Government Controlled Time
The Government is forcing people, at the point of a gun, to "Spring forward" this weekend, a euphemism for turning your clocks ahead an hour. Productive people are losing an hour which is being redistributed to takers so they can lay on the couch for an extra hour.
Government controlled time is an abomination. Like government controlled math or reality, it is skewed towards MSNBC viewing, Chardonnay drinking, cheese eating, lady-men.
This is time theft. It's not voluntary, so it is theft. The Federal Reserve is probably involved with this somehow, but the people who feed me my ideas haven't explained this to me yet. But the Fed is involved. Also International Jewery, which is practically the same thing anyway.
How can intelligent people disagree?
by Anonymous | reply 158 | November 3, 2019 3:32 PM
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It also causes a spike in heart attacks.
Why should the government be allowed to set time?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 7, 2015 3:09 AM
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I love daylight savings time. LOVE IT
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 7, 2015 3:10 AM
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You can't be serious. I count the days from the first weekend in November until this Sunday. Granted, the workday on Monday is hell but its a hell I gladly endure. Sunset @ 6:50 on Monday!
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 7, 2015 3:13 AM
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I like banking that extra hour of sleep for the fall, when I need it more.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 7, 2015 3:13 AM
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[quote]The Government is forcing people, at the point of a gun, to "Spring forward" this weekend, a euphemism for turning your clocks ahead an hour.
Yes, it is.
[quote]Productive people are losing an hour which is being redistributed to takers so they can lay on the couch for an extra hour.
No. Great strawman.
[quote]Government controlled time is an abomination.
Yes.
[quote]Like government controlled math or reality...
Math and reality are "real". Government is an abstraction.
[quote-]This is time theft. It's not voluntary, so it is theft. The Federal Reserve is probably involved with this somehow, but the people who feed me my ideas haven't explained this to me yet. But the Fed is involved. Also International Jewery, which is practically the same thing anyway.
Wow.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 7, 2015 3:15 AM
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Let the free market set the time!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 6 | March 7, 2015 3:16 AM
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R3-
If the government didn't control time, we would be dead!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 7, 2015 3:17 AM
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OP-
Why do you love the government so much?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 7, 2015 3:18 AM
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"Productive people are losing an hour"
No productive people can get their lazy asses out of bed an hour earlier.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 7, 2015 3:20 AM
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First they stole my money through "taxes," then they took the sanctity of my marriage. Now they're gonna take my TIME!!!! Obummer is the antiChrist !!!!
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 7, 2015 3:20 AM
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Alex Jones warned us about time theft years ago!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 7, 2015 3:22 AM
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Yes, R4, but with the rampant hyperinflation we've been experiencing, though not noticing, but experiencing none-the-less, that hour you banked now will only be worth 20 minutes in the Fall. The Fed gives your 40 minutes to the takers! The "Bla" people, as Rick Santorum refers to them. All this at the point of a gun!
It's called "time theft". The Government steals time from productive people, and gives it to takers, who use it to kill people with drones, or something like that. How can intelligent, reasonable people disagree?
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 7, 2015 3:24 AM
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Too funny.
The people here defending the government, with no regard to the actual science behind the objections, are too funny.
No wonder they attack anything libertarian- a world without an all powerful government would mean they don't have any power to control their fellow man.
How sad, how sick.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 7, 2015 3:25 AM
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This has to be a joke thread.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 7, 2015 3:28 AM
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[quote]It's called "time theft". The Government steals time from productive people, and gives it to takers, who use it to kill people with drones, or something like that. How can intelligent, reasonable people disa
This is your argument.
I have a hard time believing anyone is this stupid, but you keep proving me wrong.
Why do you love government power so much?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 7, 2015 3:29 AM
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R8, why do you love Government controlled time so much? I agree with the Idiot Libertarian Troll (TM) in R6, I think the free market should set the time! Free time from the shackles of Government control!
Unlike you, R8, I believe time is also "real", like math and reality! I reject Einstein's theory of relative time, what a strawman! Einstein should have been on the Fed board, I bet he was better at business than he was at physics!
