Daylight savings time

[Gluey]

It really affected me. I was so tired today. I was out for lunch with my grandparents and I was nearly falling asleep in the restaurant. 

[QuirkyCarla]

I hate how the US changed it so that we get an extra month of DST. 

[Callaway]

I hate how the US changed it so that we get an extra month of DST. 

I know, it's weird.  I still haven't reset all the clocks yet.

[Parts]

I don't like having to get up when it's dark

[Parts]

Yes, so you could help the Soviets to get half of Europe and let tens of millions of Negroes and Arabs come to the rest of it. Good work.

If the Nazis where so superior it would not have mattered

['andersom']

It's just another way the authorities treat us like they please. In 1916 they tested it for the first time in Sweden but the farmers protested, so they didn't try it again until 1980 something, when they'd brainwashed the people enough.

Most of the protest here was because the nazi's had forced it upon the dutch during WWII.

Took a while before people would accept daylightsavings as something from their own government. There was this remembrance of oppression attached to it.

[TheoK]

It's just another way the authorities treat us like they please. In 1916 they tested it for the first time in Sweden but the farmers protested, so they didn't try it again until 1980 something, when they'd brainwashed the people enough.

Most of the protest here was because the nazi's had forced it upon the dutch during WWII.

Took a while before people would accept daylightsavings as something from their own government. There was this remembrance of oppression attached to it.

Really? I know that they had/have it in Germany, but it's not a Nazi idea originally.

By the way: why don't the Dutch like the Germans in general? I mean you didn't like them very much even before WWII, did you? And you don't like them very much now either(?)

['andersom']

It's just another way the authorities treat us like they please. In 1916 they tested it for the first time in Sweden but the farmers protested, so they didn't try it again until 1980 something, when they'd brainwashed the people enough.

Most of the protest here was because the nazi's had forced it upon the dutch during WWII.

Took a while before people would accept daylightsavings as something from their own government. There was this remembrance of oppression attached to it.

Really? I know that they had/have it in Germany, but it's not a Nazi idea originally.

By the way: why don't the Dutch like the Germans in general? I mean you didn't like them very much even before WWII, did you? And you don't like them very much now either(?)

Can't talk for the Dutch in general. I come not far from the border. Many people here are related to Germans. Or at least speak the same dialect. Go for their weekly shopping over the border. Yes there is German hatred, especially around footballmatches. But there's also joined celebrations, both the sad ones, about casualties in war, and the happy ones, about the end of WWII.

It was nazi-germany that introduced daylightsaving here. It is what most older people remembered about daylightsaving.

[TheoK]

Do you live in Friesland? I had a German pen pal in Wilhelmshaven. 

Restricted smoking areas is a thing that actually was invented by the Nazis originally.

['andersom']

Do you live in Friesland? I had a German pen pal in Wilhelmshaven. 

Restricted smoking areas is a thing that actually was invented by the Nazis originally.

LOL, now you have managed to insult almost all Friesians. Very proud people they are. They will never say that they speak a dialect. They speak a language.

I speak Dutch. And a dialect, part of what now is considered to be a West Low German language group.

['andersom']

Oh, I will hate getting up an hour early end of march.
But I will love being two hours less apart from the man that ties me to the internet.

[TheoK]

Do you live in Friesland? I had a German pen pal in Wilhelmshaven. 

Restricted smoking areas is a thing that actually was invented by the Nazis originally.

LOL, now you have managed to insult almost all Friesians. Very proud people they are. They will never say that they speak a dialect. They speak a language.

I speak Dutch. And a dialect, part of what now is considered to be a West Low German language group.

Yes, Frisian is a language, I know. I have studied Germanistic at the university.

Wo de nordseewellen trekken an den strand,
wo de geelen blömen blöhn in't grüne land,
wo de möven schrien gell in't sturmgebrus -
dor is mine heimat, do bin ik to hus.

Dutch (correctly: Netherlands) is a Lower Franconian dialect to be exact.

['andersom']

Dutch, Nederlands, is the combination of many dialects together, the dialects of the several lower 'count(r)ies', that together formed the Netherlands. Used in the 'Statenvertaling', the major dutch bible translation. That's where the language becomes an official language. With the translation of the bible. And the dialects/languages it is made of are more than only the Lower West German dialects.

Thanks for the quote. Sounds beautiful

[TheoK]

It's a poem called Ostfriesland. 

['andersom']

Thought it was Ostfrisian, it was more eastern than 'grunnings'. But has the same rhythm in a way.