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Author:  Malc [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:01 ]
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It's British Summer Time, that means the clocks went forward 1 hour!

Malc
Author:  Hugh [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:04 ]
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Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.
Author:  MaliA [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 7:51 ]
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Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.


:attitude: :attitude: :attitude:

I was up at 0650 to see the Grand Prix. Sleep later.

-MaliA
Author:  Goddess Jasmine [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 8:23 ]
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*Yawns*

It's gonna be a long day today.
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:40 ]
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Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.


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Author:  Malc [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:06 ]
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Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.



TBH 4 letters > a 300x135pixel banner with your name on.

Malc
Author:  devilman [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:16 ]
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Goddess Jasmine wrote:
*Yawns*

It's gonna be a long day today.


Not if you put your clock forward a few extra hours.
Author:  Bluecup [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:24 ]
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Malc wrote:
Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.



TBH 4 letters > a 300x135pixel banner with your name on.

Malc


LOL! SignaturePWN!!!
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:37 ]
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I think we should all do it.

Malc
Author:  throughsilver [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:39 ]
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Malc wrote:
Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.



TBH 4 letters > a 300x135pixel banner with your name on.

Malc

Watch it - he's been knighted.

Malc
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 12:57 ]
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throughsilver wrote:
Malc wrote:
Sir Hugh wrote:
Malc, if by some chance you haven't realised, your name is placed against every post you make, like all of our posts, so there is no need to write it at the bottom of every message you make. It makes you look a bit dumb.

Also, thanks about the GMT thing. I had forgotten.



TBH 4 letters > a 300x135pixel banner with your name on.

Malc

Watch it - he's been knighted.

Malc


Any fool can buy a title on the interweb these days. :attitude:
Author:  MaliA [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:01 ]
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I am High Protector, me.

-Malc.
Author:  Derek The Halls [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:08 ]
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My computer remembered to put the clock forward. I didn't.

Malc
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:14 ]
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On the upside, it *is* very sunny!

Bring on the summer!

Malc
Author:  Derek The Halls [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:23 ]
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And yet it's still pretty cold.

Malc
Author:  sinister agent [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:43 ]
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Clock changes can fuck off. I hate it when they do this, it's utterly pointless.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:51 ]
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sinister agent wrote:
Clock changes can fuck off. I hate it when they do this, it's utterly pointless.
You have swayed me with your convincing arguments :D
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 13:59 ]
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It is pretty pointless these days. There are convincing arguments for putting the clocks back in winter (road accidents, farmers etc) and if you do that, you've got to put them forward again. I reckon they should just stick to GMT personally.

Malc
Author:  sinister agent [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:01 ]
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How many people in the UK are farmers, though? Ten? I don't expect the rest of the world to conform to my schedule, so why should they? Balls to them, I say. And as for road accidents, people should learn to bloody well drive.

I'm glad we had this discussion.
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:03 ]
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sinister agent wrote:
I'm glad we had this discussion.

As am I. I feel we've explored all angles.

Malc
Author:  kalmar [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:48 ]
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I agree with sinister agent.

Although wasn't the reason to do with schoolchildren walking to school along darkened country lanes during the blitz?

Malc
Author:  DavPaz [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 14:50 ]
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What, you expected me to look into it when I could just guess?

P'sha!

Malc
Author:  CraigGrannell [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 16:53 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
I reckon they should just stick to GMT personally.

Having lived in 24/7 daylight in Iceland, I'd fucking hate to have absurdly early mornings in summer. It's bad enough as it is.

