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At 1/9/07 06:28 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the 9th of janurary in the UK is written as 09/01/2007. In the US it's 01/09/2007. I'm just curious as to why? The UK format seems natural to me, as it's ascending order of size, day, month year...

Because we're just an irrational bunch.

No way around it.

Because we dislike being like England on account of the fact that they over-taxed us without representation, and were just overall asshats.

It's weird that Americans drive on the right hand side of the road. In Australia and UK, because we drive on the left, it suits our writing pattern; left to right.

Also, why do Americans say "Color" instead of "Colour" like Australians. "Colour" sounds better and looks more sophisticated.

Also, Why do some Americans (ppl from texas, mississipi and other) and British people have a big-ass accent. When a Pom says "What" it comes out as "Woaht." "I wood like a coup of tea pleaose"

Australian is the most natural-sounding English.

Because we felt like it

At 1/9/07 06:30 PM, SeeInTheDark wrote: Also, the metric system/ US system. Why do we need feet and inches when meters make so much more sense? It's like we think we're superior or something. I feel that it contributes to the corrupted American culture.

I'm American, and I agree. Meters do make more sense (They count by tens). And, we wouldn't have to learn how to convert meters into feet and all that BLAH. We're so wierd sometimes. Its like we're trying to argue with the metric system or something. WHY MUST WE COMPLICATE EVERYTHING!!!!

ah that wiki article was interesting.

The m/d/y format is used by:
United States (Although Independence Day is often referred to as "the Fourth of July.")

make up your minds, shesh!

At 1/9/07 07:34 PM, chocolate-penguin wrote: lolkilometers.

Kilometers ANGREH FAIC me to no extent. Miles are longer, and therefore are manlier.

We go far beyond the kilometer.

It's as simple as this. It does make more sense. Today is January 10, 2007 (1/10/07) not 10, January 2007 (10/1/07). We say it as mm/dd/yyyy so naturally we write it that way.

At 1/10/07 07:45 AM, MuffDiver wrote: It's as simple as this. It does make more sense. Today is January 10, 2007 (1/10/07) not 10, January 2007 (10/1/07). We say it as mm/dd/yyyy so naturally we write it that way.

except for the 4th of july so on that day you write it 4/6/**?
how confusing for you.
ha.

At 1/9/07 06:34 PM, AlphaCentauri wrote: Because Americans are Rebels.

nah just fucktards

a welshman could slaughter you

At 1/9/07 06:28 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the 9th of janurary in the UK is written as 09/01/2007. In the US it's 01/09/2007. I'm just curious as to why? The UK format seems natural to me, as it's ascending order of size, day, month year...

We have more than 7 Nuclear missiles that can ultimately destroy the Earth.

We're always right.

At 1/10/07 07:59 AM, Guitardude wrote:

At 1/9/07 06:28 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the 9th of janurary in the UK is written as 09/01/2007. In the US it's 01/09/2007. I'm just curious as to why? The UK format seems natural to me, as it's ascending order of size, day, month year...

We have more than 7 Nuclear missiles that can ultimately destroy the Earth.

We're always right.

not that America would ever consider using such horrible weapons of mass destruction..
i mean, unless it was in the name of peace and freedom.

At 1/10/07 08:03 AM, Madknt wrote: not that America would ever consider using such horrible weapons of mass destruction..
i mean, unless it was in the name of peace and freedom.

If our Nation's leader and leaders ever feel that our Country's pride and pure belief of our Date/calander is under attack by one of the many evil Nations outside of the USA, the proud UNITED STATES OF AMERICA will unleash it's mighty war of freedom against all enemy countries.

Oil is good stuff too.

At 1/9/07 06:49 PM, chocolate-penguin wrote: Well, a month, then the amount of days in that month. Days then the month don't really make that much sense to me.

By your logic, wouldn't it make more sense to say the year, then the amount of months in the year, then the amount of days in the month. If you didn't do it like that, you'd be contradicting yourself when you said the year, after you said the month then the day.

ddmmyy makes more sense to me, and sounds nicer when said out loud.

It's all opinions, though.

As your used to 9/1/07 07 were(U.S.A) used to 1/9/07.
Deal with it the world is fucked up!

At 1/9/07 09:08 PM, justlooking9 wrote: Exactly, each nationality has adapted to their layout, correct? So therefore the other nationality looks ridiculous to each other... and why does this bother you enough to make a thread?

the current newgrounds layout puts all dates the US way, which is really only used in the US (as opposed to the rest of the world)

It's because when america had there revelotion they wanted to be different, so they changed a couple of things around took some letters out of words and made up those weird squeaky accents they have.

At 1/9/07 06:28 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the 9th of janurary in the UK is written as 09/01/2007. In the US it's 01/09/2007. I'm just curious as to why? The UK format seems natural to me, as it's ascending order of size, day, month year...

Because thats the way americans has always done it. You think we change easily? Look at the metric system, we still haven't adopted that as primary means, and I hope they won't ever. 10 years for a first down sounds better than something meters.

It confuses me, used to using the british way, but american way i only ever see on newgrounds.

It drives me nuts when there is no actual way of knowing if the date you're looking at is American or English, because the day is above the 12th

At least let me discern between the two when it's not obvious...

Yeh in Aus we have it dd/mm/yyyy...

Americans just wanna change everything around.. i guess?

At 1/9/07 06:30 PM, KillerCRS wrote: I know. The british way is used In canada, so I thought i signed up in July, when I really signed up in March (after I went back On it in September)

well... july is the 7th month for a start... not the eighth...

At 1/9/07 06:28 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the 9th of janurary in the UK is written as 09/01/2007. In the US it's 01/09/2007. I'm just curious as to why? The UK format seems natural to me, as it's ascending order of size, day, month year...

For a serions answer to your question, we have different formats that just follow each other:

January 9, 2006
1/9/2006

At 1/9/07 07:22 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Although it must be said, nobody says the time is 22:00 as in 22 past midnight.
CURIOUS AND CURIOUSER.

Yeah, because we already say the time 22:00 as10pm.

At 1/9/07 07:28 PM, TheDepthsofHell wrote: basically because we are fucking retarded.

same reason why we're the ONLY ONES LEFT NOT USING THE GODDAMN METRIC SYSTEM...

wtf...

Mostly - England resists it. We may weigh in kilograms instead of pounds (but then, we already have pounds for our currency :P) but you can go to the pub and buy a pint of beer, or the shop for a pint of milk (EU Law says we have to sell it in metric, but we just put the imperial measurements in brackets) Our speeds and distances are still measured in miles per hour and miles respectively, metric being used for tricky small distances (eg. mm for carpenters on building sites etc)

If we wanted Americans to stop using Imperial, we should tell them we came up with it. They'd create their own measurement system with a counting base of 14, rather than 12 or 16, as Imperial is

At 1/9/07 07:43 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: Well, feet and inches are still widely used in the UK. Most human height and weight outside of medical records is in feet and inches or stone (strangely in the UK weight is stone, rather than lb), road signs are all in yards and miles... but things are changing. Now you have 453 gram jars of jam. Just say 1lb, ffs :\

I have a habit of asking at the Deli counter for 908g of cheese, since I'm not allowed to ask for 2lb!

One the weight issue, Americans don't use stones. They just give their weight in lb, since it's much more impressive to be 300lb than it is to be almost 21.5 stone

That just made me realise that 9/11 should really be called 11/9 over here- god knows why the british press didn't change it