Don't You Wish You Lived Here In North America? 12-13-14 12-13-14 12-13-14

[teamsaint]

"Thirded", actually (cf #5)

I wouldnt know .
Is it not nice there?

Have the clocks gone back or forward?

[Nick Armstrong]

Oh, and in reply to the question in the OP;

No.

Well give me a nice beach-front house in Santa Monica and it's a big fat YES PLEASE from me !

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Well give me a nice beach-front house in Santa Monica and it's a big fat YES PLEASE from me !

Well, yes - but that's because you don't live in Yorkshire!

[Nick Armstrong]

Well, yes - but that's because you don't live in Yorkshire!

[Tevot]

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That's all greek to me

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

... they get the sports fixtures the wrong way round as well .... Giants v Dodgers means the Giants are the Away team and Dodgers the Home [in Europe it would mean that the Giants host the Dodgers at their stadium] .. so you can go to the match on the wrong day and at the wrong stadium ....

ps do not attempt to tell the time in the USA using the 24 hour system e.g. 1300hrs - blank incomprehension results ...

[Alain Maréchal]

Sometimes when I listen to Minneapolis Public Radio I hear weather forecasts suggesting it will be "twenty below". I'm aware of the fact they are referring to the Fahrenheit rather than the Celsius scale, but do they mean twenty below zero Fahrenheit or twenty below freezing?

[Jonathan]

I've been taught over the years to write 12Dec2014 to avoid confusing our North American contacts!

[charles t]

Sometimes when I listen to Minneapolis Public Radio I hear weather forecasts suggesting it will be "twenty below". I'm aware of the fact they are referring to the Fahrenheit rather than the Celsius scale, but do they mean twenty below zero Fahrenheit or twenty below freezing?

Alain, over here on our Fahrenheit scale - freezing is 32 degrees F.

A twenty below zero weather forecast would indicate to stay in bed.

[Dave2002]

I wouldn't mind being a Californian if this weather is going to stay!! But then where would I get some decent beer?? OTOH there is some good wine out there....

Not sure about beer - depends what you want. There used to be some quite good beer in parts of CA at some of the micro breweries, IIRC, though some may have disappeared. The weather isn't always good in CA though - there can be fog, sometimes rain, and there can be freezing weather and snow in the winter. OTOH there can be warm, even hot, weather in some parts in November or the beginning of December in places like Monterey.

[Alain Maréchal]

Alain, over here on our Fahrenheit scale - freezing is 32 degrees F.

A twenty below zero weather forecast would indicate to stay in bed.

They didn't say "twenty below zero". It's the lack of a quantifier I find confusing; twenty below what? Saying "it will be twenty below" sounds like saying "it will be colder than".

[richardfinegold]

( See above )

My daughter has been engaged to her high school sweetie for 3 years now with no date set for the big event. My wife bolted out of bed yesterday with the sudden conceit that due to the 12-13-14 phenomenon, they should tie the knot that day. Apparently it was a record day for matrimony, according to the news, but I still don't have a son in law.

[Nick Armstrong]

My daughter has been engaged to her high school sweetie for 3 years now with no date set for the big event. My wife bolted out of bed yesterday with the sudden conceit that due to the 12-13-14 phenomenon, they should tie the knot that day. Apparently it was a record day for matrimony, according to the news, but I still don't have a son in law.

It could have been more surprising Richard: the LA Times tweeted:

Los Angeles Times @latimes 2 hours ago
A baby was born in Cleveland yesterday at 10:11 on 12/13/14

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Talking of the Gregorian calendar, the Soviet October Revolution actually took place in November 1917.

[Dave2002]

They didn't say "twenty below zero". It's the lack of a quantifier I find confusing; twenty below what? Saying "it will be twenty below" sounds like saying "it will be colder than".

Alain I'm not sure you're going to get an answer.

20F below freezing is merely about -13 degrees C - I have walked to work at lower temperatures than that - maybe -18C. OTOH 20 below zero (Fahrenheit) ia
about -30 degrees C - and that is getting rather cold, and the recommendation to stay in bed seems appropriate.

Without a reference point though, as you mention, it's all a bit meaningless.