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  • #52
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Metric system. Unless you can calculate poppyseeds to the ton in your head. In which case you’ll have no problem understanding the metric system when the rest of us use it.


  • #53
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,993 ✭✭✭randd1


    Have 13 months.

    The first 6 months have 30 days each.
    Then the 7th month (we'll call it Midyear for the craic) happens, which will contain just 5 days, and 6 days on leap years.
    The last 6 months have 30 days each.

    Birthdays re-arranged as necessary (31st of January becomes 1st of February etc). Simples.


  • #54
    Necro
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 52,128 Mod ✭✭✭✭Necro


    randd1 wrote:
    The first 6 months have 30 days each. Then the 7th month (we'll call it Midyear for the craic) happens, which will contain just 5 days, and 6 days on leap years. The last 6 months have 30 days each.

    And Midyear shall be a complete holiday, time off for everyone!


  • #55
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    randd1 wrote: »
    Have 13 months.

    The first 6 months have 30 days each.
    Then the 7th month (we'll call it Midyear for the craic) happens, which will contain just 5 days, and 6 days on leap years.
    The last 6 months have 30 days each.

    Birthdays re-arranged as necessary (31st of January becomes 1st of February etc). Simples.

    That wouldn’t be a universal standardisation though. It’d be a rearrangement which nobody but you would adopt, thereby adding (albeit on an insignificant scale) to the overall confusion.

    Also, Dave Gorman...



  • #56
    quickbeam
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 16,287 Mod ✭✭✭✭quickbeam


    randd1 wrote: »
    Have 13 months.

    The first 6 months have 30 days each.
    Then the 7th month (we'll call it Midyear for the craic) happens, which will contain just 5 days, and 6 days on leap years.
    The last 6 months have 30 days each.

    Birthdays re-arranged as necessary (31st of January becomes 1st of February etc). Simples.

    Yeah, but the Southern Hemisphere would probably want their mid year in January. So it could not be universal.


  • #57
    randd1
    Registered Users Posts: 1,993 ✭✭✭randd1


    quickbeam wrote: »
    Yeah, but the Southern Hemisphere would probably want their mid year in January. So it could not be universal.

    Stick it in at the end of September-ish time of the year. New Years would then be in start of April-ish time of the year. Suits everyone.

    And if they complain about it then feck the southern hemisphere altogether, the northern hemisphere has the greater population, they can put it in place and the southern will have to follow.


  • #58
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    endacl wrote: »
    Metric system. Unless you can calculate poppyseeds to the ton in your head. In which case you’ll have no problem understanding the metric system when the rest of us use it.
    Which type of poppies ?

    Water content of the seeds ?

    Which ton 907.18Kg , 1,000Kg , 1,016.05Kg* , 1088.62 kg ??

    *Rounded down to 1,016 Kg in the Bailiwick of Guernsey.


  • #59
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,470 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    El_Duderino 09 wrote: »
    The calendar we use is bollox.
    You should try Ethiopia.

    https://time.et/

    Yes it's 03:35 on the 13th of Ḥamle 2012


  • #60
    endacl
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,353 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    Capt'n Midnight wrote: »
    Which type of poppies ?
    The type that’s a subdivision of the barleycorn. :D

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  • #61
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 2,799 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Traffic lights is another. Let it be green, yellow, red, yellow, green. And when late or quiet, do Like Italy and have blinking yellow on all directions of the junction.


  • #62
    Esel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,497 ✭✭✭✭Esel


    ^ Amber

    Not your ornery onager



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