Given that we're now in massive recession, there are finally seriously compelling reasons to leave the UK on CET this winter (reduction in fuel/heating/electricity bills, more 'light' time in evenings for spending, lower depression rates, etc.), but I suspect although the argument will happen, two farmers in Scotland will complain and a couple of people will scream BUT THINK OF THE CHILDREN, and nothing will change.
Author:  sinister agent [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 18:13 ]
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I never got that children thing. I liked walking home in the dark when I was a kid, especially on a friday. Grab some chips from lansbury drive (before it went all greasy and revolting) and come home and watch a bit of telly in the warm. It was miles better than coming home in the middle of the afternoon. Besides which, they have to do that anyway, because of a little thing called WINTER. It's stupid. We should just stick to a fucking clock and be done with it.
Author:  CraigGrannell [ Sun Mar 29, 2009 18:38 ]
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The argument against moving to CET is that Scottish kids would be going to school in the dark for a short period of time, whereupon they'll all be kidnapped by paedos and terrorists. Of course, the fact that dark evenings in winter results in plenty of kids walking back home in the dark from school and other activities is ignored entirely, as is the fact that more crimes happen later in the day.
Author:  ApplePieOfDestiny [ Mon Mar 30, 2009 19:54 ]
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I hate having every single phone, radio, TV, computer, electronic item in the house automatically update, apart from the Microwave, which is the only clock that I catch a passing glance at. And as I only have to do it twice a year, I always forget how to change it.

Talc
Author:  chinnyhill10 [ Mon Mar 30, 2009 20:29 ]
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CraigGrannell wrote:
The argument against moving to CET is that Scottish kids would be going to school in the dark for a short period of time,


To be fair, they have a point. Motorists wouldn't be able to see them. What with the black jeans, black top, black sunglasses, black hat, black hair............ :attitude:
Author:  Dimrill [ Mon Mar 30, 2009 20:58 ]
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Yes they would. You're forgetting the luminescent pasty white skin.
Author:  BikNorton [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:52 ]
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Amateurs. I went forward an hour on Friday crossing to the continent (under the sea!), forward another on Sunday, then back one yesterday (under the sea again!).

What especially didn't help was getting the Chunnel an hour earlier than planned on Friday, then yesterday half an hour earlier, but which then left 20 minutes early even though it was scheduled to be 4 minutes late.

I'm currently somewhere in June, around midnight.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 11:57 ]
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BikNorton wrote:
Amateurs. I went forward an hour on Friday crossing to the continent (under the sea!), forward another on Sunday, then back one yesterday (under the sea again!).
Steam powered submarines?

I very much liked Stephen Fry's story on his Twitter of a flight to New Zealand where he lost an entire Tuesday due to long flight / dateline interaction. There was a little girl who's birthday it was who was inconsolable apparently.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:05 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
BikNorton wrote:
Amateurs. I went forward an hour on Friday crossing to the continent (under the sea!), forward another on Sunday, then back one yesterday (under the sea again!).
Steam powered submarines?

I very much liked Stephen Fry's story on his Twitter of a flight to New Zealand where he lost an entire Tuesday due to long flight / dateline interaction. There was a little girl who's birthday it was who was inconsolable apparently.


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I very much liked Stephen Fry's story on his Twitter of a flight to New Zealand where he lost an entire Tuesday due to long flight / dateline interaction. There was a little girl who's birthday it was who was inconsolable apparently.




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Stephen Fry's


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Twitter


Grrr...
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:09 ]
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MItchBenn>>>>>Stephen Fry, in Twitter land.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:12 ]
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Mr Chris wrote:
MItchBenn>>>>>Stephen Fry, in Twitter land.


I'm choosy about who I follow, I've got a strict "No wankers" rule at the moment.
Author:  MrChris [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:12 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
MItchBenn>>>>>Stephen Fry, in Twitter land.


I'm choosy about who I follow, I've got a strict "No wankers" rule at the moment.

I thought I hadn't seen you on Twitter for a while.
Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:13 ]
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I unfollowed Fry some time ago. That was a good story though.

MaliA wrote:
I'm choosy about who I follow, I've got a strict "No wankers" rule at the moment.
You're following me.
Author:  MaliA [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 12:14 ]
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Mr Chris wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Mr Chris wrote:
MItchBenn>>>>>Stephen Fry, in Twitter land.


I'm choosy about who I follow, I've got a strict "No wankers" rule at the moment.

I thought I hadn't seen you on Twitter for a while.


Well, that's that joke knackered then.
Author:  Plissken [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 13:14 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
I very much liked Stephen Fry's story on his Twitter of a flight to New Zealand where he lost an entire Tuesday due to long flight / dateline interaction.


