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[Starver]

If I remember the almanac correctly, in a little under 4 hours it shall be that time of celebration or otherwise an instant of import, as the seasons click over into the next quarter of their cycle.  For those of us at the top half of the world the days (or hours of light, therein) shall once more be getting longer, whilst those on the other, albeit inverted, top half of the world will be finally be starting to be finished with those blasted long periods of daylight and be able to get a decent night's kip, or something, in a month or three...   (Forgive me, people betwixt the tropics, for I shall be ignoring you and your situation, for the sake of having insufficient descriptive language to apply to your case...)

Where the demarcation is observed in what I at least consider to be the traditional astronomical way, this here mid-winter's/mid-summer's solstice is also the official start of Winter or Summer (despite the aformentioned 'mid-').  For those that have it artificially shifted to the 1st of the month, that's your government or other civil authority for you.  I'd vote them out of office, if I were you[1].  For those that have the seasons officially bisected by each quarter-point, that may indeed be sensible but it's not mine.  Any other system has got to be fairly crackpot and even more arbitrary than the first of the alternatives, but never mind...

Anyway, as I won't be online at the moment itself, I thought I'd be a bit pre-emptive.

And so I say to you all, Season's Greetings.  Mostly in its astronomical sense, although you're welcome to take it in any other manner you personally subscribe to, albeit it is a bit early (or slightly late) for most other events hovering around this time of year.


[1] Good advice, regardless, probably.

[Max White]

Well have a stunning summer solstice from your friends in the southern half of this crazy old planet we call Bob.

[kaijyuu]

I don't like Bob. He's got stuff growing and crawling all over him. It's gross.

[Pnx]

I don't like Bob. He's got stuff growing and crawling all over him. It's gross.

And let's face it, the gas issue is growing out of hand.

[Heron TSG]

Hey, don't talk about Bob's gas problem behind his back. It gets him right hot under the collar.

[Max White]

Hey be nice. He may not be perfect, but he is the only Bob we have!

[The Fool]

I admit the system does seem arbitrary if you move the date, but it's like how modern astrology is now. In astrology there should be a 13th sector of space to account for the expansion of the solar system (if I remember this correctly), but instead of adding a new sign they stick to the old 12. This means that even if you did believe in horoscopes you may have to look back a sign depending on what your birthday is. That is silly.

I don't trust horoscopes, but I thought it would be a good example with a fair number of similarities with moving the date of the solstice.

[Max White]

Well they do have Ophiuchus, not sure what sort of personalities they are meant to have though.
And then there is always that thing where Virgos are ruled by Ceres instead of Mercury.
And the debate over 'Do you count for the opposite if you were born in the southern hemisphere?'
And fuck it, astrology is insane enough as it is, we would be better off debating Zelda continuity!

[Heron TSG]

Hey, Ceres is more habitable than Mercury. At least stuff we build wouldn't be melted by the Sun within weeks.

[kaijyuu]

we would be better off debating Zelda continuity!

Didn't the official Nintendo magazine settle that? There's 3 different timelines, all splitting from ocarina of time.


Re: Ophiuchus.
That one's pretty cool.

[Max White]

Wait, three? I thought two...
The fuck did you do Nintendo?

[Gunner-Chan]

I still stand by my opinion of breaking the rules of the zodiac and despite being a Gemini I declare myself an Ophiuchus.

The hospital doesn't even have records of the day and month I was born anyway because of clerical errors, just the year. My birthday is likely inaccurate.

[kaijyuu]

Wait, three? I thought two...
The fuck did you do Nintendo?

Ah, here's the source.

Apparently Link loses in one.

[Max White]

Well I'm sure if we could choose our star signs then everybody would be magicarp, but ancient gypsies decided that we must conform to a vague arch type defined by orbiting bodies too far away to have any real influence over our persona for a good reason. So that failing journalists have something to write about.