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Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2020 7:22 pm
by Donn
bloke wrote:Why can't individual institutions/groups, though, change what time they individually open/close throughout the calendar year, rather than the entire nation/earth changing what they "call" what time it is?
It makes perfect sense to me. The daylight saving gimmick isn't worth the trouble. The thing is, though, when so many people think they want daylight saving all year around, it raises some question as to whether we're really ready to let go of the switch.

If everyone really wants to get up an hour earlier than they have been doing, the schedules we adhere to will certainly migrate in that direction - they aren't imposed on us by natural law, they're just that way because our misguided ancestors thought it made sense. As they sort of do. As nice as it is to have more light in the evening ... at my latitude, with year-round daylight saving time, the winter sun would come up almost 9 AM. The people who study such things feel that we really do set our biological clocks by the sun, and daylight saving is unhealthy in that respect.

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 12:20 am
by humBell
I don't particularly enjoy rush hour traffic.
Is there a daylight savings time schedule that would spread out rush hour over more of the day?

Kind of like more overlapping shifts.

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 8:49 am
by gwwilk
Blame the entomologists for buggering up time: The History of DST.

I personally favor GMT/UTC (Greenwich Mean Time/Universal Time Coordinated) as a solution. Then let institutions, organizations, and retirees set their own schedules as they see fit. Keep the government out of it except as they decide their own schedules. The 24 hour clock works well once you learn how to use it. In fact that's the day/night clock I use on my weather web site!

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2020 7:09 pm
by Three Valves
Buy trip interruption insurance when you book your trip. Not weeks after a world health emergency is declared and the ensuing panic finally sets in. :!:

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:45 am
by MN_TimTuba
MaryAnn wrote:I get up near sunrise because that is when the cat alarm starts to mew.

I personally would like to see the guillotine brought back.....wham and it's over; seems immensely more humane than the long drawn out ways we are officially killing people now. Drug em up ahead of time so they are not even aware of what's going on, and get it over with. If I had to go that process would sit fine with me.
At what hour would the beheadings commence? Daylight, or some arbitrary World Time? Networks would wish to have them scheduled for greatest viewership. Good thing there's streaming video, now!

Tim "let them eat cake" Tuba

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:58 pm
by humBell
Communication is important, so it is a good idea to know the right word for thing, right?

Plural nouns...

Fish->school.
Wolves->pack.

Tubas-> ????

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:23 am
by windshieldbug
humBell wrote:Tubas-> ????

Tubas = section

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:23 am
by Three Valves
If anything “controversial” is dragged out of the archive, sanitize it, lock it, and send it to a watery grave!!

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:38 pm
by Three Valves
I’m putting toilet paper over my transom for Passover this year.

We are just going to start observing now for good measure!!

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 3:10 pm
by humBell
Practicing is a good idea, right?

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 4:40 pm
by windshieldbug
humBell wrote:Practicing is a good idea, right?

Practice just shows a lack of self confidence... :P

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2020 7:24 pm
by Three Valves
My calculator doesn’t go that high, what is $2 trillion/60k??

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2020 9:22 am
by Three Valves
If it saves just one life, it’s worth it!! :roll:

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 5:58 pm
by Three Valves
“You can’t put a price on human life”

That’s odd, because we kinda do that all the time in my industry.

Your widow will do so if you are killed by negligence.

We all do it when we decide how much life insurance to buy.

Or not buy. :lol:

Edited for auto-correct :shock:

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2020 8:34 pm
by Three Valves
LIES!! How can I be free to stay home if I am not getting $900/wk for doing nothing??

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:30 am
by roweenie
Three Valves wrote:“You can’t put a price on human life”

That’s odd, because we kinda do that all the time in my industry.

You’re widow will do so if you are killed by negligence.

We all do it when we decide how much life insurance to buy.

Or not buy. :lol:
https://youtu.be/cUhyx2dVWfY" target="_blank

Re: a thread for good ideas

Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 2:20 pm
by humBell
windshieldbug wrote:
humBell wrote:Practicing is a good idea, right?

Practice just shows a lack of self confidence... :P
Nothing wrong with honesty, and i wonder if practicing might eventually create self confidence?

One day, maybe i'll try, and report back my findings...