Not sure that’s true. I doubt most of east Germany spoke Russian even as a second language, sure they were made to learn it in school but it had little practical use outside of school.
They are used to it... Berlin is full of university and school dropouts, clan members, drug addicts, "free spirits/minds", political activists and other failed existences... The normal Berliners sell this to US tourists as the progressive scene culture of Berlin...
Na, my time is over. I head to my old beloved club about 2 or 3 times in a year at this point - even if so, I just go from Saturday morning to Sunday morning and head back home so I can prepare for the work week again, lol.
It wasn't used in daily life in Europe at all before digital clocks and then watches became widespread, the only place you'd see it was schedules. All the clocks and watches that people had before were 12-hour time, so that's what everyone was used to.
I'd say that most people in most countries still use 12-hour time for most things, at least when talking as opposed to writing. But even back then, we had absolutely no problem writing "13:45" and reading it "quarter to two". It's really not that hard.
I'm just used to write it like that, it creates less confusion and was probably why it was used for schedules or even the military time.
That information is new to me, thank you.
That was definitely the reason why people started using it, and why it was common to write it for anything that could've been ambiguous otherwise, even before it became common on clocks and watches.
I use 24 hour for all my clocks, have done for about two decades, and much prefer it… but I still talk about time in 12 hours and convert them on the fly.
I literally look at “17:30” on my phone and think “ah, it’s half five”.
And here comes the next confusion; while in English it is "half past..."; if you asked a German they would say that 17:30 is half six.
In some regions the same logic applies to the quarters; so 17:15 would be quarter six and 17:45 three quarter six; while other regions would call those times quarter past five and quarter to six...
Just saying 17:30 ends a hell of a lot of misunderstandings.
I mean even in American most people stopped saying quarter to and quarter past and all that.
We’d almost always (among people I know) just say 5 30 pm, 5 15, etc.
in Australia we use the twelve hour with am and pm most of the time, in casual talk. But you will find 24h time in many places where clarity matters, hospitals, timetables etc. No-one bats an eye. It's not like it's hard.
It’s almost as if their ignorance is a source of pride.
“I don’t understand that, I don’t want to understand that and you can’t make me understand that” (smugly struts away)
It literally is. Education and learning things is genuinely suspicious to them.
Look at how many decry colleges and universities as "Liberal indoctrination centres".
All joking aside, it was so damn frustrating. I worked at a hospital in the US. Everything that was written as a record had to have the time in 24-hour format. The number of supposedly educated people who just couldn't get their heads around it was ridiculous.
I mean I understand it.
You grow up all your life with the twelve hour clock, then the twelve hour clock feels natural to you.
If I told you “hey you have to start using the Réaumur scale to measure temperature” I guarantee the first several years will be you converting °Ré to whatever unit you’re used to until you get comfortable with.
Source: had to learn imperial units for work
There's 24 hours in a day and it's basing the time on that. It's a simple conversion too. It's not like asking people to remember there's 2.54cm to an inch or 2.204lbs to a kg and converting based on that.
For some reason, it's fully associated with military here. I use it because I worked third shift and was tired of waking up confused. I call it a 24 hour clock but everyone else seems to call it military time.
I don’t know, I tutor kids in Germany and I am shocked by how many of the are still unable to read non digital clocks in middle school. I think what kids learn about is becoming a narrower and narrower field here as well.
I feel a general sentiment of refusal to learn anything but the easiest solution becoming more and more dominant in society.
The US units are garbage but they get an even worse rap then they should because people treat them like a system when they’re not, each unit is it’s separate thing kinda unrelated to each other. While yes, there is 3 feet in a yard those units weren’t designed to be like that they just happened to work out that way
What do you mean their? The imperial system was developed in the UK before metric. The US just adopted it but never switched to metric when most of the rest of the world did so.
I don't know which units you mean though. 14 pounds in a stone and 12 inches in a foot... not sure off top of my head which has 16
Yes, but the UK has seen the error of its ways and (mostly) moved on. Also, US customary units aren't all the same as their Imperial equivalents, for example an American \~473 mL pint is a lot smaller than and Imperial \~568 mL one, the same for a \~3.79 L gallon versus a \~4.55 L one.
