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[Blacklord]

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[airship]

Don't you mean 01-09-2008? <- (North American Chauvinism)

C'mon, peoplel, let's get 7000 posts by 01-01-2008!!! (A date we can BOTH agree on, BTW!)

[Golan Klinger]

The only way we'll see 239 posts by the first of the new year is if you and I and Lance and nikoniko get into a debate about something. Religion? Politics? Atari or Spectrum: Which sucked more? What's it going to be? I know I've got 100 posts in me. I can feel it.

[airship]

As long as nobody gets p*ssed off enough to quit forever like LAST time!

[Blacklord]

As long as nobody gets p*ssed off enough to quit forever like LAST time!

Well we could debate your incorrect usage of the date format

cheers,

Lance

[Andrew Wiskow]

Don't you mean 01-09-2008? <- (North American Chauvinism)

C'mon, peoplel, let's get 7000 posts by 01-01-2008!!! (A date we can BOTH agree on, BTW!)

Having lived in Japan for several years, I got used to seeing dates in the YY/MM/DD format... so that'd be 7000 posts by 08/01/09!  Oddly enough, that's also the date format that Nick Smith decided to use in All American BBS, so I'm still using it today, which is 07/12/28.  

-Andrew

[Blacklord]

so I'm still using it today, which is 07/12/28.  

-Andrew

Nah, you're a day behind - it's 29/12/07 (or 12/29/07 or 07/12/29........   you really would think there'd be a standard......)

Lance

[Andrew Wiskow]

Nah, you're a day behind - it's 29/12/07 (or 12/29/07 or 07/12/29........   you really would think there'd be a standard......)

Lance

Am I a day behind, or are you a day ahead???  I guess it depends on how you look at it.  

As for a standard...  Even if there was a worldwide standard date format, I'm pretty sure that the U.S. wouldn't follow it...  (metric system?  what's that?)  

-Andrew

[Golan Klinger]

Bah. There's an easy way to describe a point in time so it's the same for everyone. Use UNIX time. We've all agreed when the epoch was so we can calculate from there with no silliness. I'll resist the urge to segue into a discussion about the merits of eliminating time zones because that concept seems beyond the intellectual capacity of some of my fellow members.

[Stephane Richard]

LOL actually, you might be interested to know (or not lol) that ISO does have a standard date and time format

it's called ISO 8601  and you can read a summary of it here http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html ;-)

[Blacklord]

Bah. There's an easy way to describe a point in time so it's the same for everyone. Use UNIX time. We've all agreed when the epoch was so we can calculate from there with no silliness. I'll resist the urge to segue into a discussion about the merits of eliminating time zones because that concept seems beyond the intellectual capacity of some of my fellow members.

Can't we use Stardate's ?

[Golan Klinger]

Can't we use Stardate's ?

And I thought I was a big nerd...

The King is dead; long live the King.

[Blacklord]

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[jt-3d]

year/month/day is the date I got used to in the army. It makes sense, biggest to smallest. If everyone would adopt the same standard I wouldn't have to spell the month abbreviation i.e. 29DEC07. There's nothing wrong with 29/12/07 either. 12,29,2007 or DEC,29 2007 is just stupid. I can understand not wanting to use metric but using some dating standard that makes no damn sense and confuses half of our citizens makes no sense at all. Therefore I vote for adopting either the DoD date or the convention that everybody else but us uses.

But no kilos. That's a druggie system. We don't want the druggies to win, now do we?

Here endeth the lesson.

[Blacklord]

But no kilos.

Your in the minority there

Lance

[airship]

I don't think we Amurcuns here in Amurca should let any of you foreign commies dictate how we express GOD'S dates or GOD'S weights. If English measurements and dates in MM/DD/YY format were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for us!

/satire

[Blacklord]

I don't think we Amurcuns here in Amurca should let any of you foreign commies dictate how we express GOD'S dates or GOD'S weights. If English measurements and dates in MM/DD/YY format were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for us!

/satire

Problem is, you couldn't even follow the Imperial system properly, US Imperial has some differences to British Imperial. That's alright, once we invade we'll force you to measure things properly

Reminds me of this "message from the Queen" at around the time Bush Jr came to power :

"In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective immediately. Her Sovereign MajestyQueen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical duties over all states,commonwealths, and territories (excepting Kansas, which she does not fancy).Your new prime minister, Tony Blair, will appoint a governor for America without the need for further elections. The House of Representatives and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire may be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.

