A chicken is for life not just Christmas Dinner (An 11+ ELITE Thread)

fairclaire

Savvybuyer wrote: »

They do run about a second too soon. I used to change my watch every day (sometimes more than once a day) in the school playground:o:o:o. Forever trying to pause it slightly and keep it on track. Never managed to own a radio-controlled watch, as those pieces of equipment usually have difficulty picking up time signals? And always hideously expensive anyway, so kept with old-style watch:money:. I don't have a watch or don't wear one much at all these days, as able to rely on (probably inaccurate:rotfl:) public clocks!:)

DS2 has made an agreement at school with his new TA (who is fantastic :T:T:T) that he just doesn't look at the various clocks whilst walking through school. It really was upsetting him a lot.
.......the new TA was a dinner lady when he joined school in September and she is FAB! she's just got the measure of him perfectly it's very pleasing

purpledonkey

aau1 wrote: »

speaking of clocks...above Central Station in Glasgow is a countdown clock to the Commonwealth Games. "Powered by the Official Timekeeper to the Games"

It is always 2 seconds behind the main station clock just below it. eg if it was 9pm on the station clock it would say "the Games are starting in 60 days and 2 seconds".

Strange that they they aren't synced on the hour or are the Games opening 2 seconds past the hour :think: :think:

I had to know who I could trust. It risked throwing my entire enjoyment of the Games out of the window if the Official Timekeeper could be out by 2 seconds :eek:

So i wrote to Scotrail to ask which time was right (well what else am I going to do when I'm waiting for a train and I notice this glaring difference?) They apologised but didn't actually say which was right just that they check regularly and enclosed a £5 voucher :money:

Why £5? Because they took too long to respond to my query! :rotfl: Moral of the story, they need to pay more attention to the time

:rotfl: could be worse, when the countdown clock was at Stratford it was running 48 days fast, used to drive me nuts :rotfl:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/what-an-olympic-clock-up-7209752.html

aau1

Savvybuyer wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek:_pale_My computer clock's out by ten seconds!! You'll recall it was last set when the clocks went forward in March. Now running ahead of what it should be, according to timeanddate!_pale_:eek: Gosh, how will the world cope?!?:rotfl:

So have you gained 10 seconds or lost 10 seconds?
Neither, you have as many seconds remaining as before

zagubov

purpledonkey wrote: »

I wonder if this how people feel who live on or near the Greenwich Meridian Line :think:

Might be best to just go and live on the north pole where the time's pretty much whatever you want it ot be.

In the US about a dozen states have two time zones. And the native American Nations have their own take on when to move the clocks back or forward. I know that some cities have suburbs across the state line in other time zones so presumably people adjust as they commute to work and home again.

zippydooda

purpledonkey wrote: »

I used to play bamboozle on teletext every day after school



Confession: the car I drive has a fixed cassette player still Last year Em and I went to a charity shop and found the Top Gun soundtrack on tape. It was warped unfortunately but it did make us laugh blaring out 'Danger Zone'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E

you can get it on iphone/pad

https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/bamboozle!-classic-teletext/id384407005?mt=8

aau1

zagubov wrote: »

Might be best to just go and live on the north pole where the time's pretty much whatever you want it ot be.

In the US lots about a dozen states have two time zones. And the native American Nations have their own take on when to move the clocks back or forward. I know that some cities have suburbs across the state line in other time zones so presumably people adjust as they commute to work and home again.

Too hot for me up there

purpledonkey

zagubov wrote: »

Might be best to just go and live on the north pole where the time's pretty much whatever you want it ot be.

In the US lots about a dozen states have two time zones. And the native American Nations have their own take on when to move the clocks back or forward. I know that some cities have suburbs across the state line in other time zones so presumably people adjust as they commute to work and home again.

That would be fun It's fun driving through time zones though, except Arizona as they don't bother with daylight savings time.

Savvybuyer

purpledonkey wrote: »

:rotfl: could be worse, when he countdown clock was at Stratford it was running 48 days fast, used to drive me nuts :rotfl:

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/what-an-olympic-clock-up-7209752.html

_pale_:eek::eek::eek: I could not deal with that one!:rotfl::rotfl: Although - :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:_pale__pale__pale_ you'd better sort out that "he" countdown clock quickly, it's really getting to me:rotfl::rotfl:!:eek: Argghh- a missing letter "t"_pale_ - how could you?!?_pale_:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

zippydooda

aau1

I guessed.

purpledonkey

Savvybuyer wrote: »

_pale_:eek::eek::eek: I could not deal with that one!:rotfl::rotfl: Although - :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:_pale__pale__pale_ you'd better sort out that "he" countdown clock quickly, it's really getting to me:rotfl::rotfl:!:eek: Argghh- a missing letter "t"_pale_ - how could you?!?_pale_:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

To see if you were paying attention. Well done you! :whistle: