Well, that was surreal.

[conuly]

I don't think I've ever been 100% in the right before.

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Apparently, it is wrong to tell people you were offended, it is wrong to explain why somebody else might be offended, it is wrong to know more about holidays or (to judge from the deleted comment) DST than the moderator or share information that might be useful or interesting on... wild leap here, probably ANY subject, it's wrong to reply calmly to other people as they get more and more hysterical, it is wrong (deleted comment again) not to snark back at somebody who just attacked you, and it's wrong to have trouble reading the aforementioned hysterical comments. I will concede to misreading one of the first comments I replied to, but it really is hard to find the words through a smokescreen of redundant question marks and exclamation points. Honestly, I wouldn't let Eva put that many in a paragraph! Refusing to throw a tantrum is way more trollish than yelling and screaming, I guess. And in this bizarro world, keeping your cool and trying to explain your position is both more offensive and more signaling that you "enjoy" being offended than throwing a screaming hissy fit and insulting anybody who disagrees with you. Plus, it's wrong.

It's probably also wrong to rejoin a comm after being removed, but at least that taught her the difference between remove and ban : )

It's a pity, because despite the fact that half the comm refuses to use lj cuts it's actually a fun resource. Gone, forevermore, because some people would rather wallow in their own ignorance. (I never used that phrasing, but now I think I ought to have. I always love a chance to accuse people of wallowing in their own ignorance. I love the image it brings up. And if you can get banned for saying things like "Halloween wasn't widespread until relatively recently" you might as well have more fun first.)

Is it wrong to see if anything interesting is happening on the DW mirror? I wouldn't join in if it is, just... read.

Comments

[eofs.livejournal.com]

It's a stupid quote, anyway. The blanket's just the same length, sure. But if before it went from your nose to your ankles, now it goes from your shoulders and your feet aren't cold. I don't think anyone actually believes you extend the length of the day, you just change which parts of it you do in the daylight. I can't wait for the clocks to go forward, as for the first time since September I'll leave work in the daylight. (Sod's law, I'll probably be on a 2245 finish that day - but the next day I'll enjoy it.) That's always one of my favourite days of the working year.

I don't understand how people get so thrown by moving in and out of DST. Do they never, ever change their bedtime or waking time? Do they never cross state/country borders into another timezone? The switch between UK and Germany sometimes throws me a little, but no more than going to bed an hour late or getting up an hour early would. I know jet lag you're supposed to get over at a rate of roughly 1 hour per day - so how people get thrown for a week simply by moving in or out of DST I do not understand.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

"It's a stupid quote, anyway. The blanket's just the same length, sure. But if before it went from your nose to your ankles, now it goes from your shoulders and your feet aren't cold."

Well-said!

I get drastically thrown out of whack moving in and out of DST. It has nothing to do with sleeping/waking - I have no Circadian rhythms worth mentioning, and no externally-determined schedule, so whether I'm waking up at dawn or going to bed then is mostly random. But this makes it REALLY disconcerting when the light in the sky suddenly doesn't match the clock any more - and yes, it takes about a week to get used to the change.

It's not just disconcerting at waking and bedtime, either. It's disconcerting all day long; even more so when the day is overcast (as our March days usually are) so that the Sun's position can't actually be seen. What this leads to is days of low-level anxiety from feeling late when one is actually on time. You've probably heard of 'cognitive dissonance' - this is perceptual dissonance, and knowing that that's what it is doesn't make it any easier to cope with.

Jet lag is not the same thing at all. I've never gotten jet lag in my life; it feels perfectly natural that time-zones change as one moves around the Earth. It feels weird, wrong and totally artificial (which, of course, it is) for one's time-zone to arbitrarily be changed twice a year when one has not gone anywhere.