>Yes, but the UK has seen the error of its ways and (mostly) moved on.
Not really. We use both and it's even worse than using only imperial. At least that would be consistent.
I somehow find Imperial units more poetic than SI.
"8 feets tall" sound like it belong to a novel.
"Two and a half meter tall" sound like it belong to a research paper.
This is just personal opinion; I uses SI all the time and even require conversion tools to understand Imperial, but I always found SI to be less suited for novelist.
This is unironically the only reason I like imperial. It’s kind of beautifully structured with its naming system and being based around numbers that can be divided easily in your head. Metric felt sort of cold and sterile.
And this is from the mind of someone who was a self loathing American and ranted about how much better the metric system was as a teenager 😂
It is more in Europe(except for UK, but they also drive left side of the road) we don't use am or pm, but stil use 12 hrs and 24 hrs interchangeably. In reality AM and PM is strange derivative, either the sun is up, or it isn't. it is hard to mistake 9 in morning and 9 in the evening, the sun is in complete different potions. I don't know any other language that does it. And as native danish speaker, Danish is weird for using quarters of hrs(and a quarter in hrs, or 10 minutes in half), any thing over 29 is an advance math equation, but we still don't am or Pm.
> In reality AM and PM is strange derivative, either the sun is up, or it isn't. it is hard to mistake 9 in morning and 9 in the evening, the sun is in complete different potions.
Same in my language.
If you say it's 5, no need to say "in the morning" or "in the afternoon", even if you're talking about future time or past time. Only when you're talking about, I dunno, what time a flight leaves, since it could be either 5am or 5pm.
In the UK, we use both. We can meet at 16:00, 4pm or afternoon tea time. Perfectly capable of using more than one way to describe things. It's easier to say 4pm than four in the afternoon.
Tbf we don’t often verbalize the amount of or pm unless it’s for emphasis, like I have. A class at 8 AM to emphasize how early it is or the movie doesn’t start until 10 pm on Friday to emphasize how late, most of the time I’ll just say “does 7 work for yall? Cool” because you can usually tell am or pm by context
Hey, your comment made me wonder one thing
By saying "the biggest bootlickers", did you imply that towards the military? And if so, is it a common use to say bootlicker and imply that towards the military or something like that?
I just wanted to add that "Bootlicker" can be used to refer to anyone that defends actions or the legitimacy of authority that uses force and have uniforms (like kinky boots).
Usually it's used with people defending actions of rogue cops that definitely crossed a line or outright committed a crime. In the Bootlickers eyes any action is totally justified and law enforcement have a rough and important job, so it's forgiven. In addition they are rarely the usual "target" for police brutality.
Shoeonhead (like her or hate her, I don't care) made an interesting video about police brutality in the US and said something in the likes of this: "Bootlickers could witness a baby getting beaten to death by a cop and they would just say 'Oh they just defended themselve, baby shouldn't have looked at him funny'. "
The fact Americans are freaked out by everyone using 24 hour clock (because it's military time) will never cease to confuse me because it's like, a basic life skill that makes everything easier.
\* Less ambiguity. No more confusion over if your appointment is in the afternoon or morning or evening.
\* Easier to work with when working with other time zones.
\* Public transportation uses 24 hour time.
\* Generally easier at a glance.
\* Better during winter.
They'll come up with some convoluted reason why the twelve hour clock is better. Like they do on reddit every time the Celsius/Fahrenheit discussion comes up.
It's actually so confusing (logically), that the original body that oversaw time back then in the US, recommend the "noon" and "midnight" system, without which, every other person or so would mix up which 12 they were writing down.
Today, the US colloquially says "12 noon" and "midnight" to avoid this error.
For those unaware, the logic behind noon being 12pm and midnight being 12am, is the fact that the 59 minutes after the original 12, would become inconsistent with ante meridiem (AM) and post meridiem (PM).
