To everyone saying “just use your knuckles” the task was to CREATE a way to rememebr. Using an already-established method they would have gotten them disqualified.
@@stefanlilienthal6072 obviously it is every 4 years, but not when it is a multiple of 100 but it is if it a multiple of 400 and i think maybe something about 1000 or 4000... its pretty simple really
One of many examples why Jamali was the weakest part of this season for me. He has a couple of funny bit, but for the most part I just found his particular style of comedy and choices to be unpleasant.
I assume they have gotten instructions along the lines of "only use phones for calling purposes" - because quite a few tasks could be broken by using a smartphone
@@thomasthomasson2319I think it should have been scored comparing it to the other contestants, not the one that has existed and been tweaked for a millennium.
After this aired first time, I had this problem stuck in my head. My solution is to remember 5 and 10: All months have 31 days, except the neighbors of 5 (may) and 10 (october), those neighbors have 30 days. And february is special.
Just use the knuckle method, put your knuckles side by side and count from one end, every knuckle is 31 every gap between knuckles is 30, the gap between your pointer finger knuckles don’t count so July and August are both 31.
This is one of the rare occasions where I basically disagree with all of Greg’s scoring. Lee and Mike’s systems are clearly the best, in both memorability and succinctness!
I wonder if not having live audience feedback also messes scoring up as greg really is left to decide on his whim, instead of taking notice of the crowd's laughs or relative silence.
@@hepbombombom nah it does. Obviously they're both monosyllabic words so it doesn't technically affect the metre of the poem, but the "ch" sounds at the end of "each" leaves your mouth in a shape closer to the one needed to pronounce the "L" sound in "leap" than "a" does. So it rolls off the tongue a lot more comfortably when being said aloud, which gives it a nicer flow.
The best way to remember how many days are in a month is to change the calender a la Dave Gorman. 13 months of 28 days. With a day of intermission (2 on leap years). But if I had to make a new method, I'd piggy back on Gormans idea and make it only slightly worse. January through November have 30 days. December has 35/36.
13 months is stupid though- because 13 is a prime number while 12 is a highly composite number (has more factors than any number smaller than it). With 13 months you couldn’t divide the year into ANY number of even segments less than 13 without splitting up months, and that makes it quite useless
Okay, well today I learned there's a knuckle method to remember the number of days in each month. Have never heard of that in my life before this. As for the poem, the version I learned didn't even bother to rhyme the February lines. So I just memorized February's weirdness and only repeated the 30/31 part of the poem for the other months. 😀
And you can do it on one hand, not two like Sarah showed. Left hand fist, right hand pointing: start on the index finger and when you get to pinkie, jump back to index finger.
The clock could work if it only had one hand, the 12 points (months) were colored coded using her color system, and it were designed to make one rotation a year.
The one I learned growing up was: "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November. After February's done, all the rest have thirty-one." Which scans pretty well, IMO. I do concede that it doesn't explicitly mention that February has 28 (or maybe 29), but I never really considered that to be difficult to remember. It was all the OTHER months that are the issue.
I would've said "If it contains a P or a V - that's thir-tee. If it's June then it's soon - that's al-so-thiirty-tee. and if it's feb-ru-ary you need to check-yo-dairy because the milk's good for 28 days. Hey!". with actions too, the P is holding up your right index and middle fingers together, the V is a circle with your left hand and you put the right hand into the left hand to make the Ps and the Vs more memorable
I made a poem to remember! Every second month has 30, The first have 31. We swap the 2 at August, then we carry on! February’s a weird one, it’s got 28. But on leap years it’s got 29, isn’t that just great? Now you know the numbers of the days in every month. Now go out in the real world and you won’t look like a dunce!
The version I always learned ended "once short February's done, all the rest have thirty-one" I hadn't really ever considered the fact that that version expected you to just know February was 28/9
I noticed there was a drawing of a piano at the back, and you can use _that_ to memorize the months in a similar way to the knuckles. Starting from F, go up the chromatic scale - white keys have 31 days, and black keys have less.
