Thread: This Person Votes???????

The reason Queensland does not have Daylight Saving time is that little concept called democracy. Two referenda were held and twice a majority of the people voted against.

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

The reason Queensland does not have Daylight Saving time is that little concept called democracy. Two referenda were held and twice a majority of the people voted against.

....and too think I thought that back in the mists of time it was all because Joh B-P thought that the sun shone out of his own ******** and he didn't want to have to get up an hour earlier each day....

The name attributed to the letter was wrong, I think the guys name was Chris Bjelke-Petersen

Originally Posted by 2 rocks

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Hey Crump, that's right! It would also solve the problem for regions plagued by bats (er, there must be some). No night = no bats.

Better still, instead of using up all our daylight saving in summer, perhaps we could keep it and use it in winter when it's cold and dark!

Lol!
Mike

my god your right, are you interested in teaming up for the next election????

I think we should all move up to the Arctic where they get 24hrs of sunlight as the sun just 'bounces' off the horizon ................................. at least for part of the year anyway!

Roger

Originally Posted by 2 rocks

...And find some "scientific" evidence to support it!

"This evening on Today Tonight, the hot topic of daylight saving and faded curtains. Could vertical blinds be the solution?..."
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Lol!
Mike

I had a conversation once (around when they were mooting it for Qld) with someone who explained just how the curtains get faded. It comes from drawing them an hour early (to get to sleep by 8pm I presume). I didn't even get to discuss the relative benefits to East-facing vs West-facing curtains: we all know the curtains in Western windows fade more, so it makes sense to protect them by making the sun set an hour earlier.

I'd be happy to be interviewed by TT if required.

Originally Posted by BMKal

I'm sure that A Current Affair and Today Tonight could manage some sort of a beat-up on this.

Wouldnt surprise me. Both of them are so hard up for decent stories these days and the complete lack of talent they have in investigative, let alone any kind of journalism, I'm sure that the majority of halfwits that watch these shows and believe what they say will take it to the poll!
Whats the bet both of them will do the following:
1- Both run the story within a day or two of each other.
2- One find the angle of the above article being wrong but with possibilities.
3- The other find an angle of being factual, but just because the first network was working on it being wrong, but then shoot down the first networks possibilities angle!
4- Leave all of us who are intelligent, with an expression not unlike that of a frontal lobotomy.
5- Leave those who take these shows seriously completely void of any real facts and with something to take away and ponder!!

I like to call it "Agenda Journalism"!

That is ****funny....


I dont know WayneP, I have met a few people from Albury that have a question mark where their brain is meant to be..........If you have ever spent some time there you would have noticed the cut spring commodore brigade with the 5 post bull bars....not just 1 but I think 5 of them in the main drag last time I was there.

There was an old lady in Mansfield when I was a kid that used to change her curtains in daylight savings to her old ones as she was convinced that it was the extra sunlight that made them fade.....and she wasnt joking.

I still dont understand why people dont like it, is it because they dont like to have to adjust their clocks or they just dont get which way to change it + or - an hr?

Even the greens keepers can show up on time the first monday of DLS but the Mechanic sets his clock to PM instead of AM and his alarm didnt go off