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

we say "half five"

When it’s 04:30 of 16:30 though right?

Or were my German teachers at school taking the cunt?

The Glaswegian method of telling the time by the relative position of the clock hands is definitely the easiest to understand.

7 and 3 and a half for 7:22.

We say "halb fünf" (half five) for both 04:30h and 16:30h.

In verbal communication we use a 12 hour clock, and only specify am / pm if it's necessary -
by saying "halb fünf nachmittags" (half five afternoons), in written communication you can do either that, or use the 24h clock, as in 16:30h (there's no equivalent to "04:30pm" in other words).

Half five is 2.5 which is 14:30, duh.

Haha nicked!

Aside from the complete lack of consensus about whether, if you're talking to somebody earlier in the week, "Next Thursday" means this coming Thursday or Thursday next week.

Some people always mean one or the other. OK, although still confusion because there are people who will understand the opposite.

Some people will mean "This coming Thursday" if they say it on Monday or Tuesday but "Thursday next week" if it's Wednesday because otherwise they'd say "Tomorrow", obviously. Those people are sociopaths.

Some people use "Next Thursday" for one meaning, "Thursday next" for the other and they should be sterilised.

Thursday week

If it's a Sunday, would you mean this coming Thursday or the Thursday in the following week? Some people will choose one, some the other.

nope but my dad used to use that phrase.

next thursday
next next thursday

respectively.

if you're talking to somebody earlier in the week, "Next Thursday" means this coming Thursday or Thursday next week.

Some people always mean one or the other.

this also annoys me to no end

Meemz plz

That's not a meme

"A week on Thursday"

Anything else is shit. Problem solved.

Have we covered meaning of 'bi-weekly' yet?

posting memes twice a week?

No, every two weeks.

This one goes out to all the teachers tuning in.

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I only use "2020-03-18" in conversation.

That's Thursday for me.
This Thursday, and next.

%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S

Without stating offset from UTC explicitly? You insensitive clod.

Whoooooo, that's how I roll, I'm a wildcard.