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if Australia is 9 hours ahead of the UK, can they say what is happening in the future ?
 
And Calgary in Canada is 7 hours behind can they change the past ???
 
Only 7 hours? A cousin over there reckons most of the country is about 20 years behind!
 
Nah, that's the Isle of Wight!
 
Haha also Isle of Man
 
Time is control. That's why, some days, I don't wear a watch..................................... and some days I don't wear.............................. :muted:
 
Nod said:
Only 7 hours? A cousin over there reckons most of the country is about 20 years behind!
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Go to Banff - it's still in the 1960s.
 
i watched a good vid on travelling at the speed of light and effects on time was fascinating
 
arclight said:
Some people in Edinburgh are still in the 1760's.
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Having been born and bred in Glasgow, I have no option but to reject that claim.

There's nae doot in ma mind that Edinburgh is racing fast forward into the 12th century, even as I write this.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
Having been born and bred in Glasgow, I have no option but to reject that claim.

There's nae doot in ma mind that Edinburgh is racing fast forward into the 12th century, even as I write this.
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Lived in Glasgow for a short while, just before it was declared a city of culture. The only culture I saw was what would have been growing in a petri dish in a biohazard lab!
 
Nod said:
The only culture I saw was what would have been growing in a petri dish in a biohazard lab!
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Aye, weel. Ye canna be blamed for nae appreciating it, ye poor benighted English mon. ;)
 
realspeed said:
if Australia is 9 hours ahead of the UK, can they say what is happening in the future
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It's a very long time ago but I recall that a savvy punter in Liverpool went into a telephone box close to Vernons Pools Ltd and his mate in Australia gave him the score-draws in the Australian football league because there was a section for that on the coupon as well as the English First Division...as was.. He had time to hand his coupon into the betting company, by hand, before the deadline. The only reason he was caught was....he kept winning .As ever,greed caught him out. Sadly, instead of congratulating him on his ingenuity he was jailed for fraud .
 
JohnC6 said:
It's a very long time ago but I recall that a savvy punter in Liverpool went into a telephone box close to Vernons Pools Ltd and his mate in Australia gave him the score-draws in the Australian football league because there was a section for that on the coupon as well as the English First Division...as was.. He had time to hand his coupon into the betting company, by hand, before the deadline. The only reason he was caught was....he kept winning .As ever,greed caught him out. Sadly, instead of congratulating him on his ingenuity he was jailed for fraud .
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How did that work, surely they would have needed to have him sign a declaration of “no prior results knowledge” or something?
 
mj4456 said:
How did that work, surely they would have needed to have him sign a declaration of “no prior results knowledge” or something?
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No, not really. I remember my dad posting his coupon to the company as most people did but, I assume, those living close to Vernons, in Liverpool, just handed theirs in. It was only when he kept winning that they started to look more closely at it and it obviously occured to someone that the time difference was being exploited. It reminds me of another tale where a factory worker stole a large number of wheelbarrows. He wheeled out, legitimately, whatever, in a wheelbarrow and security could see what it was he was taking not realising he was actually stealing the wheelbarrows. It's a pity these people and the same for those today.. didn't put their ingenuity to legitimate purposes.
 
Exploiting the time time loop hole seems more a case of the smarts rather than fraud, Vernons should have had an entry time limit cut off?
 
Before the Railways, we did not have time zones so time was different in every town/city. When travelling you would have to frequently alter your timepiece. I once heard a play where a London Railway official was trying t explain to people in Bristol (ten minutes west of London) that they must use GMT from now on as would the rest of the UK. Without doing this railway timetables become impracticable. Imagine the confusion now if we all used local time.

Dave
 
I Think hospitals have their own time zone.
There times for appointtments etc never match mine.
 
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