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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:40 am
by Chris Corbyn
May the 4th Be With You Guys!
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 4:41 am
by shiznatix
har har

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 5:53 am
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

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:19 am
by Bill H
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.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:25 am
by RobertGonzalez
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)?

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:36 am
by pickle
Everah wrote:You can drink at 18 in the UK?
You can in Alberta, Canada too. No big deal

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:36 am
by s.dot
I know the feeling everah.
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

)
EEP

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:04 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Code: Select all
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?
)
).
EDIT | Crikey. The regular posting text trimmed my spaces. This should look better now that it is in code...
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:26 pm
by Christopher
I thon't think that Jethi would find "May the 4th Be With You Guys!" very futhy.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 1:04 pm
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?
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
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

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 1:25 pm
by jayshields
In some european countries there is no legal drinking age... lol.
I can't imagine living there.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 1:25 pm
by RobertGonzalez
Hockey wrote:How do you think Canadians feel?
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?
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:13 pm
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!
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:22 pm
by pickle
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.
Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 3:32 pm
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)