Tolkien invented a new calendar for Middle Earth: there were 12 months of 30 days each and five "intercalary" days which weren't in any month and weren't Monday, Tuesday etc. 3 were between months 6 and 7 and were called Midsummer, the other 2 were between months 12 and 1, and were called Yule. Leap years had an extra Yule day. The intercalary days were public holidays.
@@h4724-q6j Satisfying or not, they did not need to say it was a coincidence. If they did not find it a coincidence they would not have said anything. I mean, honestly you'd have to like the ads in the first place in order to comment if you did not find it a coincidence. But who likes ads on the videos anyway other than the creators getting money from them? 😏
Months were created by our ancient ancestors based on their studies about the Moon and how it revolves around the earth. Do we really want to erase that part of history and the connection Months have to the Moon just for a bit of mathematical comfort? They are based on the natural order of the celestial bodies and we've been doing it like that since the Paleolithic age. Now let's tear that down and divide them neatly, like we tear down forests to build neatly stacked parking lots.
@@ilv1 people used to think disease was caused by gods and spirits, do we really want to erase part of our history just for a bit of medical comfort? just because it's from the past doesn't mean it should be exalted
@@stocktonjoans The difference is that gods are imaginary... The rotation of the Moon around the Earth is real. In my opinion, it's one of the closest things to spirituality that we have.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar The problem you are going to have is that Christians still need to rest every seventh day. " There were twelve months, each divided into three ten-day weeks called décades. The tenth day, décadi, replaced Sunday as the day of rest and festivity. The five or six extra days needed to approximate the solar or tropical year were placed after the months at the end of each year and called complementary days. "
Still such a great show...Happy to watch them over and over again...Dave Gorman is smart and funny with it...Shame i can't find a show that he does that is a good as this one
27:00. With regard to height limit signs; having metric as well as imperial measurements is a good thing. Any mistakes from foreign HGV drivers that are more used to the metric system could occur more often and be far more detrimental to the bridges they may hit if they’re not sure how high their vehicles are in feet and inches.
This one almost killed me. I laughed so hard at the last bit I almost suffocated! Never in my life laughed so hard! Thanks for the post. And Dave, if you ever see this, you are an absolute genius!
I’m literally 27 & 1/2 as of this viewing! Had to think about it for a moment, but the maths check out! Haven’t answered with “and-a-half” since I was 9 though lol
The best part about the calendar is that since every month has the same number of days and they all start in the same day of the week, you don't even need to buy a calendar with 12 pages, just get a single page and write what month it is every 28 days.
@@dutchik5107 oh yeah, thats true 🤔 hmm how about something like a drum calendar? As each month is the same size,the outside structure can have the day/number markings. Then wind along the internal paper to have the month,and relevant page?
Definitely getting behind the new calendar. Was organising my finances the other day and it's really annoying. I get paid monthly, but certain routine expenses like food and fuel I think of in week-long chunks. I need to calculate a monthly food budget, and that's annoying to calculate.
20:25 reminds me of the Top Gear lads trying to buy insurance as if they were teenagers: "£2,500 is 15 times more than the car is worth. What you're saying is that I'm going to write it off completely 15 times a year!"
I love that episode but I can never seem to find it on iPlayer because of the poor layout of episode biographies - do you happen to know what episode it is 😅
8:13 I knew there was a reason I knew that I really like this episode just based off of the intro card. It's the one with probably my favorite segments of this show ever. Maybe tied with the queing segment.
I’m in favour of this new calendar system as long as Christmas is moved to February because it always snows in the current February. Only problem is my new birthday is always a bloody Tuesday.
Saying 27 and a half may have something to do with the "27 Club" ... named because of so many stars (mostly music branch) who died age 27 - Kurt Cobain's 1994 death put the name on the curse, but Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971... and that put the meat on the bones of the myth. Adding 'and a half' may be a way to say that they have made it past the curse age.
11:00 Actually that is because of the Spring Fertility holidays of pre-Christian origin, such as Nowruz in Persian culture, that were incorporated into the Catholic church as the Easter holiday. The months of Sept, Oct, Nov and December were 7-10 months after the beginning of Spring in March.
