Whiffenpoof redivivus

[flemmings]

Look, I know I live in Canuckistan, a welfare nanny state of passive grass-nibbling sheep who never have to look out for themselves because there's always a bureaucrat ready to, actually, not do it for you, so you can exercise your god-given Canadian right to complain that the fed-gov or Queen's Park or the mayor or the police or *somebody* isn't doing their job. I know I lack moral fibre and rugged independence and all those marvellous traits that make countries that are not Canada the fibrous rugged independent places they are. Well, fine.

Daylight Saving ends tonight at 2 am, if my googling is correct. But the Toronto Star has unaccountably failed this year to alert the populace to the necessity of turning their clocks back tonight. (Too busy talking about foreign elections, grump.) The effect of this is to make the sheep in this corner uncertain that the clocks really do go back at 2 am.

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[incandescens]

Side note on Discworld adaptations: the Hogfather televisation was quite decent (bar my inevitable purist muttering), but the Colour of Magic one was rather more, ah, liberal in its adapting of the original. I'd recommend renting rather than buying, at least until you've had a chance to see it.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

CoM is early Pratchett, though. Will I be worrying about liberties taken, given that I haven't even read it yet? All I want is to see Vetinari, and IIR the scuttlebutt C, CoM's Vetinari isn't the real Vetinari anyway.

[incandescens]

Well, from a purist's point of view, I was irritated that they costumed the Henna-Haired Harridan (whose name I forget) in clingy black leather. I suppose it wasn't that bad. I just tend to be too purist in my tastes.

Incidentally, the adaptation combines Colour of Magic and Light Fantastic.

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

Tonight's definitely the night the clocks fall back here below the border. Y'know, it never dawned on me that Canada observed this antiquated time manipulation as well....

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Our time manip is geared to your time manip so that we may be in synch with 'our largest trading partner' quote/ un. Which makes me doubly annoyed at your president for putting it one month back from where it was but only one week foreward.

(Not all Canada does. Saskatchewan opted out IIRC. Farmers don't care what time the sun rises or goes down. I do, and I want it light in the afternoon, not the morning, rottit.)

[i-am-zan.livejournal.com]

those foreign elections are everywhere. @_@

I am sure it won;t be forgotten. Just that without the reminder other's may forget ... I know I was constantly forgetting it even with reminders when I lived in England. For two days of the year I lived more than normally confused. ^_^ *has brain like a sieve*

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Roll on Tuesday.

It could be worse. There might be no daylight saving at all, as in Japan, where it's always dark at 7:30 pm.

[mmoneurere.livejournal.com]

As I mention to anyone who brings up the supposed long waits elsewhere as a benefit of the American health care system:

Any wait is still shorter than "never" -- which is my current wait time for medical care.