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Lungboy posted:
I can say with near-certainty that the words 'like Zelensky wears' were uttered when some hapless SPAD was tasked with procuring this outfit.
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Both the UK and the EU will decide to scrap day light saving changes I think. But in typical Brexit fashion, we will keep GMT while they go with summer time.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:26
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Guavanaut posted:Or at least a close second to Pass the Pigs. the official board game of the bullingdon club!
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Mar 23, 2022 12:33
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Mega Comrade posted:Both the UK and the EU will decide to scrap day light saving changes I think. But in typical Brexit fashion, we will keep GMT while they go with summer time. The EU is already well into discussion on the topic. At one point it was meant to end with the change to DST last year, which would not happen.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:35
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Greenwich Meridian is also Universal Coordinate Time so stick with that to make my mental calculations simpler thanks bye
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Mar 23, 2022 12:37
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I'd prefer summer or even double summertime. That's because light evenings are far more important to me than whether the sunrise shows as 3,4,5,6am I'm a night owl and it generally takes me 2 hours to get going in a morning and I'm rather discombobulated if I have to hurry. I spent my working life in London being discombobulated all day from having to get up at stupid o' clock (6am) to be sure of getting from my Walthamstow dwelling to my East Croydon workplace for 9am (typically 1h45mins commute) No chance of seeing daylight for half a year no matter what they call it. At least long light evenings I would see light.
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Mar 23, 2022 12:47
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm not sure how it's gonna happen, but I have an annoying premonition that the UK and Ireland/EU are going to diverge on timezones, and it's gonna be a huge sectarian
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Mar 23, 2022 12:48
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issue in NI and extremely annoying for everyone on the border
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You are all thinking too small. We should bring back individual city times again.
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https://twitter.com/Ldn_Ambulance/status/1506590621666095109 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/23/people-suffer-breathing-difficulties-after-reported-release-of-gas-at-london-olympic-park 80 firefighters for a 'chemical incident' sounds pretty crazy. Hope everyone's OK.
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Answers Me posted:https://twitter.com/Ldn_Ambulance/status/1506590621666095109 Swimming pools have stocks of several pretty nasty chemicals on hand, I assume they throw everything at it because of the risks involved even if the actual impact is pretty minimal.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:01
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This is the perfect weather for me. I wish we could have months like this.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:13
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Jippa posted:This is the perfect weather for me. I wish we could have months like this. I'd like a few degrees warmer, but I definitely appreciate the lack of flies.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:16
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Jippa posted:This is the perfect weather for me. I wish we could have months like this. Same. I'm off work this week and loving it but very aware it'll soon be Too loving Hot again.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:16
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I think I'll pass on Double Summer, not keen on winter sunrise at 10:30, personally.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:18
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Soon we get to make fiery bastard sky orb posts again tho
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Tesseraction posted:Greenwich Meridian is also Universal Coordinate Time so stick with that to make my mental calculations simpler thanks bye This is why I think we will be dumb and keep GMT(and thus UCT) , and not switch to summer time like everyone else. It's a very British thing to pretend we are still the centre of the world.
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Wouldn't permanent DST mean it would be dark at like 9am still in December? e: this is fun https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/uk/edinburgh
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Failed Imagineer posted:I'm not sure how it's gonna happen, but I have an annoying premonition that the UK and Ireland/EU are going to diverge on timezones, and it's gonna be a huge sectarian Split the difference and make it a one time move of 30 minutes, job done.  The sectarianism shall continue no matter what as for some it's all they have left.
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Mar 23, 2022 13:58
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Wouldn't permanent DST mean it would be dark at like 9am still in December? I like showing American friends how little daylight I get on the shortest day of the year because I don't think they realise how far north northern Scotland is. (The answer is 6 & a half hours. Proper daylight from 9am until 3:30pm baby. You go to work & it's dark, you come home from work & it's already dark. 2 hours less daylight on the shortest day than Seattle gets, poo poo rules)
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Mar 23, 2022 14:08
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Franco's Spain setting the clocks to Hitler Time out of fash solidarity and never changing back through sheer inertia is the dumbest Euro timezone thing, though.
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Jippa posted:This is the perfect weather for me. I wish we could have months like this. Yeah, I know what you mean
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I'm sunning myself in the park in my office lunchtime break this very moment 
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Payndz posted:Franco's Spain setting the clocks to Hitler Time out of fash solidarity and never changing back through sheer inertia is the dumbest Euro timezone thing, though. Anything to spite the Portuguese.