11:50 He got that bit wrong. The Julian calendar traditionally had March as the first month of the year, so December was month 10 and February was month 12. With the change to the Gregorian calendar many countries adjusted their years to start in January. So, not the fault of the ancient Romans but probably partially the fault of the Roman Catholic church.
Correct - thats why the British tax year starts in April. It used to start March 25th, New Year's day in the Julian calendar, but was changed to the first week of April when changing from Julian to the Gregorian calendar to ensure it was a full year.
He did get it wrong (the months got moved around at an _earlier_ date, not later), but so did you. The Julian calendar (created in 46 BC) always had January as the first month of the year. Some adjacent territories (which did not immediately adopt the Julian calendar) started the year on different months / days, but not specifically the start of March (or the start of _any_ month, for that matter; some started the year on the 23rd of September, some started on the 23rd or 25th of December, some on the 29th of August, etc., etc.). The mismatch between months' names and their "position" in the calendar comes from around 154 BC. The early Roman calendar (from around 750 BC) had 10 months (starting with March) and then a variable period of "winter" or "intercalation". January and February were inserted around 700 BC, at an unclear position and in an unclear order (different chroniclers say different things; some say January became the first month and February the last - so they'd be reversed relative to their current order - some say they were months 11 and 12, some say they were months 1 and 2). What's fairly certain is that by 154 BC (more than a century before the Julian reform) January was firmly and officially considered as the first month of the year, and February was the second. TL;DR: March was never the first month of the year in the Julian calendar (it was always January). You probably confused "Julian" with "(early) Roman".
@@RFC-3514 This is randomly off subject I know but why do people put TL;DR summary at the end? Surely it should be at the start?! Why? Because if anyone was to think the comment was 'too long' so they 'didn't read' it then how would they know the TL;DR was at the end and read that instead? Especially on UA-cam where long comments are hidden! 😂
„18‘000 inches“ mainly is a useless instruction when driving because imperial units are mad. „20‘000 cm“ would be a bit odd, but quite easy to work out.
I like the current system when getting paid every 2 weeks some months I got 3 paychecks. That 3rd paycheck was a bonus compared to fixed bills I paid monthly.
The calendar reform is one of the best thing Dave's ever done. Isn't it the International Fixed Calendar, however, used by Kodak? The 13th month in that system is called 'sol'.
Just a thought if half a year is being too precise for a 27 year old as half a year is a small portion of their life so far, is a 54 year old also being too precise saying "I'm 54 years old"? What level of specificity is acceptable? Is there a point where we have to start declaring age in decades? If so what age? 40? I'm 32 currently which means 7 years from today I will be 39 and 8 years from today I will be 4! This is fantastic!
How am I only now learning that they still use imperial units in UK (Britain at least)? In the US, they generally teach us that we got imperial from the UK, but we're the odd ones for keeping it. I've even been to London and a couple nearby cities on a trip across the Atlantic and didn't notice.
People saying that the new calendar idea is brilliant, when I think it's even better to just do away with months altogether since months are meaningless in a purely-solar calendar. So, today's date is 220/2020 (or, 219/2020 as of the time of writing in America). Christmas is on day 360. For the Americans, Independence day is on 186.
@@GordonHugenaythat is a sidereal month. The lunar phrases are based on where the sun shines on the moon. That is what is called a synodic month. It is about 29.530588 days. The full moon would actually shift by 1.530588 days each month.
February is not 28 days long 3/4 of the time. February is 28 days long 303/400 of the time because we miss 3 leap years every 400 years. That's my favourite bit of obscure knowledge. Edited to add: I've just worked out that I will be almost 109 and a half the next time we skip a leap year.
The only imperial measurement I like is the pint. I'd be annoyed if they tried to change that. Otherwise, go for it. I'm quite comfortable with both metric and imperial, but I work in science and it would make things more straightforward just to transition.
No, you need to leave out the "Th's" bit. When it is an amount out of a whole that is split in to 4 equal parts then it is just 3/4 or 3 quarters. If you was dealing with a whole that was split in to 5 equal parts or more, then that's when the "Th's" come in. So with yours, another way to put it would 6/8th's. Then that would be ok. Just saying because if you was using that on anything that is even semi professional then "3/4th's" wouldn't look good. Well I know you was most likely joking anyway but still just incase lol. Anyway hope you are well and healthy in this trying times we are all facing in this world at the moment. take care
Just get rid of the months altogether. You don't need them. Split the year into four seasons of thirteen weeks and you'll be just fine. A: When is that meeting? B: 6th Monday at nine. A: Which Monday? B: Autumn 6th. A: Okay, 6th Autumn Monday at 9am. (writes down Au/6/Mo 9am)
But the problem is that they do not like the number 13 for stupid superstitious reasons. That's why they wanted 12 months instead of 13 so they would never want 13 weeks in 4 seasons instead!