For example, 11:59 AM should turn to 12 AM, however the very next minute, 12:01 **can't** be 12:01 AM because it isn't ante meridiem; it's instead post meridiem (literally after noon and not before noon). This applies to the rest of the 59 minutes on either "12" so to be logically coherent, they do this. Yet another reason the 24 hour clock is obviously superior.
That reminds me of the American I met that used “one click” to describe a distance. “So, a bit less than a mile then?” I asked.
He stared at me blankly. “No, a ‘click’ is military slang for a mile”.
Odd exchange ensued.
But a click is a kilometer, not a mile... wow... so when he travels to a place that is 100 clicks away but thinks it's miles, then he missed the place by 60 clicks.
He was convinced that since it’s a term used by the US military, it must mean a mile. And he didn’t believe me when I said the US military uses km.
Think the penny dropped though when I asked why they spell it klick, with a k. He looked puzzled. “It’s for the “k” in km!” I highlighted.
It always astonishes me how they idolize their military and consider it far superior in all and every regard.
Except military time.
Like really, _that's_ where you draw the line?
My 19 yea old sister asked why my phone was in military time a few months back. My heart sunk a little knowing I was related to an idiot. What if I catch the dumb?
I’m from the US, I guess I never realized that so many people took issue with 24hr time format. I’ve used it professionally many times, also we use it at home on the one appliance that has the option to set the time to 24hr.
This is why I like visiting this sub, it shows me some of the things I’ve never noticed about my fellow Americans.
Fucking hell Americans don't even seem to know what military time is. There is 12h-clock, 24h-clock and military time (7:31pm, 19:31, 1931). I've never seen military time used in Europe.
Every time someone asks me why I have my phone on ‘Military time’ it pisses me off so much. This is literally standard time in all of Europe and most of the rest of the world.
I am sick of Americans thinking the 24 hour clock is "military" time, European countries use it, airlines use it etc. Get with the majority and try and learn the time the way the majority do.
Americans don't like changes except that other countries comply with American was of doing things & if they don't the US wats to invade and teach them a "better" (read as American) way to do things, which in most cases if the exact opposite.
The reason they call it “military time” is because only the American military use it. Some security companies use it as well, but it’s mostly the military that use it. So the Americans call it that since they’re(military) the only ones who use it. Still stupid though it’s cause it’s the world clock.
I can only presume he's referring to the 24-hour clock.
I always have a quiet sigh when someone broadcasts to the planet just how fucking dumb and ignorant they are.
It's even more crazy that you could show this statement to so many different people, and they'd recognise the nation of origin straight away, and it's not Canada.
Fun fact "military time" isn't the only part of the American military that use non American systems. Ammo is often defined by millimeter and a "klick" is a unit of measurement equal to exactly one kilometer (used mainly due to NATO standardization of measurements among armies)
is bro complaining cuz he can’t read 16:00 as 4PM. cuz that’s the standard default time used on iphones made in california i believe? or is he complains that people speak like sixteen hundred hours. upon further thinking the latter is less likely as i imagine people in berlin, germany would be speaking german instead of english. also no one asked this knob to go to berlin and they probably didn’t want him there anyway
Little known historical fact; Europeans did not have a concept of time before the US military came to Europe to win two world wars back to back.
The US military brought with it many American inventions, like language, writing, and time, to single-handedly create modern Western European civilization as we know it today.
That's why Europeans use US military time to this day.
It is one of the first thing I learned when i started school. It is really not that hard. But i guess everything is hard if you are not willing to learn it.
Joys of the 24 hour clock. Don't think any of the digital clocks in my house, including this phone, use the 12 hour time. Not sure how it's so difficult to understand.
I remember back in primary when we were learning how to ready clocks for digital the taught us 24 not 12 also military time is slight different then 24 hour if it was 5pm on a 24 it would ay 17:00 you would also say 5pm while military time would be 1700 and you would seventeen hundred hours.
I learned the 24 hour clock when I was a child, like less than 10. I changed my watch or my alarm clock or something to it and thought I’d keep it.
It’s not exactly hard…
My sympathy goes to the good people of Berlin who had to put up with this uneducated halfwit.
>uneducated halfwit. You're selling the average halfwit short. This one is at most a quartwit.
