Everybody lights out for an hour!

dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
edited March 2010 in A Moving Train
Tonight at 20.30 Earth Hour. Everybody lights out for an hour!
"...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    i'm goign to my best friends birthday party tonigh... going to try and convince her to turn off the lights for an hour...
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    haffajappa wrote:
    i'm goign to my best friends birthday party tonigh... going to try and convince her to turn off the lights for an hour...


    Instead of blowing out the candles, she can blow out the lights. :D
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  • release23420release23420 Posts: 1,176
    CJMST3K wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    i'm goign to my best friends birthday party tonigh... going to try and convince her to turn off the lights for an hour...


    Instead of blowing out the candles, she can blow out the lights. :D
    lol :mrgreen:
  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    CJMST3K wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    i'm goign to my best friends birthday party tonigh... going to try and convince her to turn off the lights for an hour...


    Instead of blowing out the candles, she can blow out the lights. :D
    lol!
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  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    haffajappa wrote:
    CJMST3K wrote:
    haffajappa wrote:
    i'm goign to my best friends birthday party tonigh... going to try and convince her to turn off the lights for an hour...


    Instead of blowing out the candles, she can blow out the lights. :D

    lol!



    ...and then when she's done with that...

    (insert joke here)
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    i was reading a story about earth hour on CBC.ca and most of the comments were negative...

    i was quite shocked.
    anything to turn it into an "anti-hippi" right wing movement...
    how hard is it to just turn out your lights for fucks sake?
    and if national landmarks and buildings are doing it, either get involved with the events or dont, don't start up the stupid global warming argument... jeez.
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    CJMST3K wrote:


    ...and then when she's done with that...

    (insert joke here)
    HAHA...
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    CJMST3K wrote:
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    ...and then when she's done with that...

    (Kit will get into her garage :mrgreen: )
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  • BLACK35BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,837
    Sorry wouldn't be able to do that tonight, Leafs play at 7:30 then the UFC event is on after that. Just a bad day for that to happen for me. Don't think the guys will like that if I turn off the fights. :(
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    :)
    "...Dimitri...He talks to me...'.."The Ghost of Greece..".
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    BLACK35 wrote:
    Sorry wouldn't be able to do that tonight, Leafs play at 7:30 then the UFC event is on after that. Just a bad day for that to happen for me. Don't think the guys will like that if I turn off the fights. :(
    just keep the TV on and make sure everything else is off :)
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  • BLACK35BLACK35 Hanover, Ontario Posts: 22,837
    Yeah I can do that. Have a 50" TV, so that will keep things lit up.
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  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    Already have my lantern lit! :D
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    Claireack wrote:
    Already have my lantern lit! :D
    :)
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  • Jokertt14Jokertt14 Posts: 2,566
    is it just lights . can we watch TV ?? ;)
  • CJMST3KCJMST3K Posts: 9,722
    jokertt wrote:
    is it just lights . can we watch TV ?? ;)


    tv doesn't involve light. ;)
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  • shellerizmshellerizm Posts: 127
    ...and then when you put your lights back on watch the 11th hour
  • lukin2006lukin2006 Posts: 9,087
    I generally turn on all my lights, furnace up to 80, run both vehicles for the hour..........whatever it takes!!!!
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  • FiveB247xFiveB247x Posts: 2,330
    As Bill Hicks once said, if you want to help the world, kill yourself. One less mouth to feed, one less person polluting and one less person to buy products.

    As George Carlin once said, there's nothing wrong with the planet, it's the people who are fucked up. The planet will be around a long time after humans, it's not going anywhere... we are.
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  • Kel VarnsenKel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    haffajappa wrote:
    i was reading a story about earth hour on CBC.ca and most of the comments were negative...

    i was quite shocked.
    anything to turn it into an "anti-hippi" right wing movement...
    how hard is it to just turn out your lights for fucks sake?
    and if national landmarks and buildings are doing it, either get involved with the events or dont, don't start up the stupid global warming argument... jeez.