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 7, 2015 3:34 AM
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It's happy hour all the time!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 7, 2015 3:37 AM
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I'm laughing so hard I can barely type.
I have a modest proposal for you, go read some Jonathan Swift.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 7, 2015 3:40 AM
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This thread is like a good costume party. The morons, the trolls and the jokers are all mingling together and you can't tell them apart.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 7, 2015 3:42 AM
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[quote]I'm laughing so hard I can barely type. I have a modest proposal for you, go read some Jonathan Swift.
Baby killer!
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 7, 2015 3:44 AM
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Time is relative. It's simplybone of the four dimensions of space-time, indistinguishable from space. Time can be curved, just like space, due to the gravity of mass in the universe. I wouldn't get all worked up over an hour. An hour is simply an arbitrary human standard.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 7, 2015 3:45 AM
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[quote]Time is relative. It's simplybone of the four dimensions of space-time, indistinguishable from space. Time can be curved, just like space, due to the gravity of mass in the universe. I wouldn't get all worked up over an hour. An hour is simply an arbitrary human standard.
Ha! Everyone knows time was created by Jesus! And ONLY he can change it.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 7, 2015 3:48 AM
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That's right, R10, first they stole my money through "taxes," for "society". I didn't approve of the repaying of Broad Street. Nobody asked me about buying a new fire engine to replace the one bought in 1985. What about what I WANT! That's tyranny!
Then, yes, they redefined marriage, again without asking me, ME! How could they! It's just like Hitler!
Then they gave people the ability to buy healthcare for themselves! What's with that crap?!
And now, they're gonna take my TIME! Worse than Hitler! I want my country back! Bwaaaaaaaa!
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 7, 2015 3:51 AM
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[quote]This thread is like a good costume party. The morons, the trolls and the jokers are all mingling together and you can't tell them apart.
...making this one of the best threads in a very long time.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | March 7, 2015 3:51 AM
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As is typical, the autistic Datalounge shut-ins take this thread seriously.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 7, 2015 3:56 AM
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[quote] R23: Time is relative. It's simply one of the four dimensions of space-time, indistinguishable from space. Time can be curved, just like space, due to the gravity of mass in the universe.
Communist! [italic]J'accuse! [/italic]
You might as well say that the value of gold is relative! Such nonsense!
But you also raise the subject of space, which also should be left up to the marketplace! It has also been established by someone on the Internet with no credentials or respect in the scientific community that there was no Big Bang, no black holes, no dark energy or dark matter; and therefore, no bending or curving of space or time. Those are strawmen, and don't try to confuse the subject by using "facts", or "reasoning".
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 7, 2015 4:11 AM
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If you have the time...I have the lube.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 7, 2015 4:24 AM
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R5, can you define "math"? How about "reality"? and "abstraction"?
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 7, 2015 4:27 AM
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Next they'll be trying to set standards for telecom and internet interoperability and maintain definitive measures of grams, ounces, pounds and kilograms.
I say, let the free market decide!
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 7, 2015 4:36 AM
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No time is the right time for government time!
It's each Sovereign Citizen's right to live in the 1800's or at God's beginning of Creation in 4000 BCE if we so choose.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 33 | March 7, 2015 4:49 AM
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We must control time and put it in a lockbox.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 7, 2015 5:09 AM
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Ooooo,I love that fan,R31 !
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 7, 2015 5:23 AM
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OP, Seriously don't you know why Daylight Savings Time was created in the 1st place? Are you aware of the monetary savings in utility bills for the average American household?
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 7, 2015 5:29 AM
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If you are not upset about the government controlling time. . .you're a racist!
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 7, 2015 5:34 AM
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well, are you in charge of your own time or not?
are you?
answer the question?
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 7, 2015 5:54 AM
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[quote] R36: OP, Seriously don't you know why Daylight Savings Time was created in the 1st place?
Please don't get me started on Government controlled History!
The problem, R36, is when the Fed tries to monitize the utility deficit by hyperinflating time. Because Government can't do anything right, the result is Greece.
