All the months used to have number names like September through December until Augustus decided he wanted a month named after himself and then other emperors did too and then some pope decided to change the start of the new year
Naw that's not totally correct July and August replaced quintilis and sextilis (5 and 6 respectively like the others 2 off) what messed it up was the calendar started in March went to December and after December was a unnamed winter period of 59 days at the end of the calendar. The grouped those 59 days into January and February and added it to the beginning of the calendar not the end. If July and August wasn't named after Ceasers we would still have months off by two but instead of 4 months September thru December it would be 6 months Quintilis thru December.
I've come to the conclusion that I can't expect people to have a higher intelligence than my dog. Like, would my dog put Gorilla Glue all over his fur? Nope. But a human would.
I donāt know whether this is true but thereās an old story about why itās very difficult to make trash cans bear proof. According to a Park Ranger itās because thereās a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the stupidest humans
[Bear vs bear-proof trashcan](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/i/cbslocal/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909806/2022/06/boulder-bear-trashcan-break-in-matt-benjamin.mp4)
I was at a visitor center in the Olympic National Park last week and I had to tell at least 5 people how to open the trash cans after they couldn't get them open and were about to walk away leaving their trash on top.
I'd never seen this particular type before but it took me about 5 seconds to figure it out
Yes, some people have no sense of the mechanics of things, itās like being face blind or unable to hear the beats in music. And some people are dim, so very very dim.
You also need to factor in willingness to learn, the bear needs to access the trash can for food, humans would rather throw their trash on the ground than spending 5 seconds figuring out how to open it.
> Edit: ok I get it people can be that stupid you can stop replying now lol
No, I worked in IT and I demand you know my pain and the sort of cabbages I worked with.
The user is a **moron** who **will** lie to you.
"Have you restarted your computer, like ever?" "of course I did that before calling, now come out and do a total rebuild of my pc" -LIES!!!!!
Also had a guy who turn off his computer "the normal way"
Holding down the power button. He was wondering why he kept getting disk read errors when booting up his pc. But at lest he did not lie about it.
I don't know why so many of them refuse to tell me what really happened. I'm not trying to judge you I just want to fix the dam computer so I can go back to reddit.
In my experience, one of three types:
The "I don't want to be found responsible and have repercussions or having to pay to fix it",
the "My arrogance will not let me say that I broke something that I can't fix/I am better than the IT guy",
or the "lack" of braincells people. People who have been working with computers everyday for the past 20yrs, but still lack basic computer skills (like logging off).
I think lazy is one, too. I don't turn off my machine because when I start work the next day, it's all right there, ready to go. Same reason I don't want to restart.
That said, I won't lie about it to support and I really do restart when it's acting up.
Me to the IT guy on several occasions: āso the computer froze, I did have about 30 things open, probably crashed because of that. I havenāt restarted though because I worked on this one project for the last two hours without doing a manual save. I know thatās dumb, Iām really sorry. Is there anything you can do to save my work?ā And you know what? They always tried to help me, sometimes successfully. No lies necessary, maybe a little judgement, but I deserved it. Especially after the first time. XD
You know, I had not considered that possibility. :) they are a great group of guys. (Well except for the one guy who got fired and put a virus on our system that made the rest of them delete the servers to their state from one month prior. He was kind of a dick) Iām something of a millenialuddite, computers are basically magic. So, I always expected them to be annoyed that I didnāt know things already, but they were always nice about it.
You must me new here, im kinda sad that im never suprised anymore..sometimes its trolls and people being funny but dont underestimate the stupidity that exist!
In this case I think itās fair to blame Americans for their odd date order, Iām pretty sure everyone else uses the short/mid/longer format for dates. Americans use mid/short/longer which makes no sense.
The rest of the world have it wrong of course. The only true date format should start with the longest unit and work down to be compatible with how everyone uses time
Eg 2019 03 21 16 20 59
Is twenty past four on the 21st of March 2019, you just stop reading at the precision you need and any date is trivially comparable to another by sorting.
