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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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I heard two of my students having a conversation. One asked what state Arizona was in, and the other replied Canada. I teach sixth grade social studies and they weren't joking. FML
Today, while teaching my history class, a girl asked me where North America was. She lives in North America. FML
Today, my boyfriend asked me when I was going to shave my arms now that summer is coming in Australia. FML
Today, the boy I have crush on at school announced that his family were moving to Australia. My friend thought that it would be funny to spread a rumour that I was moving too, in order to follow him. Everyone has heard it, and unfortunately everyone believes it, including him. FML
Today, I live abroad, but I was born in the USA so I'm sick of people asking me who I voted for in the last election, all while looking at me weirdly and suspiciously. FML
Today, a police officer came to talk to the kids at my workplace. He asked what they wanted to hear about first. A group of them shouted, "The donuts, tells us about the donuts." Apparently these idiots are the future of my country. FML
Today, I was riding a bus. After having a conversation with my friend, I looked down and saw a little boy looking at me. He asked, "Are you a boy or a girl?" As if that wasn't bad enough, when I responded that I was a girl, he said, "Oh. So, why do you have a boy voice then?" FML
Today, my son asked me if slavery was ever abolished. He's 19. FML
Today, I heard my ten-year-old brother say, "Are hamburgers a reptile?" FML
Today, I discovered that apparently my six-year-old daughter actually believes that the United States is the only country with advanced technology. 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. >.<
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...
RedPillSucks 33
Unfortunately, he wasn't just imprecise, he was conceptually wrong.
zero9050 5
sad
Tanner1245 4
Theres idiots all over the world don't determine the future of America because of a few stupid people
livingmylife18 14
This doesn't surprise me, I've had to explain where New Zealand is to an American.
aBigWiener 4
Except it's December in australia due to the time zone difference. All of you got owned
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.
aBigWiener 4
Well with the timezone difference, it would actually be December now
pandachic27 9
That doesn't necessarily mean they are stupid, sometimes I say stuff like that to start conversation or reference and inside joke.
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.
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.
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.
germbrain 2
@#132 My thoughts!!