Broke my sternum in a car accident in 2020, amazing how many things are connected to it. Slightest movement of anything and it lets you know about it. Three weeks sleeping in the lazy boy for me as if I laid anything like flat it was agony. I feel for her, I really do.
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Robbo3
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Cozzer
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Talking of having to explain things, I've just noticed that our local bus shelter has the bus timetable in a glass-fronted frame.
Underneath the times, it has an explanation of how the 24 hour business works, together with a dozen little clock diagrams showing examples.
Really?!
Ye Gods....
Underneath the times, it has an explanation of how the 24 hour business works, together with a dozen little clock diagrams showing examples.
Really?!
Ye Gods....
Phil Pascoe
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Yoofs only understand digital, they need to know the best time to vandalise the shelter.
niemeyjt
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Given what I see in the yoofs I know, the problem is that they do not understand the existence of any time before they exit their pit at midday - so 8 to them is 20.00 to you and me and the bus company
AES
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As many know, here (Switzerland) the 24 hour clock is used all the time, especially for bus, train, airline tables, etc, and "even" commonly for stuff like the shop's opening hours, etc.
When I used to travel a lot, often through Zurich Airport, I lost count of the number of times had to explain the 24 hour clock to people, and NOT "yoof" so often, the "favourites" were "ladies of a certain age" (usually American - you get the idea, ladies with 15 should straps and a blue rinse)!.
When I used to travel a lot, often through Zurich Airport, I lost count of the number of times had to explain the 24 hour clock to people, and NOT "yoof" so often, the "favourites" were "ladies of a certain age" (usually American - you get the idea, ladies with 15 should straps and a blue rinse)!.
AES
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stuart little
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Acute 'e' ~ Alt. + 0233Will quite miss 'Dunno' You often asked the question, others would not.
Perhaps you could substitute 'Que?' instead. Except you will need an acute accent on the 'e' which I am unable to make work on my keyboard
stuart little
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Good job they don't use 'Zulu Time' then!
Kittyhawk
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Ah, but it has its uses.
Spent half my life using GMT and then applying the longitude correction to determine local ship time. And this new fangled UTC just doesn't have the same ring to it as good old GMT. And what's this nonsense with metres in a nautical setting? Old Willy Shakespeare would have to rewrite that opening line from 'The Tempest' to 'full metres ten thy father lies...' Doesn't quite flow, does it.
HamsterJam
Let’s take it apart to see what’s inside….
I used to work somewhere that ran on GMT. A minus 30 minute commute in the summer, arriving at work half an hour before you left home took some getting used to. This was offset by the 30 minute commute home arriving an hour and a half later. Used to look forward to six months of normality when the clocks go back in autumn.
Well joke thread 4 is going down hill fast. Seems people just can’t help themselves.
I guess anything that involves people falls in the first category. Though I’m not sure I’m wise enough to be sure about that."O God, give us the serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what can be changed, and the wisdom to know the one from the other."
