For those that don't know him,Major General Peter Cosgrove is an 'Australian treasure!'

General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently.

You'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of an ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?

GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.

FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
But you're equipping them to become violent killers.

GENERAL COSGROVE:
Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?

The radio went silent and the interview ended.

Just realised that from tomorrow, we in Scotland, thanks to those clowns in our Government and their love of Europe, have to move to the metric time system. There is now a formulae for this,

This allows us to put together the formula ...

(Difference in Star Clock time ) = (-0.5) x (Difference in British Summer Time)
and conversely ...

(Difference in British Summer time) = (-2) x (Difference in Star Clock time )
Now let's define some variables.

let ST1 and LT1 represent the Star Clock time and the local time respectively at a particular instant.

let ST2 and LT2 represent the Star Clock time and the local time respectively at another instant.

Then the two equations above can be rewritten as ...

ST2 - ST1 = (-0.5) x ( LT2 - LT1 )

and

LT2 - LT1 = (-2) X ( ST2 - ST1 )

respectively. ( No, I don't understand it either )

We just don't need time to let it "bed in", I can tell you now, it is going to be a disaster, a major mess.

The twenty hour day may possibly work on some distant island in the middle of the Pacific, but, not in a country that has to work so closely to the rest of the world. Using the 72 minute hour may have a financial advantage for some, the minimum wage will be increased by 5% and it will be cheaper to hire labour by the hour, are these reasons enough for the changes.

Please support the fight to save our 24 hour clock .