The clock is actually kind of smart. Deranged, perhaps, but assuming you can tell time, you can also tell where in the year you are, and remember with about a 1sec glance at it whether payday is next friday or not until monday.
I’m a Latin major so I’m using a bit of Roman history lol: it switches on and off, but I like to think that Julius and Augustus Caesar (for whom the months July and August were named) were SO egotistical that they both had to have their months be 31 days, thus interrupting the pattern
I only know of the knuckle method as the easiest to apply, but a different one I could come up with is "lucky number seven": -if you can divide by 7, then it's a high value. - otherwise you take the rest and look if that's an even or odd number. The number of days will also be odd or even. Examples: - August is the 8th month, so if you divide by 7, you have a rest of 1, which is an odd number, so you'll have 31 days. You'd still need to know that months either have 28, 30 or 31 days and that leaps years break the rule "it's even if the rest is even".
"Every month has 28 days, but most get a little bit more. Add one day to Februa-ray if the year is divisible by four. Four months have 30 days, the rest have thirty-one; And if you repeat these rhymes with me, you'll know them by the time we're done! Never forget, the month of September Gotta be thankful, it's November! April Fools are crazy as loons, And the Summer Solstice in the month of June!"
I would have a hard time with this one... it's just one of those things I almost instinctively just know. Not that it's actually instinctive, just that I've known it so long that when I "see" the month in my head, I "see" the number of days. I used to sing the little poem as a kid to remember.
"I have changed the number of days in every month. There are now 30 days in every month, and a 13th one that is one day long between December and January. The 13 month is called Bugger-All. The month of Bugger-all is a public holiday to allow us to recover from the new year's hangover. Bugger-All is also a month entirely dedicated to the task master - during Bugger-All, the task master is exempt from all laws." To win you just need to know your audience ;)
30 for 4, 6, 9, 11 31 for 8, 10, 12, 1, 3, 5, 7 28 or 29, 2 be determined. I spent 4 minutes on this, then watched the episode. I do like the yoga system. And the poem version I learned was: Thirty days past September April, June, and November All the rest have thirty-one Except for Februrary alone That has twenty-eight days clear Twenty-nine each leap year. (And auto correct had those suggested, looks like I'm not the first to type poetry!)
I remember this by having a "missing month" between July and August. So it starts with 31 on January and alternates for every month between 31 and 30, except for February
Change the calendar so that it comprises of thirteen twenty eight day months and New Year’s Day. Start the year on the sensible option of the winter solstice. And have each month go from Monday the first through to Sunday the 28th. Simple. Then, remembering how many days each month has is easy: 28.
Start with long(31).. Alternate between long and short(30) (with special exception for Feb) until you get to July (the 7th month) which is long. Then August is long too, and is the first of the last 5 months of the year .... long, short(28or29), long, short, long, short, long ... long, short, long, short, long ... So just remember 7 and 5.
I have never really understood why it is that nearly everyone struggles with remembering how many days each month has. For some reason that I can't explain my brain just knows them all without really thinking about it or using a memory aid. That said my solution would have been to draw a color coded snake where each segment represents a month so that you can have a picture in your head to go back to. For instance months with 31 days could be red, 30 days could be green, and February could be blue. If you draw it so its body loops back on itself between July and august the colors would line up with each other from March through December. Then you would just have the head and "neck" section hanging off on its own.
VW W (or VVV VV) Up is 31 days, down is less. V and W should be joined to make a triple-V (or tripleyou if you want to think of it like an extended doubleyou). Can think of it like "triple-v double-v."
Bloody hell, I assumed you were making that up for comedic effect - plus I remembered the first plane going in at just gone the hour. I looked it up and you’re right. I’m remembering the second plane at 3.03pm. Well!
I'd love to see a Taskmaster Redemption series where the lowest performing member from each series come back for a chance to win. Like champion of champions but reversed.
