Yes, today's punch in the throat is not dedicated to people who drive badly, or who wander around shopping centres in trances, or stay up all night praying to the tooth fairy for the health of a sick child resulting in inattentiveness the next day and subsequent mowing down of said child by a car*. No, today's punch in the throat, uniquely thus far, is dedicated to an entire nation.
The United States Of America, please stand up.
Why punch an entire nation in the throat? Well, there are many, many reasons, but I'll single this out for starters:
Dates should be written dd/mm/yyyy, not mm/dd/yyyy.
Do you write your times as mm:hh:ss? No, you don't. If you did, everyone would be confused to shit and never turn up anywhere on time. So why be so pig-headed as to write your dates the way you do?
It's logical guys. Write in ascending order of unit size, and there is no more ambiguity. Day is the smallest unit of measurement in a date, so comes first. Months are longer than days and shorter than years, so they follow. Finally, you round it off with the year. There's an ISO standard on this, so that everyone in the world can benefit from using the same date format, but you, you bunch of fat fuckers, you insist on being different.
Today is 18th December 2006, also known as 18/12/06. Now write it out a hundred times and remember that in future. And stop eating so much.
Additionally, none of you seppo bastards can spell. For example:
manouevre.
I rest my case. A punch in the throat for the good ol' US of A.
* if you don't know what I'm referring to, you obviously never read the SMH during the media ascendancy of one Sophie Delezio, whose carer, distraught after pushing the child out in front of a car, confessed to staying up all night praying the night before, and being overly tired as a result. No-one seemed to connect the dots on that at the time. hmmm