By toritoratora - 26/11/2012 05:27 - United States - Huntington Beach

Today, I heard a teenage boy ask his friend, "So, is it, like, November in Australia too?" This is the future of America. FML
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Sandsh8rk 36

To answer the teenagers question: No, we have a special month called Kangaroocember, where we all celebrate Australia by finding kangaroos and riding in their pouches. ...OF COURSE it's November in Australia. Just like the rest of the world. >.<

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SApprentice 34

... I can only hope that the boy was trying to refer to the weather difference, and not the actual month, because otherwise this is just another crushing blow to my faith in humanity.

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mimirod94 0

Yes...this is the future of our generation as a result of their parents...

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RedPillSucks 31

Unfortunately, he wasn't just imprecise, he was conceptually wrong.

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Tanner1245 4

Theres idiots all over the world don't determine the future of America because of a few stupid people

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livingmylife18 14

This doesn't surprise me, I've had to explain where New Zealand is to an American.

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aBigWiener 4

Except it's December in australia due to the time zone difference. All of you got owned

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omart3 6

I think the kid wanted to know for sure, because he at least understands that there is a time zone difference in every part of the world, but didn't know how much (bless his heart). At least he doesn't just assume that everywhere is the same, like Canadians celebrate thanksgiving in November, or that England celebrates the 4th of July, etc.

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aBigWiener 4

Well with the timezone difference, it would actually be December now

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pandachic27 9

That doesn't necessarily mean they are stupid, sometimes I say stuff like that to start conversation or reference and inside joke.

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Rajje_fml 5

Actually, it's a valid question. The names of the months are, just like the counting of the years or any other man-made concept, completely arbitrary. Australia use the same months with the same names as the rest of the western world, making their months fall on the opposite seasons to ours in the northern hemisphere. But they could just as well have displaced the months' names six months forward and called this month May instead of November, to make the seasons coincide with ours instead of the names. Or they could have called their months something completely different and had a different division of them. They could also just as well have called this the year 8505 or 52 or 1000003 and used a 32-hour clock and measured length based on "x number of IBM Model M keyboards in a row" and their traffic lights could have been white-blue-magenta, etc, etc. It's all as arbitrary as anything. But now they happen to use mostly the same concepts as the UK, since the current dominating population has its origins as a British colony.

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mintfresh7 9

Its not a valid question. Even if Australians used Klingon for their months, the boy is the one referring to it, it's his naming conventions that matter.

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Rajje_fml 5

It could be argued that the question is slightly misphrased and should have been "do they *call* it November in Australia", but that is just a common casual phrasing in speaking language. I could probably say "In Kurdistan it's currently the year 2624" and everyone would understand what I meant and not think I'm an idiot who believes they're actually in the future gregorian year 2624.

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