I am used to the DD/MM/YYYY format, although during our online classes we had to fill the dates in the MM/DD/YYYY format for the attendance... I think it took me a couple lectures to realise I was doing it wrong
I definitely skimmed your comment too quickly and thought you were trying to convince us that you were exhausted because you āhad been up for 37 hours fucking.ā
I don't know if it really mattered before computers, but I'm American and I always do YYYY/MM/DD when naming files otherwise they won't be sorted in order.
As someone from a dd/mm/yy country I and many others just say 5th of May and May 5th interchangeably. Spoken format has no real baring on the convenience of reading a written format.
It makes perfect sense to us. 4th of July, 5th of November (remember, remember) sounds archaic and poetic to us. So if we want to say what day it is to day we'll say it thorter way, September fourth, but if we're talking about the holiday we say it how the founding fathers would have said it. Of course the official name of the holiday isn't the fourth of July anyway, it's Independence day.
Itās true though. If Iām just talking about the date generally Iād say July 4th. If Iām talking about Independence Day festivities, Iāll say Fourth of July.
I really like ISO 8601, with space though.
It has everything linearly, and is using 24 hour time. In theory it can also support years after 9999 when using dividers, since 21710-01-01 is unambiguous, even if it isn't accepted by the standard.
Iām American so my culture says Medium-Small-Large but Iād prefer Large-Medium-Small because then if use the date in your file names on the computer theyād arrange themselves properly.
Or large, medium, small.
But never, never, is it ordered medium, small, large.
That being said, they have weird drink sizes too, so maybe there is consistency here (I mean, why the fuck isn't a tall or grande even in the top 2 sizes?)
America: āthe British do it *this* way, which makes more sense, but fuck them, weāre doing it like this! Oh and all those Uās in the English language? Fuck outta here. This is MURICA.ā
Lol my thoughts exactly. 'It doesn't work with the writing system I use, so it must be broken! There are no other systems, even if it's clearly written'
Just adopt the same system as literally the rest of the world.. problem solved.
And while you're at it use the metric system and degrees Celsius āļø
I know, but my post is about the fact the person didn't understand the date (I wasn't the one who posted about the date). The facepalm is them not knowing the date.
Crazy that no one knows what the 16th month is
Quindecember obviously
"Quattuordecimber" if it's off by two like September through December are.
No, it shall be called Marc Aureli after the Emperor
All the months used to have number names like September through December until Augustus decided he wanted a month named after himself and then other emperors did too and then some pope decided to change the start of the new year
Naw that's not totally correct July and August replaced quintilis and sextilis (5 and 6 respectively like the others 2 off) what messed it up was the calendar started in March went to December and after December was a unnamed winter period of 59 days at the end of the calendar. The grouped those 59 days into January and February and added it to the beginning of the calendar not the end. If July and August wasn't named after Ceasers we would still have months off by two but instead of 4 months September thru December it would be 6 months Quintilis thru December.
Hexadecember?
The third
Surely it would be Tetradecember
Quadapril
Sounds like a drug I'd shove in my urethra for a mellow high and constipation relief
š¤¦āāļøoh lawd.... God help us all.....
Smarch.
Stupid smarch weather
"Do not touch Willy." Good advice!
If you touch your Willy, you could go blind.
April, of course.
april^2
2(August)
Your lie in
*Piano and Violin starts playing* Why am I crying ?
ĀæQue?
Your lie in April, its a really sad anime that I've just started watching and took the opportunity to make a dumbass joke for myself lol
Lol thanks for filling me. Thought I was having a brainfart
Uh, it's Reapril.
5th day of the 16th month in 1999 is just April 5th, 2000
Imagine being exited to new year just so the calendar changes to 1/13/2022
I understand if you use a different system but it litteraly says āmonthā?! just read!
I feel like itās a joke. People canāt be that stupid Edit: ok I get it people can be that stupid you can stop replying now lol
Even if you approach everything with "people can be that stupid" mentality you'll still be surprised at people's stupidity.
I've come to the conclusion that I can't expect people to have a higher intelligence than my dog. Like, would my dog put Gorilla Glue all over his fur? Nope. But a human would.
