oldpainless posted:

For you it was the day of the worst terrorist attack on American soil but for me it was Tuesday

mrpwase posted:

Bonjour from septidi 17 Pluviôse CCXXXI, vive la République!

biceps crimes posted:

it looks like it's going to just be a bit cold and wet

biceps crimes posted:

just a lil damp and you’ll need a jacket

biceps crimes posted:

This so called winter storm warning is a joke

biceps crimes posted:

gently caress, I just lost power. I was out on a walk too. The neighborhood is a disaster and there’s tons of huge branches blocking entire sections of road around here. Time to get my sleeping bags and set my refrigerator poo poo outside

biceps crimes posted:

I still dont have power and it’s a circuit with 150+ customers. This is now the longest I’ve been without power in my life, beating hurricanes in Houston and also a blizzard in the early 90s that hosed up Georgia. I’m turning into the joker

Zil posted:

So Austin had some icy weather recently and I think the following posts describe exactly what it was like over the past week or so here.


Jan 29th



Jan 30th

Feb 1st

Feb 6th

Splicer posted:

I'll clarify.

If you're saying the full day of the month: nobody cares. It's unambiguous. This includes 1st January, January 1st, January 1st 2023, 1st January 2023, it's verbal preference.

If you're going numerical and listing the day, month, and year:
DD-MM-YY(YY): Fine.
YY(YY)-MM-DD: Also fine.
MM-DD-YY(YY): Some form of national PTSD.

If you're going numerical and just listing the day and month:
You shouldn't be doing this, but if you do and your native language is English you should go dd/mm because "the fifth of the sixth" is an English sentence but I dare you to find a way to make that work unambiguously the other way around that isn't incredibly clunky.

Zil posted:

So Austin had some icy weather recently and I think the following posts describe exactly what it was like over the past week or so here.

Hwurmp posted:

Metroid: Bread

Hwurmp posted:

my favorite Metroid: Bread boss is Leaven Beak

Saint Freak posted:

Mother Grain

Zil posted:

So Austin had some icy weather recently and I think the following posts describe exactly what it was like over the past week or so here.


Jan 29th



Jan 30th

Feb 1st

Feb 6th

oldpainless posted:

For you it was the day of the worst terrorist attack on American soil but for me it was the ninth of November

Zil posted:

So Austin had some icy weather recently and I think the following posts describe exactly what it was like over the past week or so here.


Jan 29th



Jan 30th

Feb 1st

Feb 6th

Zil posted:

Splicer posted:

I'll clarify.

If you're saying the full day of the month: nobody cares. It's unambiguous. This includes 1st January, January 1st, January 1st 2023, 1st January 2023, it's verbal preference.

If you're going numerical and listing the day, month, and year:
DD-MM-YY(YY): Fine.
YY(YY)-MM-DD: Also fine.
MM-DD-YY(YY): Some form of national PTSD.

If you're going numerical and just listing the day and month:
You shouldn't be doing this, but if you do and your native language is English you should go dd/mm because "the fifth of the sixth" is an English sentence but I dare you to find a way to make that work unambiguously the other way around that isn't incredibly clunky.

Splicer posted:

I'll clarify.

If you're saying the full day of the month: nobody cares. It's unambiguous. This includes 1st January, January 1st, January 1st 2023, 1st January 2023, it's verbal preference.

If you're going numerical and listing the day, month, and year:
DD-MM-YY(YY): Fine.
YY(YY)-MM-DD: Also fine.
MM-DD-YY(YY): Some form of national PTSD.

If you're going numerical and just listing the day and month:
You shouldn't be doing this, but if you do and your native language is English you should go dd/mm because "the fifth of the sixth" is an English sentence but I dare you to find a way to make that work unambiguously the other way around that isn't incredibly clunky.

christmas boots posted:

who the gently caress says "the fifth of the sixth" instead of "the fifth of june" or "june fifth" or something?

freeedr posted:

I have encountered old drawling people at work that, when asked for their birthdate, say something like “the fourth the fifth the forty-seventh” and it is mind-boggling. I have no idea where that came from.

SyNack Sassimov posted:

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,
the forty-seventh annual gift,
the boomer king reciting birthday to ya

SyNack Sassimov posted:

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,
the forty-seventh annual gift,
the boomer king reciting birthday to ya

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

The senex iratus (ancient Roman version of boomers) must have bitched like crazy

SyNack Sassimov posted:

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth,
the forty-seventh annual gift,
the boomer king reciting birthday to ya

Ornamental Dingbat posted:

You know we use the Aztec calendar here.


_{edited: Izcalli 11 acatl Xiuhnelpill}

Subjunctive posted:

When you give your credit card expiry date over the phone, do you say the month name or the number that’s printed on the card?

Dareon posted:

You can't fool me, that ended ten years ago.

Subjunctive posted:

When you give your credit card expiry date over the phone, do you say the month name or the number that’s printed on the card?

Mr. Fix It posted:

hmm, haven't done that in English in years. if i did it in Japanese i think i'd add month and year, i.e. ni-gatsu nisen-nijuu-san-nen (２月２０２３年), or maybe ni-gatsu nijuu-san-nen or ni-gatsu nijuu-san

Subjunctive posted:

Well obviously.

Mr. Fix It posted:

hey man, you asked.

just give in to ISO 8601.

Subjunctive posted:

All my log files are 8601-named, fear not.

freeedr posted:

I have encountered old drawling people at work that, when asked for their birthdate, say something like “the fourth the fifth the forty-seventh”

Subjunctive posted:

When you give your credit card expiry date over the phone, do you say the month name or the number that’s printed on the card?

Arsenic Lupin posted:

Oh-four fifteen.

Mr. Fix It posted:

hey man, you asked.


just give in to ISO 8601.

RedFlag posted:

RedFlag's Instant 5-step Speech/Toast

1. Tell them who you are (introduce yourself).
2. Tell them who they are (show them you know them).
3. Tell them why they're listening to you (body of the speech).
4. Tell them why they'll remember you (something personal).
5. Tell them they can stop listening to you (wrap up).

This works best as a rule when you have to work without prep-time, so it might not be relevant to your specific situation, OP. But I've used it for several impromptu public speaking occasions, at weddings and otherwise.

(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)

EorayMel posted:

You're TOAST!

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Spare a thought for the ancient Romans when their calendar got hosed around and "September" (which is Latin for 'Seventh month") became the ninth month, October ("Eighth month") became the tenth month, etc. The senex iratus (ancient Roman version of boomers) must have bitched like crazy

Ghost Leviathan posted:

these are the folks who didn't even count winter because it was too cold and miserable, being... apparently like under 20c sometimes

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Spare a thought for the ancient Romans when their calendar got hosed around and "September" (which is Latin for 'Seventh month") became the ninth month, October ("Eighth month") became the tenth month, etc. The senex iratus (ancient Roman version of boomers) must have bitched like crazy