It would be really funny if someone decided to include detailed instructions on how many days February has, as in it has 28 except in every year divisible by 4 but not by 100 unless it's divisible by 400, in which it has 29
I didn't realize ppl struggle to remember which months has 31/30 days. in my language each months names has a word ending that indicate whether it's has 30 or 31. and Feb doesn't have either words so we know that's it's unique.
If one sorts the months by number of days (lowest to highest) and then sort by chronological order, we get: February April June September November January March May July August October December Then make a sentence out of the first letters of each month. Fiona Apple Juggles Six Newborn Jaguars Most Mondays, Much As Oprah Does. Then just remember that the borders between differently-numbered months are between Fiona and Apple and between Newborn and Jaguars. Very, very easy to remember.
I remember by knowing February has 28 or 29 days the rest have 30 or 31 and that’s close enough 😅. I couldn’t remember the order of the months until I was 16 so remembering how many days they have is too much to ask of me lol.
I've always felt the same way about that "30 days has/hath September" rhyme. It starts out great. Thirty days has/hath September, April, June, and November That's the only part you need to remember, because you already remember that February has 28 or 29 and the rest have 31. But the rhyme in full doesn't scan at all. There are a few variants, including the one Alex Horne read. Here's another: Thirty days has September, April, June, and November, All the rest have thirty-one, Save February at twenty-eight, But leap year, coming once in four, February then has one day more. Horrible. The rhyme and meter fall apart immediately. Which, ironically, makes it impossible to remember. IMO the rhyme should just stop at the first couplet, that's all you need. No reason to overcomplicate things.
Here is my attempt "8". All you need to know the number of days swap between Odd (31) and even (30). Month 1 is odd so 31, month 2 is even (but also februari who ruins all xD) so 28, 3 is odd so 31 ect. Till 8 the number you had to remember because from that point you swap around. 8 is even so the days is odd at 31. 9 is odd so even days 30. Ect. Or to simplify, say you have this date 18/10/2024. Check is the month 8 or later? Yes ok then even numbers are odd. 10 is even. So odd number of days 31 Or 18/7/24. 7 is before 8 so its not swapped around. 7 is odd. So 31 days
I got “thirty days hath September, April June and November, all the rest have 31, except for February” and there’s no point putting the February details in the song because that’s not hard to remember
DO JAM ==== If the month starts with one of this letters === the month have 31 days EXCEPT: if the month has an even number of vocals If the month starts with F, is because he is a failure, so he doesnt have 30 days... (alta paja matizar en los biciestos xd) The others have 30 days
Maddox is quite an ascerbic knob and worse, an entitled one. If he wanted a calendar so bad, why didn't he go get one vs whining about the time Alex was taking? OR: Check the calendar on his phone?
This is pointless, it takes literally two seconds to recite the first part of the rhyme up to the word November, which is all you need to do. Once you've done that if you've just said the month you were looking for then it has 30 days and if you haven't it has 31, unless it was February in which case you shouldn't even have needed the rhyme, you should just know that one off the top of your head.
There are 2 tasks that infuriate me to the point of not wanting to watch the task, or even the whole episode. One of them is the impress the mayor task, and the other one is this.
@@homagetogorto the mayor task is, as I'm aware, one of the most hated tasks for folks, purely for the gringe factor!😆 Especially over poor Jon. 😁 That's partly it, but also the concept of please a figure of power and in politics... just rubs me the wrong way. 😂 Calendar one I know I'm alone in finding it infuriating. I struggle understanding SO MANY adults just not knowing the lenghts of months. Even once I realised that it's just one of those things that is simple for some, and to others something that never sticks. I then just get bored: like, why is this a task, just look it up argh. (I swear I CAN be fun at parties!😆 sorry for a long reply!😁)
@@iliketrains3495 I feel like that could've been one of the all time greats, similar to s9 hide the puzzle pieces task, but I feel like none of them did it "right", and it just sorta fell apart.
