Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[robot_god]

Never put assunder what I believe is the proper grammar of Daylightes' Savings of Time.

[Victoria Waterfield]

man, I ain't about to let legislation how to speak my own damn language.

no, see, I always understood it as a possesive. It is the time of daylight saving.

Well that's incorrect, but "daylight savings" is perfectly acceptable - just as the bank allows one to have monetary savings, so does adjusting the clock allow one to have daylight savings.

[Turbo Ninja]

It caused me to get hungrier an hour "earlier" and to re-calibrate the time difference between here and Mumbai.  It really is a big screwup when the rest of the goddamn world uses a civilized clock and we're fiddling with extra hours here and there.  To make things worse, Mumbai is all the way in goddamn INDIA and apparently they use the metric system to tell time because they're +5:30 off GMT.  How in the HELL did they get offset by 30 minutes instead of being even hours like EVERYBODY ELSE?!?

[jaydub]

Someone was probably looking at local noon and realized the sun wasn't quite perfectly at the apex of its daily arc, and his anal-retentiveness wouldn't let him sleep until he badgered the government into offsetting the clock.  I think there's someplace in Australia that is offset by 15 minute increments as well.  Due to History.

Edit:  Yay:  Memory does not fail me, today.

[pmcd9]

There's someplace up in Canada that's off by 30 minutes.

[Victoria Waterfield]

There's someplace up in Canada that's off by 30 minutes.

That would be Newfoundland. They're off on a lot of things.

[jough]

Please, people, no Newfie jokes here.  We're better than that.

[jaydub]

Please, people, no Newfie jokes here.  We're better than that.

Well, they're perfectly lovely dogs


And handy for camping trips


Although I'd avoid taking them wilderness camping.  Packing out that much poop would be a chore.

[side_show]

And handy for camping trips

That is darling.  So cute.

I know I've said this every year, but I hate the time changes, and for the past few years I've always been to some other time zone right before the change, which makes things even worse.  I have an awesome internal clock, so I feel like I'm on another planet when my schedules gets shifted.

Speaking of Newfoundlanders, do check out the band Great Big Sea if you want some cheery East Coast music.

[KeithHernandez]

When I went on my little West coast road trip, Arizona really fucked me up.  We drove to the Grand Canyon, didn't know we were at the Grand Canyon, and drove back to Utah because that was the closest hotel with vacancy.  Anyhow, we had to be out by 12, we thought it was 3, but it was 4, so by the time we got there I took an hour long shower it was almost pointless.

[Arachno-capitalist]

When I went on my little West coast road trip, Arizona really fucked me up.  We drove to the Grand Canyon, didn't know we were at the Grand Canyon, and drove back to Utah because that was the closest hotel with vacancy.  Anyhow, we had to be out by 12, we thought it was 3, but it was 4, so by the time we got there I took an hour long shower it was almost pointless.

When Keith is fucked up, the state of Utah becomes a hotel - with vacancy. We should party some time, let my people talk to your people.

[pmcd9]

In no relationship to this thread I posted a picture of me at "Little Grand Canyon"

[KeithHernandez]

Well, it was dark.

Also, we will all be better off if Utah became a giant hotel.

Also, yeah, I got a buzz on.

[jaydub]

I'm still trying to figure out how he missed a hole visible from space.

If he was driving, then its probably a good thing.  KH, goin' over the edge all Thelma and Louise style...

[KeithHernandez]

Have you ever driven to the Grand Canyon at night?  You are in a forest and then the road ends.  How was I to know the road ending meant there was a big fuck*ng hole there?