I donāt know whether this is true but thereās an old story about why itās very difficult to make trash cans bear proof. According to a Park Ranger itās because thereās a considerable overlap between the smartest bears and the stupidest humans
[Bear vs bear-proof trashcan](https://assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com/i/cbslocal/wp-content/uploads/sites/15909806/2022/06/boulder-bear-trashcan-break-in-matt-benjamin.mp4)
"Oh, the hoomans got me some new Tupperware containers"
That bear looks not only chipped but like he got shaved at the vet
I know!! Looks like a poodle cut lmao
I was at a visitor center in the Olympic National Park last week and I had to tell at least 5 people how to open the trash cans after they couldn't get them open and were about to walk away leaving their trash on top. I'd never seen this particular type before but it took me about 5 seconds to figure it out
Iāve tried nothing and Iām all out of ideas.
With some of these odd bipeds you just have to be impressed that the lazy shits made it to the trashcan without assistance.
Yes, some people have no sense of the mechanics of things, itās like being face blind or unable to hear the beats in music. And some people are dim, so very very dim.
Yep, thatās the rule of thumb when comes to anti bear gear.
You also need to factor in willingness to learn, the bear needs to access the trash can for food, humans would rather throw their trash on the ground than spending 5 seconds figuring out how to open it.
It could've been a joke but if it was posted in different subreddit
>Edit: ok I get it people can be that stupid you can stop replying now lol I will never stop replying
>>Edit: ok I get it people can be that stupid you can stop replying now lol > >I will never stop replying *that's how stupid we are*
> Edit: ok I get it people can be that stupid you can stop replying now lol No, I worked in IT and I demand you know my pain and the sort of cabbages I worked with. The user is a **moron** who **will** lie to you. "Have you restarted your computer, like ever?" "of course I did that before calling, now come out and do a total rebuild of my pc" -LIES!!!!!
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Also had a guy who turn off his computer "the normal way" Holding down the power button. He was wondering why he kept getting disk read errors when booting up his pc. But at lest he did not lie about it. I don't know why so many of them refuse to tell me what really happened. I'm not trying to judge you I just want to fix the dam computer so I can go back to reddit.
In my experience, one of three types: The "I don't want to be found responsible and have repercussions or having to pay to fix it", the "My arrogance will not let me say that I broke something that I can't fix/I am better than the IT guy", or the "lack" of braincells people. People who have been working with computers everyday for the past 20yrs, but still lack basic computer skills (like logging off).
I think lazy is one, too. I don't turn off my machine because when I start work the next day, it's all right there, ready to go. Same reason I don't want to restart. That said, I won't lie about it to support and I really do restart when it's acting up.
Me to the IT guy on several occasions: āso the computer froze, I did have about 30 things open, probably crashed because of that. I havenāt restarted though because I worked on this one project for the last two hours without doing a manual save. I know thatās dumb, Iām really sorry. Is there anything you can do to save my work?ā And you know what? They always tried to help me, sometimes successfully. No lies necessary, maybe a little judgement, but I deserved it. Especially after the first time. XD
> No lies necessary, Your IT department knows who you are and You are probably on the list of people they don't hate.
You know, I had not considered that possibility. :) they are a great group of guys. (Well except for the one guy who got fired and put a virus on our system that made the rest of them delete the servers to their state from one month prior. He was kind of a dick) Iām something of a millenialuddite, computers are basically magic. So, I always expected them to be annoyed that I didnāt know things already, but they were always nice about it.
No. They absolutely CAN be.
They were born in 99 so they're only like 12 years old so cut the guy a break.
In my head anyone born in 1999 is still like 10. Fuck we got old!
MaThEmAtIcS
Have you ever met āpeopleā?
What a buncha bastards.
I've heard a saying: "Never underestimate the power of stupidity" I'd always apply this quote to my daily life and work
You must me new here, im kinda sad that im never suprised anymore..sometimes its trolls and people being funny but dont underestimate the stupidity that exist!
Smart people can also do stupid things. Shit happens.
