John Cleese - How to Irritate People - Airplane Sketch

One of the sketches from Cleese's programme

• Category

  Comedy

[MCshlthead]

im really really fed up with 9 fing 11 its boring as fuck. why does the 9th of november find its way onto every topic and video in every place in every part of cyberspace

[jason bradley]

i bet every plane pilots are tempted to do something like this.

[tornadostudiosinc]

All hail John Cleese, Graham Chapman and Michael Palin: The Troll Kings of Britain

[markaged]

"...also illustrates how irritating maniacal failures-" and then the video stopped buffering.

[floooooooooooooooood]

Because having a format that follows a definite pattern is the easiest way to comprehend it. This just happens to be something in life that is relatively simple to understand so Americans screw logic just to be different.

[CainmosniMirrored]

June 14th, 2013 sounds much better than 14 June 2013. People try to claim a progression from smallest to largest is more logical. Why does logic matter when writing a date as long as you understand the format?

[floooooooooooooooood]

When speaking about time you'd tend to say twenty past four. When writing about it digitally, indeed the largest time is established first. But to compare it to the way Americans do dates you'd have the hour then the seconds then the minutes. It'd be twelve hours, nineteen seconds and four minutes. Which just makes little sense.

[CainmosniMirrored]

Nobody writes the time the way you just wrote it. People use digits to represent time. They don't write it 20:4, they write it 4:20. The hour is established, then the minutes.

Try sorting documents by date when you write the day first. It's a cluster fuck.

[Shockwave474]

Well, myself, I have always grown up saying June 13, but I see plenty of merit in saying it the other way around especially if you're putting the year last. With your way you just go from smallest to biggest. It's all quite logical, isn't it?

[luanamariacerutti]

IIII looooooooveee John Cleese

[floooooooooooooooood]

Why? It makes more sense, at least to me, to establish the most local time before moving up. It is now twenty past four in the afternoon on the thirteenth day of the sixth month of the 2013th year. Why randomly switch the placement of days and months?

[ThornHearnEnglish]

You know I wouldn`t be surprised if there wasn`t some trouble behind this.

I think thats what he says:-)