@@TanjoGalbi Not sure who the they are you're talking about, but they sound like superstitious idiots that can be safely ignored. Like Dave said: overexposure will fix them.
This comes down to the difference in billion. In the UK, where this is filmed, a billion is a million million. In the US and in international banking/trade it's a thousand billion
@@edb2863 I'm in the UK and we have been using 1,000,000,000 to mean a billion the same as the states since 1974 so there shouldn't be any confusion? Mind you my dad always said a billion was a million million and I was like no It's not (I was born in 1974 so got taught the "new" billion in school) obviously a generational thing. I suppose saying 5 thousand million instead of 5 billion stops any confusion from the older generation.
I prefer the long scale to the short scale. I think it makes more sense. Billion is 1000000^2. Trillion is 1000000^3. Quadrillion is 1000000^4. Basically what I am saying is that n-illion is 1000000^n.
Simple, you are pushed back and have to wait until intermission is over. If you are allready "out" for a while, your birthday is cancelled, you are led behind the shed of shame and shot in the face, so that you are cancelled too.
Well it's only a day long so you'd just say your birthday is the Intermission. I guess for leap years you could separate them into Intermission Part I & Intermission Part II 🤣
I really wish the calendars would be changed! It never made much sense to me. Even more so, because it was different BEFORE the Romans changed it to the current convention...
I first need to remember what year is it, then when i was born, then subtract or subtract one less. And because I don't give a shit how old I am and what the year is, this operation takes me few seconds, making me look like an idiot.
The calendar system is genuinely brilliant.
You wouldn’t want to be born on intermission
@@ebonyrose7236 Being born on second intermission would also be celebrated on intermission, so I think it's actually quite nice
Wouldn't that be kinda like the same as being born on Feb.29th ?
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Tolkien invented a new calendar for Middle Earth: there were 12 months of 30 days each and five "intercalary" days which weren't in any month and weren't Monday, Tuesday etc. 3 were between months 6 and 7 and were called Midsummer, the other 2 were between months 12 and 1, and were called Yule. Leap years had an extra Yule day. The intercalary days were public holidays.
Am I the only one who thinks it's incredibly satisfying when the ads run in the 'breaks'?
You know what's even more satisfying? Ad-Block
I got an insurance ad after the insurance bit.
You know as a creator you can opt to chose where the ads occur in your videos? Does not seem so much of an amazing coincidence now does it? 😛
@@TanjoGalbi They didn't say it was coincidental, just satisfying that the uploader bothered to time the ads correctly.
@@h4724-q6j Satisfying or not, they did not need to say it was a coincidence. If they did not find it a coincidence they would not have said anything. I mean, honestly you'd have to like the ads in the first place in order to comment if you did not find it a coincidence. But who likes ads on the videos anyway other than the creators getting money from them? 😏
The Gormanian calendar is perfect. Great idea!
The new calander proposal is one of my favourite parts of the entire show
i 100% support the new convention for the months of the year, how do we make this happen?
Spread the word I have thought this since I first seen him suggest it on Tele.
I'm onboard with this idea.
Months were created by our ancient ancestors based on their studies about the Moon and how it revolves around the earth. Do we really want to erase that part of history and the connection Months have to the Moon just for a bit of mathematical comfort?
They are based on the natural order of the celestial bodies and we've been doing it like that since the Paleolithic age. Now let's tear that down and divide them neatly, like we tear down forests to build neatly stacked parking lots.
@@ilv1 people used to think disease was caused by gods and spirits, do we really want to erase part of our history just for a bit of medical comfort?
just because it's from the past doesn't mean it should be exalted
@@stocktonjoans The difference is that gods are imaginary... The rotation of the Moon around the Earth is real. In my opinion, it's one of the closest things to spirituality that we have.
