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Trivial Pursuits => Wild Card => Topic started by: jay-ell on April 02, 2004, 10:25:50 pm
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Don't forget to "Spring Ahead" tomorrow. (Void where prohibited. Restrictions apply.)
Pedro hates the very concept of Daylight Saving Time. I find it harmless, and laugh at him for spending time and brainwaves thinking about how much it irritates him. What do you think? Love it or leave it?
And let me issue a pre-emptive "sucks to you" for those who live in states/countries that do not observe DST. I know what to expect from you troublemakers.
Non-conformists.
Hippies.
Right.
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I hate it when we "fall back," but I love days like tomorrow, when we get a whole extra hour of sunlight at dusk. So it all evens out.
On the list of Things That Bother Me, DST falls somewhere in the low 900s or so.
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I'm against it this year since I'm supposed to be at a concert in Bawlmer until 2 which means I'll be there until 3 plus travel time.
But mad props for not pluralizing daylight, which is a pet peeve of mine.
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I don't see why it can't stay Daylight Saving Time all year round. Why do we ever change back?
And I hate that getting up an hour earlier thing.
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I am sort of vaguely opposed to "spring ahead," since it will cost me a whole hour of sleep before my flight back to school on Sunday, but given as I will likely spend the entire flight sleeping anyway, who cares?
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I used to be an opponent of DST, because I thought it was an outdated measure taken to guarantee the economic safety of the nation what with farmers being able to rise at the right time by the clock and what have you. I read a study a few years ago which caused me to switch to being a proponent of DST - as it turns out, all of our drains on the planet are lower due to the time change: less electricity is used in the summer to keep lights on, etc., and less gas is used in the winter to keep heat on, etc.
Bottom line, I'm all for less energy consumption. Especially when that energy consumption is directly related to the sizes of my bills.
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I hate DST. Fuck you farmers!
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I wish time changed all the time by random increments. Then NO ONE would know what time it was. All of a sudden it would get dark because the time changed, and then the next minute it would be high noon again.
I'M TALKING CHAOS HERE, PEOPLE
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I hate DST. Fuck you farmers!
Beat me to it.
And there aren't even any farmers left over here after foot and mouth. And they all have floodlights on their tractors. And they all suck.
I don't see why they have to fuck with time!
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http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_052.html
http://tf.nist.gov/general/daylightsavingtime.html
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I wish time changed all the time by random increments. Then NO ONE would know what time it was. All of a sudden it would get dark because the time changed, and then the next minute it would be high noon again.
I'M TALKING CHAOS HERE, PEOPLE
I'll go for that. We could have like six time changes in a week, and then nothing for two years, and then all of a sudden have the month change on us. Good times!
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Dammit, despite this board's debate, I still forgot to change my watch forward this morning, and thanks to a Saturday night with this stuff (http://www.carlorossi.com/), was quite perplexed and enraged by the whole concept this morning.
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Yup, and I forgot to change my alarm clock and was late for work. First time in my life I forget to change the clocks and it would have to be when I have a job where I work on Sundays.
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As duly predicted, I got shafted an hour of sleep before my flight. At least I managed to catch a nap on the plane, which gave me the incredible sensation of having been transported from Lincoln to Chicago instantly.
(And my night was all about a long, creepy nightmare in which at one point Steven Seagal hurled insults at me about my virtue. Mind you, in my subconscious this was terrifying. Go figure.)
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(And my night was all about a long, creepy nightmare in which at one point Steven Seagal hurled insults at me about my virtue. Mind you, in my subconscious this was terrifying. Go figure.)
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGH!!!
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:weeps:
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:weeps some more:
Subconscious, hell! Any personal contact with Steven Seagal is pretty damn terrifying in my book.
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I totally frickin' spaced on DST. A friend called me at what I thought was 10 AM, asking if we were still having softball practice at 11:30. "Sure are," I said. "OK, see you soon," he said. "What do you mean? It's not for another hour and a half."
I still made it to the field before everyone else.
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Especially when that energy consumption is directly related to the sizes of my bills.
at first, i read "bills" as "balls"
anyway, i am voting against daylight savings time just because i feel like lying. daylight savings time is actually a rather convenient excuse for the next few weeks or so. i use it for absolutely everything! the "spring forward" daylight savings time change is the more convenient of the two, because it becomes a good reason for why i didn't have time to do something, instead of just a completely made-up reason.
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okay, so i broke down and voted 'yay' after all. besides, change is good!
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Another growing unpleasantry: walking to my 9:00 class while the elements are still firmly convinced it's 7:45 or so. Bleah.
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Another growing unpleasantry: walking to my 9:00 class while the elements are still firmly convinced it's 7:45 or so. Bleah.
Ah, the joys of a Western Massachusetts spring, where it's really winter until about May 10.
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Another growing unpleasantry: walking to my 9:00 class while the elements are still firmly convinced it's 7:45 or so. Bleah.
Ah, the joys of a Western Massachusetts spring, where it's really winter until about May 10.
Yes.
fuck*ng snow! Jesus Haploid Christ, what is this shit?
(Besides "snow." I get that.)
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We don't do daylight savings here. Being in relatively terms close to the equator (on the tropic of Cancer, more or less) means pretty steady daylight hours. It screws up TV since cable feeds are mainly on West Coast Time, and talk radio broadcast live is also screwed up. But for the most part, we get plenty of daylight, thanks, no need to save it.
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AlohaDawg, I am trying real hard not to hate you right now.
How's that working out for you, Wombat?