Semiannual DST thread

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by mburtonk, Oct 29, 2014.

  1. Tuckerfan

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  2. mburtonk

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    Yuuuuuuuuck
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  3. Tuckerfan

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    RED FUCKING ALERT!!! CALL YOUR GODDAMNED KONGRESS KRITTER AND MAKE THIS HAPPEN!!!

    Sentate agrees to make DST permanent, moves to the House.
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  4. steve2^4

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  6. steve2^4

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    You want standard time all year? Why? Cows don't care.
  7. Damar

    Damar Liberal Elitist

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    The solution for the kids catching the morning bus in the dark is to have their schools start later. How about a national bill banning schools from starting at 7:30am?
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  8. mburtonk

    mburtonk mburtonkulous

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    That's also better for teenagers, who have later sleep cycles.
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  9. tafkats

    tafkats scream not working because space make deaf Moderator

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    Ah, but making high schoolers start class at 7:30 is satisfying for emotionally stunted adults who use "but we have to prepare them for the real world!!!111" as an excuse to make teenagers suffer.
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  10. steve2^4

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    It's sharing busses between schools and having to stagger start times. The younger kids need parents to get ready. Then the parents can go to work.

    We suck.
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  11. MikeH92467

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    My ex-g/f's son went to a high school in Port Angeles, WA that had one day a week (Wednesday, I think) where school opened at 9:30am. I seem to remember seeing at least one study that indicates the number of U.S. heart attacks spiked immediately after the clocks changed. In any case, I hated working the graveyard shifts as it was and REALLY hated it on fallback. Spring forward did not make up for working the extra hour. :brood:
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  12. MikeH92467

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    Grade schoolers get up before dawn....high schooler's body clocks wake them up several hours later. Grade schoolers start late than high schoolers. What's wrong with this picture? :chris:
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  14. We Are Borg

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    Yuck? :wtf:

    Areyoufuckingkidding?

    This is the best bill the United States Senate has passed in decades.
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    That is a pretty low bar.
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    No one would dare do that.
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  20. mburtonk

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    Especially considering
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  21. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    We haven't figured out we aren't an agrarian society dictated by farming schedules anymore.
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  22. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I don't care if we are. The fucking farmers can set their alarms for a different time if they want. There is no need to fuck with everyone else's sleep schedule.

    :ua:

    Edit for unacceptable spelling error.
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  23. steve2^4

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  24. matthunter

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    You'd need a particle accelerator to get down to that fucking scale.

    It goes Higgs-Boson, UA's emotions, techni-quarks.
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  25. We Are Borg

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    Fuck those assholes from 1974. I wish I had a time machine, so I could go back and slap them all.

    If the last five years have not taught you that people are fucking stupid, I don't know what will.
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  26. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    I blame me, really.

    For a brief period of time, dumb people weren't on the internet. So while there were dumb people everywhere IRL, I could at least go online and there was smart people to be found in numbers with relatively few dumb people technical enough to get there.

    Then I went to work for AOL and we helped ALL THE DUMBS to get there.

    On the plus side, some of them are still paying for dial up. ;)
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    You worked for AOL and you're calling OTHER folk dumb?!
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  28. mburtonk

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    Sounds like a fun time, honestly.
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  29. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    It paid really well, the benefits were insane, and now I have the leisure time to do things I want to do. Oh, and the day care for my kid was absolutely incredible.
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  30. Bickendan

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    Well then. You just put yourself far enough ahead of Dinner it's lunch!