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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 Anonymousreply 158November 3, 2019 3:32 PM

It also causes a spike in heart attacks.

Why should the government be allowed to set time?

by Anonymousreply 1March 7, 2015 3:09 AM

I love daylight savings time. LOVE IT

by Anonymousreply 2March 7, 2015 3:10 AM

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 Anonymousreply 3March 7, 2015 3:13 AM

I like banking that extra hour of sleep for the fall, when I need it more.

by Anonymousreply 4March 7, 2015 3:13 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 5March 7, 2015 3:15 AM

Let the free market set the time!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 6March 7, 2015 3:16 AM

R3-

If the government didn't control time, we would be dead!!!!

by Anonymousreply 7March 7, 2015 3:17 AM

OP-

Why do you love the government so much?

by Anonymousreply 8March 7, 2015 3:18 AM

"Productive people are losing an hour"

No productive people can get their lazy asses out of bed an hour earlier.

by Anonymousreply 9March 7, 2015 3:20 AM

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 Anonymousreply 10March 7, 2015 3:20 AM

Alex Jones warned us about time theft years ago!!!!

by Anonymousreply 11March 7, 2015 3:22 AM

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 Anonymousreply 12March 7, 2015 3:24 AM

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 Anonymousreply 13March 7, 2015 3:25 AM

R12-

Seek help.

by Anonymousreply 14March 7, 2015 3:25 AM

This has to be a joke thread.

by Anonymousreply 15March 7, 2015 3:28 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 16March 7, 2015 3:29 AM

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 Anonymousreply 17March 7, 2015 3:34 AM

It's happy hour all the time!

by Anonymousreply 18March 7, 2015 3:37 AM

I'm laughing so hard I can barely type.

I have a modest proposal for you, go read some Jonathan Swift.

by Anonymousreply 19March 7, 2015 3:40 AM

International Jewery??

Jew hating moron.

by Anonymousreply 20March 7, 2015 3:42 AM

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 Anonymousreply 21March 7, 2015 3:42 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 22March 7, 2015 3:44 AM

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 Anonymousreply 23March 7, 2015 3:45 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 24March 7, 2015 3:48 AM

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 Anonymousreply 25March 7, 2015 3:51 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 26March 7, 2015 3:51 AM

As is typical, the autistic Datalounge shut-ins take this thread seriously.

by Anonymousreply 27March 7, 2015 3:56 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 28March 7, 2015 4:11 AM

If you have the time...I have the lube.

by Anonymousreply 29March 7, 2015 4:24 AM

R5, can you define "math"? How about "reality"? and "abstraction"?

by Anonymousreply 30March 7, 2015 4:27 AM

Op's biggest fan

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by Anonymousreply 31March 7, 2015 4:31 AM

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 Anonymousreply 32March 7, 2015 4:36 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 33March 7, 2015 4:49 AM

We must control time and put it in a lockbox.

by Anonymousreply 34March 7, 2015 5:09 AM

Ooooo,I love that fan,R31 !

by Anonymousreply 35March 7, 2015 5:23 AM

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 Anonymousreply 36March 7, 2015 5:29 AM

If you are not upset about the government controlling time. . .you're a racist!

by Anonymousreply 37March 7, 2015 5:34 AM

well, are you in charge of your own time or not?

are you?

answer the question?

by Anonymousreply 38March 7, 2015 5:54 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 39March 7, 2015 10:47 AM

I feel sorry for r25.

by Anonymousreply 40March 7, 2015 11:21 AM

Of all the things to clutch your pearls over.

by Anonymousreply 41March 7, 2015 11:39 AM

OMG. The number of satire-impaired boggles.

by Anonymousreply 42March 7, 2015 11:42 AM

I'm lost.

by Anonymousreply 43March 7, 2015 11:56 AM

R43, It's a parody of those idiotic Libertarian thread we've been seeing. Not everyone, especially Libertarians, realizes it.

