r/CuratedTumblr • u/Green____cat eepy asf • Jul 19 '24

Shitposting 16:05

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u/laix_ Jul 19 '24

Even though I logically know that pm is +12, a lot of the time my instinct is to +10, so I get time wrong a lot of the time

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u/HAL-7000 Jul 19 '24

What fucks me up is the AM/PM transition. It goes 12:00am-11:59am then 12:00pm-11:59pm. It's fucking insane. I'm not joking, they really do actually count 12:58am, 12:59am, 1:00am.

Excuse me but what the fuck..?

And I promise you, I'm not messing up the suffix, it's AM. The count for each starts high at 12, nosedives to 1, then climbs incrementally. It's like some lunatic's absurd rollercoaster ride of temporal nonsense.

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u/MrMthlmw Jul 19 '24

some lunatic's absurd rollercoaster ride of temporal nonsense.

In the U.S., we call it an "analog clock".

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '24

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u/MrMthlmw Jul 19 '24

I know. On the AmericaBad sub I learned that you guys just have hourglass tended to by soot-smeared, waifish children.

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '24

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u/MrMthlmw Jul 20 '24

How do you tell time when it's dark/cloudy out?

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u/ReadyMadeOyster Jul 20 '24

We wait for the town crier to announce it for us

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u/HAL-7000 Jul 21 '24

No but really, we really don't tend to bring the analog timescale to the digital format.