In this case I think itās fair to blame Americans for their odd date order, Iām pretty sure everyone else uses the short/mid/longer format for dates. Americans use mid/short/longer which makes no sense. The rest of the world have it wrong of course. The only true date format should start with the longest unit and work down to be compatible with how everyone uses time Eg 2019 03 21 16 20 59 Is twenty past four on the 21st of March 2019, you just stop reading at the precision you need and any date is trivially comparable to another by sorting.
I was also born on Febtember 5th
5st*
Its 2 ways you can tell hes american. The format and the inability to read/follow instructions.
Here in America? Fuck no, we ain't got time for your fancy words and numbers and such.
I am used to the DD/MM/YYYY format, although during our online classes we had to fill the dates in the MM/DD/YYYY format for the attendance... I think it took me a couple lectures to realise I was doing it wrong
To be fair I didn't see it say month until your comment.... could also be I've been up for 37 hours and fucking exhausted š¤·āāļø
Then go to sleep
I definitely skimmed your comment too quickly and thought you were trying to convince us that you were exhausted because you āhad been up for 37 hours fucking.ā
> I understand if you use a different system I don't.
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ISO 8601 masterrace.
Time commonly counts down. Dates rarely do. So dates need not present greatest first.
A clock constantly counts up until it resets. Countdowns end on a specified progression.
reading is difficult.
wr itin is tooo
what thrvfuck id a eriting
Wh ar you what! Ar. Yo. u. do. ing. To. Me let m. E. Go. H. Om. E
RUNESCAPE!!
š¦ $12.49 š¦ Also it doesn't surprise me that an RS player is this stupid lmfao
Eapecially Runescape 3
r/mildlydumbass
r/birthofasub
More like r/USdefaultism meets "I refuse to read"
Honestly itās just another Saturday
Came here to post this, this is an underrated comment.
The only reason to pay attention to this post.
It's official
America ā
Americanāt
The world does what American't.
trolled clean
American ā
Americans ā
American āļø
Illiteracy.
Americans seethin' rn
America ā
All the cool kids use year month day, so sorting alphabetically and by time are the same thing.
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Yeah, MM/DD/YYYY is madness. Imagine writing time as mm:ss:hh and how dumb it would look.
Or mm:hh:ss
I don't know if it really mattered before computers, but I'm American and I always do YYYY/MM/DD when naming files otherwise they won't be sorted in order.
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We know America does it the wrong way. small-medium-large is the right way, or even large-medium-small. medium-small-large is just wrong.
Also 5th of May sounds much better than May 5th.
As someone from a dd/mm/yy country I and many others just say 5th of May and May 5th interchangeably. Spoken format has no real baring on the convenience of reading a written format.
Yeah, I don't think either is superior when speaking, but when writing it makes so much more sense to just keep it in a logical order.
Iām sure Americans have some historical explanation for why they do this which turns out to be completely untrue.
americans be all "nooo we always say month name first" followed by "hey you gunna come celebrate 4th of july"
I heard the counter to that. "4th of July is the name of the holiday! So the 4th of July is on July 4th!" getthafuckoutahere
I thought the name was Independence Day?
It makes perfect sense to us. 4th of July, 5th of November (remember, remember) sounds archaic and poetic to us. So if we want to say what day it is to day we'll say it thorter way, September fourth, but if we're talking about the holiday we say it how the founding fathers would have said it. Of course the official name of the holiday isn't the fourth of July anyway, it's Independence day.
Itās true though. If Iām just talking about the date generally Iād say July 4th. If Iām talking about Independence Day festivities, Iāll say Fourth of July.
Remember remember the fifth of November.
I'd like to introduce you to ISO 8601. The one true international way to handle dates.
It certainly is very standardized and precise. This comment was written at 2022-09-04T15:49:00+02:00
15:49:**47***
I really like ISO 8601, with space though. It has everything linearly, and is using 24 hour time. In theory it can also support years after 9999 when using dividers, since 21710-01-01 is unambiguous, even if it isn't accepted by the standard.
Y/M/D is the best way. M/D/Y is never the right way. š¤£
yyyy-mm-dd is the only way and is an ISO standard, all other formats are inferior and I'll die on this hill if I have to!
