hutch? wrote:Almost 24 hours without a post?killsaly? wrote:
Nice Hutch, so original. I am surprised you don't also add COMMUNITY ADVOCATE or something like that.
well come to mention it at times I feel like a community organizer (not so much advocate) but i think that would be a bit long….
its all in good fun mate!
random . . . randomness
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
Are people that dumb????????
Are people that dumb????????
Yada wrote:Its actually a growing trend. Most foreign currencies place their signal post-amount, and you see a lot of Europeans do the 20$ thing by rote.
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:Its actually a growing trend. Most foreign currencies place their signal post-amount, and you see a lot of Europeans do the 20$ thing by rote.
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
It's a terrible trend.
I'm not reading that Serial Thread!…yet
Sidehatch wrote:
I'm not reading that Serial Thread!…yet
I'm finishing the series tonight!
Yada wrote:What specifically do you dislike about it? It's actually much more sensible layout-wise. We say $500 as "500 dollars." Doesn't it make sense to put the character that is shorthand for "dollars" after the number?Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:Its actually a growing trend. Most foreign currencies place their signal post-amount, and you see a lot of Europeans do the 20$ thing by rote.
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
It's a terrible trend.
Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:What specifically do you dislike about it? It's actually much more sensible layout-wise. We say $500 as "500 dollars." Doesn't it make sense to put the character that is shorthand for "dollars" after the number?Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:Its actually a growing trend. Most foreign currencies place their signal post-amount, and you see a lot of Europeans do the 20$ thing by rote.
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
It's a terrible trend.
I just don't like it Julian.
I think this should be a rant thread.
How many emails will Amazon send me this holiday season?
Sidehatch wrote:
I'm not reading that Serial Thread!…yet
I'm driving to The OC on Monday and that will be my in car entertainment. I'm not clicking on it either as I hope to plow right through the whole damn thing..
vansmack wrote:Sidehatch wrote:
I'm not reading that Serial Thread!…yet
I'm driving to The OC on Monday and that will be my in car entertainment. I'm not clicking on it either as I hope to plow right through the whole damn thing..
miss p approved.
Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:What specifically do you dislike about it? It's actually much more sensible layout-wise. We say $500 as "500 dollars." Doesn't it make sense to put the character that is shorthand for "dollars" after the number?Julian, wrote:Yada wrote:Its actually a growing trend. Most foreign currencies place their signal post-amount, and you see a lot of Europeans do the 20$ thing by rote.
When the hell did it become appropriate to place the $ sign after the number?
It's a terrible trend.
I think their date scheme is even worse. DD-MM-YY is absurd. When we speak of dates we say March 24th, not 24th March. I agree though that $### is superior to ###$. They also reverse the separators in their monetary values. 1.000,00 makes absolutely zero sense as opposed to 1,000.00. It would get really wacky when we had dollars and cents. 2.045$,26¢.
I agree on the date thing. I used to be into bootleg concert CD trading and finding a Euro list of shows was painful and very hard to parse.
Julian, wrote:
I agree on the date thing. I used to be into bootleg concert CD trading and finding a Euro list of shows was painful and very hard to parse.
^^closet deadhead^^
My friend filled me in on what Serial is. I have a 5 hour drive to a friends wedding on Sunday. I wonder if it will put me to sleep…
DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
My friend filled me in on what Serial is. I have a 5 hour drive to a friends wedding on Sunday. I wonder if it will put me to sleep…
You have a friend getting married the Sunday before Christmas?
If you get a chance, pull them aside and punch them in the face.
vansmack wrote:You think that's bad? I have a friend who got married this year on MichiganOhioState Day. I refused to go.
You have a friend getting married the Sunday before Christmas?
If you get a chance, pull them aside and punch them in the face.
the date format the makes the most sense is YYYY-MM-DD, with zeros in front of single digits (2014-02-09). why? dates are then sortable. </nerd rant>
but we do say "24th of March".
it makes zero sense to someone who does things differently. in other words, your objection is purely subjective: "i'm not used to it, so it's inherently bad". period/comma is not subjectively better or worse than comma/period. they both accomplish the same function and neither is more efficient, elegant, etc than the other.
that reasoning is just asinine. do we include both dollar and cent symbols today? no, we write $2,045.26. slamming something in there that isn't currently used to make a false point isn't helpful.
RatBastard wrote:
When we speak of dates we say March 24th, not 24th March.
but we do say "24th of March".
RatBastard wrote:
I agree though that $### is superior to ###$. They also reverse the separators in their monetary values. 1.000,00 makes absolutely zero sense as opposed to 1,000.00.
it makes zero sense to someone who does things differently. in other words, your objection is purely subjective: "i'm not used to it, so it's inherently bad". period/comma is not subjectively better or worse than comma/period. they both accomplish the same function and neither is more efficient, elegant, etc than the other.
RatBastard wrote:
It would get really wacky when we had dollars and cents. 2.045$,26¢.
that reasoning is just asinine. do we include both dollar and cent symbols today? no, we write $2,045.26. slamming something in there that isn't currently used to make a false point isn't helpful.
vansmack wrote:DeathFromAbove1979 wrote:
My friend filled me in on what Serial is. I have a 5 hour drive to a friends wedding on Sunday. I wonder if it will put me to sleep…
You have a friend getting married the Sunday before Christmas?
If you get a chance, pull them aside and punch them in the face.
I would, but she's so nice and cute. It's also way out past Blacksburg so… I'm hoping traffic won't be bad Sunday morning and Monday afternoon……
sweetcell wrote:
the date format the makes the most sense is YYYY-MM-DD, with zeros in front of single digits (2014-02-09). why? dates are then sortable. </nerd rant>
If you work for me, it is a requirement that you save ALL documents in this format.
sweetcell wrote:
the date format the makes the most sense is YYYY-MM-DD, with zeros in front of single digits (2014-02-09). why? dates are then sortable. </nerd rant>RatBastard wrote:
When we speak of dates we say March 24th, not 24th March.
but we do say "24th of March". RatBastard wrote:
I agree though that $### is superior to ###$. They also reverse the separators in their monetary values. 1.000,00 makes absolutely zero sense as opposed to 1,000.00.
it makes zero sense to someone who does things differently. in other words, your objection is purely subjective: "i'm not used to it, so it's inherently bad". period/comma is not subjectively better or worse than comma/period. they both accomplish the same function and neither is more efficient, elegant, etc than the other.RatBastard wrote:
It would get really wacky when we had dollars and cents. 2.045$,26¢.
that reasoning is just asinine. do we include both dollar and symbols today? no, we write $2,045.26. slamming something in there that isn't used to make a false point isn't helpful.
^^ I agree with absolutely all of that.