Woo-hoo, the clocks go back to GMT this weekend!

Feek · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:11

Combat squirrel said:
Why not just move to the poles where it's permanent night?

Because GMT is perfect.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:18

Feek said:
Because GMT is perfect.

Well it isn't because it should be 6.20pm right now with how horribly awful depressingly dark it is

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:18

200sols said:
Because sometimes it's permanent day.

Switch poles, Feek loves clock changes

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:20

Ugh, got to take the bin out and go and find something in my van in pitch black darkness, WHY IS THIS A GOOD IDEA AGAIN ?!?!?!

Now I'm scrambling around to find my ****ing head torch, ugh ROLL ON MARCH

200sols · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:23

Combat squirrel said:
Switch poles, Feek loves clock changes

There is no land at the north Pole.

throwaway4372 · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:23

Society should run off the sun, not off clocks. Sleep when it's dark, work when it's light. The sun doesn't change by an hour from one day to the next.

200sols said:
There is no land at the north Pole.

Always knew Santa was a pirate.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:24

200sols said:
There is no land at the north Pole.

Enough ice, be fine

413x · 28 Oct 2024 at 17:41

Is so grim walking the dog in the dark.
Feeling pretty **** with the clocks change.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 18:26

413x said:
Is so grim walking the dog in the dark.
Feeling pretty **** with the clocks change.

It's grim isn't it - hang in there my solar powered brother, we shall rise & defeat the darkness of the GMT'rs

Kelt · 28 Oct 2024 at 18:55

413x said:
Is so grim walking the dog in the dark.
Feeling pretty **** with the clocks change.

Yeh, getting dark at 4:30 is depressive.

For the life of me, will never understand how some people think this is a good idea.

marinersfan · 28 Oct 2024 at 19:12

Thankfully the 13 hour shift nonsense is done for a year.
12 is long enough, adding another hour just ***** your morale.

Megahurtz400 · 28 Oct 2024 at 19:15

Feek said:
Ahh, so much better.

So nice walking out of work and it’s just pitch black and miserable, what a wonderful thing GMT is….

D.P. · 28 Oct 2024 at 19:22

Was amazing today! Got up and went for a run without a headlamp or faffing with the dogs led collar. Great running with the sun in my face.

Better still my kids could walk to the bus stop without dressing up like a Christmas tree.

Just finished the main chores and will take the kids to bed soon. Sure it is dark now, but it was dark last week at this time anyway, so literally nothing has got worse

jpaul · 28 Oct 2024 at 20:58

in contrast I run in the early evening - first day of running in the dusk , in contrast swimming pool on Sunday morning was bathed in sunlight, that will last a few weeks.

Running in the morning ? I thought that posed more of a chance of injury muscles/tendons relaxed after sleeping.

Combat squirrel · 28 Oct 2024 at 23:23

D.P. said:
Was amazing today! Got up and went for a run without a headlamp or faffing with the dogs led collar. Great running with the sun in my face.

Better still my kids could walk to the bus stop without dressing up like a Christmas tree.

Just finished the main chores and will take the kids to bed soon. Sure it is dark now, but it was dark last week at this time anyway, so literally nothing has got worse

Only maniacs run in the morning, and literally everything is worse - I had to stop my main chore today as it turned inky black, and like death creeping in, darkness fell over the landscape.

Grim

Junglist · 29 Oct 2024 at 10:47

I hate this.

How is it still not even 11 yet. Time is dragging.

tom_e · 29 Oct 2024 at 11:01

Picked the little one up from nursery yesterday evening first time in the dark since I've had the car, realised that Seat's decision not to include an interior light in the back of my car means they should rot in hell.

D.P. · 29 Oct 2024 at 12:38

My son got to cycle to school this morning which is a great help as he hates walking in the dark.

My dog also enjoyed a lovely run around in the early morning sun, chasing birds in the forest

Combat squirrel · 29 Oct 2024 at 15:17

D.P. said:
My son got to cycle to school this morning which is a great help as he hates walking in the dark.

My dog also enjoyed a lovely run around in the early morning sun, chasing birds in the forest

What a load of rubbish, he wasn't walking to school in pitch black prior to the clock change, where do you live?! North Pole?!

Combat squirrel · 29 Oct 2024 at 15:19

YET MORE ****ING HASSLE CAUSED BY THE CLOCK CHANGE!!! :mad:

NEED to get some work done outside on the van don't I ? - LIKE I HAVE TO DO THIS - but it's been raining all day, and only just stopped - IF I HAD 2 HOURS OF DAYLIGHT LEFT IT WOULD ALL BE OK.

But NOOOoooOOooOOooo - got to be a bunch of idiots haven't we, make ourselves live in the dark.

Honestly, gets worse as I get older, going to start the war against GMT, and make life BST standard........*whispers* 'FOREEEVVVERRRR'