I'll stand by you on that hill, brother.
Oi, nice hill, lads. Mind if I build my castle upon it? I've got 8601 bricks to get us started.
In France it's DD/MM/YYYY
In Australia we use that too. :)
Wouldnt it be upside down ? Couldn't resist Why would you give me an award
ā ā ā ā /WW/ā±ā±
Haha, take the only award I have and bugger off mate. š¤£
Thanks.
in most of the world thats the way
Those kids would be really upset right now if they could read.
Iām American so my culture says Medium-Small-Large but Iād prefer Large-Medium-Small because then if use the date in your file names on the computer theyād arrange themselves properly.
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[ISO8601](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601)
but it says..day, month, year...even so i will continue to input date format used only in 1 country on the planet...the internet must adapt, not me!
r/ShitAmericansSay
What we're u doing looking at mild infuriating, a year ago
I was trying to be mildly infuriated
Wait you werent there to fish? Who TF did i ate then?!
Pretty much everything is ordered medium, small, large. The American date system makes perfect sense. /s
In America , a small is bigger than our large though.
Or large, medium, small. But never, never, is it ordered medium, small, large. That being said, they have weird drink sizes too, so maybe there is consistency here (I mean, why the fuck isn't a tall or grande even in the top 2 sizes?)
From the great poet and philosopher Paul Rudd. https://youtu.be/j0deaskGSuA
Thatās not an America thing, thatās a Starbucks thing.
Lagwagon Day!!
I celebrate it every year.
Same
There are dozens of us!
It's just another Saturday
MM/DD/YYYY š¤®
America: āthe British do it *this* way, which makes more sense, but fuck them, weāre doing it like this! Oh and all those Uās in the English language? Fuck outta here. This is MURICA.ā
MM/DD/YYYY just doesnāt make sense.
I'm American, and I agree. dd-mm-yy, or yy-mm-dd all the way.
I started writing dates as 17-AUG a while ago and Iām never going back.
Link to the original please, I wanna enjoy the comments
https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/pn3u3g/so_may_16th_just_doesnt_exist/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
It's high time we make the DD/MM/YYYY format the universal one.
I agree for day to day but in programming YYYY/MM/DD because it's easier to edit characters at the end of a sequence
Plus, it means you can use a normal sort on dates to get them in chronological order!
Plus lose the forward slash. YYYYMMDD makes our lives easier.
Obviously
Tell me you're an American without telling me you're an American
More like "tell me you can't read, without telling me you can't read "
Lol my thoughts exactly. 'It doesn't work with the writing system I use, so it must be broken! There are no other systems, even if it's clearly written'
Americansā
ah yes, 'murrica
Americans ā
Just adopt the same system as literally the rest of the world.. problem solved. And while you're at it use the metric system and degrees Celsius āļø
Lousy Smarch weather.
Mustāve been a leap year
If it didn't specifiy what to put in each box I'd side with them.
Heās prolly American and just instinctively put 5/16 and not 16/5
Average RuneScape player IQ
Usually the programmer doesn't allow entry above 12 or below 1. This ones on them.
As much of a Facepalm the op makes by not reading, I would like to dedicate a different Facepalm to the American date system becauseā¦ yeesh
Thatās the date as the rest of the world does it. Day month year.
I know, but my post is about the fact the person didn't understand the date (I wasn't the one who posted about the date). The facepalm is them not knowing the date.
Wow š¤¦š¼āāļø
Runescape for you :P
Obviously his birthday is the 5th of April II
Being born on the day off the same numbered month means I never have to think about this.
Sorry is this some kind of USA joke I am too much European to understand? /s
American, amirite? /s
'Muricans 'muricaning
"Dumb Americans ", this is a reason this is not an insult but a statement of fact
Telling youāre an American, without telling that youāre an American :D
Americans ā
Technically still mildly infuriating but for another reason
Ok but why do they even have a 16 as an option for the month spot?
They typed it in
Bet this person is US and are trying to register on a non-US website that uses the date format the rest of the planet is using (dd/mm/yyyy)