....................or is it just to appease the Scots ?
Does It Help To Turn The Clocks Back ...............................
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It will help Deke, otherwise your customers will think you are an hour late for six months. You'll rush to the shop before it closes and be out of luck. etc etc
Doesn't really help me. People keep harping on about an extra hour sleep. Not for me as my body clock simply won't allow. So for me it just means I have to stay awake an hour longer the next day......
Doesn't help me either I'm not a farmer and my son is too young to tell the time so he decided it was time to get up and run around at 5:45am FFS!
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No it doesn't help us at all.
We only get 4 hours of daylight in winter. It makes no difference what the clocks say during that time.
I was going to be "crafty" this morning. I considered it a waste spending an extra hour in bed, so I thought I would get up at normal time, and have my extra hour in the daytime.
But I forgot my bedside radio is one of those radio controlled jobbies and put itself right overnight. So I wasted an hour in bed this morning. :yawn
We only get 4 hours of daylight in winter. It makes no difference what the clocks say during that time.
I was going to be "crafty" this morning. I considered it a waste spending an extra hour in bed, so I thought I would get up at normal time, and have my extra hour in the daytime.
But I forgot my bedside radio is one of those radio controlled jobbies and put itself right overnight. So I wasted an hour in bed this morning. :yawn
lol
I was the other way. For some reason the house alarm decided to false alarm for no reason @ about 4:15. first time in years it's gone off. shat my pants and ran downstairs ready to batter someone with one of the kids toys (all I lay my hand on lol). Couldn't sleep after that so was up an hour early..... or was it 2 hours early???
Luckily no-one was in the house as I think they would have just laughed at me. Do Nurf guns make a good batter stick?
Ahhh well, it's a nice day outside and it the wifes' and daughters' birthdays so nowt lost....
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If you're selling a car then it does help to turn the clock back........
All just a total waste of time and effort just like every other thing dreamt up by the government......
I see this morning they are on about that it does not matter closing all the day centres for elderly folk, as they will be able to keep in touch by means of a "tablet" whatever that may be and "video conferencing" the forum would not allow me to print what i think of these halfwits, although they almost certainly agree...
We will all be old one day...
john...
I see this morning they are on about that it does not matter closing all the day centres for elderly folk, as they will be able to keep in touch by means of a "tablet" whatever that may be and "video conferencing" the forum would not allow me to print what i think of these halfwits, although they almost certainly agree...
We will all be old one day...
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I don't care either way always remember one year told my missus they went the opposite way so she actually got up two hours earlier. Just my little joke she actually gets up early so was up really early that morning.
I always thought they were put back so the kids go to school in the light to help prevent accidents. I know for a fact a lot of old farmers don't alter there clocks they keep them the same all year round.
I always thought they were put back so the kids go to school in the light to help prevent accidents. I know for a fact a lot of old farmers don't alter there clocks they keep them the same all year round.
Those that are old enough will remember back in the 60's they tried leaving it as it was, we were going to school in the total dark, this was not good, in those days you walked to school on your own from about 7 years of age, before we became a nanny state.
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Yes I remember that.
But the silly sods tried leaving it on BST all the year.
If you are going to leave it fixed all year, then surely it should have been left on GMT rather than BST?
I'd forgotten that experiment , and as you say , everyone walked to school on their own from 7-8 onwards . Before they invented paedophiles and posted one on every corner I guess.
Yes ...good point Andy . It just seems like we lived in a different world back then but of course hardly anyone owned a car for a start and no kids were ferried to school by car .
Parents walked you there till you were 7-8 then you were on your own . Not many cars in the street I grew up in , if you go there now they're bumper to bumper.
At secondary school from 13 to 15 most of us cycled there ..........its a university now but I'd say you'd probably be mowed down if you cycled there now.
Parents walked you there till you were 7-8 then you were on your own . Not many cars in the street I grew up in , if you go there now they're bumper to bumper.
At secondary school from 13 to 15 most of us cycled there ..........its a university now but I'd say you'd probably be mowed down if you cycled there now.
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In all my school years I either walked or cycled granted the schools were not miles away but probably took a good 20 minutes.
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As the man said...
Primary school I walked.. (only round the corner)....
Secondary school...you were allowed to bring your bike and use the bike sheds.....
But only if you passed the cycling proficiency test... which the school organised on a regular basis..
So I took the test and used my bike.. (and the bike sheds)...............
Do bike sheds have other uses other than storing bikes?,,,,,,,,,
was this another reason for bringing a bike???
I couldn't comment its all rumors from the others at the sort of schools Deke went to...
Some say there are 3 uses of bike sheds..
a) Storing bikes...
b) Smoking...
c) something with girls.. done behind the bikesheds!!!...
Please select your own order of priority!
:innocent
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Only 2 choices for me there Specs , boys only school unfortunately ..girls were at the school round the corner.
So basically park your bike in the sheds and smoke behind them.
Pupils were banned from smoking on the main road leading from the school and going within 100 yds of the girl's school .
As my mate lived opposite it we flaunted that rule with impunity.
Bare in mind this was the days of corporal punishment but smoking was quite low on the crime list , usually forced to hand over your ciggies and we'll say no more about it TBH . The whole world seemed to smoke then.
Caught near the girl's school was a caning offense as I remember .
Persistent talking in class was 1 on the hand ...( Which hand do you write with boy ? ) whack on the other , after the first couple of weeks of entering the school, the teachers could silence a class with just one word or just tap their pen on the desk .
6 of the best, as they called it, was 3 on each hand and they didn't hold back . Always done in front of the class or the school and I can remember some kids actually in shock afterwards.
6 on the bottle & glarss was the worst , never had that , but remember a kid with wounds that were actually bleeding .
