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Started by mrs h in Chit-Chat

I just wanted to say welcome back to good old GMT. Now we will all be able to enjoy going out at 4 o’clock in the afternoon in the knowledge that it will be pitch black :mad:

Does anyone know why we still have BST? It can’t just be so we can have a lie in on one Sunday morning in October, can it? Because that’s really not worth the horror of the clocks going forward again in March …

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 15:37

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Charlie (The Monsters Of Muskeg) wrote:

Hey - an extra hour in bed - cant compain :)

And the hours going forward in spring - at least you know its the end of winter :)

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 15:45

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30 secs max wrote:

mrs h - pitch black at 4?

think yourself lucky, we get about 5 hours of light per day up here in the winter!

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 16:47

#3

mrs h wrote:

I forgot you were Scottish - During the winter months just check to make sure you are not laying face down in a gutter somewhere. You will find that it’s invariably much lighter when you roll over :p

@Squall - Nothing is ever worth getting up an hour early for, and especially not Spring when it has snowed copiously for the last 3 years in a row!

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 20:49

#4

Charlie (The Monsters Of Muskeg) wrote:

oh i dont know - getting up early to see in the sunrise to head on out at 6am for a job that actually really enjoy is not bad :)

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 21:06

#5

mrs h wrote:

You’re ill Squall. It’s a kind of reversed S.A.D. That’s making you obsessively cheerful in the face of 4 months of freezing darkness.

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 21:19

#6

Charlie (The Monsters Of Muskeg) wrote:

Ive had a job at 6am and it was so much fun..Driving all over the place delivering boxes :D

Posted on Sun, 28 October 2007 at 22:02

#7

Divers (Simon) wrote:

I don’t mind it.. i get extra hours of sunlight.. and i think it’s now a more sensible time to talk to people in the uk?

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 08:49

#8

Dennis wrote:

I really like the fact that it was daylight when I got up this morning but I am sure that pleasure will be displaced by it being pitch black when I drive home tonight.

As for the whole point of it, I don’t get it at all.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 09:40

#9

deadsetgav wrote:

Its shit - I hate it going dark early.

In about 2 weeks its gonna be dark as I drive to work and dark when I drive home - I’ve lost my window seat so the only time I’m gonna see daylight after that is at weekend…

(That is, if that lazy cunt of a sun can be bothered to actually rise at all!)

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:13

#10

deadsetgav wrote:

that is - window seat at work - i’ve moved office, so where I used to have a lovely 5th floor view across the Blackburn skyline, I now have a panoramic view of a corridor.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:14

#11

deadsetgav wrote:

I thought the clocks altering was something to do with Farming…

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:16

#12

CS (Colin S) wrote:

You must be bored… a triple post.. all different :D

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:26

#13

Dermot (The Derm) wrote:

I thought it was something about making it safer for kids to go to school in the morning

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:28

#14

chr1s (The T.F.M) wrote:

^
Thats what i thought too. To make it lighter in the mornings when kids are going to school.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:45

#15

Dennis wrote:

I think it just generally started with trying to squeeze the most sunlight hours out of the day during summer by jumping the day forward an hour.

Quite why people couldn’t just, you know, get up earlier, I have no idea.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:50

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mrs h wrote:

I thought it was something to do with farming, like Gav said - but maybe they got rid of it and brought it back for the kids. I think the worst day of the year is when the clocks go forward. And the best day of the year is pancake day :)

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 11:58

#17

Dennis wrote:

Actually, according to wankypedia the farmers find it more of a hinderance than a help.

As for Pancake Day (or “Jif Lemon Day”, as some faiths refer to it) it is indeed a very important holiday in the calendar. WoMbles may be shocked to hear I am quite partial to a pancake or twelve myself. Sugar and lemon will do just fine and dandy as a topping, but if you insist on a nice large rectangle of vanilla ice cream and some of that nice caramel sauce, that would be grand. No nuts though, that’s just poncy TV chef bollocks.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 12:01

#18

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

http://www.savingthedaylight.com/dst/ :)

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 12:08

#19

deadsetgav wrote:

CS wrote:

You must be bored… a triple post.. all different :D

Its more to do with the lack of an edit function and a the speed in which I have to write posts so I dont get caught!

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 12:19 in reply to an earlier post

#20

Paddy wrote:

All i know is that i was awake at fcuking 5 am this morning (2 and a half hours too early), all as a result of p1ssing about with the clocks, as you can see i’m not best pleased!

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 15:39

#21

caffeinebomb wrote:

I thought GMT was like some nitro form of PMT.

Perhaps GMT was why Thatcher decided to go to war over the Falklands. Who knows?

I didn’t realise I lived so close to a heathen deity - this IS good news.

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 16:16

#22

mrs h wrote:

Dennis wrote:

No nuts though, that’s just poncy TV chef bollocks.

Is that why they’re called nuts?

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 18:07 in reply to an earlier post

#23

deadsetgav wrote:

caffeinebomb wrote:

Perhaps GMT was why Thatcher decided to go to war over the Falklands. Who knows?

And now she’s using fradulent phone quizes to fund it!

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 19:18 in reply to an earlier post

#24

30 secs max wrote:

mrs h wrote:

I forgot you were Scottish - During the winter months just check to make sure you are not laying face down in a gutter somewhere.

i find that deeply offensive.

*takes a swig of buckie and lights a doubt*

Posted on Mon, 29 October 2007 at 22:11 in reply to an earlier post

Last edited by Teethgrinder on Tue, 30 October 2007 at 08:01 (Corrected use of quotes)

#25

mrs h wrote:

Yay it’s nearly 4pm and it’s still light!! :D

Sorry. I have the day off work and couldn’t contain my joy :)

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 15:54

#26

Teethgrinder (René Fennema) Administrator wrote:

It’s great, isn’t it? I’m not very good at coping with the dark winter months myself, so I’m very pleased about the days getting longer again as well :-)

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 16:22

#27

deadsetgav wrote:

Its dark when I drive to work and its dark when I leave, and there are no windows - through winter I only see daylight at Weekends :(

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 19:27

#28

deadsetgav wrote:

deadsetgav wrote:

its gonna be dark as I drive to work and dark when I drive home - I’ve lost my window seat so the only time I’m gonna see daylight after that is at weekend…

And i’ve just realised I’ve repeated myself… must be SAD!

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 19:28 in reply to an earlier post

Last edited by Teethgrinder on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 20:07 (Corrected use of quotes)

#29

mrs h wrote:

They probably moved you away from the window so you couldn’t jump. Still, it will be summer soon!!! Just think - hot sunshine, the smell of fresh cut grass, picnics, the beach, the flowers :)

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 19:53

#30

Misanthropologist (d) wrote:

:( Yes.

Posted on Wed, 30 January 2008 at 20:06

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