Dear Americans,
Are you aware that your MM/DD/YY date format is needlessly arbitrary and retarded?
The DD/MM/YY format makes way more sense because each unit of time is arranged relatively with accordance to size.
Yours sincerely,
the rest of the world.
P.S. Your imperial system, to fuck with that too.
>not YYYY/MM/DD
t. Japanese Diaspora
One of the best things about living in Europe is that most of the right-wing rhetoric you hear in America is very much
against the law here. Calling Islam "uncivilised" or saying that gay marriage isn't really marriage would get you
charged with inciting hatred. Suggesting that people should buy guns "for self-defence" would be considered inciting
violence, which carries serious penalties as well. We're also finally starting to seriously crack down on climate change
deniers and anti-vaxxers and many European countries have laws that prohibit insulting or offending people in
general. Germany has a law against disparaging the memory of deceased persons, so the crude "ding dong, the witch
is dead" rhetoric coming from the US when a celebrity dies would be very much illegal. Childish name-calling and lying
about people is not allowed here either, as a woman in France was recently given defamation charges for commenting
"she's a liar" on a YouTube video of a politician giving a speech.
Is our freedom of expression limited? Not in the least. We are guaranteed freedom of expression through European
law. Rather than restricting freedom of expression, these laws simply ensure that it's used responsibly and for the
purposes of good. Unlike Americans, we understand that human rights and human dignity also need to be respected.
Americans stubbomly cling to their outdated interpretation of their archaic Constitution while the rest of the world
forges ahead. You Americans look very uncivilised to the rest of us when you allow bigots to speak out openly. By
allowing hate speech, you are sending the message to the rest of the world that your government approves of hatred
and intolerance. Is that really what you want, Americans?
>>52233347
What's the story with Japan and Brazil anyway?
>>52233347
That makes sense but MM/DD/YY is dumb AF.
>>52233302
Thanks for letting us know.
>>52233302
>The rest of the world is too retarded to understand MM/DD/YYYY and the Imperial system
we have months first because they go up to 12 since 2012 was when the great benghazi tragedy occurred, the most tragic event in world history
days is next since on average they are 31, the number of states that accepted obamas glorious medicaid expansion
years are last because its 2015
hope this makes sense
>>52233302
01-12/01-31/0001-XXXX
I dunno, I think it looks logical enough.
I wish I could snap a finger and Americans use celsius/metric/DDMMYYYY. But we're SPESHUL SNOWFLAKESSS!!!1
>>52233743
It's arbitrary. It's like deciding to write all instances of the letter "a" sideways, everyone understands it, it's just utterly retarded.
>>52233879
you're welcome to leave
>>52233347
>not MM/YYYY/DD/
>>52233401
They migrated en masse to Brazil (and Peru, Uruguay, etc) after the war.
why fix something that's not broken?
>>52233879
>Celsius
Metric and standard dates are awesome, but Celsius is gay as fuck
this is a reddit post. you should quit bitching about trivial shit that doesn't affect you
>>52233302
sorry desu but month/day/year makes way more sense
>>52234031
It doesn't matter where you live because we use the internet, it just causes needless ambiguity.
03/04/15: most of the world would interpret that as the 3rd of April.
Americans just like to be difficult, for literally no reason.
>>52233302
Does this bother you that much? Did you really wake up today and say to yourself, "Wow, America's date format bothers me SO much, I feel the need to vent about it on a Laotian wood carving forum!"
i prefer YYYY/MM/DD
mostly because I've gotten used to tagging videos as such
such as 20150810, or 150717, 141224, etc.
>>52234606
That's exactly what happened. It's human nature to point out to people that certain things are simply just idiotic; that's what makes the world go round.
I heard its the result of often not using the year,
in which case it just follows the way its often spoken "december 10th" 12/10
we don't say 10th of december, if we did it would be organized the way everyone else does
I've also heard its because numerically it follows that way. Months only go up to 12, days to 30, and years are 4 digits.
It was easier to set up that way with early mechanical calendars, and if you arbitrarily need to pick a format this goes in order of max possible numer size
i don't really give a shit personally, since 90% of the time i'm labelling reagents at work and all those get are month/year
>>52234606
>"Wow, America's date format bothers me SO much, I feel the need to vent about it on a Laotian wood carving forum!"
When are things that matter ever discussed here mate?
>>52233366
>One of the best parts of Europe is you lack free speech
Dropped
how many stones you weigh OP?
>>52233302
Do you really think we care
We understand it just fine
Oh also how's the left side of the road?
>>52233366
>Muh feelings are important
Kill yourself you tremendous faggot
Who gives a fuck
Seriously what does it matter
>>52237951
>>52239364
>>52233366
Oh look, it's the American in Finland again
>>52234305
>>52239675
>>52233366
One of the best pastas ever.
>>52237951
>>52239364
>>52239603
Get >>>/out/
Can the rest of the world fuck off? We like our units of measurement and our dating system.
lol americaa is bttr then rest of wrld fuk off
>>52240099
dubs have spoken
