Daylight Saving to be made permanent

Horace · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 12:31

@Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

@Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

Comedians have coined the term "clapter" for the phenomenon of an entertainer saying something virtuously giggly about politics, and the audience laughing/clapping not because it was funny but because it made a virtuous point. Those shows are all clapter these days, and the audiences are clapter audiences who aren't even acclimated to real humor anymore.

I haven't read this piece, but it's the first google result for "clapter":
https://www.vulture.com/2018/01/the-rise-of-clapter-comedy.html

For decades, people have cheered and whooped when some celebrity said anything at all.

"Hello, everybody...." - screams of adulation.
"Anybody watch the Superbowl?" - roars of fucking inane cheering as though we've just won WW2
"What about the price of tomatoes, eh?" - hysterical laughter. Oh God, somebody kill them.

Celebrity worship isn’t really the same thing. An unknown hacky comic can get clapter by going on stage and saying something like “women are so much smarter than men” to set up a joke.

LuFins Dad · M Mik 17 Mar 2022, 12:15

@Mik said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

Maybe not such a good idea. But I also don't buy the idea that switching times twice a year is bad for our health.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/daylight-savings-times-senate-sleep-science-1322200/?fbclid=IwAR3YL5SiVld09rLAo96_BS04caR-2IAhn4VKY_G89VosXb1AdT1rn1xyiC4

If the change in cycle causes you to have a heart attack, I think you were going to have a h art attack anyway.

Jolly · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 14:19

@Doctor-Phibes said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

@George-K said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

What the FUCK happened to late-night comedy?

Watching old Dave Letterman clips on Youtube followed by Jimmy Kimmel or one of those English blokes you chaps seem to love so much is really an eye opener.

Even Leno was funny.

jon-nyc · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 16:00

89th · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 16:08

Hey, what do you mean, you people?

89th · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 16:12

This is for where I live. Imagine the left and right sides shifting up an hour. Yeah it would be dark until nearly 9am in Dec/Jan, but on the flip side it would be light until almost 6pm (instead of 5pm). Anyway...I have zero control over what will be decided, I'll find the benefits to either scenario, no point in grumbling.

jon-nyc · 17 Mar 2022, 16:17

Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

Horace · wrote on 17 Mar 2022, 16:16

If DST didn't exist, it would not be reinvented, and the shocked faces at anybody proposing it would be shockier than the shocked faces at those against the idea now.

Horace · 17 Mar 2022, 16:39

@jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

Doctor Phibes · H Horace 17 Mar 2022, 16:17

@Horace said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

@jon-nyc said in Daylight Saving to be made permanent:

Fast forward to when your kids are school aged.

Kids go to school too early. Known fact. Kids need more sleep.

As far as I can tell, the main reason the high school starts so ridiculously early is so that they can use the buses three times, once for each school. Having 16 year-olds go in at 7am is bloody stupid.