Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

twenty double aught

aught? nought or zero or oh, surely.
Or just could have gone along with Prince's suggestion of two thousand zero zero.

That’s right, I’ve been living here for over 15 years and this still trips me up.
It’s also common to say things like “5 before half 5” meaning 4:25.

It's the same in Dutch

In some weird parts of Germany people say "it's quart-five" for 04:15, and "three-quart five" instead "a quater to five", it makes me want to slap people left and right and yell at them to fucking pull themselves together.

aught? nought or zero or oh, surely.

From Wikipedia:

Decade names with a leading zero (e.g., 1900 to 1909) were pronounced as "aught" or "nought". This leads to the year 1904 ('04) being spoken as "[nineteen] aught four" or "[nineteen] nought four". Another acceptable pronunciation includes "[nineteen] oh four".

...as Douglas Coupland pointed out early in the decade, "[Noughties] won't work because in America the word 'nought' is never used for zero, never ever".[19]

I use “Aught Four” for extra old American bloke points.

I missed a fair few trains and social appointments and wondered why the normally oh so helpful and polite Swedes were being such cunts to me....then had that explained to me

I think Americans say "Fifteen of twelve"

I thought that was a lycra-clad 90s Starwars character

where's oliver, i'm sure the germans do the half hour in a wierd way .... no offence meant

half to five rather than four thirty

we say "half five"

Half less five beyond twelve plus 3

-ish.

I was taught German times were half to the hour in school.

lycra-clad 90s Starwars

Also, fuck off, you know what you've done.

Meet you just before the sun's passed the yard arm.

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I'm american and I'm not even sure what you're talking about.

I just scrolled past few pages and not a single comment on american phraseology is accurate. Tbh I was lost on what was even being discussed for the most part.

Carry on.

As a Canadian I was wondering that too, I've only ever heard "of" in reference to time when I'm in UK and Europe.

I'm not sure how Americans tell the time (I should do, as I live with one) but all my American friends seem to be extremely confused by British people telling the time, stuff like "half seven" appears to be confusing for them? They might just be a bit thick though.

only the brits can say the time properly. what ho.

what ho.

Sigh. It's "Which ho?"

I thought it's "watch"?

. It's "Which ho?

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