5AM is 5AM, don't embarrass yourself any further

[FindTheTruth]

made me laugh

twitter.com/inihelene/status/1315693451137232897

Some people are idiots

Don’t understand the “lives rent free in your mind” thing. I’ve seen it a lot recently. Seems just like a newer version of “why are you so obsessed with me?” in response to any remote criticism. Having thoughts or opinions on something is normal.

Oh dear....

Inuswd to follow Ines when I was on twitter. A smart and funny woman.

Possibly my own DD made the comment...when DD1 was in Vancouver for a year DD2 couldn't work out time zones and wouldn't listen to my explanation. She flounced off saying "It's stupid, the time should be the same everywhere".

@FannyCann

Possibly my own DD made the comment...when DD1 was in Vancouver for a year DD2 couldn't work out time zones and wouldn't listen to my explanation. She flounced off saying "It's stupid, the time should be the same everywhere".

I must admit, it took me a while to get my head around the fact that America has different time zones within the same country

Oh funny!!

Oddly, my 6 and 8 year olds know that "in China people are asleep when we're awake here".

Made me laugh too.

Does that mean my dh and kids should pay me to think about them?

🤣😂🤣

5am is 5am. If I close my eyes, you can't see me! Lololol.

Literay no difference

*Literally

Oooh, dear. Literally no difference between 5am and 10am because they're both in the morning.

'Billionaire mindset' or not, try getting and keeping a job with that perspective...

I must admit, it took me a while to get my head around the fact that America has different time zones within the same country

It took me a while to get my head around the fact that China has only one time zone for the whole massive country, which goes across five standard time zones. So in the summer the sun can be in the middle of the sky (so what you'd think should be about noon) at 7am in the eastern regions, and in the winter you don't get sunrise till 10.30am in the western regions. It must be really weird! You go forward 3 and a half hours just by walking across a border!

Australia has three time zones as well, but Queensland is out of step with the rest of the East coast for at least some of the year which gave me coniptions in a motel room when I turned on national news and thought I was going to miss my flight from Brisbane to Luganville!

• "It's stupid, the time should be the same everywhere".

Yes, it would be much easier if everyone used UTC.

I work in a multinational company with managers on the West Coast. We're all PhD scientists but we still sometimes get confused when the clocks change a couple of weeks adrift.

😂😂😂

I've met people who don't know what 'exchange rate' means and think £1 = $1.

I have no idea who Drake is, but chuckling at the 5am is 5am.

I was taught when I was studying history that in the Middle Ages there was somewhere in Europe (can't now remember the exact places) where you could be in one year on a town, get on a horse and ride for a day and be in a different year, ride for another day to be in another town and be in a third year. And if you did it on the right days you could then go back to the first town and be in a fourth year. I started to understand why locals in England often dated documents with "in the second year of the reign of Henry II" rather than "in the year of Our Lord 1156": at least you could be reasonably certain when Henry II had come to the throne!

And we think that remembering that it's 9am in New York when it's 2pm in London is difficult.

"on a town" was meant to be "in a town"; spellcheck is not always your friend.

@Thelnebriati

I've met people who don't know what 'exchange rate' means and think £1 = $1.

I've got a filippina friend like that and it's even more frustrating because the Philippine peso is so far away from parity with the pound (like around 16p to the peso) so she's convinced that everything is really cheap in the UK compared to in the Philippines. And even apart from the idea of exchange rates, she just doesn't accept that there are different markets in different countries so e.g. eating out in a restaurant is much cheaper in the Philippines than the UK. She won't have it at all.

Reading those tweets, it isn't Inez who has Drake living rent free in her mind, is it?

Pretty sure that that person does know about time zones. Just doesn't know that backing down gracefully when wrong is always, always the more dignified option.