by Anonymousreply 44March 7, 2015 11:58 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 45March 7, 2015 12:29 PM

Tme Out !

by Anonymousreply 46March 7, 2015 12:34 PM

"Government Controlled Time"

Is that like Hammer Time?

by Anonymousreply 47March 7, 2015 12:35 PM

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 Anonymousreply 48March 7, 2015 12:35 PM

Yes, R47, although I don't know what "Hammer Time" is, I agree with you 110%!

by Anonymousreply 49March 7, 2015 12:38 PM

r2, Savings go into banks. The time change is Daylight SAVING Time.

by Anonymousreply 50March 7, 2015 1:31 PM

Controlling only time? 435 morons in Washington control our entire lives!

by Anonymousreply 51March 7, 2015 1:33 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 52March 7, 2015 1:37 PM

That's a different thread, R51!

by Anonymousreply 53March 7, 2015 1:40 PM

What time is it?

by Anonymousreply 54March 7, 2015 1:40 PM

I love R52.

Though I wouldn't mind reading more about the utility savings.

by Anonymousreply 55March 7, 2015 1:42 PM

435 morons? Are you sure, R51? Not 434, not 436. That reads like more math to me. Government controlled math, to be specific!

by Anonymousreply 56March 7, 2015 1:55 PM

Did the Libertarian Idiot Troll finally find a topic to match his pathetic intellect?

by Anonymousreply 57March 7, 2015 2:27 PM

I think the Idiot Libertarian Troll (TM) has taken his ball and gone home.

by Anonymousreply 58March 7, 2015 2:31 PM

For decades Jane Barbee was the voice who told "The time at the tone is..."

by Anonymousreply 59March 7, 2015 2:36 PM

[quote] For decades Jane Barbee was the voice who told "The time at the tone is..."

That must have been awfully tiring, R59!

by Anonymousreply 60March 7, 2015 2:45 PM

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 Anonymousreply 61March 7, 2015 3:01 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 62March 7, 2015 3:07 PM

It was so much better when every person set their own time before the government got involved. Nobody was ever late!

by Anonymousreply 63March 7, 2015 4:26 PM

Every idiot libertarian retreats to the same fallback position.

by Anonymousreply 64March 7, 2015 5:23 PM

R64 for the Win!

by Anonymousreply 65March 7, 2015 6:45 PM

I wish they would just keep daylight saving time all year long. I love this day with all my heart.

by Anonymousreply 66March 7, 2015 7:16 PM

Thanks for posting this, I wasn't aware it was already happening and my shit would have been all fucked up tomorrow.

by Anonymousreply 67March 7, 2015 7:26 PM

Don't forget to change your clocks tonight! You don't want to miss Mass tomorrow!

by Anonymousreply 68March 7, 2015 10:37 PM

Time isn't holding up

Time isn't after us

by Anonymousreply 69March 7, 2015 11:43 PM

Time actually does speed up as you age. It's because your cells die faster.

by Anonymousreply 70March 7, 2015 11:46 PM

Does anybody know what time it is?

Does anybody care?

About time?

by Anonymousreply 71March 7, 2015 11:47 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 72March 7, 2015 11:49 PM

Spring forward. Move ahead. Whip it. Whip it good.

by Anonymousreply 73March 8, 2015 4:00 AM

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 Anonymousreply 74March 8, 2015 4:05 AM

I lost an hour of my life!

Thanks, Obama.

by Anonymousreply 75March 8, 2015 4:08 AM

What R74 said. Just get up an hour later. Or earlier. Whichever.

by Anonymousreply 76March 8, 2015 4:08 AM

OP, are you insane?

by Anonymousreply 77March 8, 2015 4:11 AM

Set your clocks forward, love dst.

by Anonymousreply 78March 8, 2015 5:33 AM

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 Anonymousreply 79March 8, 2015 5:41 AM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 80March 8, 2015 1:50 PM

R77, I must admit, all this messing with time has made me quite bonkers. But thank you for asking.

by Anonymousreply 81March 8, 2015 1:53 PM

Is everybody up to date? Chop-chop, time is awasting!

by Anonymousreply 82March 8, 2015 1:55 PM

LEAVE THE TIME ALONE!

