# I pit the darkness. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 11, 2007, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053 "2007-11-11T22:31:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/21 "2007-11-12T01:12:25Z")
I believe in a thing called love. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/22 "2007-11-12T01:18:55Z")
I love the autumn and the winter, and I do enjoy some darkness. But over the past two years, I have grown fond of working outside in my yard doing gardening and whatnot, so I am quite torn about this whole “dark when I get off work” thing. I’m just as good as anyone at putting off yard work, but at least in the summer I had the OPTION of puttering around in the yard after work. Now, I have nothing to do but vacuum the carpet. Again. Although I do find it quite amusing that EVERY year, for all of eternity, the days get shorter as winter approaches…yet EVERY year it surprises me and I wonder how I ever manage to live like this, in the darkness. My surprise at this phenomenon amuses me. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/23 "2007-11-12T01:51:34Z")
Pit, Pit against the dying of the light. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/24 "2007-11-12T02:03:09Z")
Are you getting drunk yet? ---
**Author:** ![Tanaqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3bc359/32.png) [@Tanaqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tanaqui)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/25 "2007-11-12T02:21:37Z")
I love fall. The oppressive heat and claustrophobic skies of the summer is gone. The skies are so clear and the air is so clean and clear. The sunsets are spectacular. The trees are brilliant red and yellow. The persimmon trees are losing their leaves and the sight of orange fruit against bare branches and a raincloud-filled sky is so beautiful and so strange that it is hard to believe it is real. I can feel snow in the air already and everyday I walk to school huddled under my beautiful new scarf and cozy jacket. The rain is coming, but for an Oregonian, that just makes me think of home… Fall is my favorite season. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/26 "2007-11-12T02:42:17Z")
This is why I love living in the tropics. It’s the rainiest part of the rainy season right now, but that rarely means more than a couple of hours rain in a day. Much better than autumn or winter. And in December, the dry season will be back. Christmas weather! The skies will be clear, the cooling trade winds will start up, and all the trees will be in flower! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/27 "2007-11-12T03:24:31Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] I believe in a thing called love. [/QUOTE] Damnit! I was gonna do that! ---
**Author:** ![stucco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e56c9b/32.png) [@stucco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stucco)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/28 "2007-11-12T03:37:34Z")
My first class some days is 1pm. I know I shouldn’t complain, but I hate waking up and realizing I have a good 4 hours before it gets dark again. Meh. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/29 "2007-11-12T03:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Bryan Ekers] Well, y’all know _why_ the days are longer in summer? It’s because heat makes thing expand. [/QUOTE] The scales have fallen from mine eyes! Eureka! Thank you for that. I love fall. Love the cold, crisp, inky nights. Love the frostbitten mornings with the sun streaming in the kitchen. Love the sweaters, the jeans, the jackets etc. Love being able to take a walk and crunch through leaves AND not break a sweat. What’s not to love? I’d rather we didn’t set the clocks back at all–I see no sense in this at all, but no one asked me. Plus, fall means that winter is coming. Winter=snow and cold and ice and fun–I LOVE winter. I do. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/30 "2007-11-12T03:40:57Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] I believe in a thing called love. [/QUOTE] Cold, dark days just mean that there is more time for cuddling under a warm blanket. You can’t really do that when it’s 104º. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/31 "2007-11-12T03:44:51Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly] Pit, Pit against the dying of the light. [/QUOTE] Hahahaha - that’s awesome, man. I shan’t go gently into that good night, I assure you. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/32 "2007-11-12T03:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=Taber] I’ll attack it for you Magic Missile [/QUOTE] Wouldn’t Continual Flame be more useful, assuming you don’t care about being stealthy? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/33 "2007-11-12T04:08:13Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I can’t get behind you. I love the cooler weather and the air smells so fresh. I even like the fact that it is dark when I go to bed. I guess it was a little bit of a bummer on Thursday when it was dark when I left and dark when I got home, but over all, this is my time of year. [/QUOTE] Dude, when do you go to bed? Seriously! I get down this time of year too - I like it cooling off, but I don’t like it _cold_, I hate wearing coats instead of jackets, and I can’t stand how early it gets dark. There’s no light at all once I get home, and that sucks ass. Forget gardening, forget _doing_ anything, all I want to do is get in my pajamas and watch a movie or something. It gets me kind of depressed, preys on my feelings. And no, there will not be snow. Ever. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/34 "2007-11-12T04:17:09Z")
It is a bitter, bitter irony that the farther north you go, the longer the day lasts, but the colder it gets. It just ain’t right! ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/35 "2007-11-12T04:24:56Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] It is a bitter, bitter irony that the farther north you go, the longer the day lasts, but the colder it gets. It just ain’t right! [/QUOTE] Huh? The further north (or away from the equator) you get, the shorter the days get (while it’s getting colder). I’m under the impression that the reason it gets colder is because there isn’t as much sun shining on us. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/36 "2007-11-12T04:46:54Z")
[QUOTE=Diomedes] Huh? The further north (or away from the equator) you get, the shorter the days get (while it’s getting colder). I’m under the impression that the reason it gets colder is because there isn’t as much sun shining on us. [/QUOTE] Actually, I wasn’t thinking seasonally. The closer you get to the poles, the longer the day, generally. At least so my agronomist friend tells me – different varieties of crops are used in bands of about 100-150 miles because they function better in greater of less sunlight. In other words, a beet farmer 150 miles north of me would use a slightly different variety of beet than I would (if I were a beet farmer, which I’m not). And the northern crops have a longer growing day. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/37 "2007-11-12T04:56:02Z")
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim] Actually, I wasn’t thinking seasonally. The closer you get to the poles, the longer the day, generally. At least so my agronomist friend tells me – different varieties of crops are used in bands of about 100-150 miles because they function better in greater of less sunlight. In other words, a beet farmer 150 miles north of me would use a slightly different variety of beet than I would (if I were a beet farmer, which I’m not). And the northern crops have a longer growing day. [/QUOTE] This is only true during the summer, of course, which is the growing season for most crops. At the winter solstice, the North Pole will not have any daylight, and Quito, Ecuador will have a 12 hour day (like it always does). Unless you’re saying that it actually takes longer for the earth to revolve on its axes than it does towards its circumference… which would just be weird. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/38 "2007-11-12T05:16:34Z")
I used to love the fall and the shorter days. Now it depresses me. Seriously. I think a have a bit of the S. A. D. Getting worse as I get older. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/39 "2007-11-12T05:32:00Z")
[QUOTE=Randy Seltzer] > [@Thudlow Boink](#): > > I believe in a thing called love. Damnit! I was gonna do that! [/QUOTE] Ditto. Bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Campion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@Campion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Campion)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 5:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053/40 "2007-11-12T05:33:06Z")
I’m glad it gets dark earlier. All summer I feel guilty if I leave work while it’s still light. Now that it gets dark at 2:30 in the afternoon (or thereabouts), I can skip out of work guilt-free. Because when it’s dark, it’s _night_. And by nighttime, I’ve put in a full day! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-darkness/426053.md?page=3)