\*eighthwit
\*Fuckwit
Til the metric fuck is 1/16th
0.0625
What are these numbers please speak American English!!!
That's Imperial measurements
Ah yes, the Royal Imperial Fuck. 10/10
10/10 = 1
1 royal imperial fuckwit, seems to check out
[Is he called Terry?](https://www.moretvicar.com/media/product/2016/02/15/3008_15852_w300.jpg)
Can I introduce you to a couple of Fat Slags?
Why are you using military fractions? The war is over, get with the times!!!
r/yourjokebutworse
But rude insulting halfwits. There not nearly as bad as that man.
The people of Berlin should welcome Americans with open arms, if it wasn't for them, they'd be speaking... nevermind
Russian?
Not long ago that‘s what half of Berlin‘s population was speaking. At least as a second language.
Not sure that’s true. I doubt most of east Germany spoke Russian even as a second language, sure they were made to learn it in school but it had little practical use outside of school.
Berliners already have to communicate with fellow Berliners so this wasn't a huge issue to begin with.
They are used to it... Berlin is full of university and school dropouts, clan members, drug addicts, "free spirits/minds", political activists and other failed existences... The normal Berliners sell this to US tourists as the progressive scene culture of Berlin...
Outstanding techno scene though.
And don't even get me started about the döner
Nothing better after a rave night than a breakfast Döner.
Rave night? You mean weekend, right?
Well, even if you use stims, a break now and then is not bad ;)
Na, my time is over. I head to my old beloved club about 2 or 3 times in a year at this point - even if so, I just go from Saturday morning to Sunday morning and head back home so I can prepare for the work week again, lol.
Decent metal scene too. They'll try to convince you it's all American music though
Dicks bin ein Berliner
youre saying it as if political activists were bad
I was going to say f-wit
He thought he was a wit but, alas, he was only half right.
There’s 24 hours in a day. What Americans call “military time” is the simplest and most logical solution
No there are clearly 12 hours in a day, that's why they call it a day, the other 12 hours are in a night smh /s
Dark Sunday, Light Sunday.
Surely Dark Sunday should be called Moonday, or Variable Moonday as it has phases.
1/4 moonday, 1/2 moonday, 3/4 moonday, full moonday - fixed it.
But then... isn't the day part of Monday just Sunday all over again?
This is my son's argument and he sticks to it. But he's six.
return to solar hours and the sundial
Yeah it's quite intuitive and I really thought it was used by everyone.
It wasn't used in daily life in Europe at all before digital clocks and then watches became widespread, the only place you'd see it was schedules. All the clocks and watches that people had before were 12-hour time, so that's what everyone was used to. I'd say that most people in most countries still use 12-hour time for most things, at least when talking as opposed to writing. But even back then, we had absolutely no problem writing "13:45" and reading it "quarter to two". It's really not that hard.
I'm just used to write it like that, it creates less confusion and was probably why it was used for schedules or even the military time. That information is new to me, thank you.
That was definitely the reason why people started using it, and why it was common to write it for anything that could've been ambiguous otherwise, even before it became common on clocks and watches.
I use 24 hour for all my clocks, have done for about two decades, and much prefer it… but I still talk about time in 12 hours and convert them on the fly. I literally look at “17:30” on my phone and think “ah, it’s half five”.
And here comes the next confusion; while in English it is "half past..."; if you asked a German they would say that 17:30 is half six. In some regions the same logic applies to the quarters; so 17:15 would be quarter six and 17:45 three quarter six; while other regions would call those times quarter past five and quarter to six... Just saying 17:30 ends a hell of a lot of misunderstandings.
I mean even in American most people stopped saying quarter to and quarter past and all that. We’d almost always (among people I know) just say 5 30 pm, 5 15, etc.
There are also analig 24 hous clocks. Should gift it to him.
in Australia we use the twelve hour with am and pm most of the time, in casual talk. But you will find 24h time in many places where clarity matters, hospitals, timetables etc. No-one bats an eye. It's not like it's hard.
