It’s April 25th is far easier than it’s the 25th of April. Also smallest to largest…I’d argue months is smallest (12), days (30ish), years (infinite)
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I mean, we’re the same country that calls football “soccer”, and then repurposed the football name to refer to a sport played primarily with your hands.
None of it makes sense.
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That, my friend, we will probably agree on!!
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In my job I deal with dates mostly in the yyyy:mm:dd format because that’s the format for storing it in a database, usually. It sorts properly in this format if I ever need to handle the data in an alphanumeric format. Though ya, as an American I usually write a date in mm/dd/yyyy format.
Ps happy bday Tomek!
Bye for now…
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I don’t know!!! I lasted 5 minutes driving on the left in St. John (American Virgin Islands…go figure!). For the sake of humanity, including the roaming donkeys and birds, I pulled over and let my traveling partner drive.
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Also:
Z = “zed”
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Why do we like coffee more than tea? Why do we like guns so much? (I loathe them but to each their own). How we frame our dates is the least of our problems.
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Gettin’ ev’rbody all stirred up now Darren 
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Yeah, dates in programming databases can be really confusing too.
P.s.: thank you!
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As an American myself, I don’t even know why we do half the things we do 
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That’s my plan, I like 
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I actually love Scotland. When I backpacked Europe, I loved Edinburgh, Amsterdam, and Prague most. Best food was in Spain though.
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Lovely country, went in 2018 and looking forward to my next visit. My best friend was born and raised in Turriff (lives in Vancouver, CAN now) and was there for his wedding. Stayed in Pennan, Glasgow, Edinburgh, and saw everything in between.
Glasgow didn’t do much for me (it was ok), but the other two were superb. Beautiful country for just driving around.
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When I was living in London, we had an option to see Scotland for basically nothing. Maybe like 20 pounds. We took a night bus there and drove around the country. We went to the brave heart memorial, which I remember being non memorable, go figure. But beautiful country and I loved Edinburgh.
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Toilet
Bog
Loo
Bathroom
Shitter
Throne
That’s a few
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She shits in her garden. That’s what caused the water leak 
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Lavvy!
Tim Visser!
Pisser!
The gents!
The shiter!
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Our way also goes from day (smallest unit of time), month (longer unit of time), year (longest unit of time).
Perfectly bloody logical !
I’ve never understood why Americans do that, or why the hell they think that the last letter of the alphabet is pronounced “zee”.
I’ve asked a few Americans about the “zee / zed” thing, and they (at least, the ones whom I’ve asked about this), think that THEY are saying it correctly, and that everyone in the UK, Ireland, Australia, Canada, New Zealand (and on and on) are saying it wrong !
And then, because of the prevalence of American TV and movies, you get unfortunate non-native speakers of English saying “zee” and silly things like “he works with my mother and I” (although the Australian judge on Masterchef says that too, and it drives me bonkers).
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I would be SO happy if all Americans used the metric system. Your military does, I don’t know why the rest of you can’t ! Your system confuses the shit out of me whenever I go to the US.
I know that a mile is 1600 metres, so when I see a sign that says “1/2 mile”, OK, I know that that’s 800 metres.
But I was once in Las Vegas, and the taxi in the lane next to me had the price written on his door… $X (I can’t remember how much) to start the trip and then the price increases every THIRTEETH of a mile !!! How far is that!!!
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But our system is so much easier ! Everything divides by ten.
One litre of water weighs one kilo at sea level.
Water freezes at 0 and boils at 100… how simple is that ???
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