Danny Simpson on Leicester switch

[Uncle Monty]

Thank you! Americanisms annoy me so much. Especially when they're clearly wrong, like the way they do dates (mm/dd/yy. Wtf? That's like tens/units/hundreds. Idiots!). This is clearly wrong, too. How can math be short for mathematics, which is a plural? What's the shortened version of crocodiles? Crocs or just croc? "Look at all those croc."

"I could care less" is another stupid one.

Does my head in. My other half is a yank and so this gets discussed a lot. What winds me up more than anything is that anything that can becomes abbreviated does so. Got to the point where I refuse to eat in a place that is an abbreviation or acronym. I'm a bit of a bastard. Their cooking measures of cups is a much more practical method than grams or ounces though I'll give em that. Our bacon is still better though, don't believe any of the bullshit they tell you to say otherwise!

[Raw Dykes]

(mm/dd/yy) is much better for ordering files or data entries on a computer though, (dd/mm/yy) is a nightmare at this.

Maybe. But shouldn't it be (yy/mm/dd) if months have to go before days? It just makes no sense to put the smallest in the middle.

[red5]

He was bragging at training how he did his French teacher 

[Raw Dykes]

Ha - I have to live here, you don't know the half of it.

I'll tell you one thing though. The quality of birds here (California) is 300, 400% better than in England, and here's the mad thing; they absolutely love English lads. You can't not pull. It's mental.

"I wish they all could be California girls."

I know! I used to work in a pub in Oxford, where we'd get a lot of American tourists, and some students. They all seem to like pretty much any old English accent. I think they think it makes you sound intelligent. Even if it's mildly Brummie or Wurzel.

I got a bit offended once because one American girl thought I sounded "Irish or something". I don't at all. It's a bit mongrel - half bog standard English accent, half Leicester - but not even a tiny bit Irish. Maybe the only English accents she'd ever heard were posh or Cockney.

[Alexikokopops]

(mm/dd/yy) is much better for ordering files or data entries on a computer though, (dd/mm/yy) is a nightmare at this.

It's still not great. YYYY/MM/DD wins hands down.

[lcfc81]

Maybe. But shouldn't it be (yy/mm/dd) if months have to go before days? It just makes no sense to put the smallest in the middle.

You are correct of course, it is an odd way of writing it. I tend to have folders for different years but if I didn't it would still mix the files when sorted by date.

[lcfc81]

It's still not great. YYYY/MM/DD wins hands down.

After a little thought I agree.

[Beliall]

[jock2612]

Think this is very shrewd by NP. Will provide good competition for RDL.Welcome to LCFC and good luck!!!!

[cc_star]

Thank you! Americanisms annoy me so much. Especially when they're clearly wrong, like the way they do dates (mm/dd/yy. Wtf? That's like tens/units/hundreds. Idiots!). This is clearly wrong, too. How can math be short for mathematics, which is a plural? What's the shortened version of crocodiles? Crocs or just croc? "Look at all those croc."

"I could care less" is another stupid one.

There's a good reason for math not maths, also math appeared in English first, maths appeared later

http://separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/maths.html?m=1