The people who understand this best are the Austrians. The is proof that space, i.e. geography, and time are one in the same and must be unfettered from Government interference.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 7, 2015 10:47 AM
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Of all the things to clutch your pearls over.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 7, 2015 11:39 AM
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OMG. The number of satire-impaired boggles.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 7, 2015 11:42 AM
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R43, It's a parody of those idiotic Libertarian thread we've been seeing. Not everyone, especially Libertarians, realizes it.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 7, 2015 11:58 AM
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[quote] R34: We must control time and put it in a lockbox.
I agree. Time must be controlled so it is there for our grandchildren. The way things are going, we're going to completely use up time, and there won't be any left for future generations. To the lockbox with you!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 7, 2015 12:29 PM
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"Government Controlled Time"
Is that like Hammer Time?
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 7, 2015 12:35 PM
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While we are on this subject, Government controlled grammar ought to be governed by the marketplace instead. That is the only way to get the most efficient grammar out of the ungrammared. Seriously, the Oxford comma ought to be put to the test of real world usage!
by Anonymous | reply 48 | March 7, 2015 12:35 PM
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Yes, R47, although I don't know what "Hammer Time" is, I agree with you 110%!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 7, 2015 12:38 PM
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r2, Savings go into banks. The time change is Daylight SAVING Time.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 7, 2015 1:31 PM
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Controlling only time? 435 morons in Washington control our entire lives!
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 7, 2015 1:33 PM
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[quote]Are you aware of the monetary savings in utility bills for the average American household?
I'm sorry, I fell asleep halfway through your sentence.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 7, 2015 1:37 PM
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That's a different thread, R51!
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 7, 2015 1:40 PM
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I love R52.
Though I wouldn't mind reading more about the utility savings.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 7, 2015 1:42 PM
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435 morons? Are you sure, R51? Not 434, not 436. That reads like more math to me. Government controlled math, to be specific!
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 7, 2015 1:55 PM
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Did the Libertarian Idiot Troll finally find a topic to match his pathetic intellect?
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 7, 2015 2:27 PM
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I think the Idiot Libertarian Troll (TM) has taken his ball and gone home.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 7, 2015 2:31 PM
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For decades Jane Barbee was the voice who told "The time at the tone is..."
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 7, 2015 2:36 PM
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[quote] For decades Jane Barbee was the voice who told "The time at the tone is..."
That must have been awfully tiring, R59!
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 7, 2015 2:45 PM
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First of all, time is only a theory and the science is still out on it. There are many scientists who say that time simply does not exist. I don't think we should be wasting money on something that there is so much doubt about.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 7, 2015 3:01 PM
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[quote] ...time is only a theory and the science is still out on it. There are many scientists who say that time simply does not exist.
I would agree with you, R61; however, you cite "science" as your reference point; and as I am not a scientist, man, I am skeptical about the existance of science at all.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 7, 2015 3:07 PM
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It was so much better when every person set their own time before the government got involved. Nobody was ever late!
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 7, 2015 4:26 PM
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Every idiot libertarian retreats to the same fallback position.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 7, 2015 5:23 PM
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I wish they would just keep daylight saving time all year long. I love this day with all my heart.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | March 7, 2015 7:16 PM
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Thanks for posting this, I wasn't aware it was already happening and my shit would have been all fucked up tomorrow.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | March 7, 2015 7:26 PM
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Don't forget to change your clocks tonight! You don't want to miss Mass tomorrow!
by Anonymous | reply 68 | March 7, 2015 10:37 PM
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Time actually does speed up as you age. It's because your cells die faster.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | March 7, 2015 11:46 PM
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Does anybody know what time it is?
Does anybody care?
About time?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | March 7, 2015 11:47 PM
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[quote] Time actually does speed up as you age. It's because your cells die faster.
R70, although I don't believe you, as long as it isn't a Government dictate, I am all for It!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | March 7, 2015 11:49 PM
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Spring forward. Move ahead. Whip it. Whip it good.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | March 8, 2015 4:00 AM
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It isn't even "spring ahead" now. It's "winter ahead."
DST is one of the dumbest ideas in history. Let's just stop it today.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | March 8, 2015 4:05 AM
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I lost an hour of my life!
