ARRRRGGGHHH DAYLIGHT SAVINGS!!!!

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RIP one hour

all-beef patty hearst (donna rouge), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:29 (fourteen years ago) link

hate it so much

mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:31 (fourteen years ago) link

Balls to this

First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Sunday, 14 March 2010 06:49 (fourteen years ago) link

ftge imo

all yoga attacks are fire based (rogermexico.), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:09 (fourteen years ago) link

lol shit THAT'S what just happened to that hour.

Computer clock reset itself.

hills like white people (Hurting 2), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:21 (fourteen years ago) link

more like gaylight savings

itchy rainbolt (clotpoll), Sunday, 14 March 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link

there's been a thread on why it's not Daylight SavingS, right?

Not the real Village People, Sunday, 14 March 2010 08:32 (fourteen years ago) link

daylight saving$

shite new answers (cutty), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:26 (fourteen years ago) link

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:36 (fourteen years ago) link

i hate this it's like the day is half gone already!!!!!!!!!

harbl, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:40 (fourteen years ago) link

every farmer needs to be punched in the face rite now

david foster ballaz (m bison), Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:43 (fourteen years ago) link

While I love the later sunsets and all, waking up this morning at 5:30 for work was a bit of a drag...

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

xp except the ones in arizona and hawaii you mean

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 13:45 (fourteen years ago) link

feeling bad for the housekeepers at hotels worldwide who on this morning in addition to their typical turn-down procedures must also manually adjust every single alarm clock

at least they only have to go one hour forward instead of 11/23

mookieproof, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link

it is bullshit

akm, Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:24 (fourteen years ago) link

My extreme laziness has finally paid off and not changing any of the clocks in my apt the last time this happened means that I didn't have to do shit this time around.

t(o_o)t (ENBB), Sunday, 14 March 2010 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link

wow, The Wikipedia features so many interesting and potentially untrue facts about this fascist lie of a proletariat yoke

A 2008 study found that although male suicide rates rise in the weeks after the spring transition, the relationship weakened greatly after adjusting for season.[75] A 2008 Swedish study found that heart attacks were significantly more common the first three weekdays after the spring transition, and significantly less common the first weekday after the autumn transition.[76] The government of Kazakhstan cited health complications due to clock shifts as a reason for abolishing DST in 2005.[77]

In the mid-1980s, Clorox (parent of Kingsford Charcoal) and 7-Eleven provided the primary funding for the Daylight Saving Time Coalition behind the 1987 extension to U.S. DST, and both Idaho senators voted for it based on the premise that during DST fast-food restaurants sell more French fries, which are made from Idaho potatoes;[3] in 2005, the Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association and the National Association of Convenience Stores successfully lobbied for the 2007 extension to U.S. DST.[72]

Daylight saving has caused controversy since it began.[1] Winston Churchill argued that it enlarges "the opportunities for the pursuit of health and happiness among the millions of people who live in this country".[86] Robertson Davies, however, detected "the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves",[87] and wags have dubbed it "Daylight Slaving Time".[88]

oh you melodramatic wags

iiiijjjj, Sunday, 14 March 2010 16:59 (fourteen years ago) link

The Wag Party

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link

It's like the Whig Party but all your political points are in the form of horrible puns.

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Sunday, 14 March 2010 19:33 (fourteen years ago) link

I told a friend to meet me for brunch today at 11 am, and of course, he calls 45 minutes ago to tell me he didn't reprogram his alarm clock. Ugh.

The Magnificent Colin Firth (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 15 March 2010 00:13 (fourteen years ago) link

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 11:16 (fourteen years ago) link

messin' with the clock

not_goodwin, Monday, 15 March 2010 11:38 (fourteen years ago) link

Now we all have one more hour in our Daylight Savings Account. Maybe when we die, we'll get to spend them!

Aimless, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:01 (fourteen years ago) link

arsebiscuits dark mornings again

The one thing I hate.