1. Then look up "aluminium," and check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it.

2. The letter 'U' will be reinstated in words such as "favour" and"neighbour." Likewise, you will learn to spell "doughnut" without skipping half the letters, and the suffix - 'ize' will be replaced by the suffix - 'ise'. Generally, you will be expected to raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. (look up "vocabulary").

3. Using the same twenty-seven words interspersed with filler noise ssuch as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. There is no such thing as US English. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. The Microsoft spell-checker will be adjusted to take account of the reinstated letter "u" and the elimination of - ize. You will relearn your original national anthem,God Save the Queen.

4. July 4th will no longer be celebrated as a holiday.

5. You will learn to resolve personal issues without using guns,lawyers, or therapists. The fact that you need so many lawyers and therapists shows that your not adult enough to be independent. Guns should only be handled by adults. If you're not adult enough to sort things out without suing someone or speaking to a therapist then you're certainly not grown up enough to handle a gun.

6. Therefore, you will no longer be allowed to own or carry anything more dangerous than a vegetable peeler. A permit will be required if you wish to carry a vegetable peeler in public.

7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap so this is fory our own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.

8. All intersections will be replaced with roundabouts, and you will start driving on the left with immediate effect. At the same time, you will go metric with immediate effect and without the benefit of conversion tables. Both roundabouts and metrication will help you understand the British sense of humour.

9. The Former USA will adopt UK prices on petrol (which you have been calling "gasoline") - roughly $6/US gallon. Get used to it.

10. You will learn to make real chips. Those things you call French Fries are not real chips, and those things you insist on calling potato chips are properly called crisps. Real chips are thick cut, fried in animal fat, and dressed not with catsup but with vinegar.

11. The cold tasteless stuff you insist on calling beer is not actually beer at all. Henceforth, only proper British Bitter will be referred to as beer, and European brews of known and accepted provenance will be referred to as Lager. American brands will be referred to as Near-Frozen Gnats' Urine, so that all can be sold without risk of further confusion.

12. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as good guys. Hollywood will also be required to cast English actors to play English characters. Watching Andie MacDowell attempt English dialogue in Four Weddings and a Funeral was an experience akin to having one's ears removed with a cheese grater.

13. You will cease playing American football. There is only one kind of proper football; you call it soccer. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play Rugby Union (which has some similarities to American football, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full Kevlar body armour like a bunch of nancies).

14. Further, you will stop playing baseball. It is not reasonable to host an event called the World Series for a game, which is not played outside of America. Since only 21% of you are aware that there is a world beyond your borders, your error is understandable.

15. You must tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us mad.

16. An internal revenue agent (i.e. tax collector) from Her Majesty's Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all monies due (backdated to 1776).

17. Daily Tea Time begins promptly at 4 PM with proper cups, never mugs,with high quality biscuits (cookies) and cakes; strawberries in season.Thank you for your cooperation.

signed,

HM QEII"

[airship]

6920 posts so far! C'mon, we can reach 7000 by midnight!!! That's only 80 more posts!!! Pitch in, all you slackers!!

[Golan Klinger]

I am doing...

[Golan Klinger]

...all I can.

[Andrew Sutton]

"7. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap so this is fory our own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean."

Yeah, those Triumphs and MGs were really great cars... I'm glad as a mechanic that I've never had to work on either one of those fine rides! German cars pretty much stem from the Third Reich, but hey, Porsche... There is no Substitute! Volvo/SAAB... Never buy anything from a Swede!! Maserati is overrated, Ferrari- how about a $10,000 tune up? Fiat? Don't make me laugh. American cars don't look so bad now do they? (Great grammar skills;)) I digress. Somehow Americans love Asian cars long time !!

[Golan Klinger]

Hey, I love my German car with its fanbelt that will last a thousand years. The only odd thing is that every time I engage the sat-nav it gives me directions to Poland. What's up with that?

[airship]

I owned a Fiat once. I went out to get in it one day and the wheel was just lying there under the end of the front axle. The whole assembly had just busted in two. I traded it the same day for an American car.

[Golan Klinger]

I traded it the same day for an American car.

And you've been driving that Pinto ever since...

[airship]

As a former UAW member (13 1/2 years), I just can't buy a 'foreign' car. It makes me feel too guilty. Even though I know most of them are actually assembled in the USA now, and all 'American' cars are assembled from imported parts. So it's really a wash. Still, old habits are hard to break.