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May the 4th Be With You Guys!
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har har :P
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Post by jayshields »

lol, someones already said that to me today.

pretty good that it's 04/05/06 too, and it's my mates 18th birthday today, off out to get sloshed tomorrow :)
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Except in the US it's 05/04/06.

I've always thought the European method made so much more sense, put things in ascending order. Metric. All that.
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jayshields wrote:pretty good that it's 04/05/06 too, and it's my mates 18th birthday today, off out to get sloshed tomorrow :)
You can drink at 18 in the UK? Didn't know that (don't drink much either, so I can't imagine why I'd know that). It just sounds odd to me (mostly because I had to wait until 21 to buy yself a drink).

&*%I$#^*)Q, can someone please come over here and take my parentheses keys away from me (before I go over the friggin' edge with them today)? :D
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Everah wrote:You can drink at 18 in the UK?
You can in Alberta, Canada too. No big deal ;)
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Post by s.dot »

I know the feeling everah. :lol:

It gets tough when you get into nested parenthesis

I was doing (but not really (okay maybe just a little (really little))) homework today. :)

Even worse when you have an emoticon at the end of a parenthesis set! (hi :))

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I guess proper tabbing would help alleviate some of that (
    though I am sure that I could get lost in the nested comments (
        or are they statements?
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EDIT | Crikey. The regular posting text trimmed my spaces. This should look better now that it is in code...
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Post by Christopher »

I thon't think that Jethi would find "May the 4th Be With You Guys!" very futhy.
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Post by alex.barylski »

Bill H wrote:Except in the US it's 05/04/06.

I've always thought the European method made so much more sense, put things in ascending order. Metric. All that.
How do you think Canadians feel? :P

Were officially metric, but use feet to describe height, not CM...we also use LBS for weight not KG

We measure distances and speed in KM/h...

The Queen is still very much part of our heritage or she's atleast symbolic, being on our money an all...

We have loonies AND twoonies...and as a second currency we also have Canadian Tire money :P

MM/DD/YY or DD/MM/YY works interchangably

Words spelled like Colour or Color work in Canada

Also, when pronouncing the alphabet, the last character can be said as: Zee or Zed it doesn't matter...

I guess Canadians have adpated to both UK and USA idioms, etc... :)

Although the ubitquious *eh* is very much Canadian...as is Hockey...

Although I would argue that the beaver or Moose are not mascots of anything Canadian as I've never seen either in life but only in death after being handled by a taxadermist of course :)

Cheers :)
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Post by jayshields »

In some european countries there is no legal drinking age... lol.

I can't imagine living there.
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Hockey wrote:How do you think Canadians feel? :P

Were officially metric, but use feet to describe height, not CM...we also use LBS for weight not KG

We measure distances and speed in KM/h...

Words spelled like Colour or Color work in Canada

Also, when pronouncing the alphabet, the last character can be said as: Zee or Zed it doesn't matter...

I guess Canadians have adpated to both UK and USA idioms, etc... :)
Don't that seem a bit confusing for you, eh?
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Post by Maugrim_The_Reaper »

How do you use dates interchangeably? That must be the most confusing thing ever - and you guys have 6 time zones!
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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:How do you use dates interchangeably? That must be the most confusing thing ever - and you guys have 6 time zones!
Everytime we see a date in one of those formats, it's accompanied with a question - "Is that month/day/year or day/month/year?". Very annoying - we should just stick with the Europeans on that one.
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Post by timvw »

Overhere you can legally drink beer at 16, but it's quite common that a 14yo can go to a pub and order himself a (lot of) beer(s).
Liquor (and bacardi breezah trash) is only allowed when you're 18.

(Belgium, has plenty of delicious beers... But i do like a Guiness (one that is produced in dublin) too)
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