I've been waiting for this episode. The month reform is the one idea from this show I could really get behind.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_calendar
The problem you are going to have is that Christians still need to rest every seventh day.
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There were twelve months, each divided into three ten-day weeks called décades. The tenth day, décadi, replaced Sunday as the day of rest and festivity. The five or six extra days needed to approximate the solar or tropical year were placed after the months at the end of each year and called complementary days.
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I found this show recently and i fricking love it, why did noone ever show me this before ? What's your excuse youtube algorithm ?
It was only uploaded about 1h30 before you watched it and commented!
@Ross Bourne Yeah, OP said 'show' not 'episode'.
@Ross Bourne yes i meant the show in general
You’d need to ask noone why they didn’t show you it. We can’t answer for noone.
Still such a great show...Happy to watch them over and over again...Dave Gorman is smart and funny with it...Shame i can't find a show that he does that is a good as this one
27:00. With regard to height limit signs; having metric as well as imperial measurements is a good thing. Any mistakes from foreign HGV drivers that are more used to the metric system could occur more often and be far more detrimental to the bridges they may hit if they’re not sure how high their vehicles are in feet and inches.
This one almost killed me. I laughed so hard at the last bit I almost suffocated! Never in my life laughed so hard! Thanks for the post. And Dave, if you ever see this, you are an absolute genius!
YES YES NEW EPISODE FEED ME CONTENT
As someone who lives next to a church, I support Daves bell-policy.
Daves Bell policy sounds like a nasty disease
The "Mickypedia" episode is still my favourite
The Toot-Toot cars is mine.
@@tinplategeek1058 what episode is that?
I like the Thomas the Tank Engine one. I think he deserved it, don't you?
I love this one because he's got a point on yhe calendar bit
@@bigbabby1232 It is from the program
"I've Never Seen a Cat
" which is Series 5 Episode 2
One of my favourite episodes, thanks Dave
I’m literally 27 & 1/2 as of this viewing! Had to think about it for a moment, but the maths check out! Haven’t answered with “and-a-half” since I was 9 though lol
This was always my favourite episode
"f, c and the peas" kills me every time
Dave Gorman is a genius.
Well, well, well. I have just one word for this: Absolutely genius. I genuinely want this calendar system
The best part about the calendar is that since every month has the same number of days and they all start in the same day of the week, you don't even need to buy a calendar with 12 pages, just get a single page and write what month it is every 28 days.
Well besides not being able to write on it. Or it getting full.
@@dutchik5107 havent thought about that
@@dutchik5107 white board calendar
@@carliegriffiths6290 can't plan ahead
@@dutchik5107 oh yeah, thats true 🤔 hmm how about something like a drum calendar? As each month is the same size,the outside structure can have the day/number markings. Then wind along the internal paper to have the month,and relevant page?
Due to me fearing aging, I'm currently twenty-nine and a year old.
I like this thinking. I'm 28 and a year. In the old system I'm 30, but I'm pretending 2020 isn't happening and lockdown birthdays don't count.
I'm currently 20. And 60*halfs...🤨
I am also 29 and 50 half years old.
"Thanks to denial, I'm immortal!"
I am 21 years old. In base 15....
It was a clip of the Calendar system that introduced me to this show, Super fun to find the actual episode.
Does the string quartet turn up every week just to play that same tune once? Good gig.
My new birthday is now the 27th of Gormanuary 😂
Definitely getting behind the new calendar. Was organising my finances the other day and it's really annoying. I get paid monthly, but certain routine expenses like food and fuel I think of in week-long chunks. I need to calculate a monthly food budget, and that's annoying to calculate.
I love that calendar!!!
20:25 reminds me of the Top Gear lads trying to buy insurance as if they were teenagers:
"£2,500 is 15 times more than the car is worth. What you're saying is that I'm going to write it off completely 15 times a year!"
I love that episode but I can never seem to find it on iPlayer because of the poor layout of episode biographies - do you happen to know what episode it is 😅
I’m 29 and a half, but I can say that because I’m desperately holding onto my 20’s
The calendar is perfect
Every one of the ads was for Netflix. Which I already have. Genius.
8:13 I knew there was a reason I knew that I really like this episode just based off of the intro card. It's the one with probably my favorite segments of this show ever. Maybe tied with the queing segment.