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by Anonymousreply 83March 8, 2015 1:59 PM

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 Anonymousreply 84March 8, 2015 5:50 PM

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 Anonymousreply 85March 8, 2015 8:31 PM

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 Anonymousreply 86March 8, 2015 10:17 PM

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 Anonymousreply 87March 8, 2015 10:25 PM

I knew it! We're now in SHARIA Time because of Barak HUSSEIN Obama!!!!!

by Anonymousreply 88March 8, 2015 10:29 PM

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 Anonymousreply 89March 8, 2015 10:47 PM

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 Anonymousreply 90March 8, 2015 10:50 PM

Ooooh, R90, spooky!

by Anonymousreply 91March 8, 2015 10:58 PM

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 Anonymousreply 92March 8, 2015 11:32 PM

Bump for iWatch.

by Anonymousreply 93March 9, 2015 9:40 PM

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 Anonymousreply 94March 9, 2015 9:52 PM

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 Anonymousreply 95March 9, 2015 10:05 PM

[italic]Seeeee, [/italic]R95, this is what happens when government gets involved, because government can't do anything right. Anything!

by Anonymousreply 96March 9, 2015 10:39 PM

Time has come today. Time!

by Anonymousreply 97March 10, 2015 1:20 AM

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 Anonymousreply 98March 10, 2015 1:36 AM

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 Anonymousreply 99March 10, 2015 1:41 AM

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 Anonymousreply 100March 10, 2015 2:00 AM

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 Anonymousreply 101March 10, 2015 2:25 AM

Cram it, Churchy!

by Anonymousreply 102March 10, 2015 3:02 AM

In honor of the Spring Equinox, I am reprising the time thread. Astro-time is the only fair time!

by Anonymousreply 103March 20, 2015 5:14 AM

Why in Austria before the Anschluss we banned Government Time! Socialists went to jail! Except for the 50% unemployment, life was good!

by Anonymousreply 104March 20, 2015 3:21 PM

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 Anonymousreply 105March 20, 2015 5:13 PM

I love you "Cram it, Churchy!" Assistant Troll

by Anonymousreply 106March 20, 2015 5:17 PM

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 Anonymousreply 107March 20, 2015 5:18 PM

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 Anonymousreply 108March 20, 2015 6:17 PM

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 Anonymousreply 109March 21, 2015 2:20 AM

Tomorrow belongs to me, irregardless.

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by Anonymousreply 110March 21, 2015 5:39 AM

There are some beautiful and hilarious minds on DL. Thank you. Love this thread!

by Anonymousreply 111March 21, 2015 7:22 AM

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 Anonymousreply 112March 21, 2015 7:40 AM

If you control the clocks, you control the cash registers.

- Benjamin Franklin

by Anonymousreply 113April 13, 2015 6:33 PM

You do realize nobody replied to that R112, because it made no sense, not because we thought you were brilliant.

by Anonymousreply 114April 13, 2015 6:46 PM

No one is forcing you to follow government time.

Just ignore the change

by Anonymousreply 115April 13, 2015 8:02 PM

Smart, I like that!

But I have a doctor's appointment at 10 am tomorrow. What to do?

by Anonymousreply 116April 13, 2015 8:07 PM

I have some time on my hands today, and decided to loan it to the time bank. Will I get interest?

by Anonymousreply 117April 28, 2015 7:08 PM

Time is a psychological construct.