@@nvrmnde I didn't realize the mayor task was generally disliked. Personally I found Katherine's rap to be far more cringey and sycophantic. I thought Jon was just being his normal awkward self. But I see your point - it's like the "make a 55 year old" task in the mall in Series 1, too much like a prank show when you involve outsiders. I'm glad they mostly moved away from that sort of thing, though sometimes it's amazing (Rosalind's a f-ing legend!).
I take it only my mid-2000s school generation learned the poem? 😅 30 days hath September; April, June, and November All the rest hath 31; except for February Which has 28 days clear, and 29 each leap year edit: never mind, they all reiterated it
To everyone saying “just use your knuckles” the task was to CREATE a way to rememebr. Using an already-established method they would have gotten them disqualified.
The question remains how to remember which years are leap years an which aren't.
@@stefanlilienthal6072 obviously it is every 4 years, but not when it is a multiple of 100 but it is if it a multiple of 400 and i think maybe something about 1000 or 4000... its pretty simple really
@@harveymcdonald759 just multiple of 4
@@harveymcdonald759 But in the year 4812 or 4816 we need a leap year without the leap... 😃
@@stefanlilienthal60722000 was a leap year. Every four years since then. As long as the year is divisible by four it is a leap year. For example 2024
Jamali asks for a calendar and then pulls out a device that has a calendar on it
One of many examples why Jamali was the weakest part of this season for me. He has a couple of funny bit, but for the most part I just found his particular style of comedy and choices to be unpleasant.
I assume they have gotten instructions along the lines of "only use phones for calling purposes" - because quite a few tasks could be broken by using a smartphone
@@theninja4137if you watch the show long enough you definitely notice when they’ve been told they can’t use something or say something.
He couldn’t have looked at the calendar app while he was recording the voice message to Greg and he clearly needed to read off the calendar lol
@@zacadoole1 That's still too charitable... he can't figure out how to use another app while leaving a voicemail?
Lee was criminally underscored
But his poem was worse than the one they were talking about!
@@thomasthomasson2319I think it should have been scored comparing it to the other contestants, not the one that has existed and been tweaked for a millennium.
Some of Greg's worst-ever scoring, I'd give his performance in this episode 1/5
they laughed at him for his poem starting with "Now listen here you!", but Beowulf starts the same way.
The poem was not easy to remember
Seeing that deranged clock killed me, I couldn’t stop laughing for a few minutes, for 3 points she needs to pray to Greg
After this aired first time, I had this problem stuck in my head.
My solution is to remember 5 and 10: All months have 31 days, except the neighbors of 5 (may) and 10 (october), those neighbors have 30 days. And february is special.
I might just remember that one!
Use the knuckles of your hands. Always with you and easy
Just use the knuckle method, put your knuckles side by side and count from one end, every knuckle is 31 every gap between knuckles is 30, the gap between your pointer finger knuckles don’t count so July and August are both 31.
Everyone knows the knuckles, though. The task was a *new* method.
I quite like this "dodgy neighbours" method.
I use jamjodg snaj
Mike’s medical school education showing hard in this task
This is one of the rare occasions where I basically disagree with all of Greg’s scoring. Lee and Mike’s systems are clearly the best, in both memorability and succinctness!
I wonder if not having live audience feedback also messes scoring up as greg really is left to decide on his whim, instead of taking notice of the crowd's laughs or relative silence.
should've went with jammjod snfaj, I still haven't forgotten that one
It's been consistently stuck in my head ever since the episode came out, I can't make it go away.
Jamali really just decided to record a voice message for Greg...
Sarah's system was so fucking funny actually
Another example of Wozniak being underscored. He should’ve won this series.
Mike is the funniest person to ever be on this show
"....except February alone which has 28 days clear and 29 in a leap year"
*each leap year
@@thomascarmichael6659there’s no difference
@@hepbombombom nah it does. Obviously they're both monosyllabic words so it doesn't technically affect the metre of the poem, but the "ch" sounds at the end of "each" leaves your mouth in a shape closer to the one needed to pronounce the "L" sound in "leap" than "a" does.
