British Summer Time

[The Axman]

groan.

[Montreal Wanderer]

I'd be careful what you wish for, ladies and gents. Living in a land with multiple time zones is a pain at the best of times as Monty and others will be well aware. But you get used to it just as does the UK with European zones. Then add summer time, when some areas adopt it and others don't, and it becomes a bloody nightmare. I believe that NSW and Vic have finally synchronised the two change overs but Qld - to the north of NSW - doesn't participate. That results in a quite densely populated area (Tweed Heads/Coolangatta) working on different clock times. Perhaps as a local it might be overcome but to an 'outsider' in can be dreadfully confusing.

I may be in the largest (from east to West) time zone (eastern Standard) in the world. To accommodate all of Quebec and most of Ontario it stretches from the eastern Gaspé(64 degrees West) to Western Ontario (90 degrees), almost twice the normal time zone. Our Maritime Provinces are an hour ahead on Atlantic time although much of the them are to the West of Percé Rock, Gaspé. Newfoundland, in some incomprehensible attempt at compensation, is half an hour ahead of Atlantic Time. In the middle of the country Saskatchewan has decided not to change at all, spending half the year on Alberta (Mountain) time and the other half on Manitoba (Prairie) Time. We have only one city, Lloydminster, which is in two provinces that have different times and different drinking ages, causing a fair amount of crossing of Main Street at opening/closing time.

[BWFC_Insane]

Not strictly on topic, but something thats always puzzled me.

Where do all the pretty girls go in the winter?

Soon as the sun comes out, driving round the North West you see pretty girls all over the show, well not quite but you get what I mean.

In winter you never see any.

Never understood this.

[Montreal Wanderer]

Not strictly on topic, but something thats always puzzled me.

Where do all the pretty girls go in the winter?

Soon as the sun comes out, driving round the North West you see pretty girls all over the show, well not quite but you get what I mean.

In winter you never see any.

Never understood this.

Er...it's warmer inside so they stay there? Or, no one looks pretty muffled up in layers of clothing?

[Zulus Thousand of em]

It's the law.

It just is.

[Annoyed Grunt]

Not strictly on topic, but something thats always puzzled me.

Where do all the pretty girls go in the winter?

Soon as the sun comes out, driving round the North West you see pretty girls all over the show, well not quite but you get what I mean.

In winter you never see any.

Never understood this.

Why is it, all the fat girls come out weraing next to nothing?

[Gooner Girl]

Not strictly on topic, but something thats always puzzled me.

Where do all the pretty girls go in the winter?

Soon as the sun comes out, driving round the North West you see pretty girls all over the show, well not quite but you get what I mean.

In winter you never see any.

Never understood this.

That's funny, all the pervy men come out in summer too, I've found

[Worthy4England]

Not strictly on topic, but something thats always puzzled me.

Where do all the pretty girls go in the winter?

Soon as the sun comes out, driving round the North West you see pretty girls all over the show, well not quite but you get what I mean.

In winter you never see any.

Never understood this.

That's funny, all the pervy men come out in summer too, I've found

Not sure that's strictly true. We can perv in the winter equally as well.

[Bruce Rioja]

The former Mrs Rioja used to work for an insurance company, and she claimed that they used to see a marked rise in minor accident claims involving male drivers whenever the weather was nice. She put this down to all the perving we do. I think she was hoping that I'd disagree.

[Dujon]

Times haven't changed then, Bruce. Back in the early 'sixties I was part of a group which occasionally borrowed films for Saturday afternoon viewings. These were free and, in the main, were supplied by petrol companies. The subjects were invariably motor racing.

For some reason I've never forgotten a small road safety advertisement that was tacked on to one of them. It was some perving twit driving an open topped convertible as he passed a cute lass walking down the street. A short period of mayhem then ensued as he dodged vehicles coming the way after he drifted slowly but steadily toward the object of his appreciation.

It seems that the message didn't get through either.

[Prufrock]

I'd be careful what you wish for, ladies and gents. Living in a land with multiple time zones is a pain at the best of times as Monty and others will be well aware. But you get used to it just as does the UK with European zones. Then add summer time, when some areas adopt it and others don't, and it becomes a bloody nightmare. I believe that NSW and Vic have finally synchronised the two change overs but Qld - to the north of NSW - doesn't participate. That results in a quite densely populated area (Tweed Heads/Coolangatta) working on different clock times. Perhaps as a local it might be overcome but to an 'outsider' in can be dreadfully confusing.

I may be in the largest (from east to West) time zone (eastern Standard) in the world. To accommodate all of Quebec and most of Ontario it stretches from the eastern Gaspé(64 degrees West) to Western Ontario (90 degrees), almost twice the normal time zone. Our Maritime Provinces are an hour ahead on Atlantic time although much of the them are to the West of Percé Rock, Gaspé. Newfoundland, in some incomprehensible attempt at compensation, is half an hour ahead of Atlantic Time. In the middle of the country Saskatchewan has decided not to change at all, spending half the year on Alberta (Mountain) time and the other half on Manitoba (Prairie) Time. We have only one city, Lloydminster, which is in two provinces that have different times and different drinking ages, causing a fair amount of crossing of Main Street at opening/closing time.

Isn't China all one time zone? Robbed in a pub quiz if not!

[bobo the clown]

China is. & that's some territory.

Could really only get away with that in what is essentially, east coast & Peking apart, a peasant economy.

The next decade will throw some curve balls there & require some blue-sky thinking into a brown-field mentality if they aren't going to hit the buffers due to lack of synergic conceptualisation.

[The Axman]

Anyway... as promised a few days ago - a montage of about half the cuckoo clocks that live with me:

[CrazyHorse]

Has the cuckoo in the middle one been eaten by a cat?

[The Axman]

Has the cuckoo in the middle one been eaten by a cat?

Nah, it's still there. It pops out and poops on the cat's head (it lives behind the little door at the top).
By the way, the cat's eyes move from side to side with each swing of the pendulum!

[Sponge]

Has the cuckoo in the middle one been eaten by a cat?

Nah, it's still there. It pops out and poops on the cat's head (it lives behind the little door at the top).
By the way, the cat's eyes move from side to side with each swing of the pendulum!

Is that text in the frame to the right of the clock? If so, can I ask what it is? It almost looks like one of Robert Walser's microscripts (http://catranslation.org/blog/wp-conten ... cripts.jpg).

[thebish]

the cat's-eyes-move-with-pendulum clock - very cool indeed!!

why is it that you are looking after all these cuckoo clocks?

[The Axman]

Is that text in the frame to the right of the clock? If so, can I ask what it is? It almost looks like one of Robert Walser's microscripts (http://catranslation.org/blog/wp-conten ... cripts.jpg).

It's a map of Derbyshire roads and towns (in bottom right) with distance tables between the towns (top and left).

[The Axman]

the cat's-eyes-move-with-pendulum clock - very cool indeed!!

why is it that you are looking after all these cuckoo clocks?

Aye, that one's my favourite. They're called augenwender in German, means eyeturners.

My missus always wanted a cuckoo clock and I just poo-pooed the idea for years until I actually saw one. Then I got hooked and I can't stop buying the things. Bought 11 in ~7 years now. Mind you I'll have to stop I'll run out of wall space to hang them.

[Bruce Rioja]

the cat's eyes move from side to side with each swing of the pendulum!

Did you buy it off of Scooby Doo?