http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024631984
Oh my.
It's getting more and more difficult to find a primitive discussion on something the primitives know anything about, and on this issue, they know barely anything.
But one grabs what one can grab.
niyad (29,098 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:31 PM
the "extra hour of daylight" benefits convenience stores, gas stations, golf courses, the bbq industry and all outdoor sports, along with increased pollution from the extended use of cars. what do we the people gain? a chance to watch the sunsets with our loved ones. that was what I just heard on a segment of the national news. oh, and in case you were wondering why it now goes into nov--apparently at the behest of the candy industry--seems more kids go out for halloween with the delay in returning to dst.
Scuba (35,950 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:43 PM
1. And it killed the drive-in movie industry.
Wounded Bear (4,697 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:44 PM
2. Meh...
I think that urban and suburban sprawl and light pollution did that. There's pretty much nowhere where it's dark enough to watch a movie on an outdoor screen any more that's reasonable driving distance.
ScreamingMeemie (63,709 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:52 PM
9. We are lucky in that there is a drive in less than a 20 minute drive away from
our suburban north Houston home. North Houston is odd. We have cows grazing less than a half mile away, and yet we are in the middle of modern suburbia.
Curmudgeoness (13,087 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:51 PM
7. Not true. We have had DST all my life,
and drive-in movies were very popular in my younger days. But maybe we just stayed up later than these kids do today.
Warren DeMontague (52,991 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:45 PM
response to the original poster
3. So, is this the new thing to be mad about?
Just trying to stay hep.
Curmudgeoness (13,087 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:48 PM
4. Well, I am one of those people who loves daylight savings time.
I get outside more when it is light later. All winter long, I don't take walks because by the time I get home from work, it is dark. I am ready to go to bed when the sun goes down, so I don't seem to get anything done in winter.
I am not opposed to businesses benefitting as well, although I don't really think that it matters...people with money to spend will spend it. And those golfers...they would be up and on the course at 5:00 in the morning if it was light out, instead of later in the evening.
seattledo (275 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:49 PM
5. You could take a walk before work...
if you really cared.
dionysus (24,492 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:52 PM
8. can't play a round of golf before work,or do as much yardwork as you could otherwise...
Curmudgeoness (13,087 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:53 PM
11. Pitch black before work too, in the winter.
And I hate alarms more than anything in the world----including Faux News---so getting up even earlier to go for a walk is just out of the question.
dionysus (24,492 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:54 PM
13. as a shill of Big Golf, i can testify that when the clock changes in the fall it is the death knell
of the golf season. love being able to play until almost 9 in the summer!
ScreamingMeemie (63,709 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:50 PM
6. It was always the last Sunday in October anyway.
The major change is in the spring, go forward date... which was moved from the last Sunday in March to the second Sunday in March. I hardly think it's at the "behest of the candy industry..." Oy.
niyad (29,098 posts) Sat Mar 8, 2014, 07:53 PM
12. the ending date is now in november. and I am not the one who said that, it was somebody being
interview on the national news about dst.
Obviously, the primitives have never heard about using flashlights and headlights of automobiles to play golf late at night.
<<<doesn't play real golf; just goes along with others who are serious about the game.
<<<has "played" golf with these serious-minded people even under these skies:
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Unfortunately, we never play (or in my case "play") golf late at night any more, because two years ago, one of the other guys stumbled over a humungous mean old rattlesnake in the darkness, and for reasons of personal safety--to wit, franksolich's--we don't do it any more, because franksolich wouldn't hear a rattlesnake in the darkness even if it were cuddled right up next to me.