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Here’s the part where I tease you about Snow in America

kellyoxford:

America likes to come off as such a badass country, and we all LOVE that you guys do it. We need our “tough guy” BUT REMEMBER- by making these storms (which are normal for a lot of other countries) into national events you look like you are pussies.

I don’t think you know what you’re talking about, so I’ll educate you:

The Baltimore-Washington Metro area is home to about 8 million people. That’s about a quarter of the population of Canada, and twice the population of Canada’s biggest city, Toronto.

We get an average of 12 inches of snow a year. Toronto gets about 52 inches a year. When all is said and done, we’ll have that much in less than a week.

But let’s really give you the full picture: 20% of children in Washington and Baltimore are living below the poverty line. Washington and Baltimore have the first and second highest rates of AIDS infection among American cities. These are seriously poor cities facing incredible challenges the likes of which you can’t imagine.

With that in mind: you expect that we’ll dig out from getting a whole year’s worth of Toronto’s snow in a matter of days or we’re “pussies”?

Go fuck yourself. Seriously. Take your immature, uninformed little brain, and stick it firmly up your ass.

And the same goes for all of you morons that “liked this.”

It’s “Twenty ten,” not “Two thousand ten.”

indefensible:

jemaleddin:

indefensible:

(via nickdouglas)

It’s “two thousand and ten”. The extra syllables are all that separate us from the savages.

You only say “and” between the counting numbers and fractional amounts. “Two thousand ten and twenty-five one hundredths.”

It’s being pedantic that separates us from the savages.

Good lord but you’re a staggering cock.

Man, when that guy is right, he’s right.

It’s “Twenty ten,” not “Two thousand ten.”

indefensible:

(via nickdouglas)

It’s “two thousand and ten”. The extra syllables are all that separate us from the savages.

You only say “and” between the counting numbers and fractional amounts. “Two thousand ten and twenty-five one hundredths.”

It’s being pedantic that separates us from the savages.