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It's so bizarre. I just turned around to look out the window and it's pitch black and not yet 5pm. I realize the Daylight Savings Time change has occured AND it's been rainy out all day. This is just so weird though. The street lights have already come on.

Ok, feel free to comment.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't care for daylight savings time at all.

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:42 (twenty-three years ago)

i was going to go on a walk at 5 and see the pretty trees after i did some work, but nooo it's dark out.

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

i was talking to maura about this earlier and we both agreed it is a colossal DUD.

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

so do i: you can see the fireworks sooner

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Notice I didn't title the thread, Dark at 4pm C/D?
Because it's obv DUD.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it too. I get sad about winter coming, until I remember that most of my favourite nights have been dark from start to finish.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

What fireworks?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe I'm being too harsh on the darkness... I'm so wishy washy.
No, I def need my hour or so of sunshine for a walk after work.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm on it being screamingly dud, though being down here in SoCal helps in that it's more 'Dark at 6 pm' -- for now.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

those ones off stamford hill way *points*

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Fireworks = Guy Fawkes, I'm guessing.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:56 (twenty-three years ago)

fireworks = diwali too!

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

i think it's great as long as it's also warm outside. if it's dark and cold then it's a dud. but dark + cold is better than bright + cold i think.

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 28 October 2002 21:59 (twenty-three years ago)

no that's on november the fifth, ned

*we* call it the "gunpowder plot", but at the time they called the "powder treason", which is a much better name

(james the first's dad — lord darnley? — had been killed in a weird unexplained gunpowder assassination explosion, where the house blew up but they found his naked body in the garden, strangled)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

hey my clock has gone completely wrong, i just got date rollover

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:03 (twenty-three years ago)

change your "settings" to -1, Mark. It should be O for the GMT time zone - but there is a problem.

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it because there's a feeling of impending apocalypse for a couple weeks which is, I dunno, a nice change of pace.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

I get that feeling of apocalypse much much more in summer, when it's too hot and the sun doesn't set. I find the darkness and slowing of life comforting and just sorta right.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 28 October 2002 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I like it! I prefer walking home in the dark, and I get to look down into the weird basement labs on Gower Street. And I got some extra sleep at the weekend, when I really needed it.

I live in a heavily Hindu area, so I see more diwali fireworks than Guy Fawkes stuff. I would like to emphasise here that I see November 5th not as marking foiling a dastardly plot to blow up parliament, and more as celebrating a damn good try.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 28 October 2002 23:23 (twenty-three years ago)

its snowing and grey al lday today, and the added dark will be miserable. i hate that i cannot lay in bed and read from the window at noon-when i could have done it (w/o lights of course) at 6 pm in August.

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 28 October 2002 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

i love it.
this year esp. in manchester
what with, in the past week,
the worst storms for decade
and our very own endless earthquakes-fest,
it just feels... *nuts* !!

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 00:17 (twenty-three years ago)

piscesboys posts always read like little poems

stamford hill was made for 4pm november

― gareth (gareth), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:13 (twenty-three years ago)

It makes it feel like real winter - which is in my opinion a good thing (lets mark our seasons). I've never understood the term daylight savings time anyway - its not saving any daylight merely shifting it an hour (into the night before natch).

London smells a bit of fireworks'n'bonfires which rocks.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:48 (twenty-three years ago)

It has been raining constantly, so darkness is a definite improvement, things getting brighter and reflectier at night, rather than just duller and greyer during daylight hours.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 10:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Hang on - my mind is in a spin.

I just replied to a Pete comment about schoolkids in the dark. If it wasn't on this thread then where was it?

I feel like I'm in the Matrix.

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:15 (twenty-three years ago)

was pleasantly surprised when i got home last night 3 hours after it got dark and realised it was only 8 o'clock. but other than that, dud. still, only 4 months before it starts getting light in the evening, eh?

wasn't the gunpowder plot an attempt to kill the king at the time who just happened to be visiting parliament that day rather than an attempt at parliament itself?

andy

― koogs, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

when news reporters get it wrong

Over here Nick.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I love it! Afternoon light is boring anyway. Bring on NIGHT.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 12:01 (twenty-three years ago)

i love this time of year, too. more than anything.

― michael wells (michael w.), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 12:07 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was a goth teen I thought it was very cool and mysterious to have the sun go down so quickly, now it depresses me.

― Nicole (Nicole), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm jealous of the fireworks and bonfires. *sigh* Maybe I can convince my dad to have a bonfire the next time I visit his plantation. We don't have any bonfires in the 'big city.'

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 13:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sick of bloody fireworks already, the local neds have been setting them off at all hours of the day and night since about July! Last night one went off in the street behind us with such force that it started all the car alarms. I know where I'd like to stick their fireworks for 'em!!!

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the local neds have been setting them off

Bah! Once again I am blamed for something! ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:01 (twenty-three years ago)

There is more than one Ned Raggett?

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:05 (twenty-three years ago)

mmm - me like the darkness at the end of the day. Seems a lot easier to get out of the 'work' frame of mind when it's already night-time.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

I just like the idea of a flock of bad people named after me, Plinky. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-three years ago)

ned = bored teenagers sporting shiny white tracksuit, woolly socks that inexplicably go half way up their shins, ultra white trainers, baseball cap (worn backwards or halfway up the head giving that flattering Tefal look) and at least 1 Sovereign ring on each finger. Female equivalent dresses the same only has enough gold on or about her person to sink a small ship, most of it in her ears and not forgetting the compulsory chain with name written in huge gold letters and spiral perm.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/entertainment/chewinthefat/personality_test/nedtest.shtml

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just found out that my Ned name is "Swedger".

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

You can call me Alky features, sweetpea.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, "Alky features" if you can pronounce quotation marks.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Mine is "Blooter".

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I like the idea of something called the 'Nedometer.' It works well with the Nediverse. (I actually have heard the neds term a few times, I just like to feign outrage.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Damn! I thought I was being educational....
We call a car full of boys wearing baseball caps a Nedmobile - does that work in the Nediverse?

― Plinky (Plinky), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:33 (twenty-three years ago)

It's utterly brilliant! Especially since I don't drive a car. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 15:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned - I saw a record today, a compilation of 60s singles, called "Nederbeat" or something. I thought of you! (It meant Dutch pop acts like Golden Earring and Shocking Blue, but still...)

― Julio Iglesias, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:52 (twenty-three years ago)

shit, that last post was by me - damn cookies revisiting long since forgotten jokes

― Jeff W, Tuesday, 29 October 2002 16:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I just thought our own Mr. deSouza had gone a bit crazy. ;-) Then there's the Olympics coverage and how the three letter abbreviation for the Dutch is NED -- and happily, I always seem to win a few medals. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

''I just thought our own Mr. deSouza had gone a bit crazy. ;-)''

b-b-but I AM!!!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 17:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Dark and cold again by 4pm... I guess it's time for me to go into hybernation. (Oh whoops! There goes my secret identity - I'm really a wild animal - can you guess what kind?)

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Vole!

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey! Voles are ugly!

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:47 (twenty-three years ago)

a fox?

― jel -- (jel), Tuesday, 29 October 2002 21:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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