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11-09-2010, 06:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Fredericksburg, Virginia | | | Daylight Savings is Dumb, and so is George Vernon Hudson
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It's 8:28 AM and I am wide awake. Normally I would be snoozing, but I'm not, because my body thinks it's an hour later then it actually is.
Thank you, George Vernon Hudson. If I ever invent a time machine I am going to program a robot to go back in time and shoot you in the face with a bazooka. and then destroy your DNA so you will never be able to exist again ever.
If you don't know, this jerk is the man responsible for daylight savings. He liked to collect insects, and decided that since he couldn't collect them after work, because it was too dark, he needed to create daylight savings so he could go collect his bugs after work so he'd have daylight. It was adopted by the British, and since England was the America of the era it eventually spread like a cancerous disease through the known world.
So who wants to help me design a time machine and build a robot to prevent Daylight savings from ever happening again?
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11-09-2010, 06:46 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Florida | | | If daylight savings is such a great idea, why not keep it year-round? Heck, why not put the clocks forward two, no, three hours ahead?
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11-09-2010, 07:00 AM
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Originally Posted by bassrique  If daylight savings is such a great idea, why not keep it year-round? Heck, why not put the clocks forward two, no, three hours ahead? | We could set them 20 years behind, and then we'd all be living in the FUTURE!!!! Whoa! Trippy man!
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11-09-2010, 07:03 AM
|  | My favorite songs were never heard on the radio | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Tulsa, OK | | | Don't blame him, blame your state legislators.
If you don't like it, move to Arizona where they don't observe DLST. |
11-09-2010, 07:06 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I love it, when the clocks change you know Christmas is near, and it gest darker earlier.... awesomeness.
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11-09-2010, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Thunderscreech It's 8:28 AM and I am wide awake. Normally I would be snoozing, but I'm not, because my body thinks it's an hour later then it actually is.
Thank you, George Vernon Hudson. If I ever invent a time machine I am going to program a robot to go back in time and shoot you in the face with a bazooka. and then destroy your DNA so you will never be able to exist again ever.
If you don't know, this jerk is the man responsible for daylight savings. He liked to collect insects, and decided that since he couldn't collect them after work, because it was too dark, he needed to create daylight savings so he could go collect his bugs after work so he'd have daylight. It was adopted by the British, and since England was the America of the era it eventually spread like a cancerous disease through the known world.
So who wants to help me design a time machine and build a robot to prevent Daylight savings from ever happening again? |
actually, from what i understand, the rationale used most often was that it would help folks save electricity due to fewer awake "dark hours" where they needed to have their lights on. at the time the majority of energy usage by private individuals was electric lighting, so the thought that a substantial percentage of their energy bill could be saved was attractive to folks.
also, blame retail lobbiests for its continued persistence. every time it comes up to be renewed, retail lobbiests push hard for it (retail benefits from DST, whereas farmers don't).
so, here again, something we can blame on walmart. 
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11-09-2010, 08:25 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ont | | | are you really complaining about being up at 8:30?!?!?
thats a sleep in for me.
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11-09-2010, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Jonyak are you really complaining about being up at 8:30?!?!?
thats a sleep in for me. | This. Try getting up at 6:30 every morning knowing you'll have to sit through biochemistry lectures. |
11-09-2010, 08:33 AM
| | | | It is time to retire this silly, and now useless feel good bit of government led nonsense. It may have made sense in times past, but in this 24 hour a day world with most of the developed world being blessed with electricity and electric light, it's a useless artifact in our nation. The trouble is that DST has wide political support across the aisle from both major parties, to where that they won't listen to the recent studies that indicate that it does not save energy, and in some cases might lead to more energy consumption than what it's supposed to save. It's time to junk it! |
11-09-2010, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ont | | | I personaly like it, because now when I get up it is light out, which makes me a happier person all around.
also you guys are getting a bit extreme about a 1 hour change in time. relax.
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11-09-2010, 09:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Columbus, OH | | | But where will you get 1.21 jigawatts of power for your time machine?
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11-09-2010, 09:24 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Tustin, CA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonyak are you really complaining about being up at 8:30?!?!?
thats a sleep in for me. | Quote:
Originally Posted by SoonerMatt This. Try getting up at 6:30 every morning knowing you'll have to sit through biochemistry lectures. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jonyak I personaly like it, because now when I get up it is light out, which makes me a happier person all around.
also you guys are getting a bit extreme about a 1 hour change in time. relax. | All three of these. Why don't you go back to namdy pamdy land, you jackwagon!
I wish I could sleep until 8:30....it's more like 5:30 during the week, and 6:30 on the weekends for me.
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11-09-2010, 09:26 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Lake Charles, La. | | | I go to work at 1:30 am, so it doesn't much affect me, other than having to pull a 9 hour shift once a year. I do get a 7 hour shift in he Spring.
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11-09-2010, 10:35 AM
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Originally Posted by MonetBass Don't blame him, blame your state legislators.
If you don't like it, move to Arizona where they don't observe DLST. | This is one of the few things I like about the place, and let me tell you, it is GLORIOUS.
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11-09-2010, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by Jonyak I personaly like it, because now when I get up it is light out, which makes me a happier person all around.
also you guys are getting a bit extreme about a 1 hour change in time. relax. | daylight saving time just ended, the morning daylight we're getting now is just standard time, which i think the OP is arguing, would be better year round than the shift to DST
i'd prefer it as well, or at least adopting one and staying on that year round
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11-09-2010, 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Auzzie-Phoenix But where will you get 1.21 jigawatts of power for your time machine? | his pedalboard.
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11-09-2010, 02:04 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | No, daylight savings time is awesome, standard time is dumb. Its not supposed to be dark at 5:30pm dammit.
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11-09-2010, 02:09 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Tennessee | | | It got dark at 4:30 yesterday. Upset I was.
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11-09-2010, 02:15 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | | That is depressing. I get off work at 4:30.
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11-09-2010, 04:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: QLD, Australia | | Daylight savings time is awesome.
Even in the middle of summer here it gets dark at about 6:30, because we don't have daylight savings. That means by the time you get down the beach after work you have an hour. With daylight savings you would have two.
Where I used to live, with daylight savings time, it was nearly 10 before it got dark. Thats almost 5 hours of beach time before dark 
Not only that, but the sun comes up later. Here, the sun comes up at about 4:30 am, and people are out jogging and mowing their lawn. When I wake up at 9:30 its ****ing midday just about.
I feel like getting up at 4am one morning, walking out there and yelling at people "WHAT ARE YOU DOING, YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SLEEPING!"
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