Wednesday morning eternal toaster question

Evening to night, eh? I feel like night can’t begin until an analogue clock is into double digits in the PM, no matter how early the sun has set. No one would play a professional football game at ‘night’ by scheduling choice, and the only reason the FA would sanction a game extending beyond 10 is in the case of an ‘evening game’ needing ‘extra time’.

Edit: I feel less confident on E-N transition, so let me know your thoughts.

I’m not so sure about this one, you’re saying that you can’t say it’s night until after 10pm at the earliest, or am I misreading this?

Hi all

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That’s what I’m saying. I’m not entirely confident about it. I think it might be more of an age thing maybe? In the earliest phases of your life, night doesn’t exist at all. Then you have a ‘bedtime’ which gradually increases from, say, 7:30 through to 10, and this comes to define ‘night’. Then you have commitments which mean you never get to bed on time, and night becomes defined by the earliest you could go to bed without feeling like you’re missing out on the ‘evening’ (i.e. televised football matches)

I’ve a friend that used to do this frequently! Usually though he would just take pictures of himself and set one to whoever’s phones background. Beyond “Oh [name redacted]! You lil scamp!!” shakes fist I wasn’t sure what sort of reaction that he was hoping to provoke by pulling these ‘pranks’ :smile:

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Good morning. I think I might have a stomach bug. Going to wfh/the toilet.

I understand your logic a bit better now, but still think 10pm may be too late.

I feel that you’re attaching the significance to “Good night” or “Good evening” above the other possible factors which determine these things, which is totally understandable. However, I feel that these can sometimes be bastardised as good night is more often used as a farewell statement sometimes time inappropriately just because so few people leave and say “good evening!”, it’s used more as a greeting and can sometimes be confusing.

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I thought the big toaster question was: does the dial control the timer alone, or does it also vary toasting intensity?

good morning

I had a conversation with my daughter about this a few weeks ago. I think we concluded that “it depends”… I’d say that anything before 5pm is definitely afternoon, and anything after 6pm is definitely evening. We’ll call the murky bit in between “The Neighbours Zone”.

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My one at home is time, it has minutes on the scale.

Sorry to cut that conversation short, but those are just facts.

yeah well you can toast anything with facts

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I think you’re right, and the main thing is to be tolerant of other definitions of these vague time delineations.

Peace, one love.

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“Peace, one love” only makes me think of this dude from Mortified Nation -

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Listened to that for the first time the other day and have been finishing my sentences with it ever since.

Was 100% emulating him.

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The dial controls the timer. The intensity is determined by the heat coming off the wires. That’s why if you do a second run of toast immediately after your first load, you have to reduce the time to avoid burning (the wires are still glowing).

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Morning

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Excellent :smiley: I’m so glad.

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Morning. I’m about 7.5/10 hungover after staying up too late chatting to @noise_ramones and @wewerewerewolvesonce and am hastily sorting a sausage sandwich. Bands were on fine form though. Slightly got the fear about how work is gonna go today.

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Apparently it’s #WorldIPDay today. To celebrate, I will do some work.

You don’t look particularly scruffy.

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