    I don't think it is an "anti-hippi right wing movement" thing but I think the whole idea of Earth Hour is a giant waste of time. I mean people are turning of lights only (which use a lot less electricity then most other electrical appliances in a house) and they are doing it on a weekend evening when electricity demand is much lower then it would be during the week. If they really wanted to have an earth hour that actually lowered the demand for electricity, why not have it on a Tuesday afternoon in August and tell people and businesses to shut off their lights and air conditioning. The way it is set up now it is the ultimate lip service action against climate change that doesn't really do anything. Its like people can shut off their lights for an hour a year, and then think they have done their part until the next year.
  • ONCE DEVIDEDONCE DEVIDED Posts: 1,131
    Its not about turning your lights off for an hour. Its about thinking about our use of power. so keeping your megawatt tvs on is not doing your part.
    And the thing is you dont really have to do it all at the same time.
    Instead of your family sitting under lights watching the box you could all light some candles, talk, play games etc.
    to those who reckon its a hippie thing and its about global warming. Think about the planet not that we are warming but that we all are using more and more recourses to fuel our lifestyles, our toys. the planets recourses are not infinite.
    regardless of warming we all need to think about it.
    Am I a hippie??? NO I work in the mining industry, I help to rape our planet of its recourses. but at the same time in many small ways I have changed the way my workplace uses other recourses like paper, packing etc.
    all I say is stop to think
    thats all
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  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    its an act of symbolism first of all...stop bitching...Pfff
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Dinner by candlelight was lovely.
  • ClaireackClaireack Posts: 13,561
    redrock wrote:
    Dinner by candlelight was lovely.

    :thumbup: It was just lovely sitting in the candlelight - hubby set off a chinese lantern too.
  • dimitrispearljamdimitrispearljam Posts: 139,721
    Claireack wrote:
    redrock wrote:
    Dinner by candlelight was lovely.

    :thumbup: It was just lovely sitting in the candlelight - hubby set off a chinese lantern too.
    to both of u.. :clap::clap::clap::clap::clap: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :wave:
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  • Godfather.Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    BLACK35 wrote:
    Sorry wouldn't be able to do that tonight, Leafs play at 7:30 then the UFC event is on after that. Just a bad day for that to happen for me. Don't think the guys will like that if I turn off the fights. :(

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  • haffajappa wrote:
    i was reading a story about earth hour on CBC.ca and most of the comments were negative...

    i was quite shocked.
    anything to turn it into an "anti-hippi" right wing movement...
    how hard is it to just turn out your lights for fucks sake?
    and if national landmarks and buildings are doing it, either get involved with the events or dont, don't start up the stupid global warming argument... jeez.

    I don't think it is an "anti-hippi right wing movement" thing but I think the whole idea of Earth Hour is a giant waste of time. I mean people are turning of lights only (which use a lot less electricity then most other electrical appliances in a house) and they are doing it on a weekend evening when electricity demand is much lower then it would be during the week. If they really wanted to have an earth hour that actually lowered the demand for electricity, why not have it on a Tuesday afternoon in August and tell people and businesses to shut off their lights and air conditioning. The way it is set up now it is the ultimate lip service action against climate change that doesn't really do anything. Its like people can shut off their lights for an hour a year, and then think they have done their part until the next year.


    I kind of agree with you - I think the whole gesture of turning the lights off is just a gimmick. People will still have their tvs/computers etc on so i's not going to change anything.

    Not even sure what the point was really - to save power? to raise awareness? to do both? Will anything change as a result of it? I doubt it. It's just one of those big gimmicky gestures that don't achieve anything in the long term.

    Having said this I did turn the lights off early that night, but only because I had a migraine lol.
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    its not a gimmick.
    i love it how people find themselves so put out by others taking part in a cool event...

    people who want to fight about global warming are just looking for an excuse for their irresponsibility.
    am i saying you need to "believe" in global warming? no.
    i'm saying maybe you should take a look around at the smog and the pollution the dying seas and the stripped forests and fossil fuels and realise its not just about a political debate on whether or not the climate problem is our faults.

    surely the plastic in the seas and the pollution in the skies aren't part of natural trends 10,000 years ago?

    anyways, earth hour is growing and i hope it grows, they're not asking you to go out and plant trees or clean up oil spills, just have a good time and see what its like to turn out your lights for an hour :roll:

    i guess this land is yours and this land is free otherwise, isn't it...
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