100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
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@zed I can assure you we all learnt to do that like muscle memory by the time we turned nine.
@vonxylofon @zed 3rd grade in Germany. So nine years old is about right.
12:00 isn't a special time for anybody anymore, like highest point of the sun, time for lunch or anything. So am/pm is just as artificial and learned these days. -
@JdeBP @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux @amiserabilist @wendinoakland in a Hard Metric nation such as the UK, measurements may well be given in both forms, SI units and the older Imperial, but the metric indication will be given first, and the outmoded indication will be given in brackets, afterwards. For example, the English measurements might be:
250ml (1 household utensil you might randomly have in your cupboard)
1l (42 hands)
750mm (56.3 horses)
56.3km (750 ankle chains)
720nm (1 sunny day)
0.5cm (your dick)
600kg (42 cats)
Then we get onto the proper stuff – paper sizes
A1 folds in half to give you A2 which folds in half to give you A3, which folds in half to give you A4, which folds in half to give you A5, which etc.
Do you really want to see the absurdity of the old paper sizes invented by basically cretins? Yes? Here then:
baph.org.uk/resources/reference-material/old-english-paper-sizes/
(Admittedly a lot of those sizes were for books rather than actual reams you’d encounter casually, but still…)@u0421793 @Natasha_Jay @stux @JdeBP @amiserabilist @wendinoakland I think I understand character limits on most servers now.
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@JeffGrigg @bsdphk @Natasha_Jay Unfortunate misunderstanding. "Fix it on the first day of the week!" means Monday, not Sunday.
My boss was approving/rejecting timesheets on Sunday.
And their system is configured to notify me on my personal mail. (Otherwise I wouldn't have known until Monday morning.)
I'm not saying that that's bad.
I'm often online -- when I'm not out hiking, biking, etc. Fixing my timesheet after I returned from a 50 mile bicycle ride, and washed up, was not really a problem.
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay I'm in Canada where this format is, sadly, also common but I approve of this proposal.
(I will admit to using, eg, "March 14th" in speech or casual writing; "14 March" sounds rather formal in those contacts, to me at least. But for dates I'm programs, letter heads, forms,, etc, I'm with you all the way.)
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@JdeBP @renwillis @Natasha_Jay @stux @amiserabilist @wendinoakland in a Hard Metric nation such as the UK, measurements may well be given in both forms, SI units and the older Imperial, but the metric indication will be given first, and the outmoded indication will be given in brackets, afterwards. For example, the English measurements might be:
250ml (1 household utensil you might randomly have in your cupboard)
1l (42 hands)
750mm (56.3 horses)
56.3km (750 ankle chains)
720nm (1 sunny day)
0.5cm (your dick)
600kg (42 cats)
Then we get onto the proper stuff – paper sizes
A1 folds in half to give you A2 which folds in half to give you A3, which folds in half to give you A4, which folds in half to give you A5, which etc.
Do you really want to see the absurdity of the old paper sizes invented by basically cretins? Yes? Here then:
baph.org.uk/resources/reference-material/old-english-paper-sizes/
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You forgot AM/PM, inches, feet, ounces and miles
@bsdphk @Natasha_Jay AM/PM is fine as long as it's spoken or short form written context.
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@aaronmccollum @Natasha_Jay all the world has April Fools Day on the 1st of April, only US has it on 4th of January…
@blotosmetek @aaronmccollum @Natasha_Jay
January Fool’s day formally known as MAGA fools day
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sometimes you don't find out if Vallejo is East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all, you just move on.
is Vallejo East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all?
@amiserabilist @NickGates @wendinoakland this is the greatest poll result of all time
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sometimes you don't find out if Vallejo is East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all, you just move on.
is Vallejo East Bay, North Bay, or not Bay at all?
@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher
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@NickGates @amiserabilist @glasspusher Oakland responds:
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@NickGates @amiserabilist @glasspusher Oakland responds:
@wendinoakland @NickGates @amiserabilist
awesome. I played cello as a kid
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@wendinoakland @NickGates @amiserabilist
awesome. I played cello as a kid
@glasspusher @NickGates @amiserabilist It’s supposed to be a violin, but Señor Tardigrade’s fiddle’s in the shop
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@glasspusher @NickGates @amiserabilist It’s supposed to be a violin, but Señor Tardigrade’s fiddle’s in the shop
@wendinoakland @NickGates @amiserabilist well he sure the hell is holding it wrong. I like the idea of the world's smallest cello
plus, nobody puts their bow below the bridge
"let me explain your joke to you..."
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@NickGates @amiserabilist @glasspusher There there. Most diverse, and least gentrified!
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100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY date format.
@Natasha_Jay my son was born on the 01/01/01
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@wendinoakland @NickGates @amiserabilist well he sure the hell is holding it wrong. I like the idea of the world's smallest cello
plus, nobody puts their bow below the bridge
"let me explain your joke to you..."
@glasspusher @wendinoakland @NickGates
love the cello
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rVW4Z70TfE
i am a piano man but would have preferred to learn the fiddle.
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@NickGates @amiserabilist @glasspusher Oakland responds:
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@NickGates @wendinoakland @glasspusher
Solano County is a gigantic fucking mess. And it probably won’t get better.
"i say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure"
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@amiserabilist @NickGates @glasspusher Eee eeee EEEEE eee eeeeeeeee… (very nice!)
