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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 :P

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)? :D

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. :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 :))

EEP 8O

Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 12:04 pm
by RobertGonzalez

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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?
    )
).
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? :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 :)

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? :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?

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)