The light at the end of the tunnel is here...

November is finally upon us! After a mediocre boxing year and a horrible drought in October, boxing's coming back with a bang to finish this year off. I'm fucking excited! Let's see all your picks for the fights, I'll post mine in a bit:

11/6
Showtime:
Juanma Lopez - Rafael Marquez
Glen Johnson - Allan Green

HBO:
Zab Judah - Lucas Matthyse
Robert Guerrero - Vicente Escobedo

11/13 Manny Pacquiao - Antonio Margarito

11/20 Sergio Martinez - Paul Williams II

11/27 Showtime:
Carl Froch - Arthur Abraham
Andre Ward - Sakio Bika

HBO:
Juan Manuel Marquez - Michael Katsidis
Andre Berto - Freddy Hernandez
Celestino Caballero - Jason Litzau

12/11 HBO:
Amir Khan - Marcos Maidana
Victor Ortiz - Lamont Peterson

Showtime:
Yonnhy Perez - Joseph Agbeko
Vic Darchinyan - Abner Mares

12/18 Showtime:
Jean Pascal-Bernard Hopkins
Erik Morales - Jorge Barrios (I thought I'd read they were trying to package these two together when it was on PPV, havent seen anything since it was announced to be on regular Showtime but here's hoping)

artie:

 

the big rigondeaux - cordoba bout is what i look forward to

 

Hell yeah. Great way to end the year with 2 months stacked with fights! :hammert:

 

On the undercard at Dallas, right? Have yet to see the Cubano, I'll definitely be checking that too.

 

Some very good match ups and some interesting fights. Add to that a chance that 90 year old Bernard Hopkins gets beat down and it's a great end to the year.

Most looking forward to JMM-Katsidis and Ortiz Peterson

 

good news. rios has replaced pavlik's shitty tune up on the margarito card.

 

Why do you guys put the month before the day? That's always puzzled me

 

Agreed. I hate it.

The logic is, however, that you put the smallest possible number first and then gradually increase.

For example: you only have 12 months in a year so that goes first, 31 max days in a month, and the year is the biggest number and so goes at the end.

However...

The logic of Day/Month/Year makes far more sense to me....with each component of the date comprising the following component.

 

Agreed. Month/Day is very fag

 

UUUUUHHHHHH YEEE YEEEE YEEEE!!!!

 

I suspect the logic was more like 'Europe does it this way......we're AMERICA (FUCK YEAH!!!), we'll do it our own way'.

 

Exactly! :giggle:

Americans have to do everything differently for the sake of it.

 

Huh? You're the one implying yours is somehow the correct way to do it. Maybe it's that attitude that has illicited our need to do it differently.

 

Oh for goodness sake. 'Lets call thursday monday and tuesday sunday because you arrogant poms insist your way is right! God bless America!'

 

'Hey John, how much do you weigh?'

'7lb, 13st, 12 ounces'

'Huh?'

 

Yeah like you aren´t the USA of Europe then with all your foot, yards, stone, ounce, inch, pound and all that crap. :Giggle:

 

Those measurements are "IMPERIAL". They are British to begin with. :hammert:

 

For business purposes I think most UK companies use metric now. But for day to day chat 'Imperial' measures just plain work better. 5'10 is definitively a better measure for a mans height than '1.78 meters'. That sounds horrible. It's how you effectively measure carpet perhaps but it's inhuman. How much do you weigh? '85kg'. What the fuck does that mean? Makes me vaguely queezy. I can imagine having 85 kilos of industrial cleaning crystals to unload from a lorry but not 85 kilos of man.

Plus if we got rid of pints we would lose 68ml of booze every time we ordered a drink like you guys do! This can't be allowed to happen and the British people will fight to keep our identity & heritage alive with every fibre of our being.

 

Maybe, but probably not.

Stop trying to take this thread off topic, Double. This is a great month for boxing. :bears:

 

Look at the OP. It's easier to read with the month first. And it's easier to sort when you do it that way. You don't need the year because everyone knows the year, but when you enter stuff into a computer, then the year comes first.

1102
1103
1228

that sorts. Whereas

0211
0112

does not.

 

Come again?

 

(says the guy who just scoffed at the idea of another country doing something different than his own).

 

First of all, in the context of my post, that line is clearly a joke. Second of all 'different' is fine. Clearly dumb less so. Thirdly, you got a gerbil up your ass today or something?

 

It sounds just as correct to say the 5th of November as it does to say November 5th, but

if you are going to type out the dates, then it makes much more sense to put the month first because you cannot sort when you put the day ahead of the month. Now look back at my post and you'll see why.

 

I have no idea what sort means in this context. You mean like for filing or something?

 

America invented a sport and called it football just for spite.

 

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No. No gerbil.

Maybe I'm just adverse to the idea that putting the month second is somehow smarter than putting it first, when as far as I can tell, the only argument for doing so is that that's the way they do it in Britain.

But clearly I've invested more time in this than is worth, and it's a pretty stupid debate to be having, I admit, when as Steve Dave said, this is a great month for boxing.

 

Yes.

 

Fair enough. The way I see it, and I'll try and make this my last word on the matter (though Im genuinely curious as to what the hell Mike's on about), the day is the most relevant info in the package. If you don't already know what year and month it is you've got problems beyond what learning what the date is will help you with. So the day gets positioned as the first thing you look at instead of tucking it in the middle.

And also, purely from a neatness perspective (and IMO this is the major thing) you put things in order of their size in the units of measurement you're using. You don't say 7lb, 13st, 8 ounces, you say 13st, 7lb, 8 ounces. Or 37 yards, 4 miles, 9 inches. It's 4 miles, 37 yards, 9 inches. It simply makes it more intelligible to step out in order of the scale you're using rather than zig zagging from medium to small to big for no particular reason.

 

Right, i see. I can see the sense in that (I think) but that's a very particular usage. Kinda the tail wagging the dog there - seems more reasonable to just let the librarians file things differently to the way most people talk if they want to rather than having everyone talk the way Librarians file things ::