Mental Policies

[madmonday]

nope it's chauvinism, my belief that i can "protect" the fairer sex from danger real or imagined is bull$h!t. i'm pretty sure if i were walking with blackheart & was attacked she would probably be able to defend herself & me for that matter    it's chauvinism cause it's based in that little nook i call a brain that i am superior to all women physically & able to protect.

it's bull$h!t, see i even called women the "fairer sex" 

[LandoCal126 0]

Diarrhea of the keyboard.

[Sugar Mountain]

Better than Diarrhoea on the keyboard, no?

[LandoCal126 0]

@Sugar:

Better than Diarrhoea on the keyboard, no?

Yes that is true. Doesn't make the Diarrhea I have to read any better though.

[FurattoHeddo]

[DougNg]

I don't repeat myself

Especially on the internet when it's in print

If you ask me "Are you sure?", I will ignore you on a good day and spit acid on you if it's a bad day

[Giles]

Doug, would you mind adding that to New Member post.  It is good advice….

[jacoavlu]

Im not fancy and my taste is pretty cheap but when picking out a bottle of wine usually pinot noir I'll pass if I don't like the name or if the label is too funky. I saw one tonight called mommyjuice

and another, if you're an able bodied person that routinely uses that auto door opener button going in and out of buildings, rather than just grabbing the handle and opening the door, we could not be friends

[Guest]

And able-bodied humans who use the elevator to take their carbonated-sugar-water-drinking-fat-asses up two floors…talk about a waste of energy. (Sorry, the OSU loss has soured my mood)

[Seul]

@jacoavlu:

I saw one tonight called mommyjuice

Oh my…

[louisbosco]

@kkibbey23:

Can we get these[emoji7][emoji7]

Please?

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@louisbosco:

there's this little pet peeve of mine when some one says the week starts on a sunday rather than a monday..  ???

@goosehd:

Until I read @louisbosco ’s post, I assumed everyone considered Sunday to be the start of the week.  Interesting reading about the history of that definition.

You do learn something new every day.

@mclaincausey:

YYYY/MM/DD is the only sensible way to numerically render a date.

And I don't understand why Sunday would ever be considered the start of the week. Why break apart the weekend? For most people, for all practical purposes, the work week starts on Monday, so that should logically be the first day of the week.

[louisbosco]

found the right thread to iron out our idiosyncrasies 

@mclaincausey:

I'd like to see mock twist selvedge chambrays back in the fold, western and work, especially if we could see colors like green and red again.

One last thing on the date stuff: The reason I think that YYYY/MM/DD is good is that one way or the other, it makes sense to graduate from small to large or (in this case) large to small, unlike how we do it in America, MM/DD-YYYY. The reason I prefer large to small is that you can follow this format with time (hhss:) without breaking the convention, and that if you use this format, say, to name log files, it self-sorts chronologically when alphanumerically sorted.

Interesting, @louisbosco on the Sunday thing, and surprising that a religious minority would have been the driver when the main western calendar is Gregorian, driven by the Catholic church. I stubbornly maintain Monday as the first day, not based on religious observance, but based on a firm boundary between work and weekend.

@mclaincausey i suppose the large to small format seems to make sense. but in an everyday use where some are not used to it such as expiry dates and such, it can be confusing. an example going to japan and forgetting they write it yy/mm/dd and thought something might have expired when it's not.

yeah the whole calendar issue is surprisingly weird. i suppose they may be a religious minority now but back when calendars were first invented during the egyptian times.. i don't think they were. another reasoning that i have come across was the Egyptians and their sun god Ra. same theory with them recognising sunday as the start of the week

@Madame:

Giles just mentioned this, it's funny how we feel quite differently about the way dates etc. are presented to us - I agree that Monday is first day of the week, but I always set my calendar to display Sunday to Saturday, it's just the way I like to view it (for reasons I cannot articulate) 

Much prefer 24-hour clock (no chance for confusion) and DD-MMM-YYYY is my preference, unless I'm using for a file reference prefix and then YYYY-MMM-DD means they automatically display in correct order.

Presume I have now taken this thread entirely off track and will likely get a telling off from G… 

that's okay paula. i got you. you can unleash those weird OCDs about date and time here. 

@Giles:

Sat and Sun are called the weekend FFS 

i'm pretty sure your weekend extends to a friday as well…