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This reminds me of Ground Hog Day, super movie
No zeitghost it is not Friday yet. See I knew the answer before you asked the question, it should be I with the godlike title!
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Originally posted by zeitghostI've had contracts that appeared infinite all the way through... as denoted by the apparently never decreasing downcount of hours to the end...
I recently started doing it while fielding in a cricket match, which told me I probably need to play something else.
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Originally posted by threadedThat's the point, you never do, you only notice it is not the middle anymore.
Unless you did care what day it is.
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Originally posted by wendigo100But then you wouldn't know when it had ended.
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Originally posted by swissmikeThat's why it's good to take a block of a few weeks off once in a while and not care what day it is.
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That's why it's good to take a block of a few weeks off once in a while and not care what day it is.
When you're working every week and have busy plans every weekend the time just races by
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Originally posted by threadedCorrect, you don't notice the beginnings or endings just the middles.
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Originally posted by Euro-commuterJonsson makes the point that, e.g. school holidays always seemed so long (at least at the start of them) because we had not mentally divided them up; whereas even a whole year in an adult life is divided up into sections even before we start it, so it seems much shorter.
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So times we make sense of become shorter, and times with no sense of structure drag?
Sounds like the job I'm doing now.
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Originally posted by realityhackOh very good
Actually it was - £3 or thereabouts inc postage.
Vito - I've heard the 'perception of a year as we get older' comment before and that makes perfect sense. It's more the 'pretty girl (hr=5min) vs dentist (5min=hr)' aspect that interests me.
Perhaps this is a question to put to 'The Last Word' in New Scientist.
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Originally posted by dang65Second hand?
Actually it was - £3 or thereabouts inc postage.
Vito - I've heard the 'perception of a year as we get older' comment before and that makes perfect sense. It's more the 'pretty girl (hr=5min) vs dentist (5min=hr)' aspect that interests me.
Perhaps this is a question to put to 'The Last Word' in New Scientist.
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Originally posted by realityhackExcellent - ordered it from amazon. Thanks EC
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Age is a major factor...
A year to a 1 year old is a lifetime...a year to a 61 year old is a blink of the eye...
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Originally posted by scooterscotWell you could not move near this speed as your mass would become like SA and then you'd be doomed. Unless you could protect yourself from those effects...
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