Happy Winter Solstice WTF
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Supposedly this was the longest night of the year? I noticed my cheapo wall calendar has gotten dumber than it usually was, showing the length of the day as 6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow. (The cause apparently being that the sunrise and sunset are rounded before taking their difference.)
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Still, odd. I think the 22nd really is the shortest day though, at least for me here in CET.
(And I should not have to resort to equation solvers in astronomy software to tell me this, just give me a timestamp for the event and I can figure out the longest/shortest night/day stuff myself. Calendar makers, are you listening?)
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D'oh!
I've never seen a calendar with day lengths on it. A lot with moon phases on for some odd reason, though. Perhaps I should double check them some time.
Anyway I remember the time (2-3 years ago) that our office supplies supplier (that sounds odd) gave us the free calendars with more mistakes than you would ever believe. 3 months had the wrong number of days, 4(!) months began on a day other than the day after the last month ended on, and their company name was spelled wrong.
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Hmmm, over here in Oz it was the shortest night of the year. Somebody really screwed up big, I mean how could you miss it?
Bon Mot.
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@RayS said:
D'oh!
I've never seen a calendar with day lengths on it. A lot with moon phases on for some odd reason, though. Perhaps I should double check them some time.
Anyway I remember the time (2-3 years ago) that our office supplies supplier (that sounds odd) gave us the free calendars with more mistakes than you would ever believe. 3 months had the wrong number of days, 4(!) months began on a day other than the day after the last month ended on, and their company name was spelled wrong.
BRRRRRR!!!! Lousy Smarch weather!
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@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.
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@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
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@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
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@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
Dude, pancakes are rolled into a tube, they aren't round.
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@asuffield said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
Dude, pancakes are rolled into a tube, they aren't round.
Ah, but that means the earth is actually hand-shaped or fork-shaped.
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@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
Dude, pancakes are rolled into a tube, they aren't round.
Ah, but that means the earth is actually hand-shaped or fork-shaped.
Rolling pancakes into a tube with the use of a fork? That requires mad skillz. I'd rather stick with the banana.
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@Kiss me I'm Polish said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
Dude, pancakes are rolled into a tube, they aren't round.
Ah, but that means the earth is actually hand-shaped or fork-shaped.
Rolling pancakes into a tube with the use of a fork? That requires mad skillz. I'd rather stick with the banana.
And we can clearly see that this quote-pyramid is shaped like a pancake as well. A pancake that has been cut into a pyramid.
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@belgariontheking said:
@Kiss me I'm Polish said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@dhromed said:
@asuffield said:
@tray said:
@ulzha said:
6:43 yesterday, 6:44 today and 6:43 again tomorrow
Now that clearly proves that the Earth is banana-shaped.Blasphemy! Any fool can see that it is shaped like a spork.
Nonsense. The earth is round. Like a pancake.
Dude, pancakes are rolled into a tube, they aren't round.
Ah, but that means the earth is actually hand-shaped or fork-shaped.
Rolling pancakes into a tube with the use of a fork? That requires mad skillz. I'd rather stick with the banana.
And we can clearly see that this quote-pyramid is shaped like a pancake as well. A pancake that has been cut into a pyramid.
Such keen observationz!
And for the record, a fork-shaped pancake is not hard to produce. Stick a sidemost tine into the pancake at & perpendicular with, the edge, and begin fork torque. I'd like to see you try that with a banana.