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it's 11:47pm and still not feeling sleepy!
need to adjust asap!
(thankfully it's the long weekend) :)

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Spent last night updated clocks for summer time - had to google to find out which states change :lol:

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Move to Queensland. Our cows and chickens are still too stubborn to allow DST.......

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Or WA and NT - got my head round the time differences now :)

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WA trialled it for a while, one of the reasons for abandoning it was that it gave the locusts an extra hour of daylight in which to breed :confused:

Many people in Queensland - including some highly educated ones - actually believe it means you get an extra hour of sun every day which fades the curtains, stops children from sleeping, and prevents hens from laying eggs......

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:rofl:

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Do Brisbane tv stations broadcast the New Year's Eve Sydney on time, or delayed by an hour?

Thankfully my bodyclock woke me up at 7am AEDT which means I should be ok tomorrow when we're back to work.

Oh don't you love DST? :p

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It's only the same as a single hour's jet lag, which you should overcome during the public holiday. Having the swap this weekend is actually very cunning!


S

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I know. It's good timing. Long weekend.

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They show it at Sydney time, followed by Brisbane ones an hour later

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Do we have fireworks?

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Apparently! I vaguely remember seeing them from a distance once......

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I'm home :D

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if darling harbour can have fireworks every saturday why cant brisbane council have one every nye and oz day?

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Will the price of a lettuce drop ??

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Cos or iceberg?

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Ice cream flavoured.

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Not till we have a bit more rain and the extra hour of rainfall wipes out the crop :ohmy:

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depends on supply and demand. is it in season? is there a lettuce season?

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eating iceberg lettuce is like eating water

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Oooh... Exciting times for QLD...

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/quee...009-2v7ob.html


S

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So anyone know the real arguments against DST, in particular in QLD ?

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they're not sophisticated enough to handle clock changes.

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Yes, you lot set the standard of sophistication impossibly high don't you ;)

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The farmers in the tropical north complained. The solution would be to divide the state into two zones above and below the tropic of capricorn. But how practical will that be?

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I feed the kookaburras every afternoon. When daylight saving came in they started turning up at five o'clock instead of four o'clock. I never realised that wildlife was so smart, amazing.

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:lol:

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Smarter than Queensland's cows and chickens then :D

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Its too hot.

Summer in QLD is unpleasant. Particularly when that glowing ball of nuclear fusion is visible in the sky.

The best way to counter this - is to stay indoors at work in the AC for as long as possible and come out when the sun has dipped low enough for it to be safe to venture outside. If you're lucky, by the time you've got home and are prepared for the evening, the sun will have completely disappeared and its safe to venture outside for a game of tennis, walk the dog, do the gardening etc etc etc.

Those rabid fans of DST seem keen to prolong the agony of sunlight for as long as possible in the evening forcing the sane members of society to cower indoors for an hour longer each day before we can go outside.

I'm a big fan of proposing "MST" (Moonlight savings time) so we move the clocks an hour in the other direction for summer. That way instead of waiting until 7pm for the sun to dip and it to be safe to go outside, we can go out at 6pm and have that extra hour in the evening to do outdoor activities that are simply hazardous to do in the heat of the day.

:D

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Do you live on Arrakis?


S

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Theyre actually stupid because they're late!