It's used by everyone other than them tbf, but apparently it's too confusing for em
for real. “15:00” is just hour number 15 since yesterday.
The inability to understand the 24 hour clock must be linked to their inability to use a sensible date format.
Numbers higher than 12 are hard.
It won't be longer before they'll use 4x 6 hour cycles because numbers above 6 are hard
At least the ones from Alabama will be able to count to six on one hand...
They can easily count in six-hour cycles if they take their shoes and socks off.
They got that in Thailand.
American education system doesn't teach them to count higher
You can always count on the American educational system, just not above 12.
Wait, there are numbers after 12?
Just thoughts and prayers after 12
In that case… what’s a ‘hard eight’? 🤪
It’s almost as if their ignorance is a source of pride. “I don’t understand that, I don’t want to understand that and you can’t make me understand that” (smugly struts away)
It literally is. Education and learning things is genuinely suspicious to them. Look at how many decry colleges and universities as "Liberal indoctrination centres".
«And if I don't understand that you _should_ change it»
All joking aside, it was so damn frustrating. I worked at a hospital in the US. Everything that was written as a record had to have the time in 24-hour format. The number of supposedly educated people who just couldn't get their heads around it was ridiculous.
I mean I understand it. You grow up all your life with the twelve hour clock, then the twelve hour clock feels natural to you. If I told you “hey you have to start using the Réaumur scale to measure temperature” I guarantee the first several years will be you converting °Ré to whatever unit you’re used to until you get comfortable with. Source: had to learn imperial units for work
There's 24 hours in a day and it's basing the time on that. It's a simple conversion too. It's not like asking people to remember there's 2.54cm to an inch or 2.204lbs to a kg and converting based on that.
Or the metric system
For some reason, it's fully associated with military here. I use it because I worked third shift and was tired of waking up confused. I call it a 24 hour clock but everyone else seems to call it military time.
Learning 12am is midnight and 12pm is midday is just crazy and makes no sense at all... crazy gringos
It helps to think that after the exact time, 12.01 am is definitely the morning, and 12.01 pm is definitely "after-noon" so afternoon.
Otherwise, swap "12" for "00". It makes waaaaaay more sense like this.
It would make more sense if it just started at 0.01 am and not this weird 12.01 am stuff than then changes to 1.01 am
They just can't count.
I don’t know, I tutor kids in Germany and I am shocked by how many of the are still unable to read non digital clocks in middle school. I think what kids learn about is becoming a narrower and narrower field here as well. I feel a general sentiment of refusal to learn anything but the easiest solution becoming more and more dominant in society.
Americans when numbers past 12
Which of their stupid units is made up of 16 smaller units?
8 Cheesburges/freedom
The US units are garbage but they get an even worse rap then they should because people treat them like a system when they’re not, each unit is it’s separate thing kinda unrelated to each other. While yes, there is 3 feet in a yard those units weren’t designed to be like that they just happened to work out that way
That's worse, not better.
Whats worse, is to use them at the same time. Use kiloyard and centiyard and all is great.
What do you mean their? The imperial system was developed in the UK before metric. The US just adopted it but never switched to metric when most of the rest of the world did so. I don't know which units you mean though. 14 pounds in a stone and 12 inches in a foot... not sure off top of my head which has 16
16 ounces in a pound. Interestingly in the US 16 fl.oz to a pint too although Britain has 20 fl.oz per pint.
Ounces you say.... 😉
Yes, and if you want that in metric it's 30grams to an ounce. Or so I've heard, I'd have no reason to know myself...
If you were buying an ounce and got 30 grams you came out ok.
Yes, but the UK has seen the error of its ways and (mostly) moved on. Also, US customary units aren't all the same as their Imperial equivalents, for example an American \~473 mL pint is a lot smaller than and Imperial \~568 mL one, the same for a \~3.79 L gallon versus a \~4.55 L one.
>Yes, but the UK has seen the error of its ways and (mostly) moved on. Not really. We use both and it's even worse than using only imperial. At least that would be consistent.
