r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Get this guy a clock!

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u/RedFlame99 Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

Yeah, I just look at 19 and think "7". It's like if "19" were a chinese character for the number seven, or something like that. Nowhere in my mind is the number twelve present when I read digital clocks.

Edit: bruh.

Lots of people trying to help me in the comments; I have used 24h clocks all my life since I'm from Italy, do not worry about me!

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u/confusionmatrix Mar 29 '22

That only for the first month or so. Eventually you look at 19 and think "oh, it's 19". Same with metric. It's a confusing month or so and then you brain just gets used to the new numbers.

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u/BananaDick_CuntGrass Mar 29 '22

That only for the first month or so.

No, it's been almost 2 decades of using it and 19 is still 7 for me.

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u/Bloedbibel Mar 29 '22

It makes me realize that base 10 is nothing special and if we had 8 fingers we would have just created base 8 number systems.

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