holy shit hesky, you are german?
No, but Molly is. Heskey is just so lazy that he quotes everything instead of being selective.
There's not much more to say. Angry insecure defence of a format that makes no logical sense.
In the breakdown of any units you go from large-small or small-large because that's how we measure distance, time, whatever (whether metric, imperial, whatever). You wouldn't write a measurement in yards/inches/feet, you'd go yards/feet/inches. Well... if one American did it and a non-American criticised it then I'm sure you'd angrily and defensively talk about how much sense it makes.
Nice try to divert the argument. In no way have I been angry. That has been the characterization that you've tried to impart. You, on the other hand, have resorted to ad hominem attacks, a recognized cheap tactic of a weak debater.
What I have done is to explain the reason why the format is in use. It's in use by rather more than one American, something you seem to fail to realize. Whether it meets your particular standard of mathematical precision is completely immaterial. It certainly worked well enough to arrive on Omaha beach and land a man on the moon on the correct dates.
Now I have been defensive because you have been offensive. An asinine statement like (to paraphrase) "That's just another example of Americans doing something wrong and not admitting it." is clumsily offensive.
If you want to go down that road we could always examine why the British cling to adding extraneous and useless vowels to words and use backwards spelling just because some French of Viking descent showed up on the beach 950 years ago. Most Americans would say it made zero sense to say armor but add in an extraneous u or to pronounce theater but mangle it by spelling it theatre. The correct answer to that would be that it was custom, and tradition and that it worked well for the British, not that it was another example of what the British did wrong but won't admit.
Tell me Heskey, does it ever get cold up there on the moral high ground?
