<tch> Call yourself a goth?boudicca wrote:getting dark at bloody 3 o'clock in the afternoon, after which I'm awake for another 12 hours so what's the point in that?
Where's a Timelord when you need one...?
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boudicca wrote:The name of the file on my compter is "smiling"...canon docre wrote:@Boudicca: in your new avatar you look as if you're mourning. Did the time change hit you that hard?
Hope your usual smile is a bit more of a smile
Or is it the Mona Lisa way of smiling
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Oooh yes. "I'm enigmatic, me".Obviousman wrote:boudicca wrote:The name of the file on my compter is "smiling"...canon docre wrote:@Boudicca: in your new avatar you look as if you're mourning. Did the time change hit you that hard?
Hope your usual smile is a bit more of a smile
Or is it the Mona Lisa way of smiling
I try not to let people see my teeth for fear that I von't be able to get close enough to them when I vaaant to saaack their blaaaad!
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No... of the remembering-the-order-they-go-in type Most of the time I can do without it, but it's things like this that cause realy problemsMotz wrote:Of the magical, phat variety?d00mw0lf wrote:I'm one of them people that has problems with numbers.
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no, just get oneboudicca wrote:So I can complain about it?
"And when you start to think about death, you start to think about what's after it. And then you start hoping there is a God. For me, it's a frightening thought to go nowhere".
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Just thought of something I once saw on TV...boudicca wrote:ENOUGH ALREADY! BOYCOTT TIME THIEVERY!!!
There was this woman who'd started a protest action against winter time, so she'd never change her clocks throughout the entire year and always was on summer time. (or the other way round, but that's a detail)
Then the interviewer asked what she did when she had an appointment with someone: Ah, well, I just go an hour early
Classic
You still know pubs which throw you out at 3pm? How quaint.Pat wrote:What you all seem to forget is-one Saturday soon you will fall out of a public house at 3pm ,barely able to stand or speak and that sense of well being you have will not disappear just because it's daylight.
Day well spent-taxi fare home-cup a soup-bed.
Bliss
And you know that she's half crazy but that's why you want to be there.
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One more annoyance to throw on the pile. Stop the planet, I want to get off!
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".what do you get? A big fat melting pot of talent!"ruffers wrote:Nice. As Mr Bacon didn't say.Motz wrote:Of the magical, phat variety?d00mw0lf wrote:I'm one of them people that has problems with numbers.
I fail to see an insult, since he was referring to the melting pot of talent. Insecure and fat. Bad combination, eh? Good thing Fat Bob isn't in that band.
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I really don't understand the clocks going backwards and forwards every year. We should stick to GMT which at least has some basis in astronomy; it's noon GMT when the Sun is at zenith above Greenwich Observatory.
Shifting the hours around to make the day longer makes about as much sense as trying to make a rope longer by cutting off one end and tying it to the other...
Shifting the hours around to make the day longer makes about as much sense as trying to make a rope longer by cutting off one end and tying it to the other...
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which only makes it shorter due to the knotting.
I don't wanna live like I don't mind
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They originally 'invented' it in order to save energy (in the 70s?). But it turned out to save no energy at allmarkfiend wrote:I really don't understand the clocks going backwards and forwards every year. We should stick to GMT which at least has some basis in astronomy; it's noon GMT when the Sun is at zenith above Greenwich Observatory.
Shifting the hours around to make the day longer makes about as much sense as trying to make a rope longer by cutting off one end and tying it to the other...
So you're right, they'd better get rid of it
Anyway, for Greenwich the time is right indeed, but eg. Belgium is on GMT+1 whereas geographically it should be in GMT. The Jerries made us go to GMT+1 in the War to make time tables for trains easier across their Reich
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Yeah, in S.A. they never have to change the clock forwards or backwards.
Living with the time difference for a decade now and still it confuses me
@timsinister - the planet does not stop...don't get off either...you would be missed!
Living with the time difference for a decade now and still it confuses me
@timsinister - the planet does not stop...don't get off either...you would be missed!
it's all about circles and spirals
that ongoing eternity
that ongoing eternity
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I knew Belgium is on GMT+1 but didn't know why.
Technically local Leeds time should be GMT - 6 minutes geographically
Technically local Leeds time should be GMT - 6 minutes geographically
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Cheers, darling.MadameButterfly wrote: @timsinister - the planet does not stop...don't get off either...you would be missed!
Shall we not get started on Leap Years then, Marky? Anyway, we all know space (and time) is terribly curved in Leeds!
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Leap years I can cope with. They can pìss about with the calendar all they like.
Personally, I'm a big fan of calendar reforms such as the French Revolutionary calendar in which today is 10 Brumaire CCXIV (or maybe 11 Brumaire- see linky for controversy on when leap-years should be)
And of course there's the eleven missing days of 1752 caused by the late adoption of the Gregorian calendar in England.
Personally, I'm a big fan of calendar reforms such as the French Revolutionary calendar in which today is 10 Brumaire CCXIV (or maybe 11 Brumaire- see linky for controversy on when leap-years should be)
And of course there's the eleven missing days of 1752 caused by the late adoption of the Gregorian calendar in England.
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Ah, yes, a great onemarkfiend wrote:Personally, I'm a big fan of calendar reforms such as the French Revolutionary calendar in which today is 10 Brumaire CCXIV (or maybe 11 Brumaire- see linky for controversy on when leap-years should be)
The months had very poetic names, made up by poets
Did you know they even had a decimal clock back in those days?
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which calendar was nostrodamus using?
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For Markfiend's Factoids TM
Daylight Saving Time means that in December (oop Norff anyway), it gets light about half past 8 and dark about 4. Now most people are only awake for an hour or two before half eight in the morning, unless they're wierd. Sensible peeps will still be in their beds, and even those on their way to work will still be fast asleep and unable to notice whether the sun's up or not .
How many people do you know who turn in before the 6 o'clock news though? Those with newborn babies are exempt - those little guys don't care when they snooze. But big people are generally awake at least 6 hours after it gets dark in winter, thanks to The Man.
I think it's a government plot to make us hibernate, so that they can... I don't know, do Bad Sneaky Government Things . Maybe.
Mmmm.... hibernate....
Daylight Saving Time means that in December (oop Norff anyway), it gets light about half past 8 and dark about 4. Now most people are only awake for an hour or two before half eight in the morning, unless they're wierd. Sensible peeps will still be in their beds, and even those on their way to work will still be fast asleep and unable to notice whether the sun's up or not .
How many people do you know who turn in before the 6 o'clock news though? Those with newborn babies are exempt - those little guys don't care when they snooze. But big people are generally awake at least 6 hours after it gets dark in winter, thanks to The Man.
I think it's a government plot to make us hibernate, so that they can... I don't know, do Bad Sneaky Government Things . Maybe.
Mmmm.... hibernate....
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i've set the default board time back to GMT(rather than GMT+1) but anyojne who still sees the time one hour out will still have to go to edit their profile and set their own individual timezones back to GMT too.
edit your profile
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