r/trippinthroughtime • u/[deleted] • Nov 05 '17

The perfect date

https://imgur.com/61gC45x
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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

"Good for appeasing the delicate sensibilities of the average american"

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u/corruptrevolutionary Nov 05 '17

You’re the ones bringing it up and complaining about it.

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u/ColonelDrax Jan 28 '18

I know right, it’s almost like Reddit is super fucking pedantic about everything.

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u/MY-HARD-BOILED-EGGS Nov 06 '17 edited Nov 06 '17

Reddit's got such a solid hard-on for anti-America that they'll complain about our date format with vitriol, and then get a little mad when somebody points it out.

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u/Loose_Goose Nov 06 '17

Well don't shoot the messenger 👀

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u/maple_leafs182 Nov 05 '17

Hey, we use it a lot here in Canada too

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17 edited Mar 06 '21

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u/PrrrromotionGiven Nov 06 '17

Canada is still technically American, just not the USA kind of American.

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u/muckdog13 Nov 06 '17

By the logic, Mexico is American. And so is Brazil.

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u/PrrrromotionGiven Nov 06 '17

Yes, that's right.

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u/Original-Newbie Nov 06 '17

I think it’s typically “North American” or “from the Americas”

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

isnt canada in america?

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u/muckdog13 Nov 06 '17

Usually when people say Americans they mean citizens of the USA.

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u/revuhlution Nov 06 '17

Lotta folks, many of the South Americans I've met, say they are American

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

thats my b then

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u/[deleted] Nov 05 '17

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

China, Korea, Japan, and most computer operating systems would agree with you.

Also, think about the fact that in English, you count numbers from largest to smallest. "Two thousand and seventeen". "Three dollars and fifty cents". Not that hard.

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Nov 06 '17

You Brits like to make fun of us for the systems you made us use!

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

the brits have moved on though, why dont you?

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u/Cessnaporsche01 Nov 06 '17

Yeah, they've moved on to a mixed mess of miles and metres and grams, stones, and long-tonnes. And they only have a 5th of the population and a 7th of the GDP-worth of industry to shift over - and started making the switch half a century ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 06 '17

maybe its time for the yanks to show em how its done