Jason says:

Okay, I feel stupid, but what makes this so useless? I don’t see it…

Ivey says:

Same here, I don’t see the problem with it. It doesn’t have the days of the week on it, but Sundays are in bold.

Andrew says:

OK, Sundays are in bold, but it’s darned annoying to pick out the other days. You have to stop and think and count. Not tough, for sure, but annoying.

Eric Berlin says:

“Wifag?”

Willobie says:

This is a typical European calendar. I used to get one every year from my German butcher and I threw them away in frustration. Every month is a picture with a rather unhelpful list of numbers at the bottom. Every month starts with 1, so all it tells you at a glance is when the first Sunday is and how many days are in the month. Well, duh! I want more from a calendar than that! Like, when is the third Tuesday of the month? When is the first Monday in September? How can I associate notes with days if there is no grid? Imagine the periodic table of the elements if it were printed like the typical German or Swiss calendar? One damned element after another.

The only European calendar worth watching (to paraphrase the Naked News) would be the Stihl pinup calendar. The North American version even has a real grid on facing pages, so it’s an actual calendar too. Try Ebay, because you won’t find one at your Stihl dealer.

Dan says:

I suppose only a digital clock is useful? It takes some thought to decipher the meaning of those pointy-things on an analog watch…for reference, the 3rd Tuesday is the 17th…you can find it by counting three bolded numbers plus two more days, like on a conventional calendar where you find the second column and count down three rows, err wait, what about when the calendar starts with Sunday? …then it’s three over and three down…damn! had to *think* to find the information I wanted, no more and no less than with this calendar - just differently. oh well, change - like math - is hard.

Charlotte says:

Wow. I don’t understand how you DON’T understand why it is so useless. The point of a calender is not only to see the day of the week or the day, it is also to schedule in appointments or write down events in the boxes. How can you write down events with no boxes? It takes away part of the main purpose.

John says:

We tend to like a more visual representation of things over here. It is the same reason why Sports tournaments are in brackets. In Europe, they don’t have brackets for the Soccer games, they are just lists of teams that will be playing each other. When we look at that, we say, “I want to see what teams is playing another team in the third round…” But when they look at the lists, they can see exactly that. That said, I do like to write on my calendars, so this would at least be useless to me.