howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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24 October 2009
20:0031414#1
spare a thought for those working tonight in the docks or on the ferries.
they get to 2 am then get told it is only 1 am.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
20:0331416#2
I bet Dover wish they could put the clock back.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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24 October 2009
20:1131420#3
Is that the team Vic or the town?
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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24 October 2009
20:2231422#4
vic and bet you wished you got score rite
and im at work 8am
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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24 October 2009
22:0131444#5
Colin THAT IS VERY GOOD .I say both of them,you must be on the beans to.
Keith.No I do not wish that.I think it is boring to get it right all the time,and I do not get it right alot but it makes you all smile and that must be right,right.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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25 October 2009
00:5031445#6
VIC
NEVER A TRUER WORD SPOKEN(OR POSTED)
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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25 October 2009
07:4531452#7
But they'll get their shorter hour next March Howard, as they did last March.
It happened with me at Natwest on the Computer systems, no real grumble.
Thanks for the reminder though about the clocks.
Roger
25 October 2009
11:5331474#8
Ah, I love modern gadgets and computers and digital devices, you never have to remember to change the clock, they do it all automatically for you. Brill.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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25 October 2009
12:0231475#9
I have a watch rick that is supposed to do that, radio controlled you know.
at tis time it's telling me 1201 hrs.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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25 October 2009
19:1531524#10
Guess who was 12hr Nights,that in fact was 13hrs,I like it when it changes back then an 8 hr shift is only 7hrs
If you knew what I know,we would both be in trouble!
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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25 October 2009
19:2731525#11
Only 2 months today, Christmas day will be nearly over, the days start getting longer, the new year will be a week away, then we`ll be looking forward to the Spring coming and putting the clocks forward.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
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25 October 2009
19:5931529#12
not looking forward to those long cold ,wet , snowy missarable winter nights.roll on late spring/early summer.
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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25 October 2009
21:0031539#13
Come on you know alls.
When did the clocks start going backwards and forwards?
What was the reason for it?
Is there any point to it any more?
It's going to be a long winter again.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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25 October 2009
21:3831545#14
was it not originally to give farmers in the north of scotland an extra hour of daylight in the morning?
i think that the majority would rather stick with gmt.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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26 October 2009
08:5731560#15
bring back central european time,then everybody will be happy you will have the best of both worlds.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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26 October 2009
09:1131562#16
Yes I believe to was to give an extra hour of daylight to the farmers up north or particularly in Scotland. Days are short in Scotland....it seems, not that Ive ever been there and the Scots being a weee bit short on imagination, cant find anything to do on those long winter nights other than complain about the long winter nights.To indulge in anything that might resemble a cosy warm sexual encounter, they would have to consult the writings of stuff shirt Presbiteeerians from days gone by, and they, learned men that they were, would certainly give any shenanigans the thumbs down. But I guess to while away the time, they can always rinse out their tartan longjohn underwear (the wind from the Trossachs can be most penetrating) which they have been known to wear beneath their sporrans.
Anyway I ramble on, but yes it is to accomodate the farmers up there, and anything that shortens the long evenings is welcome.
There is a well known campaigner, whose name esacapes me for the moment, well he was on Radio 4 the other morning in a lighthearted interview with John Humphries, calling for us all to have European time. Essential in a modern world I would have thought. We are completely out on a looney limb with only Portugal in tandem with us timewise. On the radio they spoke about business people on the Eurostar all fiddling about changes their watches on a journey that takes an hour, its kind of farcical
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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26 October 2009
09:1631563#17
it does make sence if we were all on the same time scale.
just thought,if the scots get that bored and bit stuffed shirt about getting intiment how about having a haggis bashing event twice a week.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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26 October 2009
09:2531565#18
What bores me is this same debate twice a year, every year, about whether the clocks should be put back/forward or not......
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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26 October 2009
09:3731568#19
The prominent English builder and outdoorsman William Willett, who allegedly independently conceived DST in 1905 during a pre-breakfast ride, when he observed with dismay how many Londoners slept through a large part of a summer day. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk. His solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later.
Willett lobbied unsuccessfully for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, and Germany, its World War I allies, and their occupied zones were the first European nations to use Willett's invention, starting April 30, 1916, as a way to conserve coal during wartime. Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the next year; and the United States adopted it in 1918.However Benjamin Franklin when living in Paris also suggested putting the clocks back to utilise the summer daylight hours and preserve the use of candles. Since then, the Uk has seen many enactments, adjustments, and repeals.
George Hudson a New Zealand entomologist also submitted a paper in 1895 to introduce daylight savings time in order that he could finish work and still use the daylight to study insects.Odd but true.
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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27 October 2009
15:2731718#20
barryw
it may bore you, like some of your posts bore others
but its what people wish to post on
freedom of speech and all that
you can always not read them posts like others choose when you post
all choices !!!!