Awww what a fucking pussified little crybaby.
"Fruitiest of Fruitcakes" <***@bungay.com> wrote in message news:***@news.giganews.com...
: On 1 Sep 2018, Joe wrote
: (in article<***@jresid.jretrading.com>):
:
: > On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 07:15:48 +0100
: > Bod <***@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
: >
: > > On 31/08/2018 21:09, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
: > > > On 8/31/2018 3:57 PM, TMS320 wrote:
: > > >
: > > > > > > >
: > > > > > > > https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45366390
: > > > > > > >
: > > > > > > > Let's hope we implement this too.
: > > > > > Been there, done that.
: > > > > >
: > > > > > "Ah, but it would be different this time!"
: > > > >
: > > > > It will. Then people didn't have to hunt out all the instruction
: > > > > manuals to find the magic button combinations for the 25 devices
: > > > > around the house that don't automatically change. Or leave them
: > > > > an hour out for half the year.
: > > >
: > > > I think it was proposed here last year or so. I'd like to just
: > > > leave it on summer time myself. There will always be complainers
: > > > though.
: > > >
: > > > The debate has been going on for years in the UK as well.
: > > Most of us want permanent summer time
:
: You mean most of you who are too young to remember the last time we tried
it
: in the 1960s.
:
: I was at school in those days, and in mid-winter on a dull wet day it
: didn't get properly light until 10am. Traffic accident number rose because
: virtually everyone was going to work in the dark for at least 3 months of
the
: year (and the further north you lived, the longer the time period lasted
and
: the later it became light).
:
: Yes, it didn't get dark as early in the afternoons but that did not seem
: much of an advantage at the time.
:
: Eventually there were so many complaints, and probably a newspaper
campaign -
: I can't remember that much detail - that the whole idea of BST throughout
: the year was abandoned in 1970 and we started to put the clocks back to
GMT
: for the winter again.
:
: This stupid idea seems to come up each Autumn now, as more and more
: sawdust-heads believe they have come up with a "genius" way of teaching
: us 'stick with the old traditions' wrinklies a lesson in logic.
:
: I suppose when all us baby-boomers with a semblance of common sense have
died
: off; the know-all younger generations will get their way again, and have
to
: experience the same miserable dark mornings we did just to force them into
: abandoning the idea for another half century?
:
: Hey-ho
:
: > > , but the Scots keep vetoing it.
: >
: > I can't imagine why.
:
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