Geoff Endacott Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 We get an extra day tomorrow as happens every fourth year. I think the calendar should be changed. If we have to have an extra day, why does it have to be in February? Why can't we have an extra day in June instead when the weather is better? Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 But don't we get an extra leap second in June this year? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2012 Some people always manage to have a half-empty glass! Just lie around tomorrow, chaps, and maybe Miss World will turn up and make you an offer you can't refuse. Ok, so disappointment awaits most of us - but one day of hope in 4 years? Better than nothing, surely! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
10800 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 And while they're at it they could move Christmas to October when the shops aren't so crowded, and extend BST so we get a bit more sunshine in January. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 28, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 28, 2012 "and maybe Miss World will turn up and make you an offer you can't refuse". Tomorrow I shall be mainly waiting for a large number of good looking women (preferably) to ask for my hand. In June I shall be taking 14 extra days for the first time since 2007! Enjoy tomorrow and take a leap. Sincerely, Ivanohope. P.S. With the 'other' hand I shall be fettling a coach chassis (4mm). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold BoD Posted February 28, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 28, 2012 It can be in February if they want, but why ant it be a weekend. I could do with a three day weekend. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
JZ Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 We get an extra day tomorrow as happens every fourth year. I think the calendar should be changed. If we have to have an extra day, why does it have to be in February? Why can't we have an extra day in June instead when the weather is better? Geoff Endacott Will you guarentee it will be better ? And have you no thought for those born on February 29th that will never have a birthday again ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium mezzoman253 Posted February 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 29, 2012 See http://en.wikipedia....iki/February_29 for an explanation Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Whether it's in February or June, I'd just like to commend all of you in permanent employment who are giving your employer an extra day's work for nothing. Being on a daily contract rate has its advantages! (This is one post I don't expect to get many "Likes" for). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
34theletterbetweenB&D Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 ROFL. It's all in your own hands guys, the calendar is an entirely arbitrary artefact. Here's my solution, I reckon June has the best UK weather overall, so since I turned 17 and worked this out I haven't let June finish. It's now about June the 15,000th (to be honest I gave up counting years ago) and I enjoy 16 hours of daylight every day, never have to run the heating, and am not ageing either. (My first car is still in perfect condition too, no salt to rot the tin.) Wonderful what you can do if you put your mind to it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Accord Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Whether it's in February or June, I'd just like to commend all of you in permanent employment who are giving your employer an extra day's work for nothing. Being on a daily contract rate has its advantages! (This is one post I don't expect to get many "Likes" for). You're not the only to benefit! Although I'm in a salaried job, I'm on a fixed work/leave 'rota' where I left work on 8th January and am not due back until 8th April - therefore I've gained an extra day of paid leave! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
coachmann Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 Okay, so it's a long drive home from work at 7pm, it's dark and a young women leaps into your car at the lights and proposes. You take her to the back seat for a test-run and it's a bloke in drag. So yes, I can see why some blokes want the extra leap day in June.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted February 29, 2012 RMweb Gold Share Posted February 29, 2012 You take her to the back seat for a test-run and it's a bloke in drag. Glass half-empty again! Or is Abergele full of cross-dressers? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 For those with kids, I've just noticed that the on line Disney Store is doing a 20% off promotion to celebrate Leap Day. Or is Abergele full of cross-dressers? Or did Coachman pick the only one in the village? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Mallard60022 Posted February 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 29, 2012 Not long left now and I'm still waiting for that proposal. It's not easy working on a Comet coach with one hand (careful, I have explained this earlier )... oooh was that the doorbell? P @ 36E P.S. In my case it's not that easy working on anything even with two hands Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southernman46 Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 It's only an extra day in terms of the arbitary calendar that we have imposed over the cycles of nature - the year ISN'T really a day longer...................... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted February 29, 2012 Share Posted February 29, 2012 At last, someone has given us the right sized glass...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Endacott Posted February 29, 2012 Author Share Posted February 29, 2012 It's only an extra day in terms of the arbitary calendar that we have imposed over the cycles of nature - the year ISN'T really a day longer...................... Surely not. Doesn't the Earth travel more slowly around the Sun when there are 366 days in a year? Geoff Endacott Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Welly Posted February 29, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted February 29, 2012 Every time a leap year starts on New Year's Day, I think,"Bah! An extra day of winter this year! Sod the Aussies, let's have leap year day on the 31st June! in the future!" But by the time February 29th comes round again, the crocuses in the garden are in full bloom, the days are tangibly longer and I have forgotten how I felt about 29th February a few weeks earlier! Thank God, leap year day never falls on the 31st November! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 If we have to have an extra day, why does it have to be in February? Because Julius Caesar said so. Cheers David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve K Posted March 1, 2012 Share Posted March 1, 2012 Whether it's in February or June, I'd just like to commend all of you in permanent employment who are giving your employer an extra day's work for nothing. Actually, since I get paid the same every month, I'm getting paid for two days I don't work (compared with January). OK, so 3 Februarys out of 4, I get three days unearned pay, but I won't grumble! Glass half full and all that... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted March 1, 2012 RMweb Premium Share Posted March 1, 2012 Glass half-empty again! Or is Abergele full of cross-dressers? Little Britain? Kevin Martin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacific231G Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 This sounds like the story of the Soviet villager who, because his house was right on the planned border that had previously been rather vague, was asked by the surveyors whether he wanted the border drawn to put him on the Siberian or the Russian side. He asked to be in Siberia because "I can't stand those Russian winters" Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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