Thanks, Obama.
by Anonymous | reply 75 | March 8, 2015 4:08 AM
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What R74 said. Just get up an hour later. Or earlier. Whichever.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | March 8, 2015 4:08 AM
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Set your clocks forward, love dst.
by Anonymous | reply 78 | March 8, 2015 5:33 AM
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the government keeps making more time! we need to return to the GST standard or all time will be worthless! so you want to have use a wheelbarrow full of minutes to buy one hour? well, that's where we are headed!
by Anonymous | reply 79 | March 8, 2015 5:41 AM
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At the link, how to add time to your day.
In theory, I agree with R79, if everyone debases time by adding it to their day, it will be as worthless as sand in an hourglass. Oh, those are the Days of Our Lives.
At least a wheelbarrow is worth something, not so with all this extra time the Government is creating.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 80 | March 8, 2015 1:50 PM
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R77, I must admit, all this messing with time has made me quite bonkers. But thank you for asking.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | March 8, 2015 1:53 PM
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Is everybody up to date? Chop-chop, time is awasting!
by Anonymous | reply 82 | March 8, 2015 1:55 PM
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Is everybody in the same timeverse? I am curious if there are some laggards who are living in the alternate time-universe that is an hour behind everybody else.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | March 8, 2015 5:50 PM
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We should go back to a sunshine-backed time schedule. Hours of sunlight should define whether it's daytime or nighttime. The government shouldn't be issuing night time hours when the sun is still out. You can't "save" daylight. This is time scheduling by fiat. It's all wrong and we cannot keep manufacturing these days where we remove or add hours. It's unfeasable.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | March 8, 2015 8:31 PM
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When the Pope introduced the Gregorian calandar in the late 1700s in France, he removed a week or so because the Julian calandar was off so much at that point. The French rioted, and rightly so I say, because they thought the Pope was shortening their lives.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | March 8, 2015 10:17 PM
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R85, you are no doubt aware that "time zones" we're invented by the rail roads because it was impossible to schedule trains. Until then, every town regarded the point when the sun was highest in the sky, as "noon", so for some reason, the RRs found that to be too complicated.
And so began Government controlled time. First, they came for the time zones, and I did not object. Then they came for the Daylight Saving Time, and I said nothing. And finally when they came for my watch, there was no time left to object!
by Anonymous | reply 87 | March 8, 2015 10:25 PM
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I knew it! We're now in SHARIA Time because of Barak HUSSEIN Obama!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 88 | March 8, 2015 10:29 PM
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Did everybody make it on time to Mass today? How did you do? Most of my clocks reset themselves auto-magically, so I was ok.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | March 8, 2015 10:47 PM
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I went to Bed, Bath and Beyond on this DST Sunday, and while wandering through the store, I encountered Rod Serling in the "Beyond" part!
by Anonymous | reply 90 | March 8, 2015 10:50 PM
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I'm looking forward to the iApple iWatch. I will be freed from the tyranny and yoke of Government controlled time, and let iApple tell me the iTime.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | March 8, 2015 11:32 PM
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In today's digital age R87, it would be child's play to have a correct time for every individual spot on the earth.
None of this "All of Russia is one time" and the sun rising at 4 a.m. in Tokyo in summer kind of thing.
by Anonymous | reply 94 | March 9, 2015 9:52 PM
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Now the robins are all confused and they're not sure when to migrate.
Not only that, the early bird was trying to get the worm in the dark. And it got eaten by an owl.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | March 9, 2015 10:05 PM
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[italic]Seeeee, [/italic]R95, this is what happens when government gets involved, because government can't do anything right. Anything!
by Anonymous | reply 96 | March 9, 2015 10:39 PM
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Time has come today. Time!
by Anonymous | reply 97 | March 10, 2015 1:20 AM
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Daylight saving time or no daylight saving time the government is still controlling what time it is. Without government controlled time everyone would just be picking for themselves what time it was, mass confusion ensuing.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | March 10, 2015 1:36 AM
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OP, you can always move to Arizona or parts of Indiana, where there is no daylight savings time change.
That said, I'm having a really hard time with it this year. My work schedule today was really blown. And sleep last night wasn't so great either.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | March 10, 2015 1:41 AM
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What's really strange is that the deep freeze of the past two months ended on Sunday, the first day if DST. The sun came out, the weather got unfrozen and the birds were singing -- it really was like a new world was suddenly dawning.
OMG!...a new world.....a new world order!
The government has created a new world order with DST.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | March 10, 2015 2:00 AM
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The Lord God Almighty created time. It says so in the Bible:
[1:3] Then God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. [1:4] And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
And that was Day 1.
God made noon to be when the sun was directly overhead, midday. How can any God-fearing Christian abide these abominations called "time zones" or "Daylight Saving Time?" There is only Jesus Time, and you who do not accept this will burn forever in the fires of Gehenna for all eternity. And there is no Daylight Saving Time in Eternity.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | March 10, 2015 2:25 AM
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In honor of the Spring Equinox, I am reprising the time thread. Astro-time is the only fair time!
by Anonymous | reply 103 | March 20, 2015 5:14 AM
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Why in Austria before the Anschluss we banned Government Time! Socialists went to jail! Except for the 50% unemployment, life was good!
by Anonymous | reply 104 | March 20, 2015 3:21 PM
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R104, that's what we need in America. Local control of time. Let each city or town set its own time. Except in NYC. Deblasio can't set his own watch, let the borough presidents set the time instead.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | March 20, 2015 5:13 PM
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I love you "Cram it, Churchy!" Assistant Troll
by Anonymous | reply 106 | March 20, 2015 5:17 PM
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There was a small town in the Midwest where an eccentric would fire off a canon at noon every day. There was also a naval station with a clock tower that chimed at noon.
One day the eccentric and the station master had coffee and discussed the question of how they determined when it was noon. The eccentric revealed that he waited for the clock tower to chime at noon, at which point the station master revealed that he reset the clock daily based on the canon fire at noon.
And that's a Libertarian world, and why it's "noon" at sunset in Somalia.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | March 20, 2015 5:18 PM
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I'm selling Time Futures on the Online Bitcoin Marketplace in South Ossetia. I am going to make a killing and retire to a yacht where I never have to encounter any government lovers again!
by Anonymous | reply 108 | March 20, 2015 6:17 PM
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My father had two expressions he used about chores and time,
"Tomorrow never comes"
And
"Tomorrow's another day"
I think he was over 80 before we caught on that he used the expressions however he chose, with no consistancy that could be discerned.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | March 21, 2015 2:20 AM
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Tomorrow belongs to me, irregardless.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 110 | March 21, 2015 5:39 AM
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There are some beautiful and hilarious minds on DL. Thank you. Love this thread!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | March 21, 2015 7:22 AM
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And the funny thing, R86, is that moving time an hour ahead, assuming it was never made up with a fall back for an equal amount of time, actually gains more overall life when "losing" time, because you you believe you're older than you are (with an hour lost annually - that's 80 hours more life you believe you've lived over a lifetime), so your perception would actually be that you're having a longer life.
So, as ironic as it sounds, you actually gain more life when your time is greedily thieved away from you.
Haters gonna hate and all that, but the government's gross intrusion upon your personal right to perceive time however you might is likely to yield a positive result for you. An end justifies the means type thing.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | March 21, 2015 7:40 AM
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If you control the clocks, you control the cash registers.
- Benjamin Franklin
by Anonymous | reply 113 | April 13, 2015 6:33 PM
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You do realize nobody replied to that R112, because it made no sense, not because we thought you were brilliant.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | April 13, 2015 6:46 PM
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No one is forcing you to follow government time.
Just ignore the change
by Anonymous | reply 115 | April 13, 2015 8:02 PM
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Smart, I like that!
But I have a doctor's appointment at 10 am tomorrow. What to do?
by Anonymous | reply 116 | April 13, 2015 8:07 PM
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I have some time on my hands today, and decided to loan it to the time bank. Will I get interest?
by Anonymous | reply 117 | April 28, 2015 7:08 PM
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Time is a psychological construct.