Ned Raggett, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:05 (fourteen years ago) link

Arsebiscuits truly are the worst things about daylight savings, can't wait to avoid them when I move to Arizona.

How to Make an American Quit (Abbott), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:25 (fourteen years ago) link

Is that what the have as their license plat motto?

"Live free from Arsebiscuits"

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:27 (fourteen years ago) link

dark mornings > > > > dark evenings

Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link

In principle yes, but my first DST morning and the pleasure I derived from it was grounded in the fact that my flight home last night was late, too late for the last bus and the taxi queue was long and cabs few. Ended up with less than five hours sleep last night and the alarm woke me up to dark grey misery.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link

sounds like a taxi problem, not a DST problem

Mr. Que, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link

More of a pittsburgh problem. In general DST means awake to see the sunrise for the next month or so and my living room has east facing windows which makes me happy.

American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago) link

I took advantage of DST a coupla years ago to sleep in and show up for work an hour late & real faux-apologetic, knowing that my supervisor would be amused at my boneheadedness (and that I'd work late to make up for it)! It worked jsut like I planned, but it's not something I'd dare repeat.

Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 March 2010 18:43 (fourteen years ago) link

i didn't even notice until seeing this thread just now. who cares

am0n, Monday, 15 March 2010 18:55 (fourteen years ago) link

eleven months pass...

f this

iatee, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:48 (thirteen years ago) link

oh is this tonight?

fuck this

sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 06:49 (thirteen years ago) link

this seems appropriate. also GRRR

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J1NHzQ1sgc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

VegemiteGrrl, Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:04 (thirteen years ago) link

Oh weird, DST isnt ending here for another month almost.

one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:07 (thirteen years ago) link

Which now i think on it seems odd because I'm sure it *used* to end on the march long weekend - which is today - so I dunno.

one time, something happy craz (Trayce), Sunday, 13 March 2011 07:08 (thirteen years ago) link

I honestly have no idea what people's qualms are about losing one hour of sleep. It's light out later!

EDB, Sunday, 13 March 2011 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link

I get up at 6 AM, now my body is going to think I am getting up at 5 AM for about the next week. It was really unpleasant last year, first time I was on this new schedule. Since there is no reason for this time change that I can fathom, I tend to resent it.

Also, it may be light later, but it WAS light on my way to work and now it will be dark for another month.

sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link

dst is the best tho, id much rather have light in the evening

ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:04 (thirteen years ago) link

starts too early, too cold

Fuck bein' hard, Dr Morbz is complicated (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link

this does suck

Nguyễn Phúc Bích (Eisbaer), Sunday, 13 March 2011 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link

ONE OR THE OTHER.

Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah that would be fine with me!

sleeve, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:16 (thirteen years ago) link

yeah there should be dst all the time imo, something abt energy usage or kids walking to school in the dark or some shit is why we have the split iirc

ice cr?m, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link

dst is the best tho, id much rather have light in the evening

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ENBB, Sunday, 13 March 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link

Urgh. I thought I'd split the difference by going to bed half an hour earlier than usual (or half an hour later by summer time), got my 8 hours, don't remember any trouble sleeping... so why do I feel like a zombie with a fuck-off headache today? Would not have booked a driving lesson for 10:30am if I'd remembered at time of booking that clocks would change last night.

(PS I love having nice long, light evenings so summer time is fine by me really but the change is a jolt)

(sorry for stealing a USian daylight savings time thread for my Britisher Summer Time chatter)

dimension hatris (a passing spacecadet), Sunday, 27 March 2011 13:35 (thirteen years ago) link

just another sunday, boring as ever

Romford Spring (DG), Sunday, 27 March 2011 13:42 (thirteen years ago) link

Forgot about this and woke up this morning thinking "it's 9:30" then realising "bugger, it's 10:30". Rest of the day seems to have fallen apart into the standard timewasting YouTube watching and videogames playing.

did you notice "you spin me round" was playing in the background? (snoball), Sunday, 27 March 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link


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