Well, maybe. But I never could get used to the metric system. All those easily-divisible units….
Link -via Christopher Jobson
sage
She’s right, right, bloody well right. That’s why the whole world copies America.
PacRim Jim
The British evidently have a hard time comprehending English, despite its inherent redundancy.
Be patient with them.
Jason Jordan
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but it shits me when people lift my tweets almost verbatim.
I tweeted this at 00:03hrs UTC+8.
https://twitter.com/#!/jasonjordan/status/134662354846756864
Jolly
@sage firstly if you can’t spot the inherent humour in that post then it’s true what they say about irony. Secondly if you go here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_format_by_country you’ll see that most of the world follows the British date format and very few use the American date format.
Jolly
Tell me vbloke, does it shit you when people lift your tweets almost verbatim? Or Jason were you just flattering vbloke?
Ray
Sage must be trying to be ironic. Copying, like in the world’s use of the Imperial measurement system that you guys love? Yeah, right.
Jason Jordan
OK well let me take you back to my original tweet back on 10/10/10.
Do I get to claim it now?
Chris Hunter
@Jason Jordan… Wild concept, BUT, it could be that a number of people all thought of the same, highly complex joke and tweeted it as their own original idea? Either that or they are plagiarising bastards, all out to make a name off the back of your wonder-tweet.
MadBiker Wolf
Can someone explain the connection between the metric system that John Farrier writes about and the date format? Transposing the month/day has absolutely nothing to do with the metric system.
The U.S. Military uses the day/month/year format.
The metric system should be abolished since it is discriminatory against polydactylism. It is just like the Europeans to ostracize and marginalize this beloved minority with their neo-colonial counting system who’s only purpose is to keep this oppressed people down.
vbloke
My point was, it’s an obvious joke that a lot of people will have thought of independently.
Dr. Chocolatex, PhD
@jason jordan
your tweet was art and you should sue them all.
Jolly
Jason the first time I heard the joke was after the London bombings on 7/7/2005 and I’m sure that wasn’t the original. Not by a long way.
The point being that you did not invent an original joke. I’m not disputing that you thought of it yourself, but you weren’t the first.
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