Poll, links, hurrah!

[axver]

One poll, two questions plus the obligatory Axver bonus.

Question one: purplicious and I somehow ended up discussing on what day the week starts. She says Sunday; my mother also says Sunday but I grew up being taught Monday in the schools. I'd also like to point out the fact that Sunday is one of the two days of the weekEND, not the weekSTART

Comments

[liamtreasure]

Go me

[liamtreasure]

I pwn!

[axver]

Nah, you got pwnz0rd by the pwnzilator.

[axver]

Today's lemonphy goes to ... NOT YOU. PWNZ0RD.

Re: Days of the Week

[axver]

Right, I can definitely see how it's based in religion - though I'd say it's also cultural. My mother's one of those people with a vague belief in God but isn't religious, but it seems a lot of people of her generation in NZ will say the first day of the week is Sunday. On the other hand, here's me, a religious person, who says that in the modern world (regardless of whether or not Sunday once started the week), the first day of the week is Monday.

Re: Days of the Week

[axver]

So this is atheism's great plot to subjugate and defeat theism, by indoctrinating people and changing their attitudes about what day the week begins on?

Subtle, and positively brilliant.

[renne]

i have to change the time when i update. because sometimes i can take an hour/hours to write a post, and then it tends to post in odd places on peoples flists. i put myself out there.

mind, if i know i'm going to be writing a long entry i'll use the semagic client to write it because then you can save it AND it automatically updates the time.

mm. lj clients.

[axver]

Right, I'm the same way. I'll sit at a post and go over it, making sure I'm happy with it, because I'm a perfectionist, and before I know it, an hour's gone by. Or I'll start writing, get up to do something, then write a bit more a few hours later, and finally post it before I go to bed. Changing the time is simply necessary with my habits.

I've never used an LJ client. Well, I've downloaded a few, but I decided I was much happier using the LJ page's client. And now I'm stuck in a habit.

[liamtreasure]

Who's been smoking my weed?

[axver]

Your great-grandmother's milkman.

[liamtreasure]

They didn't have milkmen in the 1940's.

[screendoor3]

They didn't?

[screendoor3]

It's like bookends. They're bookends, but they're on opposite sides of the week. Yes the two days of the weekend are bookends and the rest of the days are books. Simple. Call me old fashioned, but I thought a lot about this growing up and that's what I came up with.

[axver]

That is EXACTLY the same example as the one Kate gave me.

I say you have five working days, then two off, then the cycle repeats. It's a cycle, or it's a line of days extending on into infinity. There's no bookending about it.

[screendoor3]

Great minds think alike.

Who says time is linear?

[axver]

Time is a linear progression from past through present to future, an endless line of seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc., extending on into the future. There's no bookending, but a continual line.