So it rolls off the tongue a lot more comfortably when being said aloud, which gives it a nicer flow.
@@thomascarmichael6659 right… but it has the exact same meaning idc if I’m saving a couple milliseconds
The best way to remember how many days are in a month is to change the calender a la Dave Gorman. 13 months of 28 days. With a day of intermission (2 on leap years).
But if I had to make a new method, I'd piggy back on Gormans idea and make it only slightly worse. January through November have 30 days. December has 35/36.
Haha I thought the same! If this was his task he’d just throw it out a present his new (logical) calendar lol
13 months is stupid though- because 13 is a prime number while 12 is a highly composite number (has more factors than any number smaller than it). With 13 months you couldn’t divide the year into ANY number of even segments less than 13 without splitting up months, and that makes it quite useless
i really enjoyed how little alex horne trolled jamali during the season
Greg went Jeremy Wells mode with the scoring on this one.
Okay, well today I learned there's a knuckle method to remember the number of days in each month. Have never heard of that in my life before this. As for the poem, the version I learned didn't even bother to rhyme the February lines. So I just memorized February's weirdness and only repeated the 30/31 part of the poem for the other months. 😀
The knuckle method is amazing. Idk how I learned it but like I use it alll the time
@@Haniss3553what does this mean?
And you can do it on one hand, not two like Sarah showed.
Left hand fist, right hand pointing: start on the index finger and when you get to pinkie, jump back to index finger.
I do the knuckle count
The clock could work if it only had one hand, the 12 points (months) were colored coded using her color system, and it were designed to make one rotation a year.
The one I learned growing up was:
"Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November.
After February's done,
all the rest have thirty-one."
Which scans pretty well, IMO. I do concede that it doesn't explicitly mention that February has 28 (or maybe 29), but I never really considered that to be difficult to remember. It was all the OTHER months that are the issue.
I would've said "If it contains a P or a V - that's thir-tee. If it's June then it's soon - that's al-so-thiirty-tee. and if it's feb-ru-ary you need to check-yo-dairy because the milk's good for 28 days. Hey!". with actions too, the P is holding up your right index and middle fingers together, the V is a circle with your left hand and you put the right hand into the left hand to make the Ps and the Vs more memorable
I made a poem to remember!
Every second month has 30,
The first have 31.
We swap the 2 at August, then we carry on!
February’s a weird one, it’s got 28.
But on leap years it’s got 29, isn’t that just great?
Now you know the numbers of the days in every month.
Now go out in the real world and you won’t look like a dunce!
oh my god that whole section in the experience. one whole dedicated part where it's literally just this. 😂 you guys are incredible
The version I always learned ended "once short February's done, all the rest have thirty-one"
I hadn't really ever considered the fact that that version expected you to just know February was 28/9
I noticed there was a drawing of a piano at the back, and you can use _that_ to memorize the months in a similar way to the knuckles.
Starting from F, go up the chromatic scale - white keys have 31 days, and black keys have less.
This only works if you assume the taskmaster knows how to play the piano
Jamali giving Alex instructions. Hilarious everytime
The clock is actually kind of smart.
Deranged, perhaps, but assuming you can tell time, you can also tell where in the year you are, and remember with about a 1sec glance at it whether payday is next friday or not until monday.
I still find Sarah's genuinely impressive.
I don’t know why JamJodSnaj lives rent free in my head, but it does!
I’m a Latin major so I’m using a bit of Roman history lol: it switches on and off, but I like to think that Julius and Augustus Caesar (for whom the months July and August were named) were SO egotistical that they both had to have their months be 31 days, thus interrupting the pattern
Really funny way to think of it, considering how they're already throwing off the name number system.
I only know of the knuckle method as the easiest to apply, but a different one I could come up with is "lucky number seven":
-if you can divide by 7, then it's a high value.
- otherwise you take the rest and look if that's an even or odd number. The number of days will also be odd or even.
