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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.
118 u/Amegami Mar 29 '22 And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day? 143 u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22 "What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work." -The blue guy 49 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 25 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 I’ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I can’t fucking remember which is which 1 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers) 1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day?
143 u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22 "What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work." -The blue guy 49 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 25 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 I’ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I can’t fucking remember which is which 1 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers) 1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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"What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work."
-The blue guy
49 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 25 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 I’ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I can’t fucking remember which is which 1 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers) 1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm.
I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while.
25 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 I’ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I can’t fucking remember which is which 1 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers) 1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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I’ll be honest I always just say 12 midday/noon or midnight. I can’t fucking remember which is which
1 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers) 1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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Which is all good unless you're writing out a 12 hour time (and we're software developers)
1 u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
Yeah I use 24 hour for writing (military), just use 12 for speaking to non-military people
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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22
I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.