Why can't you record the date correctly?

[D_Ted Riding Hooded]

I agree with the date recording . However , then you guys go & mess up the cricket scoring . For example , the correct way is , Australia 2/200 at lunch day 1 , Fifth test . I get all excited when I see , England 6/2 ... but soon realize when we are playing over there , you guys are Only two wickets down for 6 runs after 5 overs :biggrin1:

I'd take the Aussies 2/6 or 6/2 ..I'm not a greedy man.... on the 20.08.2009 at The Oval!!! :tongue:

 

[Flashy]

I appreciate that you have been teaching us how to play the game for the last twenty years, Sneaky, but whose fucking game is it in the first place?

My guess is that it belongs to some fella named Jiminy

 

[Drifterwood]

Bloody colonial upstarts, should bladdy well shoot the lot of them, what say you jeaves?

Well, to be fair, we did try that once and it didn't exactly go that well.

 

[Drifterwood]

My guess is that it belongs to some fella named Jiminy

Who is this Jiminy Grasshopper?

 

[Flashy]

Bloody colonial upstarts, should bladdy well shoot the lot of them, what say you jeaves?

you could try to shoot us, but since you cannot figure out our concept of time, it would be rather difficult for you to figure out when we were asleep so as to take us by surprise. my guess is that your weapons, such as bad teeth and crossbows, would be most effective when we were in REM sleep. :wink::biggrin1:

 

[Flashy]

Who is this Jiminy Grasshopper?

he is the american incarnation of the famed "Il Grillo Parlante" of Italian lore. Thusly, he wolud be Jiminy the talking cricket, if we are taking the Italians feelings into consideration.

but since we own all rights through Disney to "Il Grillo Parlante", i say they can fuck right off.

that is what you get for ruining football with Catenaccio

 

[Flashy]

Well, to be fair, we did try that once and it didn't exactly go that well.

well, it did go well initially, but based on your misunderstanding of the concept of date and time, you should have quit while you were ahead :biggrin1::wink:

me thinks if you had paid attention to the correct dates to get to the battle, Saratoga may have turned out differently :biggrin1:

 

[Drifterwood]

that is what you get for ruining football with Catenaccio

You know, they have traced the first outbreak of Swine Flu to Rome, last May. 30,000 United fans, sick as pigs. :biggrin1:

 

[Flashy]

Though it pains me deeply, I believe you have something of a celebration on the 4th of July.

I don't recall ever hearing of July 4th celebrations. :wink:

you are confusing July 4th and the Fourth of July.

July Fourth is the national holiday...

Fourth of July is when we go hunting for any remaining redcoats in hiding, and when we catch them we cut them into quarters, and every american gets a quarter share to grill and eat.

thusly, the "fourth of July"...we were going to call it the "The quarter of July", but we thought it would cause to much confusion with you folks and the metric system.

you have been causing us problems since the beginning with your hoity toity ways.

 

[Flashy]

You know, they have traced the first outbreak of Swine Flu to Rome, last May. 30,000 United fans, sick as pigs. :biggrin1:

bah humbug.

last i checked, swine flu did not involve nausea as one of the symptoms...however, i do see a correlation with the choking symptoms...we certainly exhibited those.

 

[Drifterwood]

you are confusing July 4th and the Fourth of July.

July Fourth is the national holiday...

Fourth of July is when we go hunting for any remaining redcoats in hiding, and when we catch them we cut them into quarters, and every american gets a quarter share to grill and eat.

thusly, the "fourth of July"...we were going to call it the "The quarter of July", but we thought it would cause to much confusion with you folks and the metric system.

you have been causing us problems since the beginning with your hoity toity ways.

How you can say thusly and then call us hoity toity.

Greenwich Mean Time does not originate from that village in Manhattan. Really Flash it's true. We invented time.

PS - I was sneaky and didn't wear a redcoat last time I visited. Ha ha

 

[Flashy]

How you can say thusly and then call us hoity toity.

magic.

Greenwich Mean Time does not originate from that village in Manhattan. Really Flash it's true. We invented time.

last i checked, the Egyptain Sun Dial preceded Greenwich Mean Time...you invented *TEA* time...but not actual time, LOL :biggrin1:

PS - I was sneaky and didn't wear a redcoat last time I visited. Ha ha

i was not fooled...i know the Gurkha that looked like Ian Rush, riding the gigantically mutated hedgehog down 5th Avenue was you.

you have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch us out.

 

[Drifterwood]

well, it did go well initially, but based on your misunderstanding of the concept of date and time, you should have quit while you were ahead :biggrin1::wink:

me thinks if you had paid attention to the correct dates to get to the battle, Saratoga may have turned out differently :biggrin1:

You see Flash, we have so much glorious history to study that it's difficult to recall the footnotes. But as far as I remember from the proper version, you carried on shooting when we had clearly stopped for tea, and then someone from a funny little place outside Newcastle, went on a very long walk and again didn't stop for tea. Quite remarkable behaviour.

 

[Drifterwood]

you have to get up pretty early in the morning to catch us out.

Yes. I believe that the Japanese demonstrated that quite effectively.

 

[Flashy]

You see Flash, we have so much glorious history to study that it's difficult to recall the footnotes. But as far as I remember from the proper version, you carried on shooting when we had clearly stopped for tea, and then someone from a funny little place outside Newcastle, went on a very long walk and again didn't stop for tea. Quite remarkable behaviour.

i think that whatever our differences, we can always agree that the French, are always at the root of the historical problems. :wink:

 

[Flashy]

Yes. I believe that the Japanese demonstrated that quite effectively.

actually we were well awake...the problem was that a couple of dipshits could not figure out how to pick up the phone when we sank a midget sub 4 hours before the attack, and could not be bothered to call anyone when they spotted the planes 136 miles out...of course, they mistook them for our own planes

we were awake...unfortunately, Gomer Pyle and Forrest Gump were manning the guard towers :redface:

 

[Drifterwood]

we were awake...unfortunately, Gomer Pyle and Forrest Gump were manning the guard towers :redface:

Come on Flash, admit it was the international dateline that got you unstuck. They set off the day before tomorrow. :biggrin1:

 

[mitchymo]

Omg so funny, if the americans want to do it month day year then that is fine, nothing wrong with that just like brits do not drive on the wrong side of the road simply because it's not the 'right' side of the road

 

[Incocknito]

Because M/D/Y is easier to sort in Excel and financial software. (Spoken as someone who USED to write D/M/Y)

Duh... :tongue:

But Americans were using their weird date format before Excel was invented.

My only explanation would be that because the original Puritan settlers were anti-British, they didn't want to use the same date format. This is the same reason that many countries drive on the right side of the road...they don't want to be like Britain.

Its historical fact although even then it seems like a ridiculous way to write the date out.

I use the American date format only when naming files in Windows because then they are ordered by date when arranged alphabetically.

 

[Rubenesque]

This thread has really had me chuckling.

I love to moan about the way America got the hump about not having it's own language so invented American English, by removing the odd letter here and there.

I don't have an actual gripe about it, I find it amusing.

But oh my god... aluminium is a 5 syllable word!

haha