Libertarians are complete fucking idiots.

by Anonymousreply 118April 28, 2015 7:37 PM

So is money R118. Libertarians have tried to change it into a God.

by Anonymousreply 119April 28, 2015 8:01 PM

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 Anonymousreply 120April 29, 2015 6:26 PM

R118-

Are you serious?

by Anonymousreply 121April 29, 2015 10:14 PM

R121, of all the posts, you choose to question R118? How strange.

by Anonymousreply 122April 29, 2015 10:34 PM

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 Anonymousreply 123April 30, 2015 12:52 AM

R122-

Anyone who thinks time is a social construct needs mocking.

Yes, people that stupid are allowed to vote!

by Anonymousreply 124April 30, 2015 1:31 AM

R123, aka OP-

TROLLDAR has exposed you as an ignorant, know-nothing government apologist.

by Anonymousreply 125April 30, 2015 1:44 AM

I'm shocked the Libercesspools even answered this thread. Couldn't they tell it was intended to mock them?

by Anonymousreply 126May 1, 2015 3:54 PM

Coming up next - are Libertarians robots with OCD in disguise?

by Anonymousreply 127May 1, 2015 4:01 PM

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 Anonymousreply 128May 1, 2015 5:26 PM

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]

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by Anonymousreply 129May 3, 2015 2:42 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 130May 7, 2015 2:17 AM

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 Anonymousreply 131April 16, 2016 1:33 AM

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 Anonymousreply 132April 16, 2016 1:59 AM

Now that was some stupid shit, R129. And I just smoked a joint, so you know that I was ready to believe!

by Anonymousreply 133April 16, 2016 2:10 AM

[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 Anonymousreply 134May 9, 2016 12:10 PM

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 Anonymousreply 135May 9, 2016 12:52 PM

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 Anonymousreply 136May 9, 2016 4:59 PM

Sun time, R136? Ruh Roh! No wonder I keep missing Mass.

by Anonymousreply 137May 9, 2016 9:06 PM

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 Anonymousreply 138June 23, 2016 1:48 AM

Ok, get ready to be forced, by the government, to "Fall Back".

by Anonymousreply 139October 27, 2016 8:52 PM

Happy solstice everyone! Shortest day, and longest night, so get busy!

by Anonymousreply 140December 21, 2016 1:26 PM

Here we are again. The damn government trying to tell us what to do. I'm going to set my own damn time!

by Anonymousreply 141March 11, 2017 6:28 PM

Trump will defeat time itself! To the Executive Ordering Machine!!

by Anonymousreply 142March 11, 2017 6:30 PM

That's it ILT! You go and stick it to the man! Yeah!

(Stomps on alarm clock, lights iphone on fire)

by Anonymousreply 143March 11, 2017 6:37 PM

I sing my own song.

by Anonymousreply 144March 11, 2017 6:42 PM

Remember double Saving time during the war?

by Anonymousreply 145March 11, 2017 7:03 PM

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 Anonymousreply 146October 14, 2017 3:07 PM

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 Anonymousreply 147October 14, 2017 4:19 PM

I think that we should fall back until we loop the clock! Unfortunately, the government won’t allow it!

by Anonymousreply 148October 14, 2017 8:07 PM

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 Anonymousreply 149March 11, 2018 12:44 AM

Rent a good movie tonight and watch the best parts twice, for free.

by Anonymousreply 150March 11, 2018 3:21 AM

How did everybody do today?

by Anonymousreply 151March 11, 2018 3:55 PM

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 Anonymousreply 152March 11, 2018 4:12 PM

Ah-ha! “[italic]Other than that[/italic], Mrs. Lincoln, how was the theater??”

by Anonymousreply 153March 11, 2018 4:40 PM

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 Anonymousreply 154March 11, 2018 10:46 PM

Why is the post greyed out?

by Anonymousreply 155March 11, 2018 10:51 PM

Einstein had goofy hair

by Anonymousreply 156March 11, 2018 10:53 PM

[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 Anonymousreply 157March 12, 2018 8:08 PM

I’m sorry I missed the party! My clock was all messed up, because, you know, the [/italic] government. [/Italic]

by Anonymousreply 158November 3, 2019 3:32 PM
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