Libertarians are complete fucking idiots.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | April 28, 2015 7:37 PM
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So is money R118. Libertarians have tried to change it into a God.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | April 28, 2015 8:01 PM
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I have been saving time all my life in order to accumulate a month of Sundays.
I don't like to imbibe every night so I've incorporated "elevenses" into my daily routine. Makes low tea so much fun!
For everything there is a season. And seasoning.
Fine, OK already...you think I don't know that it's half-past GTFO?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | April 29, 2015 6:26 PM
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R121, of all the posts, you choose to question R118? How strange.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | April 29, 2015 10:34 PM
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I've heard that the government is planning on taxing time to help fund the ACA. Thanks, Obama!
If you have time off, or your kids get a time-out, it's going to cost you, big-time, which will also cost you. A stitch in time will only save eight. If you have the time of your life, it'll be very expensive.
Not all bad news. If you're ahead of your time, or on borrowed time, you can use that as a deduction. People with no time to spare are exempt from the tax.
This is very worrisome.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | April 30, 2015 12:52 AM
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R122-
Anyone who thinks time is a social construct needs mocking.
Yes, people that stupid are allowed to vote!
by Anonymous | reply 124 | April 30, 2015 1:31 AM
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R123, aka OP-
TROLLDAR has exposed you as an ignorant, know-nothing government apologist.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | April 30, 2015 1:44 AM
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I'm shocked the Libercesspools even answered this thread. Couldn't they tell it was intended to mock them?
by Anonymous | reply 126 | May 1, 2015 3:54 PM
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Coming up next - are Libertarians robots with OCD in disguise?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | May 1, 2015 4:01 PM
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R125, TROLLDAR hasn't exposed anything other than my previous posts, as it should. If only the government could tax idiocy, we'd hear less from Libertards. I am surprised you have the [italic]time[/italic] to post, as that is taxed under the new regime.
by Anonymous | reply 128 | May 1, 2015 5:26 PM
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Phantom time - the hypothesis that the years between 600-900 AD never actually happened. They were just made-up. At the link.
I am not endorsing Phantom Time, [italic]but what if I'm wrong?[/italic]
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 129 | May 3, 2015 2:42 AM
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[quote] I am not endorsing Phantom Time, but what if I'm wrong?
I am rarely wrong, though. And I'm never, ever sick at sea.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | May 7, 2015 2:17 AM
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If you haven't changed your clocks yet, you may be wondering why you've been late for everything this week. It's another one of them dadgum govment regulations! Spring forward, already! It's not a false flag, I promise!
by Anonymous | reply 131 | April 16, 2016 1:33 AM
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One branch of my family tree has been traced completely through phantom time, to 580 A.D. If phantom time were real, my ancestors would be all shmoost together, so I don't believe in phantom time.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | April 16, 2016 1:59 AM
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Now that was some stupid shit, R129. And I just smoked a joint, so you know that I was ready to believe!
by Anonymous | reply 133 | April 16, 2016 2:10 AM
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[quote] R117: I have some time on my hands today, and decided to loan it to the time bank. Will I get interest?
R117, well, you have my interest. I'm sorry it took me so much time to reply. The IRS was garnishing my time, leaving me with only so much to spend on necessities. Damn government!
by Anonymous | reply 134 | May 9, 2016 12:10 PM
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While it's true that most of the predicted benefits of the Daylight Savings Time have not been borne out, the lunacy of this thread is hysterical.
What does it matter the twice a year the clocks change at a time when most people are asleep? How does this truly alter anything other than the perceived time the sun goes down or comes up?
Society as a whole functions better when there are standards. Would you rather everyone decides for himself what "time" it is - it's noon; well by my watch it's 6pm and time to close for the day. What about holidays - do you object to having national holidays, damn you Memorial Day - what "right" does the government have to tell us when we can and can't work.
What about standardized weights and measures - do you object to those also?