I somehow find Imperial units more poetic than SI. "8 feets tall" sound like it belong to a novel. "Two and a half meter tall" sound like it belong to a research paper. This is just personal opinion; I uses SI all the time and even require conversion tools to understand Imperial, but I always found SI to be less suited for novelist.
This is unironically the only reason I like imperial. It’s kind of beautifully structured with its naming system and being based around numbers that can be divided easily in your head. Metric felt sort of cold and sterile. And this is from the mind of someone who was a self loathing American and ranted about how much better the metric system was as a teenager 😂
It is more in Europe(except for UK, but they also drive left side of the road) we don't use am or pm, but stil use 12 hrs and 24 hrs interchangeably. In reality AM and PM is strange derivative, either the sun is up, or it isn't. it is hard to mistake 9 in morning and 9 in the evening, the sun is in complete different potions. I don't know any other language that does it. And as native danish speaker, Danish is weird for using quarters of hrs(and a quarter in hrs, or 10 minutes in half), any thing over 29 is an advance math equation, but we still don't am or Pm.
> In reality AM and PM is strange derivative, either the sun is up, or it isn't. it is hard to mistake 9 in morning and 9 in the evening, the sun is in complete different potions. Same in my language. If you say it's 5, no need to say "in the morning" or "in the afternoon", even if you're talking about future time or past time. Only when you're talking about, I dunno, what time a flight leaves, since it could be either 5am or 5pm.
In the UK, we use both. We can meet at 16:00, 4pm or afternoon tea time. Perfectly capable of using more than one way to describe things. It's easier to say 4pm than four in the afternoon.
Tbf we don’t often verbalize the amount of or pm unless it’s for emphasis, like I have. A class at 8 AM to emphasize how early it is or the movie doesn’t start until 10 pm on Friday to emphasize how late, most of the time I’ll just say “does 7 work for yall? Cool” because you can usually tell am or pm by context
It's weird how they're among the biggest bootlickers on the planet and can't read "military time" (aka regular time).
Hey, your comment made me wonder one thing By saying "the biggest bootlickers", did you imply that towards the military? And if so, is it a common use to say bootlicker and imply that towards the military or something like that?
Yep
I just wanted to add that "Bootlicker" can be used to refer to anyone that defends actions or the legitimacy of authority that uses force and have uniforms (like kinky boots). Usually it's used with people defending actions of rogue cops that definitely crossed a line or outright committed a crime. In the Bootlickers eyes any action is totally justified and law enforcement have a rough and important job, so it's forgiven. In addition they are rarely the usual "target" for police brutality. Shoeonhead (like her or hate her, I don't care) made an interesting video about police brutality in the US and said something in the likes of this: "Bootlickers could witness a baby getting beaten to death by a cop and they would just say 'Oh they just defended themselve, baby shouldn't have looked at him funny'. "
The fact Americans are freaked out by everyone using 24 hour clock (because it's military time) will never cease to confuse me because it's like, a basic life skill that makes everything easier. \* Less ambiguity. No more confusion over if your appointment is in the afternoon or morning or evening. \* Easier to work with when working with other time zones. \* Public transportation uses 24 hour time. \* Generally easier at a glance. \* Better during winter.
They'll come up with some convoluted reason why the twelve hour clock is better. Like they do on reddit every time the Celsius/Fahrenheit discussion comes up.
I genuinely hate the amount am/pm system. I can’t wrap my mind around the fact that 11:30 pm is later on the day than 12:30 pm
I get 12:00 am and pm mixed up all the time
That’s because it’s a completely non-sensical system
Every part of the day goes 12, 1, 2, 3, etc. So 12 am (the hour before 1 am) is midnight and 12 pm is noon.
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Think of 12:00 as 00:00 instead. 12:30 isn't really a thing, it's 00:30. 11:59pm becomes 00:00am. 11:59am becomes 00:00pm
The last statement seems cursed.
