OT Rant(ish): I hate friggin' Daylight Savings!!!
10-26-2001, 04:52 AM
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OT Rant(ish): I hate friggin' Daylight Savings!!!
<center><img src="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/i/photos/franklin.jpg"></center><p>As much as I admire Ben Franklin for other things, I think he totally missed the friggin' boat on this one... I mean, really, don't I have enough intrusions on my person, without the ba$tards arbitrarily giving and taking an hour from me as they please. Stooopid pro-agrarian/puritan ideas, that just keep thriving, because no one just sorta' makes them stop... How many people are even friggin' farmers, anymore??? I mean I know the whole charade has a net zero bottom line, but what if you died during daylight savings? Wouldn't that stolen hour mean a lot to you??? Dirty rat ba$tards... Accckkk!!!
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I read this on the stoopid daylight savings webpage (under the "dissenters" page, where I wish to register), and I agree with the sentiment:
A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)<ul><li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html">The alleged "reasoning" behind daylight savings...</a></li></ul>
>:-(
I read this on the stoopid daylight savings webpage (under the "dissenters" page, where I wish to register), and I agree with the sentiment:
A writer in 1947 wrote, "I don't really care how time is reckoned so long as there is some agreement about it, but I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. I even object to the implication that I am wasting something valuable if I stay in bed after the sun has risen. As an admirer of moonlight I resent the bossy insistence of those who want to reduce my time for enjoying it. At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves." (Robertson Davies, The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks, 1947, XIX, Sunday.)<ul><li><a href="http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/c.html">The alleged "reasoning" behind daylight savings...</a></li></ul>
10-26-2001, 05:03 AM
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Raisins are just humiliated little grapes, don't get me started. Incidentally, if the ba$tards
weren't thieving you of your time, maybe you would be able to think about this stuff. Anyhoo, it's not like I just sit around thinking about this crap, it came to mind so I said it. Afterall, as Des Cartes (or some smarty) said: The unexamined life is not worth living. You can't just go around bumping into walls and being oblivious of all the things/people/ideas around you...
I need more coffee.
I need more coffee.