I wonder if the people who feature in these found poems realise how ridiculous they sound when Dave Gorman reads it out 😂
I'm 44 and twelve thirteenths ;-)
I’m in favour of this new calendar system as long as Christmas is moved to February because it always snows in the current February.
Only problem is my new birthday is always a bloody Tuesday.
11:21 great save by Gorman, almost said 'Gods'
Saying 27 and a half may have something to do with the "27 Club" ... named because of so many stars (mostly music branch) who died age 27 - Kurt Cobain's 1994 death put the name on the curse, but Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971... and that put the meat on the bones of the myth. Adding 'and a half' may be a way to say that they have made it past the curse age.
11:00 Actually that is because of the Spring Fertility holidays of pre-Christian origin, such as Nowruz in Persian culture, that were incorporated into the Catholic church as the Easter holiday. The months of Sept, Oct, Nov and December were 7-10 months after the beginning of Spring in March.
11:50 He got that bit wrong. The Julian calendar traditionally had March as the first month of the year, so December was month 10 and February was month 12.
With the change to the Gregorian calendar many countries adjusted their years to start in January.
So, not the fault of the ancient Romans but probably partially the fault of the Roman Catholic church.
Correct - thats why the British tax year starts in April. It used to start March 25th, New Year's day in the Julian calendar, but was changed to the first week of April when changing from Julian to the Gregorian calendar to ensure it was a full year.
He did get it wrong (the months got moved around at an _earlier_ date, not later), but so did you.
The Julian calendar (created in 46 BC) always had January as the first month of the year. Some adjacent territories (which did not immediately adopt the Julian calendar) started the year on different months / days, but not specifically the start of March (or the start of _any_ month, for that matter; some started the year on the 23rd of September, some started on the 23rd or 25th of December, some on the 29th of August, etc., etc.).
The mismatch between months' names and their "position" in the calendar comes from around 154 BC. The early Roman calendar (from around 750 BC) had 10 months (starting with March) and then a variable period of "winter" or "intercalation". January and February were inserted around 700 BC, at an unclear position and in an unclear order (different chroniclers say different things; some say January became the first month and February the last - so they'd be reversed relative to their current order - some say they were months 11 and 12, some say they were months 1 and 2). What's fairly certain is that by 154 BC (more than a century before the Julian reform) January was firmly and officially considered as the first month of the year, and February was the second.
TL;DR: March was never the first month of the year in the Julian calendar (it was always January). You probably confused "Julian" with "(early) Roman".
@@RFC-3514 Not quite. It is a complicated subject and you have also made an error.
Tell me, what date was New Year's day in London in 1312?
@@RFC-3514 This is randomly off subject I know but why do people put TL;DR summary at the end? Surely it should be at the start?! Why? Because if anyone was to think the comment was 'too long' so they 'didn't read' it then how would they know the TL;DR was at the end and read that instead? Especially on UA-cam where long comments are hidden! 😂
@@TanjoGalbi - But if it's at the start they don't know it's TL yet. They kind of have to click UA-cam's "show more" button first. ;-)
Cracks the 13th Constellation theory right off the bat
„18‘000 inches“ mainly is a useless instruction when driving because imperial units are mad. „20‘000 cm“ would be a bit odd, but quite easy to work out.
I like the current system when getting paid every 2 weeks some months I got 3 paychecks. That 3rd paycheck was a bonus compared to fixed bills I paid monthly.
The calendar reform is one of the best thing Dave's ever done. Isn't it the International Fixed Calendar, however, used by Kodak? The 13th month in that system is called 'sol'.
I'd like to know Dave's opinion on the new star sign that was reintroduced this year. 😂
In that case he needs to do his astrological experiment again!
how can it be new if its being reintroduced?
@@lordmortimer9542Sorry, I should have put "new". I just meant that most people haven't heard of it but it was discovered centuries ago. X
@Matthew Hopkins that'll be the one yes 😂
Why do i think, that this is an art program when watching Dave Gorman talk xd
Almost shat myself when I realized I'm indeed 27 and a half
I want the Gormanian calendar.
No one wants to go back to work on New Years Day? Well it's a bank holiday, make it Friday and give us a long weekend
Its awesome when you meet people who a chip on each shoulder, they're so well balanced!