Examples:
- August is the 8th month, so if you divide by 7, you have a rest of 1, which is an odd number, so you'll have 31 days.
You'd still need to know that months either have 28, 30 or 31 days and that leaps years break the rule "it's even if the rest is even".
"Every month has 28 days, but most get a little bit more.
Add one day to Februa-ray if the year is divisible by four.
Four months have 30 days, the rest have thirty-one;
And if you repeat these rhymes with me, you'll know them by the time we're done!
Never forget, the month of September
Gotta be thankful, it's November!
April Fools are crazy as loons,
And the Summer Solstice in the month of June!"
I would have a hard time with this one... it's just one of those things I almost instinctively just know. Not that it's actually instinctive, just that I've known it so long that when I "see" the month in my head, I "see" the number of days. I used to sing the little poem as a kid to remember.
"I have changed the number of days in every month. There are now 30 days in every month, and a 13th one that is one day long between December and January. The 13 month is called Bugger-All. The month of Bugger-all is a public holiday to allow us to recover from the new year's hangover. Bugger-All is also a month entirely dedicated to the task master - during Bugger-All, the task master is exempt from all laws."
To win you just need to know your audience ;)
UA-cam and Taskmaster knows me... whenever SK pops up... I click. LOVE HER!
odd months have 31 (and even months have fewer) up til august. then even months have 31 (and odd months have fewer) for the rest of the year.
JAMALI FEBRUARY HAS 28 DAYS YOU WERE LOOKING FOR THE CALENDAR OF A LEAP YEAR
30 for 4, 6, 9, 11
31 for 8, 10, 12,
1, 3, 5, 7
28 or 29, 2 be determined.
I spent 4 minutes on this, then watched the episode. I do like the yoga system.
And the poem version I learned was:
Thirty days past September
April, June, and November
All the rest have thirty-one
Except for Februrary alone
That has twenty-eight days clear
Twenty-nine each leap year.
(And auto correct had those suggested, looks like I'm not the first to type poetry!)
"...Fresh 28."
Repeat 31, 30. August restarts the pattern, and February is 28 (29 on a leap year). That's all you need.
I remember this by having a "missing month" between July and August. So it starts with 31 on January and alternates for every month between 31 and 30, except for February
The clock system is pretty good visually, but that’s about it
What the hell was Greg smoking with that scoring?
I know it as ‘expect poor little February who has 28 days in a normal year and 29 in a leap year’
How weird, I was just thinking up a new method myself last night
Change the calendar so that it comprises of thirteen twenty eight day months and New Year’s Day. Start the year on the sensible option of the winter solstice. And have each month go from Monday the first through to Sunday the 28th. Simple.
Then, remembering how many days each month has is easy: 28.
Except February alone which has but 28 days clear and 29 in each leap year.
This ones for JAMJOD!
Start with long(31).. Alternate between long and short(30) (with special exception for Feb) until you get to July (the 7th month) which is long. Then August is long too, and is the first of the last 5 months of the year .... long, short(28or29), long, short, long, short, long ... long, short, long, short, long ... So just remember 7 and 5.
I have never really understood why it is that nearly everyone struggles with remembering how many days each month has. For some reason that I can't explain my brain just knows them all without really thinking about it or using a memory aid. That said my solution would have been to draw a color coded snake where each segment represents a month so that you can have a picture in your head to go back to. For instance months with 31 days could be red, 30 days could be green, and February could be blue. If you draw it so its body loops back on itself between July and august the colors would line up with each other from March through December. Then you would just have the head and "neck" section hanging off on its own.
Brilliant series 😅
Lee and Mike’s were the two best ones and they scored the lowest 🤦♂️
Sarah’s hair is amazing. Seriously what are they drinking in Australia?
Knuckles
a NEW way
So you watched Sarah's attempt too, huh?
