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Viking Chat => Off Topic => Topic started by: The Red Baron on October 28, 2018, 09:11:35 am

Title: Clocks going back
Post by: The Red Baron on October 28, 2018, 09:11:35 am
Is anyone else fed up with this twice-a-year malarkey? I reckon we should decide to either stay on GMT or BST all year round. I don't really care which, but let's stop changing the clocks twice a year.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: DonnyOsmond on October 28, 2018, 09:15:12 am
Cloxit
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Dutch Uncle on October 28, 2018, 09:19:14 am
I agree TRB

However I do think how far north you are affects things like getting children to school in the dark more, e.g. Nortern Scotland.  Mind you just changing school to start a bit later might help, as long as it can finish before dark.

Not sure the idea of BST all year round would go down well with some on here though. :chair:
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Bentley Bullet on October 28, 2018, 09:34:41 am
Anyone against BST is stupid and hasn't got a clue of the consequences of it!   :chair:
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Sprotyrover on October 28, 2018, 11:55:52 am
Is anyone else fed up with this twice-a-year malarkey? I reckon we should decide to either stay on GMT or BST all year round. I don't really care which, but let's stop changing the clocks twice a year.

I seem to think that you have similar views like me for the UK to remain united . one of the prices we pay is this arrangement which allows some parts of the Northern UK to make the most of the 2/3 hours daylight they get in mi winter.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: The Red Baron on October 28, 2018, 12:36:02 pm
Is anyone else fed up with this twice-a-year malarkey? I reckon we should decide to either stay on GMT or BST all year round. I don't really care which, but let's stop changing the clocks twice a year.

I seem to think that you have similar views like me for the UK to remain united . one of the prices we pay is this arrangement which allows some parts of the Northern UK to make the most of the 2/3 hours daylight they get in mi winter.

I appreciate that BST in winter wouldn't be great if you were in the Scottish highlands which is why I'd be ok with staying on GMT all year round. Then again, I'm very much a morning person.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: RedJ on October 28, 2018, 12:37:57 pm
I propose a referendum.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Bentley Bullet on October 28, 2018, 01:01:14 pm
I propose a referendum.

Best of three?
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: The Red Baron on October 28, 2018, 04:53:43 pm
I propose a referendum.

It would be a decent subject for a referendum, but after the last one I'm not sure that would be a good idea.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: idler on October 28, 2018, 06:46:35 pm
We did have a couple of years when we didn't alter the clocks, 1969 & 70 I think.
That is when the myth of the Scottish schoolchildren being mown down appeared and regularly gets recycled.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Al4475 on October 28, 2018, 06:48:18 pm
Swap it half an hour forward or back once and have it done with!
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Geoff Blakesley on October 28, 2018, 06:59:47 pm
Let em have independance then we can do what we like re dark mornings.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: big fat yorkshire pudding on October 28, 2018, 09:51:32 pm
We did have a couple of years when we didn't alter the clocks, 1969 & 70 I think.
That is when the myth of the Scottish schoolchildren being mown down appeared and regularly gets recycled.

And it is a myth. I went to school in Scotland.  Walked their and home in the dark (And rain or snow) every day.

I don't really care though and don't know why people do?
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: BillyStubbsTears on October 29, 2018, 03:34:10 am
It's a political thing.

The SNP desperately want two things:

1) For the Scots to think that they are being victimised by the English.
2) For the English to think they are being held back by the Scots.

1 makes it more likely that the Scots will support separation.

2 makes it more likely that the English will support anti-Scottish policies which will feed 1.

The issue of kids walking to school in the dark is bullshit. If the clocks changed permanently, yes, more Scottish kids would walk TO school in the dark, but fewer would walk back home FROM school in the dark.

If the clocks were put forward permanently, the SNP would make hay with the issue. So we all get disadvantaged as a result.

Because the SNP have one drive and one drive only. Anything that is required to make the Scots more supportive of independence. And STILL some naive folk on the Left think that Labour should have some cuddly agreement with these zealots.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Donnywolf on October 29, 2018, 05:57:01 am
.... and those saying we should respect the Referendum down here should also notice that the Scottish people having voted by a "massive" Majority in a once in a lifetime Referndum to remain part of the Union are already subject to / under pressure from thise wanting Independence - by presumably having another Referendum

Its was Deocracy you lost get over it ! (Yeah right)
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: roversdude on October 29, 2018, 08:47:59 pm
Seem to remember we all got issued with reflective arm bands when they didn’t alter the clocks
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: ravenrover on October 30, 2018, 05:56:32 pm
How many kids walk to school these days? It's parking mayhem at the 2 schools in our village. We even have a traffic cop camera vehicle patrolling morning and evening.
Title: Re: Clocks going back
Post by: Bentley Bullet on October 30, 2018, 07:26:11 pm
Kids are driven to school these days because their parents are worried they might get run over in the school run traffic chaos!