I'm looking forward to 3rd May. Crossing the dateline meant I didn't get one last year.
Author:  BikNorton [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:07 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
BikNorton wrote:
Amateurs. I went forward an hour on Friday crossing to the continent (under the sea!), forward another on Sunday, then back one yesterday (under the sea again!).
Steam powered submarines?
Nah, just an underwater train that has to go through a stupid hole. What is this, the 20th Century?

Charl nearly shit herself on the way there when I flung open the driver's door to put the GB sticker on the boot, what with the sensation and expectation of the car, not the "world", being at about 60mph. Brilliant.
Author:  Dudley [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:31 ]
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Has she not encountered trains before?
Author:  kalmar [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:34 ]
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Dudley wrote:
Has she not encountered trains before?


Sub-aquatic trains dude! I haven't encountered one of those either.
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:34 ]
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Perception's a weird thing. There's a reasonably long escalator to get down from Lime Street station to the underground station below it. I have to grip the rail so hard when moving down it to stop myself toppling forward. Because all the pictures are level but the escalator itself is at an angle I lose my frame of reference and go all vertigo-y. I'm feeling dizzy just thinking about it now actually.
Author:  Dudley [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:47 ]
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kalmar wrote:
Dudley wrote:
Has she not encountered trains before?


Sub-aquatic trains dude! I haven't encountered one of those either.


The fact the train is underwater doesn't automatically make it 25 miles long and able to bend time around a car with the handbrake on and the engine turned off.
Author:  Malabelm [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:49 ]
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DavPaz wrote:
Perception's a weird thing. There's a reasonably long escalator to get down from Lime Street station to the underground station below it. I have to grip the rail so hard when moving down it to stop myself toppling forward. Because all the pictures are level but the escalator itself is at an angle I lose my frame of reference and go all vertigo-y. I'm feeling dizzy just thinking about it now actually.


Weird, that one, isn't it.

You don't tend to have people standing on one side in non-London, though, so there isn't a clear line for me to walk straight up the escalator past them.

I seem to be one of the few who view the escalator as an aid to walking rather than a replacement.
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 14:51 ]
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I normally march straight up and down escalators, but that one makes me feel sick. I've had to sit down on it a few times. Odd really, don't get sea sick, car sick or air sick, but a fucking moving staircase gets me. :spew:
Author:  throughsilver [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:02 ]
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Malabar Front wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Perception's a weird thing. There's a reasonably long escalator to get down from Lime Street station to the underground station below it. I have to grip the rail so hard when moving down it to stop myself toppling forward. Because all the pictures are level but the escalator itself is at an angle I lose my frame of reference and go all vertigo-y. I'm feeling dizzy just thinking about it now actually.


Weird, that one, isn't it.

You don't tend to have people standing on one side in non-London, though, so there isn't a clear line for me to walk straight up the escalator past them.

The first time I experienced escalator lanes in London was an AM rush hour and I was very pukey. Not good.

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I seem to be one of the few who view the escalator as an aid to walking rather than a replacement.

I steam up them too. I hate when people just stand there. Reminds me of a Jerry Seinfeld bit, where he disses people for acting like the escalator is a ride:

"Excuse me, there's no animated pirates or bears along the way here. Do your legs work at all?"
Author:  Cras [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:04 ]
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Why would you walk up something that's already moving on it's own? Do you march on the spot in a lift?
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:06 ]
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I love walking down the moving bits in airport terminals. Makes me feel great. Until you get stuck behind the fucking eejits who just stand on the damn thing. It's supposed to speed you up, not give you a bloody lift at slower than walking pace.
Author:  Cras [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:07 ]
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Well that's why you have lanes. It's officially a part of London byelaws that if someone's blocking an escalator or moving walkway, you're allowed to flying-kick them in the back.
Author:  DavPaz [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:10 ]
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FINALLY! A reason to go to that London.

*polishes back-kicking boots*
Author:  Malabelm [ Tue Mar 31, 2009 15:12 ]
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Craster wrote:
Why would you walk up something that's already moving on it's own? Do you march on the spot in a lift?


Does marching on the spot in a lift make you reach your destination any quicker?
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