I was wondering if that is well known, but it's definitely the best way
Haven't watched the video yet but I learnt the knuckles trick when I about 10 at school
Tails
VW W (or VVV VV)
Up is 31 days, down is less. V and W should be joined to make a triple-V (or tripleyou if you want to think of it like an extended doubleyou). Can think of it like "triple-v double-v."
(This is essentially the knuckle method in disguise.)
Fresh 28
Months that dont have 31 days:
2 - February
4 - April
6 - June
9 - September
11 - November
UK time, the first plane hit the WTC at 2:46 on 9-11.
Bloody hell, I assumed you were making that up for comedic effect - plus I remembered the first plane going in at just gone the hour. I looked it up and you’re right. I’m remembering the second plane at 3.03pm. Well!
I'd love to see a Taskmaster Redemption series where the lowest performing member from each series come back for a chance to win. Like champion of champions but reversed.
It would be really funny if someone decided to include detailed instructions on how many days February has, as in it has 28 except in every year divisible by 4 but not by 100 unless it's divisible by 400, in which it has 29
Charlotte's clock ISN'T broken, because ON the clock it says blue = 30 and pink = 31 :D
I didn't realize ppl struggle to remember which months has 31/30 days. in my language each months names has a word ending that indicate whether it's has 30 or 31. and Feb doesn't have either words so we know that's it's unique.
Piano keys
Start with the F, label upwards, white keys are long months, black keys are short ones
If one sorts the months by number of days (lowest to highest) and then sort by chronological order, we get:
February
April
June
September
November
January
March
May
July
August
October
December
Then make a sentence out of the first letters of each month.
Fiona Apple Juggles Six Newborn Jaguars Most Mondays, Much As Oprah Does.
Then just remember that the borders between differently-numbered months are between Fiona and Apple and between Newborn and Jaguars.
Very, very easy to remember.
I remember by knowing February has 28 or 29 days the rest have 30 or 31 and that’s close enough 😅. I couldn’t remember the order of the months until I was 16 so remembering how many days they have is too much to ask of me lol.
Mike's was best
Ap-Jun-Sep-Now (short and easy to say). And february is "special"
I've always felt the same way about that "30 days has/hath September" rhyme. It starts out great.
Thirty days has/hath September,
April, June, and November
That's the only part you need to remember, because you already remember that February has 28 or 29 and the rest have 31. But the rhyme in full doesn't scan at all. There are a few variants, including the one Alex Horne read. Here's another:
Thirty days has September,
April, June, and November,
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February at twenty-eight,
But leap year, coming once in four,
February then has one day more.
Horrible. The rhyme and meter fall apart immediately. Which, ironically, makes it impossible to remember. IMO the rhyme should just stop at the first couplet, that's all you need. No reason to overcomplicate things.
31 odd until seventh
31 even from eight
29 sometimes for second
But usually (it’s) 28
Here is my attempt "8". All you need to know the number of days swap between Odd (31) and even (30). Month 1 is odd so 31, month 2 is even (but also februari who ruins all xD) so 28, 3 is odd so 31 ect. Till 8 the number you had to remember because from that point you swap around. 8 is even so the days is odd at 31. 9 is odd so even days 30. Ect.
Or to simplify, say you have this date 18/10/2024. Check is the month 8 or later? Yes ok then even numbers are odd. 10 is even. So odd number of days 31
Or 18/7/24. 7 is before 8 so its not swapped around. 7 is odd. So 31 days
jamjod! lol
I got “thirty days hath September, April June and November, all the rest have 31, except for February” and there’s no point putting the February details in the song because that’s not hard to remember
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I cant believe some of the mad and useless things that were done during covid
DO JAM ==== If the month starts with one of this letters === the month have 31 days
EXCEPT: if the month has an even number of vocals
If the month starts with F, is because he is a failure, so he doesnt have 30 days... (alta paja matizar en los biciestos xd)
The others have 30 days
Everyone making fun of Jamali for putting zero effort in the task, but his is the only usable one
Jamali missed out the September
They didn't play his entire message (it was too long, and we got the gist of what he was saying). They edited out May, June, and September.
