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Short daylight

  • 14-01-2013 09:23PM
    #1
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭


    Is anyone else sick to death of these short days. I need to see some sun. Going to work when it's dark, coming home when it's dark. I can't wait for the hour to go forward again.
    I ****ing hate Winter!
    I hate the cold!
    Even our Summers are **** :mad:
    I think I need to move to California or something.
    I don't understand how some of you can actually like Winter??? :confused:


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  • #2
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Gets dark early in California this time of year too.


  • #3
    Ghandee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,653 ✭✭✭Ghandee


    Quare stretch in the evenings Ted. ;)


  • #4
    Fromthetrees
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,846 ✭✭✭Fromthetrees


    There's pills that a gp can prescribe for you that won't make you feel this way.


  • #5
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Where To wrote: »
    Gets dark early in California this time of year too.
    Geography defies me once again:mad:


  • #6
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    i despise the winter, roll on march when the clock goes forward and then june when you walk down the road at 9 in the evening with a warm breeze on your back


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  • #7
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Can you imagine living somewhere, where it was sunny for 10months of the year. If it got dark all year round about 8PM.
    The temperature was in the high 20s.
    You know the feeling of waking up with the sun beaming into your room!
    Walking outside early and feeling the sun warming you up.

    Does anyone know somewhere like that?


  • #8
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Ghandee wrote: »
    Quare stretch in the evenings Ted. ;)
    Well actually, I am lying a bit, it's no longer dark when I leave work, but it is by the time I get home. A positive I guess.
    This weather is so miserable though.
    I'm wearing a tshirt and shorts here like a tourist who just arrived in the country.


  • #9
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Going to work when it's dark, coming home when it's dark.


    I thought they banned sending kids down coalmines and up chimneys years ago.


  • #10
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't mind the cold, I like snow but I don't like the lack of sun exposure. Plenty of research suggests there are links between lack of sunlight and depression, just generally feeling a bit down or suffering from the aptly named SAD (Seasonal affected disorder). They have these lights you can get that are nicknamed "SAD lights" that supposedly give you what you miss from the sun and are pretty popular in the Nordic countries so I'm told.


  • #11
    1ZRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,293 ✭✭✭1ZRed


    The only thing good about winter is the massive drinking sessions over Christmas. Before and after that, it's shite.


    Long summer days FTW!!


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  • #12
    SimonTemplar
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    admiralofthefleet wrote: »
    june when you walk down the road at 9 in the evening with a warm breeze on your back

    I think your expectations of June are a little unrealistic.


  • #13
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Sacramento wrote: »
    I don't mind the cold, I like snow but I don't like the lack of sun exposure. Plenty of research suggests there are links between lack of sunlight and depression, just generally feeling a bit down or suffering from the aptly named SAD (Seasonal affected disorder). They have these lights you can get that are nicknamed "SAD lights" that supposedly give you what you miss from the sun and are pretty popular in the Nordic countries so I'm told.
    I've read about this before too. But I imagine everyone feels worse during Winter.
    Think about all the people who are in such good moods during one of those rare really hot sunny Summer days.

    Just talking about it makes me want it to be Summer soooo badly!!! :mad::mad:

    I can't stay in this country, the weather is just too messed up.


  • #14
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Can you imagine living somewhere, where it was sunny for 10months of the year. If it got dark all year round about 8PM.
    The temperature was in the high 20s.
    You know the feeling of waking up with the sun beaming into your room!
    Walking outside early and feeling the sun warming you up.

    Does anyone know somewhere like that?
    The Gobi Desert.

    Send us a postcard Ted.


  • #15
    kneemos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,609 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Can you imagine living somewhere, where it was sunny for 10months of the year. If it got dark all year round about 8PM.
    The temperature was in the high 20s.
    You know the feeling of waking up with the sun beaming into your room!
    Walking outside early and feeling the sun warming you up.

    Does anyone know somewhere like that?

    Kinda like the variety of Irish weather,sunshine every day would get boring.


  • #16
    Zombienosh
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,911 ✭✭✭Zombienosh


    Gobbling up vitamin D


  • #17
    branie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭branie


    Where To wrote: »
    Gets dark early in California this time of year too.

    Especially in San Francisco


  • #18
    Matt_Trakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,052 ✭✭✭Matt_Trakker


    Whatcha on aboot?
    Days been getting longer since 21st Dec,
    Grand auld stretch on the evenings there now
    Days have been getting longer by at least 2mins a day :D

    http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/astronomy.html?n=78


  • #19
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    SimonTemplar wrote: »
    I think your expectations of June are a little unrealistic.

    we can hope


  • #20
    tan11ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,056 ✭✭✭tan11ie


    I just hate the dark evenings, roll on March..


  • #21
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Bring back 80's summers. Only the summers not the music though :eek:.


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  • #22
    i57dwun4yb1pt8
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    Hal1 wrote: »
    Bring back 80's summers. Only the summers not the music though :eek:.


    80s music is waaaaayyyyyy better than the ****e in the last 2 0 odd years.


  • #23
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,334 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Its a lot easier to stay warm than to cool down. I must be the only one that likes the cold weather. Don't mind the dark either as am a night time person.


  • #24
    dickwod1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,101 ✭✭✭dickwod1


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    I can't wait for the hour to go forward again.

    Me too

    I just wish they'd leave the clocks time alone

    Poxy clock moving muppets

    (get some cod liver oil capsules into you)


  • #25
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Its a lot easier to stay warm than to cool down. I must be the only one that likes the cold weather. Don't mind the dark either as am a night time person.

    You're not alone - I love the winter, enjoy dark evenings (also a night owl) and hate warm summers.


  • #26
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    DaDumTish wrote: »
    80s music is waaaaayyyyyy better than the ****e in the last 2 0 odd years.

    I should have said pop music, not every genre. ;)


  • #27
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


    Hal1 wrote: »
    Bring back 80's summers. Only the summers not the music though :eek:.
    We didn't get our turf out til November in 1985, weather was just as sh1te in the 80s as it is now.


  • #28
    citytillidie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,213 ✭✭✭✭citytillidie


    TeddyTedson wrote: »
    Is anyone else sick to death of these short days. I need to see some sun. Going to work when it's dark, coming home when it's dark. I can't wait for the hour to go forward again.
    I ****ing hate Winter!
    I hate the cold!
    Even our Summers are **** :mad:
    I think I need to move to California or something.
    I don't understand how some of you can actually like Winter??? :confused:

    gets dark early in California in the summer like 8pm

    ******



  • #29
    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,968 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Tonight I noticed how light it was still at 5.30, took me by surprise to be honest! Clear day.


  • #30
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    Where To wrote: »
    We didn't get our turf out til November in 1985, weather was just as sh1te in the 80s as it is now.

    I recall the summer months being actual 'summer months'. Way back when :rolleyes:.


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  • #31
    Hal1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,718 ✭✭✭Hal1


    mike65 wrote: »
    Tonight I noticed how light it was still at 5.30, took me by surprise to be honest! Clear day.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82677546&postcount=3742

    and

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=82692609&postcount=3778


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