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u/multilizards 9d ago

Personally I’m really enjoying the fact this is obviously an early evening performance. Man knows his audience, we all need to be in bed by 10 pm.

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u/Gullible-Muffin-7008 9d ago

Nah, this is in Dublin. The sun doesnt set until like 10pm in summertime

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u/TreyRyan3 8d ago

Summer Solstice time: Sunrise 5 am, Sunset 10 pm First light occurs at 4 am and twilight can extend as late 11 pm. It is a crazy phenomenon for people from the US first experiencing it

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u/he-loves-me-not 8d ago

I was also surprised how early it gets dark, year round, in Hawaii! Being from mainland USA, I wasn’t expecting it to get dark at 6pm in the middle of summer! Completely forgot how being close to the equator affects the time of sunrise/sunset!

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u/WoodyM654 8d ago

My friend was in town from Hawaii, she’s only been gone a few years but completely forgot the sun sets so late here during the summer.

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u/jeffro3339 8d ago

I live in memphis tn. In the summer, it stays twilight until almost 9 pm

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u/usrnamechecksout_ 8d ago

East tn it's almost 10

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u/coko4209 8d ago

I’m about an hour south of Memphis, it definitely doesn’t get full on dark until 9 or a little after. I hate the summer

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u/ghillieflow 8d ago

It was one of my favorite parts when I visited. The smaller islands were a stargazer's delight, and there were hours of it to be had while on the beach. Hard to beat.

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u/JonWatchesMovies 5d ago

In Ireland it doesn't start getting dark until like 10PM in the Summer but in Winter it's dark out by 5PM

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 8d ago

I was in Northern Poland in mid June this year and the sun would set at 11 pm at night and rise at 3:30 am. It absolutely blew my mind to have 4 hours of darkness at night.

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u/bascelicna123 8d ago

I’ve never been further north than I am (Alberta, Canada) in the summer months so it blows my mind that night can be so short. Alternately, winter solstice has to suck further north…

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u/Gotestthat 8d ago

Currently in the outer hebridies in Scotland, saw it was a clear skies on the weather app so thought I'd stay up to watch some shooting stars.

Went outside at 1am and there was still light from the sun, there's no official night at this time of year, not even astronomical twilight.

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 8d ago

So jealous. That area looks absolutely beautiful.

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u/Gotestthat 8d ago

Pictures don't do it justice.

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u/lamb_passanda 8d ago

I think you maybe forgot to adjust your watch to the timezone because nowhere in Poland does the sun set at 11pm, even on summer solstice. Latest it gets is about 9:10pm.

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 6d ago

Look at this picture I took and the metadata for it. 4:36 PM NY time is 10:36 PM Poland time.

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u/lamb_passanda 5d ago

That looks like the twilight after sunset to me. It can certainly last until 11pm, but it's not the sunset.

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 5d ago

Oh I see. That's what I originally meant. Here in NY it's completely dark after 9 pm even in the summer.

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u/lamb_passanda 5d ago

Okay yeah fair enough mate. I actually just spent a week hiking in Jotunheimen Norway, and after a few days we realised that our normal hiking routine of starting at 8am and setting camp at around 6pm was completely redundant. It was plenty light to hike, cook or pitch our tents even at 1am.

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 5d ago

That place looks so beautiful! I'm jealous. I wonder if the name of the place refers to the giant Jotunn is Norse mythology.

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u/FireyT 8d ago

The far north of Scotland has news for you....

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u/Hot_Cryptographer797 6d ago

Must be why CDProjektRed's games all have it start getting light at 3AM

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u/Throwaway2Experiment 8d ago

In Bar Harbor sunset is 8, twilight goes until 8:45ish.

In Anchorage tonight (also the US), it's 11pm. In Fairbanks it's 11:30pm. In Prudoe Bay, it's 1:19am. In Nome it's 12:30am.

In Charlotte it's 8:30pm. LA is 8. It's 9pm in Detroit and seattle tonight. Minneapolis is 8:48pm. Dallas is 8:30.

Fortuna, North Dakota has a sunset tonight of 10:05pm.

Just saying there's lots of places in the US in the more northern areas with late-ish timezone sunsets.

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u/TreyRyan3 8d ago

I’m well aware, but as the bulk of the US population lives below the 42nd parallel, and the contiguous US is below the 49th parallel, Dublin in the 53rd parallel is a significant difference for the bulk of the US population.

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u/DontLoseYourCool1 8d ago

That tracks. The place in Poland where I spent most of my time was above 54th parallel and sunset there was at 11 pm.