When you look back , there was obviously a darker side to all that ........some teachers didn't use the option at all .
Oh just remembered .....running in the corridors was a size 9 plimsole ,on the ass, but postponed until the class was in their gym kit. I can hear it now ............." Jones !!!!! Did you think I'd forgotten ?? Fetch me a size 9 boy "!
Hated every bloody day there TBH . Did half of the final term then with my 15th birthday being in November , took the (then) option of being a Christmas leaver and started work.
Strangely I was straight back there but for night school , same room , same desk, different teachers .all very grown up , but had to do O levels before firm would class me as an apprentice and permit day release .
And so endeth chapter one of my autobiography :innocent
So basically park your bike in the sheds and smoke behind them.
Pupils were banned from smoking on the main road leading from the school and going within 100 yds of the girl's school .
As my mate lived opposite it we flaunted that rule with impunity.
Bare in mind this was the days of corporal punishment but smoking was quite low on the crime list , usually forced to hand over your ciggies and we'll say no more about it TBH . The whole world seemed to smoke then.
Caught near the girl's school was a caning offense as I remember .
Persistent talking in class was 1 on the hand ...( Which hand do you write with boy ? ) whack on the other , after the first couple of weeks of entering the school, the teachers could silence a class with just one word or just tap their pen on the desk .
6 of the best, as they called it, was 3 on each hand and they didn't hold back . Always done in front of the class or the school and I can remember some kids actually in shock afterwards.
6 on the bottle & glarss was the worst , never had that , but remember a kid with wounds that were actually bleeding .
When you look back , there was obviously a darker side to all that ........some teachers didn't use the option at all .
Oh just remembered .....running in the corridors was a size 9 plimsole ,on the ass, but postponed until the class was in their gym kit. I can hear it now ............." Jones !!!!! Did you think I'd forgotten ?? Fetch me a size 9 boy "!
Hated every bloody day there TBH . Did half of the final term then with my 15th birthday being in November , took the (then) option of being a Christmas leaver and started work.
Strangely I was straight back there but for night school , same room , same desk, different teachers .all very grown up , but had to do O levels before firm would class me as an apprentice and permit day release .
And so endeth chapter one of my autobiography :innocent
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At my school the headmaster had around 8 canes all of various thickness, if you were very naughty you would get the full 6 across the backside, which left 12 blood blisters, one each side of where the cane had hit.
For some reason I got on the wrong side of the headmaster, started when I wore hob nail boots to school and cracked some of the corridor tiles, skinhead moonstomp and all that. :yellow card :yellow card :red card
Anyway got home from school and my mum noticed blood on the back of my school trousers, she guessed what had happened as I was no saint, and asked me to drop me trousers, she was shocked and horrified at what she could see.
The following morning she was up the school complaining, the headmaster just shrugged, flicked his cape over his shoulder and said would you prefer he was expelled and walked off.
To be honest it was hell and I could not wait to leave the sh*t hole, I learned more at college than I ever did at school.
Odd though I was in the A stream and always finished in the top 10 of 30 class.
The bike sheds for boys and girls, doing anything and everything, the toilets were for sticking 1st year heads down unless they paid up, or form a tunnel and let them try and run through. We were all 1st years once.
Even got the ruler or the dap in primary school, oh how times have changed.
For some reason I got on the wrong side of the headmaster, started when I wore hob nail boots to school and cracked some of the corridor tiles, skinhead moonstomp and all that. :yellow card :yellow card :red card
Anyway got home from school and my mum noticed blood on the back of my school trousers, she guessed what had happened as I was no saint, and asked me to drop me trousers, she was shocked and horrified at what she could see.
The following morning she was up the school complaining, the headmaster just shrugged, flicked his cape over his shoulder and said would you prefer he was expelled and walked off.
To be honest it was hell and I could not wait to leave the sh*t hole, I learned more at college than I ever did at school.
Odd though I was in the A stream and always finished in the top 10 of 30 class.
The bike sheds for boys and girls, doing anything and everything, the toilets were for sticking 1st year heads down unless they paid up, or form a tunnel and let them try and run through. We were all 1st years once.
Even got the ruler or the dap in primary school, oh how times have changed.
All sounds very familiar Steve , sounds like the same school . 
Ah yes you rekindled memories of The Blue Goldfish , it lives in the end loo , the gulible go to look, head down, flush the chain , great merryment all round :happy bunny: :C
The general system there was to join or form a self preservation society , AKA a gang of usually 4 or more , made bullies think twice .
Amazingly the top stream spawned Electricians , Electrical designers, panel builders, mechanical engineers , plumbers , heating engs. toolmakers, draughtsmen, car mechanics , floorlayers, printers etc.
I think my brother was possibly the only one I know to go on to university (PhD etc )
Some have spent most of of their lives in prison .
One of the very few black kids back then was well liked , name withheld, signed up with Birchfield Harriers , murdered in the street age 16 -17. A sign of what was to come.
And a couple of others became Black Sabbath .
Ah yes you rekindled memories of The Blue Goldfish , it lives in the end loo , the gulible go to look, head down, flush the chain
, great merryment all round :happy bunny: :C The general system there was to join or form a self preservation society , AKA a gang of usually 4 or more , made bullies think twice .
Amazingly the top stream spawned Electricians , Electrical designers, panel builders, mechanical engineers , plumbers , heating engs. toolmakers, draughtsmen, car mechanics , floorlayers, printers etc.
I think my brother was possibly the only one I know to go on to university (PhD etc )
Some have spent most of of their lives in prison .
One of the very few black kids back then was well liked , name withheld, signed up with Birchfield Harriers , murdered in the street age 16 -17. A sign of what was to come.
And a couple of others became Black Sabbath .
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