• Bloomcole@lemm.ee
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    28 minutes ago

    Don’t mock them.
    One day you will meet one in person and he’ll beat you up if he’s 7 foot, 3/5 thumbs and 2 elbows tall.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      Where in the US? I’ve never seen anything online where a US entity uses DD/MM/YYYY, or do you mean the month is spelled out?

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    19 hours ago

    What Americans are calling people idiots for saying (day) of (month)? We say it both ways all the time. 4th of July, July 4th… it’s not a complicated thing.

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      It’s like saying USAians don’t have a sense of humour. Some USAians are MAGAt knob heads, some are perfectly reasonable people. More or less like anywhere else.

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      That is a weird one: every other date is “normal” order but for some reason this is an exception. Also weird that we call it with backward date more often than its actual holiday name

      • July 4 is a normal date
      • Independency Day is the name of the holiday
      • so why do we usually refer to it as “Fourth of July”
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        We don’t say July 4 because that’s a normal date, we don’t say Independence Day because there are so many of those on different days for different countries.

    • MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      MM/DD/YYYY genuinely causes issues, because it’s very easily misread by the rest of the world, and vise versa for Americans.

      I have been mislead more than once, because the MM and DD are both ≤ 12.

      MM/DD/YYYY needs to die

      Month Day YYYY is fine, because it’s unambiguous when the month is spelled out.

      YYYY.MM.DD, or similar, is the only way to sort dates properly anyway.

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      22 hours ago

      It’s all fun and games until someone drops a 7/4 and you don’t know which country they’re from

  • Surp@lemmy.world
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    None of this dumb shits going to matter when the meteor sephiroth summoned blows the earth up