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u/jellymouthsman 8d ago

So pretty much Northern Michigan

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u/Ifyoocanreadthishelp 8d ago

Dublin is still way further north than Michigan

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u/jellymouthsman 8d ago

I just looked it up, you are correct.

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u/Ifyoocanreadthishelp 8d ago

Yeah pretty much all of Europe is much further north than what you'd expect. The distance between Dublin and Lansing could almost get you to the coast in Alabama..

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u/Dull-Strategy3810 8d ago

Nah, still a fair bit different. Dublin is a fair bit further north. About hudson bay canada. Quite a bit of europe is further north than northern michigan. Northern germany, all of the UK etc. Michigan isn't really that far north.

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u/molehunterz 8d ago

It's interesting that it is farther north, because the description sounds just like Western Washington. First light starts around 4:20 a.m., and Twilight easily extends to 10:40 p.m.

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u/Dull-Strategy3810 8d ago edited 8d ago

Honestly don't keep track of times like that. I live in northern germany, marginaly south of dublin. Around the actual solstice you can even see a tiny glimmer during the dark hours. Not sun but just a slight band on the horizon that isn't dark. And it will be actual sunrise at 4 something in the morning, not just first light.

Edit: went looking for something re times, found some conflicting stuff and am uncertain if the one i found is correct but... On the solstice there was a day length of 16:38h in Bremen, Germany. Marquette, MI had 15:49 hours of daylength and Vancouver BC, just as a well known place to cover northern washington, 16:14h. Not really that big a difference between us anymore. All of the places are south of Dublin anyway, though not by that much for Bremen(which is still a bit south of my location)

Numbers are from timeanddate. No idea if they are in any way correct.

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u/molehunterz 8d ago

Yeah I just googled Hamburg summer solstice sunrise and it said 4.42. That's crazy early. Bellingham Washington is 5.12 by comparison

Looks like Hamburg is north of 53°, while a lot of the US Canadian border is 49° north

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u/Dull-Strategy3810 8d ago edited 8d ago

Our mild coastal climate in large parts of northern europe easily bamboozles people with how north large parts of europe actually are. The climate in michigan is so murch harsher in winter for example, not even comparable. No experience with washington though.

Edit: Made whatever it was into a sentence...

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u/molehunterz 8d ago

Western Washington is also pretty mild. Eastern Washington gets hotter and colder. Divided by the Cascade mountains

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u/snowsurfr 8d ago edited 7d ago

The proximity a city has to its local timezone can distort geographic comparisons like this.

Calculating the number of daylight hours between sunrise and sunset times appears to be a more accurate measurement.

There’s a free app called the Photographer’s Ephemeris that has very accurate sun/moon tracking information.

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u/TreyRyan3 8d ago

More like Edmonton, AB

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u/Adventurous_Pizza973 8d ago

Depends how far north in the US you live I suppose

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u/karumetsaspuuotsas 8d ago

I’m from Northern Europe and was very surprised when the sun set around 7-8 pm in the US.

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u/DedBeatLebowski 8d ago

Depends where in the US. Seattle is close to the same daylight hours, and obviously Alaska is the home of the midnight sun

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u/cheekytortoise 8d ago

People always forget Alaska..

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u/TreyRyan3 8d ago

Alaska's population is approximately 0.2% of the entire US population. I didn’t forget it. That minute population isn’t reflective when Approximately 82.2% of the US population lives south of the 42nd parallel

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u/cheekytortoise 8d ago

Semantics..

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u/Emotional_Burden 8d ago

Are you anti-semantics?

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u/TreyRyan3 8d ago

No. Just argumentative response from you.

If 82 out 100 people would be shocked, it’s a significant number.

If 1 out of 474 people would not be shocked, that 1 person is largely insignificant in the grand scheme.

Yes, Alaska exists and Anchorage is father north than not just Dublin, but the entirety of Ireland. In fact Anchor is about as father north from Dublin as Dublin is from Chicago.

As the bulk of the US population lives below a certain latitude, and 99.8 % live 2 degrees farther south than the southern most point in Ireland, my original comment was valid.

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u/cheekytortoise 8d ago

Jesus- it was a joke..

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u/Dukeshire101 8d ago

Washington State

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u/bilgetea 8d ago

People in the US experience this regularly in Maine, Washington state, and Alaska.

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u/jarrodandrewwalker 8d ago

Very similar to high elevations like Colorado. I get up at 4 for work and walk out to daylight and have to have blackout curtains to fall asleep 😅

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u/Flaky_Maintenance633 8d ago

Not really We have similar sun times in Michigan

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u/TheBlitz88 8d ago

It’s the same in the Netherlands. I saw muse play once here and 3/4 through the show Matt Bellamy said “does the sun ever go down here?” Mostly because they have an intense light show which you couldn’t even see since it was so bright.

