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    Mutter mutter mutter, dead horse flogging thread

    - It's not the solstice until tomorrow (at near enough 04:19 UTC)

    - It's not the end of the decade until 2020-12-31 23:59

    #2
    It's a cake!

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      #3
      But the evenings have already been starting later for well over a week already.

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        #4
        Today's definitely not the shortest day of the year. I've been at work since eight, and can assure you it feels like it's about the longest day on record.

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          #5
          Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post
          But the evenings have already been starting later for well over a week already.
          Only for those west of the meridian (or datum line of longitude) for those in the northern hemisphere.

          And that's before we launch into a discussion about twilight, where our atmosphere will retain light after the sunset.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Guy Profumo View Post

            Only for those west of the meridian (or datum line of longitude) ...
            Not correct. Although perhaps "well over" is generous.

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              #7
              Originally posted by San Bernardhinault View Post

              Not correct. Although perhaps "well over" is generous.
              Yes

              Ok.

              It's a fair cop

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                #8
                Plimsoll!

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                  #9
                  I do feel for all those poor sods that celebrated the millennium alone, a year after the rest of us.

                  It’ll be 2020 in a couple of weeks. Therefore ‘the twenties’. Therefore ‘a new decade’. (You were alive before you turned one year old, ffs.)

                  And of course it’s a cake.

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
                    You were alive before you turned one year old, ffs.
                    Aren't you arguing against yourself there?

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                      #11
                      You're not alive until you're born on the first day of your Year 1.

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                        #12
                        (what is or isn't a cake, by the way?)

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                          #13
                          A Jaffa biscuit.

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                            #14
                            Originally posted by TonTon View Post
                            (what is or isn't a cake, by the way?)
                            Jaffa Cake, presumably.

                            Meanwhile one of my car share colleagues wouldn't have it that the sunsets and sunrises were simultaneously getting later last week (and the latter getting later at a faster rate than were the former). I tried to fob him off with "the sun doesn't know what time it is man" but eventually plotted it on a graph during a quiet spell.

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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Sits View Post
                              Plimsoll!
                              Sand shoe!

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                                You're not alive until you're born on the first day of your Year 1.
                                But was "Little Baby Jesus"?

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                                  #17
                                  I don't believe anyone thinks a Jaffa Cake is a cake. It's too silly.

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                                    #18
                                    But it’s not a biscuit. It’s not biscuitty enough.

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                                      #19
                                      Luckily, "cake" and "biscuit", as nouns, do not between them describe the entirety of existence.

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                                        #20
                                        (No, of course it isn't a biscuit.)

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                                          #21
                                          It's a biscake

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                                            #22
                                            Or a cakeit.

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                                              #23
                                              In the same way that a Pringle isn't a crisp.

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                                                #24
                                                Pringles are firelighters

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                                                  #25
                                                  Pringles are crap cricketers.

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