Dates displayed the American way in the UK
No, this isn't Merkin bashing. I can accept they have a different date format. That isn't uncommon. It's a mild inconvenience but that's about it. No. What pains me is when the American date format of month followed by day is used over here. Being English we have the day followed by the month. I can forgive this on film posters as I imagine it saves on costs, but when the BBC News web site start writing July 7 instead of 7 July it sends me into a rage.

This nicely segues into another thing I hate: grief branding. What happened in New York carries the name "9/11". Okay, this was a massive event. Then the terror attacks of 7 July got christened "7/7". This fucked me right off, not just because it was of such a smaller scale than "9/11", but also we, as a country, have completely forgotten about living under the threat of terror for 30-something years without feeling the need to mark significant incidents with a date-based name. In addition to this, can anyone remember the dates of what happened in Bali and Madrid without googling it? I would guess not (that includes me, although I think Madrid was 15 March). But then, they're not English-speaking countries.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 20:49, 5 replies)

I know

7/7 pisses me off too.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:12, closed)

Yeah it should be 7/7, not 7/7.
( Vambo, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:21, closed)

Um...yeah...that was my joke...
I just didn't make it very well.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:23, closed)

It was a good joke.
(Rilux might be pregnant and has bum-aids, Mon 4 Apr 2011, 21:58, closed)

Happens in Aus as well
I share your pissed-offed-ness...

Further, we are a metric country and continue to have Subway, et al, advertising and branding their products under imperial measurements... once went into a Subway when pissed (wouldnt go there sober and asked for a 15cm'er... the jobsworth didnt understand what I meant!
(AusMark, Tue 5 Apr 2011, 4:26, closed)