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They said the 19th! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

19th June

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That's almost a year...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It was two days ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didn't say what year

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yes, but one would assume I meant the 19th of the current month of the current year.

Also "They said the 19th June 2024" doesn't work so great as a title.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do you seriously not realize that those commenters were joking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Honestly no

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they live in a different time zone?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Europe/London, BST, UTC+01:00

Do you use a different calendar system, by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use the French Republican calendar from 1793 because I'm so anti American, I use nothing except for metric systems. You?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I like the Gormanian and Holocene calendars; but I use the Gregorian for compatibility with the rest of humanity.

Also, as I live in Britain, I use an unholy mixture of metric, imperial, and archaic measurements.

Length of an object? Centimetres. Height of a human? Feet and inches. Mass of flour? Grams. Mass of a human? Stones, pounds, and ounces. Distance by car? Miles. Distance on foot? Kilometres. Volume of a soft drink? Litres or millilitres. Volume of beer or milk? Pints. Volume of non-dairy milk? Also litres and millilitres.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

So I guess you used the Gregorian calendar in your last comments, I see. Call me old school but I prefer the Julian calendar.

But I see your point now. The 19th is over and will never come back. A new 19th will come and claim their place but it won't be the same ever again. Your package will never arrive but you will keep up hoping until the end. Hope for the sake of hoping. I honestly admire that attitude. It's almost absurdist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The letter arrived yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Don't open it! It's a trap!

[–] DakRalter 2 points 5 months ago

Strangely, I got my letter saying my "postal vote forms will arrive soon" two days after I received the postal vote forms. I got confused for a moment there!