Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Your Name Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Daylight Saving Time wackiness Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:01:59 +1300 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <17bc1dfda1b10b94$139927$2218499$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="50649035c27f4e2ac72514e4819d2b2a"; logging-data="541635"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19N1oTPfYz2okWHE+4eVXFPmhLmxzXrqWk=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LeWgmn4p4qxvKqQDrGyQYaRrzww= Bytes: 2169 On 2024-03-12 20:22:11 +0000, moviePig said: > On 3/12/2024 3:23 PM, Your Name wrote: >> On 2024-03-12 07:37:40 +0000, FPP said: >>> On 3/11/24 4:36 PM, super70s wrote: >>>> >>>> Savings time has been around for as long as I remember and I'm old. >>>> They did lengthen it several years ago and now you have kids trick or >>>> treating while the sun is still up. >>> >>> It's safer that way... >> >> Even safer to ban silly Halloween altogether. >> >> Parents spend 99% of the year telling their kids "Don't take candy from >> strangers" ... then this one stupid "holiday" comes around and those >> same parents are virtually pushing kids out the door saying "Go beg for >> candy from strangers". Just yet another example of the two-faced >> hypocritic stupidity of the human race.  :-\ > > Halloween's about teaching kids to be extroverts, which many need. Halloween, as with pretty much every other "holiday", is today simply about retailers selling as much product as they can. :-p The origin of Halloween is in the pagan seasonal celebrations ... it has absolutely nothing to do with going door-to-door begging for candy nor "sppoky" ghosts, etc.