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I will admit that my grocery list is done in cursive, but–aside from that scrawl–my only cursive writing is to sign a check… and even checks are rapidly becoming a thing of the past, thanks to e-checks.
My wife might do it when she goes shopping. If I’m going, I ask her to send me a text. Far easier.
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As usual, I find myself in the minority on another issue. Sigh… It sucks to be a 1950s transplant… Anywho, I’m mumbling!
I also loath the time we are on now (Daylight saving)? Why am I waking up in the dark, and eating lunch at 11am??
Giant tablets on car dashboards, and electric steering? Both make cars feel like video games on wheels to me! I take driving too seriously for that sort of nonsense.
Flat screen TVs? A cheap short term thrill. But for serious watching, a well adjusted and functional standard definition ‘tube’ set looks best to my eyes.
Oh…where wuz I!!
Teaching cursive in the grades teaches our youth motor skills and attention to detail. Skillsets transferable to practically any theatre of work they choose to enter, later in life. I’m glad I had to go through learning and practicing it all those years.
Tells me everything I need to know.
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@ChrisTheTireWhisperer Matbe while you are studying Time Travel you could go back to a period where you might be more comfortable.
I like Daylight Savings Time , Flat Screen TV and printing instead of cursive writing is not going to destroy the world.
I too was born in the 50’s. No excuse.
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Actually, my birth certificate indicates 1970, but something doesn’t sit right - my preferences, what I like to listen to, watch, how I like to perform daily tasks - all lean toward the way things were well before I was born.
I feel like… I should be here - in this century that is! It’s like, I tolerate the technology and attitudes of this time, but I can’t seem to get fully on board.
We left the clocks alone back then, just accepted that the days got shorter and longer again, and made the best of the sunny half. If it got light by 4:30am, and sunrise was at 5am, we got out of bed, stretched, and started our days. If it wasn’t light until 7am, we still got up by 6am to start the day. Life tended to have more of a flow to it that way.
You need a better flat-screen TV. Modern flat-screens have a significant better pic then any CRT monitor/tv. Been tested over and over and over by multiple sources. Flat screen TV’s have higher resolution, better contrast, and improved color reproduction. Early Flat Screen TV’s had a problem with fast switch, so they weren’t great for gaming or high action movies, or fast sports like Basketball. But that was decades ago. Trust me - gamers wouldn’t hesitate to buy a CRT tv/monitor if it provided better/more realistic video. They spend THOUSANDS of dollars on some of their extremely realistic setups.
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It’s how I feel when I see the image on a CRT. It’s more “real” to me. Not realistic, just real, more believable.
When the tv signals all changed to digital, the old tvs did not work anymore and I bought about six flat screens in various sizes. I did keep one tube tv set though. It’s the only one with a built in vcr player.
I had a very large like 60 inch tube tv inherited from my son. It took two of us to carry it out to the trailer. When I got to the recycling center, the guy went to get the loader to move it. Man that thing was heavy.
Who is “we”? The United States adopted daylight saving in 1918.
Many European countries adopted DST in 1916.
DST is great if you enjoy being outdoors. My only complaint is the biannual change. Floridians chose to keep DST all year in 2018, but have to wait for congress to allow it.
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It wasn’t universally observed back then. The cities liked it because it delayed sunrise so folks could sleep in later and stay out later at night.
I’m the opposite: I’m up by 6am(standard) and in bed by 9pm(standard).
If DST is adopted year round, I will return all my manual clocks to standard time and just remember to go to work an “hour earlier”.
So don’t eat lunch until 12:30. What could be simpler? I did have to change the clock in my pickup today, I hadn’t driven it since Feb.
I’m still amazed at the studies that show in increase in traffic accidents, heart attacks, etc. when the clocks change. Now I’m not disputing the facts, but have we really become so inflexible that missing bedtime by an hour causes heart attacks?
There’s more going on in the world at 8pm than 8am, so I don’t mind having more daylight at the end of the day.
As a kid I used to collect the wacky plaques in bubble gum and stuck the on the wall. One of them said “early to bed, early to rise, dull isn’t it?”.
Such as?
That’s good advice.
Do you live in Indiana? Until 2006 Indiana allowed each county to choose DST or ST.
In the meantime, you could relocate to Hawaii or Arizona.
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Or Europe, looks like some of them don’t do DST/BST and it is not America… 
Within Europe – as defined by the United Nations – only Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Iceland, Russia and Turkey do not practice daylight saving time.
Really? My son’s baseball game. Or dinner at the waterfront after the game. Mowing the lawn or staining the siding on the house. Working on that classic car in the driveway after work. A round of disc golf. Sitting on the back deck with a cigar and a glass of bourbon. Grilling dinner over some hot coals.
The later in the day it stays light, the more time I have to enjoy these things. I enjoy it being light at 9:30pm.
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Baseball - Fields can be lit you know. Waterfront dining? More romantic at dusk. Mowing, staining? Weekend activiites. Back deck? Again, I’m sure you got lights back there.
To be honest, the original 1966 Uniform Time Act Daylight Saving period of last Sunday of April to Sunday of October was bearable. By the time late April arrived, sunrise was so late that the effect of Daylight Saving was less noticeable.
Late April: Sunrises shifted from 5:15am to 6:15(average times)
In 2007, DST was moved into March:
Mid-March: Sunrises shift from 6:15 to 7:15(average times)
Year-round?
Sunrise times from early December through January, in the western halves of time zones could range from 8:15 to 9:00AM.
Apparently that last part was forgotten, when in 1974 we tried it, and the protest was immediate.
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