2:42 the same as 1 year of your life when you are 55
I can't believe I probably walked past Dave Gorman writing using satnav in Milton Keynes lol
The poor guy sweated so much, he looked like he was about to die.
I love the life hack episode in season 5
Genius.
23:19 I seriously thought he was going to do the second axis in meters
Paul Kagame, current President of Rwanda, was the General of teh Militaary in the early 90's, who alledgedly instigated the Rwandan genocide....
8:57 The one woman who said "Eight"
Just a thought if half a year is being too precise for a 27 year old as half a year is a small portion of their life so far, is a 54 year old also being too precise saying "I'm 54 years old"?
What level of specificity is acceptable? Is there a point where we have to start declaring age in decades? If so what age? 40?
I'm 32 currently which means 7 years from today I will be 39 and 8 years from today I will be 4! This is fantastic!
4!=24
ill be honest we should go and change to this
and keep the 13th month as is with respect
How am I only now learning that they still use imperial units in UK (Britain at least)? In the US, they generally teach us that we got imperial from the UK, but we're the odd ones for keeping it. I've even been to London and a couple nearby cities on a trip across the Atlantic and didn't notice.
People saying that the new calendar idea is brilliant, when I think it's even better to just do away with months altogether since months are meaningless in a purely-solar calendar. So, today's date is 220/2020 (or, 219/2020 as of the time of writing in America). Christmas is on day 360. For the Americans, Independence day is on 186.
I both love and fear the idea of an argument with this man, :)
My ad break was approx 79 seconds long which is approx 1 and 19/60 minutes
1 and 19/60 what? 😉
3:54 I am 3½ decades.
I feel like I am getting old enough that 1 year of my life is not very significant. It is better to do it in ½ decades.
Regarding the months there's a great book called 'time' by Stephen Waugh
If a month starts on Sunday there will be a Friday the 13th
His calendar idea is genius. And converters are out there if you Google them.
Maybe the 27 and a half is a reaction to the famous 27 club 😅
PROTECT THIS GUY AT ALL COSTS
Easter is based upon the full moon anyway, that's why it moves around. Under Gorman's system, it would always fall on the same day.
it moves because its always on a sunday
the moon takes 27.322 days to go around earth, so full moon would shift by 0.678 days every month.
It would not always be the same Sunday
It is the first Sunday after the full moon after the 21st March
@@GordonHugenaythat is a sidereal month. The lunar phrases are based on where the sun shines on the moon. That is what is called a synodic month. It is about 29.530588 days.
The full moon would actually shift by 1.530588 days each month.
February is not 28 days long 3/4 of the time. February is 28 days long 303/400 of the time because we miss 3 leap years every 400 years.
That's my favourite bit of obscure knowledge.
Edited to add: I've just worked out that I will be almost 109 and a half the next time we skip a leap year.
davimurph have you just out-gormaned Dave Gorman?
so just slightly over 3/4 of the time lmao by 3.
Dude that is easily the best bit of obscure knowledge I've heard today. Love it.
@@randomcamm4519 I don't know about out-Gormaning him, but it's the sort of thing you'd expect to learn from him
as someone born on the 366th day of the year I'm not thrilled about becoming the new february 29th, but I guess I'll take one for the team
40 weeks is 9 months...
I am 5931 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 0 seconds ish old the rant intreged me
i can not see a single downside to the new calander
The switch over itself.
But that's not really an excuse.
@@alansmithee419 There'd be no problem with the switchover if you wait until everybody who's used to the old system is dead first.
@@gwishart you win todays internet, well done sir
@@alansmithee419 use both for a bit then stop using the Gregorian just have to get every country to agree
Totally on Dave Gormans idea we are being scammed out of a month's work a year.
The only imperial measurement I like is the pint. I'd be annoyed if they tried to change that. Otherwise, go for it. I'm quite comfortable with both metric and imperial, but I work in science and it would make things more straightforward just to transition.
Would it be okay to list your age as 28 and 3/4ths on your CV?
