Not exactly a pressing topic but I remember it being later in the year, or am I just going crazy?
It's a vast conspiracy to make millions of people late.
Not exactly a pressing topic but I remember it being later in the year, or am I just going crazy?
You're right, from what I heard Congress moved it up like two weeks for some reason??? I have no clue why. I think it's a conspiarcy.
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Thank Kord I am not just losing it.
Probably to raise taxes, I mean isn't that what congress does or is that the dictator?
I meant the President; but really, in this day and age it is almost the same exact thing.
They think if we're tired & groggy that we'll just let them do whatever without questioning their authority. :o)
And now my clocks are sayin' it's 12:30am and even though my brain says differently I'm still goin nighty night. (whoot - I get to fall asleep to the sound of rain & thunder, I LOVE IT!!)
It's supposed to save energy, or so they claim. All the people back up in Northern yankee land are getting increasingly long days, so the difference in light in the morning will be quickly made up for. In the evening everywhere in daylight time, it's light for an extra hour, which means 1 less hour with all the lights on. Or at least that's what the news said. Really, I think they're just jacking with us.
Why exactly are we paying these people so much money?
It's a conspiracy to give me less time to work on my paper.
The explanation out of the US Congress was that by artificially making the day "longer," Americans would consume less electricity...
I hate daylight savings time. PERIOD. Savings time? No, it doesn't save anything; it's useless and a pain in everyone's toockus! I will vote for any politician that promises to rid us of this rediculous tradition, even if their beliefs are diametrically opposed to mine in every other way.
My stomach insists that it's Lunchtime. The Timeclock says otherwise, and the Timeclock dictates many things.
I need a nap. There's a warm spot under my desk next to the rack o' computers. So...warm...
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I hate daylight savings time. PERIOD. Savings time? No, it doesn't save anything; it's useless and a pain in everyone's toockus! I will vote for any politician that promises to rid us of this rediculous tradition, even if their beliefs are diametrically opposed to mine in every other way.
I used to joke that I was going to run for office soley on that platform. Good to know that there are others that feel the same way. Most people just think I'm being silly.
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I had an Astronomy professor who said that daylight savings time is like cutting a foot off the bottom of a quilt and sewing it to the top.
On the other hand, you could use the same metaphor and say that it's like pulling a quilt that's hanging off your feet up over your shoulders. You have the same amount of quilt, but you've just moved it to the place where it'll do more good.
Not that I really care one way or the other, I'm just sayin'...
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I used to joke that I was going to run for office soley on that platform. Good to know that there are others that feel the same way. Most people just think I'm being silly.
Anti-daylight savings AND a gamer? Heck, I'd be your campaign manager...for free!
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Anti-daylight savings AND a gamer? Heck, I'd be your campaign manager...for free!
I used to joke that I was going to run for office soley on that platform. Good to know that there are others that feel the same way. Most people just think I'm being silly.
Well, I can't go for pres until 2012, but what else do you have in mind for me mister campaign manager?
The orginal Daylight savings was invented by Benjamin Franklin to save on candle wax. Today the theory is that you will stay out longer and not use any lights, or if you are outside you won't power the PC, the TV, etc... But like any theory (including global warming) what happens in reality might be a bit different.
-Dave
Apparently there's an internet article out there somewhere that says that the new DLST is what's causing the gas prices to go up... because people are driving more because there's daylight. WTF?!, it's not like we stop driving when the night closes in.
Apparently there's an internet article out there somewhere that says that the new DLST is what's causing the gas prices to go up... because people are driving more because there's daylight. WTF?!, it's not like we stop driving when the night closes in.
Who wrote that nonsense?
Apparently there's an internet article out there somewhere that says that the new DLST is what's causing the gas prices to go up... because people are driving more because there's daylight. WTF?!, it's not like we stop driving when the night closes in.Who wrote that nonsense?
Some twit at CNN
Some twit at CNN
Thank you Tegan. I just read it. These analysts need to get out more. I never drive during the day unless I must, to many lunatics on the road.
Amen to that. I prefer to drive with the truckers at night. Especially on a road trip.
Amen to that. I prefer to drive with the truckers at night. Especially on a road trip.
I am thinking of going on a road trip, after I get out of rehab(I am soooo, Robert Downey Jr.)well,if they ever get a bed cleared for me.
Did they say how long it will be before one's ready?
Did they say how long it will be before one's ready?
It was supposed to be today, but now it is looking like thursday. The sooner the better I would like to start writing the next chapter in my life; booze free, sooner rather then later.
At least you're the one wanting to change, no "intervention" involved. I think when you're doing it for yourself, you're more likely to follow through with it & make the change.
At least you're the one wanting to change, no "intervention" involved. I think when you're doing it for yourself, you're more likely to follow through with it & make the change.
I hope it proves true, because waking up in jail for doing somthing stupid has gotten really old.
At least it wasn't an "extended stay".
At least it wasn't an "extended stay".
You got that right.
Yeah, so glad there's a new party in charge of Congress! Rather than suffer with the old "do nothing" Congress, our new representative went straight to work ...uh,huh, and the most pressing order of business had to be to jack with daylight savings time (a useless thing in the first place). So we use less energy lighting our homes after work but what about the extra energy we use because it's now pitch black when we get up in the morning? Ridiculous! So nice to see our tax dollars hard at work.
The only thing our tax dollars do, is pay for ski trips and call girls...
You mean you've been on a ski trip? No fair!! ;)
You mean you've been on a ski trip? No fair!! ;)
ROFL oh kord you make me laugh ha ha ha ha
Yeah, so glad there's a new party in charge of Congress! Rather than suffer with the old "do nothing" Congress, our new representative went straight to work ...uh,huh, and the most pressing order of business had to be to jack with daylight savings time (a useless thing in the first place). So we use less energy lighting our homes after work but what about the extra energy we use because it's now pitch black when we get up in the morning? Ridiculous! So nice to see our tax dollars hard at work.
Actually, wasn't this passed last year, by the old, "do nothing" congress? (An unfair name if ever I heard one - they passed this Daylight Savings thing, paid for a $250 million bridge to nowhere, rubber-stamped legislation letting the president appoint U.S. Attorneys without oversight and only discovered it later cause they never read the thing... they did stuff!) (Well, except reading, apparently.)
The stamp is going up again. Surprized? Not really...
I don't know about the rest of you, waking up wasn't the problem...
but driving home from work in broad daylight this early in the year jacked me all up. This whole week has been like that.
Move to Arizona, most of it doesn't follow DLST. But the one county that does? How would you like to live on a border where if you drove across it during SOME of the year you were an hour early, and the other part of the year you were on time?
But only at night, otherwise that mass amount of desert terrain is rather warm.
But only at night, otherwise that mass amount of desert terrain is rather warm.
Not to mention crawling with Blue Dragons.