A massive clock
bails87
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Yes cLock! 
This clock to be precise.
Apparently a clock being built and set to the time of the country it's in is news these days :roll:
What a sheepstwat!
This clock to be precise.
Apparently a clock being built and set to the time of the country it's in is news these days :roll:
So my Grandad, who fought in the war against this sort of thing, would have to use a Muslim clock to keep his watch showing the correct time?
I am glad he died in 1972
- Royston, Wigan, 11/8/2010 15:19
What a sheepstwat!
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I will not be setting my watch by "Mecca Time".
That is all.0 -
phoebian wrote:I will not be setting my watch by "Mecca Time".
That is all.
I'm pretty sure no one is ever going to ask you too. Just the usual Daily Mail rubbish0 -
phoebian wrote:I will not be setting my watch by "Mecca Time".
That is all.
Neither will I - but only because it will be 2-3 hours out because of time zones!
People are idiots, we've never had a modern war against muslims. Muslim extremists yes, but you have to remember they are to Islam what the KKK is to Christianity!Santa Cruz Chameleon
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MacAndCheese wrote:phoebian wrote:I will not be setting my watch by "Mecca Time".
That is all.
Neither will I - but only because it will be 2-3 hours out because of time zones!
People are idiots, we've never had a modern war against muslims. Muslim extremists yes, but you have to remember they are to Islam what the KKK is to Christianity!
+potato
same reason i wont be setting my watch to russian, chinese or moon time.
we live at GMT therefore thats what we work too.
gotta love the militant daily mailists!0 -
fyldesmurf wrote:phoebian wrote:I will not be setting my watch by "Mecca Time".
That is all.
I'm pretty sure no one is ever going to ask you too. Just the usual Daily Mail rubbish
This.
If you actually read the story properly, it boils down toA big clock has been built in Saudi Arabia. It will not show GMT, instead it will show the time in Saudi Arabia. Just like clocks in Spain show Spanish time, and clocks in Australia show Australian time. However, some devout Muslims may choose set a clock by Saudi Arabian time, so they know what time it is in their holy city, something that they could equally do by just adding 3 hours to GMT. They probably do this already. It's just a clock.
That's it. And yet somehow there's people waffling on about grandparents fighting Nazi-Muslim clocks in WW2. Anyway, I thought WW2 was fought for freedom, not against it. :?0 -
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bails87 wrote:[A big clock has been built in Saudi Arabia. It will not show GMT, instead it will show the time in Saudi Arabia. Just like clocks in Spain show Spanish time, and clocks in Australia show Australian time. However, some devout Muslims may choose set a clock by Saudi Arabian time, so they know what time it is in their holy city, something that they could equally do by just adding 3 hours to GMT. They probably do this already. It's just a clock.
quote] haha that's exactly what i was thinking, the story's barely even news worthy0 -
Curiously, what with this silly talk of "my grandad fought for this" etc nonsense.
Did you know that it was initially the Germans, during the war who adopted daylight savings time?
The idea was put forward quite some time before, by an American president (I think) visiting France, where he commented, rather tongue in cheek that maybe the French should all adjust their clocks in order to actually see some of the day, since they were all rather fond of lie ins!0 -
Challenge: The unveiling of the clock is a deliberate attempt to take over from Greenwich Observatory which was chosen as the starting point for the measurement of time in 1884
Ah, Islam always trying to undermine the western kafir infidels0 -
Raymondavalon wrote:Challenge: The unveiling of the clock is a deliberate attempt to take over from Greenwich Observatory which was chosen as the starting point for the measurement of time in 1884
Ah, Islam always trying to undermine the western kafir infidels
Or maybe it's a Saudi Arabian clock, built in Saudi Arabia for Saudi Arabians to use, to tell the time with?
Just a thought like.
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This bloke will be setting his watch by it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOL4rB-go"I spent most of my money on birds, booze and fast cars: the rest of it I just squandered." [George Best]0 -
Just checked my "Welsh-Time" watch.
It's i979 and the Buggles "Video Killed the Radiostar" is No.1,
Beer is 41p a pint,
And I've got hair, abdominals and no mortgage, scrounging kids and a great sex-life.0 -
Splottboy wrote:Just checked my "Welsh-Time" watch.
It's i979 and the Buggles "Video Killed the Radiostar" is No.1,
Beer is 41p a pint,
And I've got hair, abdominals and no mortgage, scrounging kids and a great sex-life.
And I was just a twinkle in my father's eye 0 -
If the Muslims want to waste their money on clocks then let them crack on. At least it's not getting spent on training and funding terrorists...0
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Old people have bad eyesight, and need to make sure they'll be home in time to watch Eastenders.Hercule Q wrote:why does a bingo hall need such a big clock anyway?0
