Is more daylight a danger?

Email from Andrew Dawson to http://northside-chronicle.whereilive.com.au

What a great idea.

In the skin cancer capital of the world, let us find an extra hour of daylight in our baking summer.

No risk of future generations having their skin damaged by lengthening our summer days, is there?

Daylight saving is not suited to Queensland.

It is fine in Victoria because in the depth of winter, the joint is plunged into darkness. Everyone wears black and a more gloomy place on earth I have never encountered.

As a result southerners enjoy the long, summer sun as much as the Brits who sit in Hyde Park, London, with handkerchiefs on their heads.

But unlike the Vics we get more year-round sun and don't need additional sun during our hottest time.

I can't wait for the sun to pop behind Mt Coot-tha at 7pm on a summer evening.

It also annoys me the very reason most mexicans and cockroaches come to Queensland is for our lifestyle, yet now they are trying to change the very lifestyle which lured them here in the first place.

Those blessed cockroaches. They come up here, take my State of Origin tickets and complain about no daylight savings.

And the mexicans. They arrive, steal our women, scream out ``ball'' at football matches and walk around pronouncing the word ``pool'' like English toffs.

Between both states, they have driven up Queensland property prices to outrageous levels.

Now they want the sun to hang in the sky longer.

I know some southerners. I tolerate them.

Leave daylight saving south of the Tweed, please.

I thought I was out on a limb, but noted 41 per cent of Chronicle website readers agreed with me. Bet you most of them are born and breed Queenslanders.

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COMMENT: With people like Andrew Dawson around, no wonder Queensland's potential is being held back.

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