No, you need to leave out the "Th's" bit. When it is an amount out of a whole that is split in to 4 equal parts then it is just 3/4 or 3 quarters. If you was dealing with a whole that was split in to 5 equal parts or more, then that's when the "Th's" come in. So with yours, another way to put it would 6/8th's. Then that would be ok. Just saying because if you was using that on anything that is even semi professional then "3/4th's" wouldn't look good. Well I know you was most likely joking anyway but still just incase lol. Anyway hope you are well and healthy in this trying times we are all facing in this world at the moment. take care
Just get rid of the months altogether. You don't need them. Split the year into four seasons of thirteen weeks and you'll be just fine.
A: When is that meeting?
B: 6th Monday at nine.
A: Which Monday?
B: Autumn 6th.
A: Okay, 6th Autumn Monday at 9am. (writes down Au/6/Mo 9am)
But the problem is that they do not like the number 13 for stupid superstitious reasons. That's why they wanted 12 months instead of 13 so they would never want 13 weeks in 4 seasons instead!
@@TanjoGalbi Not sure who the they are you're talking about, but they sound like superstitious idiots that can be safely ignored. Like Dave said: overexposure will fix them.
Might get a tad confusing globally, considering the hemispheres and the tilt of the earths axis....job good dismissing other people as "idiots" tho...
@@jakejada1632 Good point. Such confusion could easily be avoided though, by giving those calendar quarters names different from the weather seasons.
@@GrouchierThanThou So...four months?
you have to laugh at the audience...omg sat there feeling smart and smug :P
How many add breaks in this video? I count 11.
32:52 Five thousand million, If only we had a shorter way of saying that lmfao
This comes down to the difference in billion. In the UK, where this is filmed, a billion is a million million. In the US and in international banking/trade it's a thousand billion
@@edb2863 I'm in the UK and we have been using 1,000,000,000 to mean a billion the same as the states since 1974 so there shouldn't be any confusion? Mind you my dad always said a billion was a million million and I was like no It's not (I was born in 1974 so got taught the "new" billion in school) obviously a generational thing. I suppose saying 5 thousand million instead of 5 billion stops any confusion from the older generation.
@@eggfooyoung24 oh yeah I know dude, I'm in the UK too. I imagine it's cuz Dave is a little older and has some older audience as you say
I was born in 1985 and I was taught billion was 10^12 instead of 10^9
I prefer the long scale to the short scale. I think it makes more sense. Billion is 1000000^2. Trillion is 1000000^3. Quadrillion is 1000000^4.
Basically what I am saying is that n-illion is 1000000^n.
I'm 64 and two 12ths
I get paid lunar monthly(28 days)...why cant I set up direct debits for lunar monthly payments??? That's annoying!
Lunar month is 29.5 days
@@Lord_Skeptic sorry Internet police
Dave's calendar would have full support from landlords.
Yes and their estate agents I own 3 houses myself rented out lol😁
That core sash windows twitter admin is the best twitter admin ever
AKA the International Fixed Calendar.
Dont we have leap seconds /minutes etc ?
What if you're born on intermission?
Day off work every year
Simple, you are pushed back and have to wait until intermission is over. If you are allready "out" for a while, your birthday is cancelled, you are led behind the shed of shame and shot in the face, so that you are cancelled too.
what if you're born on February the 29th?
@Ross Bourne You appear to have missed the joke. February only has 28 days to begin with.
Well it's only a day long so you'd just say your birthday is the Intermission. I guess for leap years you could separate them into Intermission Part I & Intermission Part II 🤣
The break was not 240 seconds >:(
If Tom has 50,000 Facebook friends how many friends does he really have?
I really wish the calendars would be changed! It never made much sense to me. Even more so, because it was different BEFORE the Romans changed it to the current convention...
You just put inches, Yards and miles next to km, m and cm and you looked at it and said.... this is both fine.... how?!
In the Netherlands people get paid for a 13th month.
Why so many midrolls?
I first need to remember what year is it, then when i was born, then subtract or subtract one less. And because I don't give a shit how old I am and what the year is, this operation takes me few seconds, making me look like an idiot.
As Calendar reforms go, that's a better idea than the decimal French Republican Calendar.
the partial age thing can be a cultural thing
Never noticed the months naming in relation to the numbers and now I find it utterly stupid and disappointing from society as a whole
Kelvin is best though.
Dave Gorman low key scheduled the purge
didn't he just re-invent the lunar calendar?
No since this calendar has 28 days a month. A lunar month is 29.5 days long. Lunar calendars alternate between 29 and 30 days.