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

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:29 (seven years ago)

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.)

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 06:42 (seven years ago)

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

it might be much better than you imagine

Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 08:15 (seven years ago)

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

NBA YoungBoy named Rocky Raccoon (m bison), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 11:40 (seven years ago)

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

this is the best

droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 13:02 (seven years ago)

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

it might be much better than you imagine

I do know! I daydream about them every so often. That’s what I’m saying, breakfast sandwiches are good but sausage rolls would seem to fill the evolutionary niche.

direct to consumer online mattress brand (silby), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 15:13 (seven years ago)

I googled for photos of the sausage rolls at the bakery near my old house and found an internetful of people trying to recreate them at home

Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 19:22 (seven years ago)

important to note that sausage rolls and flavoured milk is the breakfast of choice for the australian tradie (working man)

(their selection ain't as gourmet as the wonders from bourke street bakery but)

milquetoast malone (King Boy Pato), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:31 (seven years ago)

there's a bourke street bakery?

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:37 (seven years ago)

click the link

Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:52 (seven years ago)

(there are now eleven!!1 locations, only one is on Bourke St)

Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 20:54 (seven years ago)

properly hilarious since the only bakeries i know of on bourke street are kenny’s and bread top, the latter of which puts a sausage in a roll but has somehow created an entirely unique monster

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 21:05 (seven years ago)

afaik the Bourke St in Sydney is a couple of years older than the Melbourne one, though they were both named for the NSW governor of the time

Haribo Hancock (sic), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:24 (seven years ago)

Bourke St

Sydney

ohhhhh

reverse-periscoping (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:29 (seven years ago)

Check thread title

Simpson L. (darraghmac), Tuesday, 27 February 2018 22:35 (seven years ago)


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