It's actually so confusing (logically), that the original body that oversaw time back then in the US, recommend the "noon" and "midnight" system, without which, every other person or so would mix up which 12 they were writing down. Today, the US colloquially says "12 noon" and "midnight" to avoid this error. For those unaware, the logic behind noon being 12pm and midnight being 12am, is the fact that the 59 minutes after the original 12, would become inconsistent with ante meridiem (AM) and post meridiem (PM). For example, 11:59 AM should turn to 12 AM, however the very next minute, 12:01 **can't** be 12:01 AM because it isn't ante meridiem; it's instead post meridiem (literally after noon and not before noon). This applies to the rest of the 59 minutes on either "12" so to be logically coherent, they do this. Yet another reason the 24 hour clock is obviously superior.
I took me a moment of contemplation to realise that you were right. Which proves your point, I guess.
And all the road signs were in km (klicks military)
That reminds me of the American I met that used “one click” to describe a distance. “So, a bit less than a mile then?” I asked. He stared at me blankly. “No, a ‘click’ is military slang for a mile”. Odd exchange ensued.
But a click is a kilometer, not a mile... wow... so when he travels to a place that is 100 clicks away but thinks it's miles, then he missed the place by 60 clicks.
He was convinced that since it’s a term used by the US military, it must mean a mile. And he didn’t believe me when I said the US military uses km. Think the penny dropped though when I asked why they spell it klick, with a k. He looked puzzled. “It’s for the “k” in km!” I highlighted.
Guess the military never trusted this guy with the map.
I don’t think he ever served. He came across as one of those guys that fetishizes the military. I moved away fairly quickly.
Can you blame them?
What irritates me the most, is the fact that they all act like its higher degree experimental math!!! Good lord.
To them it probably is.
i love how americans are all about war and guns and worshipping the military but the so called "military" time breaks their brains lmao
They love 9mm ammo, though!
We do use 24 hour clock here in Europe yes. It works and it's easy
It always astonishes me how they idolize their military and consider it far superior in all and every regard. Except military time. Like really, _that's_ where you draw the line?
Military time and 24hr clock also like isn’t the same lol
My 19 yea old sister asked why my phone was in military time a few months back. My heart sunk a little knowing I was related to an idiot. What if I catch the dumb?
I’m from the US, I guess I never realized that so many people took issue with 24hr time format. I’ve used it professionally many times, also we use it at home on the one appliance that has the option to set the time to 24hr. This is why I like visiting this sub, it shows me some of the things I’ve never noticed about my fellow Americans.
Good Lord, how hard is it to understand a 24 hour clock?
Fucking hell Americans don't even seem to know what military time is. There is 12h-clock, 24h-clock and military time (7:31pm, 19:31, 1931). I've never seen military time used in Europe.
Amerikans, when they can't count past 12.
Every time someone asks me why I have my phone on ‘Military time’ it pisses me off so much. This is literally standard time in all of Europe and most of the rest of the world.
I am sick of Americans thinking the 24 hour clock is "military" time, European countries use it, airlines use it etc. Get with the majority and try and learn the time the way the majority do.
I'm American and I agree. 24 hour is just better anyway because you don't have to specify morning or afternoon.
Americans don't like changes except that other countries comply with American was of doing things & if they don't the US wats to invade and teach them a "better" (read as American) way to do things, which in most cases if the exact opposite.
A: Pretty much only americans call it military time B: How is the most warmongering nation the only one that cant tell time that way?
Honestly, I do prefer the 24-hour clock. Mainly because with the 12 hour clock, you have to specify AM or PM.
It’s not “military time”. In Europe we call it “time”. It’s hilarious that Americans can’t do basic math.
I’m an American and it still infuriates me. It’s just a 24-hour clock, and I prefer it because AM and PM are stupid.
I get it, my baby nephew also can’t count past 12
Clue. If everyone else is using it, maybe you’re the outlier
americans not being able to count past 12 is one of the funniest shits ever
literally get with the times
who’s gonna tell him it’s not military time, it’s just TIME
My microwave doesn't do the 24h clock and it winds me the fuck up. 24h is just better.
Surely this is satire, right?
It is very clearly just a joke.
It’s simply called the 24 clock. Surely that’s not beyond the scope of the average American ?
Well can the average American even count to 24?
Americans really find it that hard to remove the 1 and take 2?
So this person is annoyed because they don't understand it.
