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Post by spinno on Oct 27, 2024 9:56:05 GMT
Yep, back on GMT/ UTC. Can we get rid of British Stupid Time permanently? But think of all the Aberdeen school children who's lives have been saved. Damn, we'll have to try something different |
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Post by peterba on Oct 27, 2024 10:34:10 GMT
Met mum's new man last night (don't feel I can call him a boyfriend as they are both north of 70).
I had the same dilemma over terminology a few years ago, when my Mother got herself a new 'boyfriend'... in her mid/late 80s!  However, the new situation was quite a tonic for her.
Best wishes to your Mum and her [insert appropriate description here] for some quality time together.  |
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Post by zou on Oct 27, 2024 11:17:35 GMT
Partner always seems the right word for committed couples, regardless of age.
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Post by mick on Oct 27, 2024 11:33:53 GMT
This plea to get rid of BST has cropped up every year since I looked at this forum and its predecessor!!
Mick
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Post by geoffr on Oct 27, 2024 12:00:22 GMT
This plea to get rid of BST has cropped up every year since I looked at this forum and its predecessor!! Mick It seems to me that as many people would like BST all year as would like GMT all year. The only common denominator is that every commentator would like an end to changing the clocks. |
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Post by peterba on Oct 27, 2024 12:12:20 GMT
every commentator would like an end to changing the clocks.
Not quite true, Geoff. I don't.
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Post by davem399 on Oct 27, 2024 12:18:50 GMT
I always have a grumble about the end of BST, but I do look forward to the start of BST as it’s a signal to end my hibernation.
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Post by geoffr on Oct 27, 2024 12:32:31 GMT
every commentator would like an end to changing the clocks.
Not quite true, Geoff. I don't.
OK then “ nearly every commentator” |
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Post by peterba on Oct 27, 2024 12:45:36 GMT
OK then “ nearly every commentator”
Although it might have seemed so, my post wasn't simply contrarianism, on my part. As it happens, I do rather like the clock-change. I regard it as a sort of 'mini-event' that heralds the move from warm to cold, and then from cold to warm.
Or... if you live in the South-West: from damp, to very damp, and then back again.  |
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Post by willien on Oct 27, 2024 13:40:19 GMT
Just paid my Road Tax (yes I know!).
RTBC - As the car is rapidly approaching 6 years old it was £258 instead of £600. My simple arithmetic recons it should have been even cheaper but hey ho.
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 27, 2024 13:40:31 GMT
Partner always seems the right word for committed couples, regardless of age. I've always thought it sounds too much like business, tbh. |
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Post by gray1720 on Oct 27, 2024 13:41:27 GMT
Met mum's new man last night (don't feel I can call him a boyfriend as they are both north of 70). He seems very pleasant and they've actually known of each other for decades as they were at school together. Given how low she can get since dad died, this can only be a good thing. My dad has a "friend", he still won't admit they're more than that, despite my mother passing away 17 years ago. It's quite sweet really as he dated Prudence as a teenager. She's also his brother's sister in law, so when they all go out together it looks like two sets of twins. That's funny as well as lovely! |
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Post by willien on Oct 27, 2024 13:42:53 GMT
Partner always seems the right word for committed couples, regardless of age. I've always thought it sounds too much like business, tbh. Pisses me off because I can no longer be sure what people mean. The hijacking of existing words always gets my goat. |
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Post by peterba on Oct 27, 2024 13:50:42 GMT
Pisses me off because I can no longer be sure what people mean. The hijacking of existing words always gets my goat.
Or even... grinds your gears?  |
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Post by daves on Oct 27, 2024 14:22:04 GMT
It doesn't get dark until stupid o/c in summer, and adding an hour to that is a real PITA. Besides which my sequence software runs on UTC like all pro astronomy software.
I think you won't find a single astronomer who has a good word for BST. Plenty of bad words though.
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However, the new situation was quite a tonic for her.
