bettiwettiwoo's Journal: Doing the Devil's Work

I hate day light saving. I hate day light saving in general and day light saving in Australia in particular. Yes, obviously it's super-important to save on that precious day light in a place where the sun seems to shine all the bloody time. NOT!

Day light saving is an invention by the devil. That's what it is.

Daylight Savings

[Le Marteau]

I think that whole Daylight Savings deal is just another way for the "powers that be" to show us all that, yes, as a matter of fact, they DO control everything important, including time itself, and if they want to make us lose an hour or gain an hour, yes, as a matter of fact, they CAN legislate that. :: takes off tin foil hat ::

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[bettiwettiwoo]

I don't entirely share your aversion to government. I think a lot of the recent seriously intrusive legislation we have seen in various Anglo-sphere nations can be put down to extremely noisy, sticky-beak do-gooders, who for some obscure reason gets a lot of airtime/ink devoted to them and therefore exerts an undue influence on politics.

The reason these people so love daylight saving is that they don't bloody have a life and all they want to do is to force to normal people to get up even earlier in the morn

Rather fond of it for once!

[Red Warrior]

Due to the fact that I completely forgot about it.... I had an extra hour this morning before I had to go into work. :-)
Which allowed me to get some stuff done that I just knew that I wasn't going to get done today. (Get up earlier? Surely you jest!)

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[bettiwettiwoo]

Due to the fact that I completely forgot about it....

Well, I forgot about it too ... and half of my Sunday was decidedly surrealistic as a consequence. And I was decidedly not happy. As for getting up earlier when summertime ends: nobody in their right mind would do any such thing; that would be perversion of nature and human kind.

And, since I am now finally answering a comment of yours (I'm answering comments today): I had intended to respond, but somehow never got around to it (sometimes I just ... someho

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[Red Warrior]

Heh. I think that when I fired up bloglines that day, I had something in the neighborhood of 800 unread posts in my feeds. :-)

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[bettiwettiwoo]

Feeds: inventive help or just the creators of more of that guilt?! I wonder.