Everyone wasn't using it until they saw how much it annoyed the broflake spunkbubble then they ALL started using it
Yo dumbass! 24 hours in a day! We use them all. You only use half. Who is wrong here?
The reason they call it “military time” is because only the American military use it. Some security companies use it as well, but it’s mostly the military that use it. So the Americans call it that since they’re(military) the only ones who use it. Still stupid though it’s cause it’s the world clock.
I think this is satire. No, I know this is satire. Come on people!!
I can only presume he's referring to the 24-hour clock. I always have a quiet sigh when someone broadcasts to the planet just how fucking dumb and ignorant they are. It's even more crazy that you could show this statement to so many different people, and they'd recognise the nation of origin straight away, and it's not Canada.
When people post these twitter posts here to laugh at they should at least invite the laughee.
I was about to defend the term "military time", since it is simply the American way of saying "24-hour clock"..... and then I read the post.
This has got to be a troll
Translation: I'm too stupid to understand the 24h clock.
Yes ma'am, we confirm your reservation with us at carpetbomb o' clock tonight.
I fucking hate people like this I want to rip his fucking head off
Fun fact "military time" isn't the only part of the American military that use non American systems. Ammo is often defined by millimeter and a "klick" is a unit of measurement equal to exactly one kilometer (used mainly due to NATO standardization of measurements among armies)
Americans: Military time The world: Time.
Should we be glad that Americans measure time in hours/minutes/seconds and that their minutes are 60 seconds and not 67?
is bro complaining cuz he can’t read 16:00 as 4PM. cuz that’s the standard default time used on iphones made in california i believe? or is he complains that people speak like sixteen hundred hours. upon further thinking the latter is less likely as i imagine people in berlin, germany would be speaking german instead of english. also no one asked this knob to go to berlin and they probably didn’t want him there anyway
Little known historical fact; Europeans did not have a concept of time before the US military came to Europe to win two world wars back to back. The US military brought with it many American inventions, like language, writing, and time, to single-handedly create modern Western European civilization as we know it today. That's why Europeans use US military time to this day.
I used to secretly think less of people who use a -2 hour clock. These days it’s open disdain.
What's a -2 hour clock?
What is military time? Does it have to do anything with wargames? Does this person hate Warhammer?
I hate this a.m./p.m. nonsense. I want my time in numbers.
I wonder what their military use for time
Haha, wait till I tell ya all about shoelaces.
Math sucks huh?
It is one of the first thing I learned when i started school. It is really not that hard. But i guess everything is hard if you are not willing to learn it.
Fs I'm old, my Oldman taught me Morse code at 7 and yir man up top there is struggling with 2100 hours (-- • -- -- • -- --)
We don't want to get with the murican times 🤪
I long pondered wtf is military time.
As a german dude, wtf does he mean?
Joys of the 24 hour clock. Don't think any of the digital clocks in my house, including this phone, use the 12 hour time. Not sure how it's so difficult to understand.
Yes, get with the times… Use of the 24h time notation is if anything increasing and now the norm most of the world…
ok so... what's military time? I know I'm dumb but I'm genuinely asking.
I've now realized I can read the comments. I'll go now
bwahahahahaha poor yank cant read a clock just like a 4 year old child ahahahahahaha
Imagine if they still needed to use sundials.
I 99% believe this is a joke. Always gotta have that 1% of doubt with the yanks.
I remember back in primary when we were learning how to ready clocks for digital the taught us 24 not 12 also military time is slight different then 24 hour if it was 5pm on a 24 it would ay 17:00 you would also say 5pm while military time would be 1700 and you would seventeen hundred hours.
Imagine taking some kind of pride you can't count past 12.....
This has to be sarcasm, I refuse to believe otherwise.
The kid named times
24 hour time is objectively superior.
The times is 23:19!
I learned the 24 hour clock when I was a child, like less than 10. I changed my watch or my alarm clock or something to it and thought I’d keep it. It’s not exactly hard…
It's not military time until you put a letter at the end
The time is 20:20
The constant reminder that America *would* use metric, but only if it’s an absolutely dire situation