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Lol get back in the car after filling up and sunak announces 5p off on the radio. SUNAK!!!
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Answers Me posted:I can say with near-certainty that the words 'like Zelensky wears' were uttered when some hapless SPAD was tasked with procuring this outfit. quite funny that macron was also cosplaying zelensky recently too
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Mar 23, 2022 14:38
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Oh woopy doo - Sunak promises income tax to be cut by 1p in the £1 by 2024. Why, anyone would think there's a general election currently supposed to take place in And with the freeze on personal tax allowance, this will help lower earners not one bit. Nothing to even begin to cover the other increases. This is exactly what they did in the last election the tories won before 1997. Big posters advertising that Labour were going to put 1p on income tax but they wouldn't. The second they get in, up goes the national insurance by 1% affecting far more lower paid than higher paid people, and being a worse tax increase (NI being tax under another name) than a straight 1p on the income tax. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Payndz posted:Franco's Spain setting the clocks to Hitler Time out of fash solidarity and never changing back through sheer inertia is the dumbest Euro timezone thing, though. Is the bit where France is actually mainly inside of GMT but is an hour ahead not the dumbest?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Lol get back in the car after filling up and sunak announces 5p off on the radio. SUNAK!!! Filling your Tesla with petrol seems like an expensive mistake either way
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh woopy doo - Sunak promises income tax to be cut by 1p in the £1 by 2024. 2024, actually. Probably in May. You're absolutely right that this feels like 1992 again, though. The Tories are already scraping the bottom of the barrel below the barrel they're in, everyone hates them, but they still have the press on side and the opposition are completely ineffectual. Jedit fucked around with this message at 14:48 on Mar 23, 2022 |
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Josef bugman posted:Is the bit where France is actually mainly inside of GMT but is an hour ahead not the dumbest? Anything to spite perfidious Albion.
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Jedit posted:2024, actually. Probably in May. Speaking of which has Der Stärmer done another focus group on why he's a sack of wet socks in the popular consensus.
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So in that case can we look forward to Blair 2.0 in 2029? (an actual one, not the failed clones like Miliband or Keith?) Goodie. Definitely worth sticking out the next seven years of tory rule for that
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Josef bugman posted:Is the bit where France is actually mainly inside of GMT but is an hour ahead not the dumbest? It makes a degree of practical sense when their main trading partners are CET even if from a physical perception it'd be more sensible to be on UTC
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Josef bugman posted:Is the bit where France is actually mainly inside of GMT but is an hour ahead not the dumbest? Not just France, but Spain, Portugal and lots of other western European nations too. Germany is where it starts to make sense.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Oh woopy doo - Sunak promises income tax to be cut by 1p in the £1 by 2024. funniest part of raising the NI rate while lowering the income tax rate is it means that basically the only people that will ultimately get any benefit are pensioners
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feedmegin posted:Ehhhh....people tend to think this a lot, here's a good article by a historian bloke that covers it. He's talking about the Middle Ages, I know more about the mid 17th century. quote:Something like the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre could only happen in the Early Modern Period, because it requires one of the defining events of that period (the Protestant Reformation) to have occurred. Of course, the same can be said of our Scottish ‘Red non-Weddings’ as well – 1440 is on the doorstep of the early modern period, while 1692 has walked in the door and is now lounging in the parlor. It does not seem like an accident that the most notorious of these massacres occur in the period where the authority of the Church and medieval norms are in decline. Did people really believe in conspiracies involving Jews and Freemasons and Protestants and Jesuit assassins and witches dancing in nests of penes? I'd argue at the top it was only believed in the sense that Boris believes Brexit brings back bendy bananas Brussels banned, and at the bottom mostly believed because Just Another Lurker posted:The sectarianism shall continue no matter what as for some it's all they have left. Jel Shaker posted:quite funny that macron was also cosplaying zelensky recently too Payndz posted:Hitler Time 
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I'd prefer summer or even double summertime. That's because light evenings are far more important to me than whether the sunrise shows as 3,4,5,6am I am a lark and all clock manipulation is an unnatural evil, the sun should be overhead at noon, as is the whole point of noon 
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Oh dear me posted:I am a lark and all clock manipulation is an unnatural evil, the sun should be overhead at noon, as is the whole point of noon I have to adjust my sundials every time the clocks change.
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