@@SgtSupamanYeah, I think so too because otherwise they had for sure pointed it out if he missed the for real
Knuckles is the easiest way
just need a separate system to remember leap years for February
They had to come up with A NEW WAY of doing it.
@@chrisjones5411Jamali just recorded himself talking, which isn't exactly new
Sing this jingle: 30 days in September, April, June, and November 👏🎶 (the rest are 31. And just remember February is 28 lol)
...except February: it has 28 days clear, but 29 days in each leap year.
That's the last part of the rhyme.
@@De19thKingJulion oh wow never heard the end haha nice!
@@violetchan8129 Thanks. That's the version I read in an old children's book I had as a little 'un
I just use my knuckles lol
They had to come up with A NEW WAY FFS.
@@chrisjones5411 I mean Alex said a different way from the poem which is a way I've never heard of lol
Has no one ever used the Knuckle technique to know which months have 31 days
.. except February which has 28 days clear, and 29 each leap year.
Jamali is either a lazy sod or a mad genius who beat Greg at his own game
Lazy sod, if you're really not sure.
why you even need to count knuckles to determine 31?
ApJunSeNo, all others are 31 except February.
Maddox is quite an ascerbic knob and worse, an entitled one.
If he wanted a calendar so bad, why didn't he go get one vs whining about the time Alex was taking?
OR:
Check the calendar on his phone?
"September, November, April, and June are 30 day months and the rest are all cXXts."
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This is pointless, it takes literally two seconds to recite the first part of the rhyme up to the word November, which is all you need to do. Once you've done that if you've just said the month you were looking for then it has 30 days and if you haven't it has 31, unless it was February in which case you shouldn't even have needed the rhyme, you should just know that one off the top of your head.
The problem with that poem is I always end up saying "Thirty days hath September, April, May, and December" at which point it's hopeless
Don't 99% of tasks fall under 'pointless'?
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It’s almost impressive how much more pointless than any other ‘Taskmaster’ contestant Jamali is.
I’m ashamed to share a birthday month with him.
Haven’t seen the S18 lineup I take it?
@@iliketrains3495 Yes, I’ve seen it. Any of them is ten times better than Jamali.
There are 2 tasks that infuriate me to the point of not wanting to watch the task, or even the whole episode. One of them is the impress the mayor task, and the other one is this.
Curious. Do they have something in common? Is there something fantastic that nobody saw?
Still WAY better than the task that came after, the infamous luggage security one.
@@homagetogorto the mayor task is, as I'm aware, one of the most hated tasks for folks, purely for the gringe factor!😆 Especially over poor Jon. 😁 That's partly it, but also the concept of please a figure of power and in politics... just rubs me the wrong way. 😂 Calendar one I know I'm alone in finding it infuriating. I struggle understanding SO MANY adults just not knowing the lenghts of months. Even once I realised that it's just one of those things that is simple for some, and to others something that never sticks. I then just get bored: like, why is this a task, just look it up argh. (I swear I CAN be fun at parties!😆 sorry for a long reply!😁)
@@iliketrains3495 I feel like that could've been one of the all time greats, similar to s9 hide the puzzle pieces task, but I feel like none of them did it "right", and it just sorta fell apart.
@@nvrmnde I didn't realize the mayor task was generally disliked. Personally I found Katherine's rap to be far more cringey and sycophantic. I thought Jon was just being his normal awkward self. But I see your point - it's like the "make a 55 year old" task in the mall in Series 1, too much like a prank show when you involve outsiders. I'm glad they mostly moved away from that sort of thing, though sometimes it's amazing (Rosalind's a f-ing legend!).
I take it only my mid-2000s school generation learned the poem? 😅
30 days hath September; April, June, and November
All the rest hath 31; except for February
Which has 28 days clear, and 29 each leap year
edit: never mind, they all reiterated it
Aaah the stupidity of Covid times...
does this weirdo really have to check a calendar to know which months have how many days…