There are a lot of things worth getting your panties in a bunch over, but is this really one of them? Frankly, it was so over the top that I thought we were being trolled until I read some of the responses and figured out that some of you are serious (whether OP was or not).
by Anonymous | reply 135 | May 9, 2016 12:52 PM
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Actually I think when we had this thread several years ago, we all moved to sun time. OP didn't get the memo. Which is probably why his bitcoins bounced at the online bank.
by Anonymous | reply 136 | May 9, 2016 4:59 PM
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Sun time, R136? Ruh Roh! No wonder I keep missing Mass.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | May 9, 2016 9:06 PM
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Since today is the longest day of the year, I thought I'd bump this thread.
Also, Bon Jovi is endlessly appearing on Comcast TV ads, singing about "the power to turn back time", so I keep thinking that we need to "take back the night" from government control. Time is power!
by Anonymous | reply 138 | June 23, 2016 1:48 AM
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Ok, get ready to be forced, by the government, to "Fall Back".
by Anonymous | reply 139 | October 27, 2016 8:52 PM
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Happy solstice everyone! Shortest day, and longest night, so get busy!
by Anonymous | reply 140 | December 21, 2016 1:26 PM
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Here we are again. The damn government trying to tell us what to do. I'm going to set my own damn time!
by Anonymous | reply 141 | March 11, 2017 6:28 PM
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Trump will defeat time itself! To the Executive Ordering Machine!!
by Anonymous | reply 142 | March 11, 2017 6:30 PM
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That's it ILT! You go and stick it to the man! Yeah!
(Stomps on alarm clock, lights iphone on fire)
by Anonymous | reply 143 | March 11, 2017 6:37 PM
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Remember double Saving time during the war?
by Anonymous | reply 145 | March 11, 2017 7:03 PM
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Is that WWI? I did meet a WWI vet at a holiday cocktail party once. He was interesting but I wish he hadn’t eaten the pepperoni dish before our conversation. Turns out, in the Great War he worked as a stevedore in my home town. Not a toreado, or thermador, though.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | October 14, 2017 3:07 PM
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What about Newfoundland time, one of the world's only time zones that is a half-hour different than the nearest one? Do they also fall back?
Also, I enjoy falling back much more than springing forward, as most of you probably would agree.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | October 14, 2017 4:19 PM
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I think that we should fall back until we loop the clock! Unfortunately, the government won’t allow it!
by Anonymous | reply 148 | October 14, 2017 8:07 PM
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Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen. It’s time, once again, to kvetch about government overreach into the spacetime continuum. Don’t forget to reset your clocks tonight so you won’t be late for Church in the morning!
by Anonymous | reply 149 | March 11, 2018 12:44 AM
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Rent a good movie tonight and watch the best parts twice, for free.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | March 11, 2018 3:21 AM
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How did everybody do today?
by Anonymous | reply 151 | March 11, 2018 3:55 PM
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Why do people all think they’ve lost an hour until Fall? You lose an hour the first day. Everything thereafter is 24 hour day as normal. I go to bed at 11:00 pm and the alarm wakes me up at 7:00 am and it’s the same eight hours sleep as I always get, other than that first Sunday.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | March 11, 2018 4:12 PM
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Ah-ha! “[italic]Other than that[/italic], Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater??”
by Anonymous | reply 153 | March 11, 2018 4:40 PM
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OP you complain about an hour, but what about the calendar? Government controlled calendars, we the people only want Saturdays and Sundays but the government mandates Mondays through Fridays.
Why are you getting so upset about a single hour, when the government if forcing you to experience five days of the week most of us don't want to experience?
Get your fucking priorities right. Don't sweat the hour when the week is your enemy.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | March 11, 2018 10:46 PM
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Why is the post greyed out?
by Anonymous | reply 155 | March 11, 2018 10:51 PM
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[quote]This thread is like a good costume party. The morons, the trolls and the jokers are all mingling together and you can't tell them apart
And so let us all gather again in the fall when we can spend the extra hour together! Good times to be had!
by Anonymous | reply 157 | March 12, 2018 8:08 PM
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I’m sorry I missed the party! My clock was all messed up, because, you know, the [/italic] government. [/Italic]
by Anonymous | reply 158 | November 3, 2019 3:32 PM
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