Government Screws up Halloween
 

:(

Just realized that seeing at the clocks didsn't go back this weekend, it's going to be light at the witching hour (6pm). How the bloody hell can you TorT in the light? That's about as spooky as Casper the excedingly lame ghost.

I'm beginning to suspect that changing the clock-changing dates was nothing to do with energy conservation, it was a conspiracy to screw up this non-religious (and in the minds of some anti-religious) holiday! grrrrrr.

More time for parents to fight traffic and get home to prepare. It's always a mad rush on Halloween.

Safer anyway for the littlest ones to TorT while it's still light.

The bigger ones can wait.

Wait til when? The "witching hour" here is 6-8. This daylight nonsense is effectively halving that.

Plus who want to TorT in the light -mine certainly didn't, even when they were tiny. Safer not to TorT at all and just have you parents buy you a bag of candy, but where's the fun in that?

Besides, I would argue that dusk is a more dangerous time regarding road accidents.

Ours went back :p

Really, as early as 6:00? In our neighborhood the kids never show up before 7:00 at the very earliest, and most are between 8:00 and 9:00.

porch lights go out like magic ar 8 -we are pretty much the only ones giving out candy after that. If we still have any. (It may well be recycles by then :lol:)

We get a lot of drive-ins from apartment blocks -at 6 sharp the street fills with minivans and we're off.....!

You gonna do like birds do?

Better wear a bib.

do people put up 'no trick or treating' signs?

porch light off = no Trick or Treating. Pretty much observed by all. It's a wonderful thing. Possibly the best thing about America! :lol:

I tie my pit bull to the front porch when I run out of candy.

Works like a charm!

My ex told me that years ago he and his roommate at the time ran out of candy. They started dropping potatos into the kids' bags. Can't you imagine kids going home to check their booty and wondering who in the heck gave them a raw potato?

a friend of mine always had 2 bowls - one with candy for the little kids, and one with rubbers in assorted colors for the "big" kids

The witching hour isn't until 12:00am. That is when the real terror starts.

No the real terror for me was when my kids realized that in our new neighborhood(new town), only about 1% of people give out candy. WTF? On the up side, we had by far the best decorated house on our block

LOL

Why?

Kids here examine what you are giving them at the time.

Did y'all (in the States) remember to Fall Back last night?

I didn't.

In Australia, "rubber" means eraser, as many a US exchange student has learned only after hearing a rather startling request to borrow in the middle of a lecture.

Means that in the UK too.

Care to translate for the non americans? :)

"Fall Back"--we set our clocks an hour back in the fall (as opposed to "Spring Ahead," when we set our clocks an hour ahead in...you guessed it...the spring).

The evening newspeople always say to do it before going to bed on Saturday night.

We remembered. The kids' biological clocks, not so much. It'll take several days for us to shift mealtimes back up to where they "should" be.

Ahhh. I see. We don't have a catchy phrase for ours. Ours is referrd to as "clocks go back".

Spring ahead? I say Spring forward.

Fall back/Spring forward. Get it? You have our permission to adopt said catchy phrases, kay?

I'm partial to syllabic parallelism, myself.

Spring up.
Fall back.

It's a nice one-two, one-two rhythm. You elitist intellectuals can just keep your "ahead" and "forward."

that doesn't scan, Clod. If you want to spring up, it would be fall down.

. . .

Ow!

I've fallen down and can't spring up!

I was brought up with Spring Forward, Fall Back.

Really? I haven't heard it before.

That was how I learned that Americans said Fall to mean Autumn.

Ahhh. I thought you were saying it was an English expression :P

Well, it was a well known phrase around our parts, but being the snotty shit that I was, I wanted to know more. The general asuumption was falling leaves, but I pointed out that that wasn't the Autumn equivalent of "Spring Forward" and hey presto...... once I recovered from the well-deserved beating, all was explained.

Halloween
 

Arizona and Hawaii remain the only states that completely ignore the daylight saving scam. In addition Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have chosen not to observe Daylight Saving Time.:rolleyes:

BTTT......We had 48 trick or treaters this year more than usual as we live on a long cul-de-sac

I thought Indiana didn't partake of daylight savings as well.

we don't have daylight savings in the state I live in. I think it's stupid that we don't. We're out of sinc with the southern states and it fucks up my foxtel viewing...aside from making business with southern states a pain in the arse at times.

Nope, I use Spring forward, Fall back too.
And the term fall for Autumn went to America with the Brits according to Bill Bryson. I think it was even a Yorkshire word :)

Ahh. Well, I ain't a Yorkshire lass by birth. Certainly it wasn't in use in Bolton when I was growing up :P

ICBC we love what you
 

On October 31, 2007, the Hebei Provincial Industrial and Commercial Bank teller many contract workers (both members of the former agent) is a black Wednesday, in a tense afternoon of work, exhausted from work for the

In line when suddenly received calls from the card handed over to the chapter and signed a "decision on the termination of labor contracts," This is really too cruel to us because we had no ideological preparations for a minute before are still working hard for ICBC

After one minute to work on your money to tell you to go home! I think any one person can accept this outcome.
We terminating labor contracts of these contract workers are mostly teller 18, 9, 20 and make access to the ICBC, all in the first line of ICBC assigned them it is so hard we have been working diligently and conscientiously to heat cold

For more than 10 years to his most precious prime of life and to the ICBC can we get? We entered a pain in the middle-aged, the young and old under small for them, they have no legitimate reason, just want to drive in the new "Labor Law" promulgated before we got kicked out of the ICBC. Also minimal living subsidy to kill us, is ask who gave them the right to do whatever they like this, this is the rule of law society, in the central strongly advocated "people-oriented" to build a harmonious society today, they are still ignoring the rights of workers, ignoring the "Labor Law" existence. We truly want to ask the ICBC to sacrifice their lives for more than 10 years of your staff even so无情无义, you can all honesty, treat your customers?
Sigh so ICBC, we love what you?

Seek the international law Media Aid

Uh...

what the fuck was that?

tha's what happens when you let computers translate for you... not pretty.

Sounds like a difficult situation. I won't pretend to understand exactly what has happened. But I getthe impression a lot of people have been summarily let go and are now facing extreme hardship after years of loyal service. Bad news.

But very difficult to read. Brave to try making the post though.

Daylight Savings Time to the rescue?

Welcome Yangzhoalun, welcome to the cellar and welcome to capitalism.
Welcome also to the vagaries of machine translations.
Good luck.

I think it's spam.

Link in first post? :headshake Anyone brave enough to follow it? :lol:

It's a halloween post -spam in costume!

seriously, could be genuine, sounds unpleasant, but what response they want is not clear other than maybe to click on the link...

I'm not clicking it. You click it.

I'm allergic to clicks.

I clicked it.
Can I be in the clique now?

It is just an email address. It opened my email service and composed a mail to that address. Then I deleted the email without sending. I'm not completely stupid.

I left the letter intact as an interesting artifact, but the email address is gone-ski.

I thought we were taking turns clicking strange links. Cyber-Roulette.

Who loves their system the least?