What annoys you? Extra time

[Albert_Thurgood]

@simmo41

noonan i reckon you’re the only human being, living or dead, to ever think like this

No. He is just saying what is common sense.

[em2009]

I’ve been unghosted. 2nd interview confirmed for this coming Monday. A lot apologies for the delay in getting back to me.

[rossoneri]

@em2009

This is pretty much the same scenario as my love life

People calling you up out of the blue and hooking up with you within 3 hours?

[rossoneri]

I was about to type why it is 12pm then as I’m typing it realising that you are correct.

12pm→11:59pm. So you’re going forward but the time seems to go backwards?

[em2009]

No. I’m saying the ones I would want to hook up with within 3 hours aren’t interested.

[dingus]

@Alan_Noonan_10

I was raging on the inside.

Particularly pungent vindaloo?

[dingus]

@rossoneri

I was about to type why it is 12pm then as I’m typing it realising that you are correct.

12pm→11:59pm. So you’re going forward but the time seems to go backwards?

I’m with @simmo41 on this one. 12 is starting number for each half of the day. I am happy to be enlightened, but I can not produce any scenario in my head where 12 pm can be confused with 12 am. One is the start of the afternoon, the other the start of the morning.

This is known.

Generally, they are quite easy to tell apart due to the differences in light levels and available ubereats options.

Is it mathbrain? I note that @theDJR is on the @Alan_Noonan_10 side of the division. From memory you people are calculation types. @rossoneri, aren’t you an accountant or did I dream that?

In any case, I do agree that the 24 hour clock with no repeating values does make system thinking and planning clearer, however it is entirely less efficient to communicate verbally.

Sorry if this is all a bit too much for 1 am in the morning.

[dingus]

@em2009

No. I’m saying the ones I would want to hook up with within 3 hours aren’t interested.

Cook for them.

[wimmera1]

PM means afternoon, AM means morning, you pedantic friggin’ nerds.

Is 12AM the afternoon?

No. Duh.

[tinhillterror]

@dingus

1 am in the morning

Ok, I’ll bite, I’m a pedant too…

It’s just 1am.

There’s no ‘morning’

[dingus]

I was just making it easier for Noonan and DJR.

[theDJR]

@dingus

I do agree that the 24 hour clock with no repeating values does make system thinking and planning clearer, however it is entirely less efficient to communicate verbally.

You have been seriously gaslit by a lifetime of compliance. You’re mostly a syllable longer after adding your AM or PM, and you don’t get even vaguely specific until that second last syllable.

Even moreso in our modern world of the, well, world of time zones.

[FuriousGeorge]

Just use “mornos”, “lunch” and “beer o’clock” like the rest of Australia, losers.

[somo84]

What’s a ‘morno?’

[rossoneri]

@theDJR

You have been seriously gaslit by a lifetime of compliance.

Hmmmmmmmm……..

[FuriousGeorge]

@somo84

What’s a ‘morno?’

It’s the politically correct term for a “smoko”.

Duh.

[dingus]

@theDJR

You have been seriously gaslit by a lifetime of compliance.

This, essentially, is the definition of society.

The syllable argument falls over if you consider that verbal communication almost always has context. If I say to you “Lunch is at one”, are you more likely to expect hot chips in the wee small hours of the morning than if I had said "Lunch is at thir-teen-hun-dred?

[AnnStBomber]

We have a 36 hour clock at work

[dingus]

“Reasonable overtime”

[simmo41]

what annoys me: language pedants

communication is about being understood. any words, from any language, that accurately convey meaning and intent to the intended audience are the “correct” words.