Nester
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Whats rustling your jimmies?
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Joeboo
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Count yourself lucky that they still have employees there. Bank of America is rapidly replacing tellers with video teller machines. You walk up, hit a button, and get someone on a video screen just teleconferencing in from who knows where. Any money/checks are then deposited into the attached machine just like an ATM.
Theres one Bank of America near me that literally has like 2 employees in it at some points, 1 in the drive through window and 1 in the lobby.
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Daylight savings time is rustling me pretty hard right now. Well the lack of it.
I get the original concept of it was to save candles and lamp oil and then later electricity and shit, and yeah I get that in modern society it no longer actually saves shit for energy costs or anything. that's not what rustles me.
I've lived in america with daylight savings time all my life. Now i'm living in japan where they don't have it.
I don't give a shit about energy. It's about natural sleep cycles from a time before we had clocks. ya know, all cavemen and shit..
When it gets to that time of year when it's still dark outside when the alarm clock goes off, we as society collectively say in one voice, "fuck that shit, lets just change time so that the sun is coming up when our alarm clocks go off, as god intended" and we do it. we just say fuck time for a few months, let us awake when nature itself is waking up, the birds are chirping, the sun is rising, I gotta be at work at 7 and goddamn i'm not driving in the fucking dark so i say when 7 is.
I'm sure those of you from the north (or heaven forbid alaska and shit) have no idea how amazing daylight savings time is. You live too far from the glorious equator to understand how perfectly synced it is with the planet's natural orbit and tilt, you are probably always waking up in the dark. But those of us living where people are supposed to live, from around the 37th parallel and below, you know places where life sustaining water isn't frozen for months on end, for us Daylight savings time is the triumph of nature over the false man made construct of time.
I get the original concept of it was to save candles and lamp oil and then later electricity and shit, and yeah I get that in modern society it no longer actually saves shit for energy costs or anything. that's not what rustles me.
I've lived in america with daylight savings time all my life. Now i'm living in japan where they don't have it.
I don't give a shit about energy. It's about natural sleep cycles from a time before we had clocks. ya know, all cavemen and shit..
When it gets to that time of year when it's still dark outside when the alarm clock goes off, we as society collectively say in one voice, "fuck that shit, lets just change time so that the sun is coming up when our alarm clocks go off, as god intended" and we do it. we just say fuck time for a few months, let us awake when nature itself is waking up, the birds are chirping, the sun is rising, I gotta be at work at 7 and goddamn i'm not driving in the fucking dark so i say when 7 is.
I'm sure those of you from the north (or heaven forbid alaska and shit) have no idea how amazing daylight savings time is. You live too far from the glorious equator to understand how perfectly synced it is with the planet's natural orbit and tilt, you are probably always waking up in the dark. But those of us living where people are supposed to live, from around the 37th parallel and below, you know places where life sustaining water isn't frozen for months on end, for us Daylight savings time is the triumph of nature over the false man made construct of time.
Big Phoenix
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Being sent a deed to sign with zero explanation or communication. Yeah Im really going to sign over a house to you for "love and consideration".
lurker
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I thought so too until I lived in Arizona where they're all mavericky and don't play that game. It sucks being the lone ranger, too. The only thing worse than changing your clock is not changing your clock when everybody else does.
Calbiyum
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These aren't girls I'm dating I haven't had a gf since I was 12. Usually just girls I would want to have sex withI've never told a GF they were overweight, probably because I never lasted more than 2 weeks with one. I used to date based solely on boob size. Hey it works when you're younger =D
Wife on the other hand has been told. REPEATEDLY! Lost 20ish lbs so far since summer, hope she keeps on the right track. I just have less than 0 interest when above a certain weight.
And her jimmies are probably rustled that I can eat whatever I want and be normal weight/comfort
Denamian
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I've worked nights for almost 17 years now, so what time everyone else is on doesn't bother me. Making sure I'm paid correctly when the time changes, having to deal with coworkers showing up late the next morning and other little things associated with DST just rustle me. Hell, I'd be happy with getting rid of time zones and have one clock for the entire planet.
Adebisi
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Years ago I had a bully director I did some work for. Me and this other guy were facilitating a training class, and she walked up to me during my prep time and started telling me the activity I was planning to do was stupid. I told her it was awesome, and too bad if she didn't like it because I'm going to facilitate it anyways. She never bothered me again, and would often come to me for help.
The other guy who was training with me had the same kind of encounter with her. She tested him and he folded. She stomped all over him from then on.
Alpha Dog.
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Brikker
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One clock would be the most confusing shit ever. "Morning" or "Night time" would be at different hours based on the country you live in. Like assuming UTC, morning would be at say 8AM in the UK but on the west coast morning would be 4PM and in hong kong morning would be midnight(which obviously wouldn't be a relevant term anymore outside of some of the timezones). No a huge issue if you don't travel much unless you live in a country with a bunch of different timezones, like say the US, where the west coast would get to work at 4PM but the same job would start at 7PM on the east coast and so on.
Also some of these numbers might be innacurate as the timezone conversion for that example was annoying due to how stupid the concept would be.
Daylight I can understand wanting to remove, but removing timezones would be straight up retarded. Consider my jimmies rustled for getting me to think about this idea.
Denamian
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Oh I know getting rid of time zones would never happen, though I imagine they have to be a bit annoying for people who live on the edge of one. My perspective on it is a bit warped though, since I don't give a shit about what time the sun rises and sets.