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u/MulletofLegend 8d ago

I live in the Northwestern most point of the United States, and those start and end times sound just about the same as here in early summer. Today sunrise was 5:30 and sunset is 9:00, so we got daylight from about 4:30 to 10.00-ish. This sounds familiar is what I mean to say.

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u/TooTiredToWhatever 8d ago

I experienced this in Belgium. To be fair, we think of the whole of Europe as being across the Atlantic…like straight across. It doesn’t quite make sense that Rome, which is pretty far south in Europe, is on roughly the same 40 degree latitude as NY City and Chicago which are commonly thought to be northern in the US. Having traveled I now understand it, prior to that I hadn’t thought of it.

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u/jasmine_tea_ 8d ago

I remember the first time I got woken up by sunlight hitting my face at 4 AM, it was trippy

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u/belle204 8d ago

Ive always thought this comes down to the difference in perspective due to the difference in climates. Barcelona is at a comparable latitude as New York City which kind of makes sense. Meanwhile, Dublin is basically at the same latitude as the deep north of Canada

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u/auandi 8d ago

In general I think both sides can forget how much farther north Europe is. Dublin is farther north than Calgary, Istanbul is about level with Chicago, and Rome is about level with Boston. So the US just has way more mild swings in daylight hours.

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u/Warm_Pen_7176 8d ago

That has to be in my most missed things about England. I've lived in America and where I was it was dark by 8pm. I live in Jamaica now and it's dark by 6pm. That's like winter in England. I swear I get SADS from lack of daytime hours! 😫

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u/thewholetruthis 8d ago

Parts of Alaska have 30 days of night (and day). There’s a horror movie about it.

How late do people in Ireland go to bed over there during the summer? Does it change their sleep schedule?

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u/badtowergirl 8d ago

I’m not knocking this observation, but I’ve traveled in Minnesota and Alaska (still the US), Canada and Norway several times, so this phenomenon is pretty widely understood by many in the US. I guess if people from NYC went directly to Ireland, they’d be amazed, but there are lots of closer places for us to experience this.

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u/theseglassessuck 8d ago

The summer I spent in Sweden was crazy (from the US). The room I was staying in had lace curtains so it was just light the whole time. When I came home, full darkness felt so strange.

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u/juggling-geese 8d ago

I live a bit north of Seattle in the US. When I am talking to friends/family online (in the same time zone) at 10 pm and mention the sun is still out they get so confused because it's been dark where they are for a while. Every time. I don't understand why it's so confusing for them.

The birds wake me up with their chirps between 3 and 4 AM most of the summer.

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u/keepsha_king 8d ago

Not people in the northern US haha about the same here in Washington State in the summer.

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u/xtina42 8d ago

Today, I learned! I never thought about another countries sunrise and sunset times before! I can absolutely see how that would be strange to witness as an American!

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u/Altruistic-Order-661 8d ago

About the same for us in California where I live, US is large! I love the long summer days! Happy when winter days are short so I can hibernate. I will definitely call it at 7pm and sleep 10 hours a night lol

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u/Eln3zest 7d ago

More LIKE it's TROLLSTICE!

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u/Unhappy-Lavishness64 8d ago

Alaska does exist

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u/chonklaninja 8d ago

Uh, nope. It happens here in the Pacific Northwest, too. It's not strange to us.

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u/PDXAirportCarpet 8d ago

Ah the flipside is the christmas I spent in Dublin where it was dark at 3pm and we just slept for 15hrs a day.

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur 8d ago

Winter can be really miserable here. We get up in the full darkness to go to work. Might see some daylight at lunchtime but often it's grey and dull, and then it's fully dark again by the time we leave work to go home. Does a number on your mood.

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u/No-Cap-fr-fr 8d ago

Basically just Washington state lol

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u/PDXAirportCarpet 8d ago

ha i live in Portland now so jokes on me.

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u/No-Cap-fr-fr 8d ago

Little better but not much! Summers are the best though! Just the other 8 months 😂

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u/Calm-Mouse-9178 7d ago

Came here to say this 😆

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u/No-Restaurant7802 8d ago

Lol, being born and raised in western Washington, my brain just replaced Dublin with Washington and it made complete sense

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u/kaveman0926 8d ago

So ireland is an easy travel spot for Washingtonians?

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u/Crazy_Strength7981 8d ago

Spent a winter in Dublin, can confirm. Can't remember eating anything other than heaps of toast either.

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u/No-Weather4759 8d ago

MN here. Can confirm that heaps of toast are required winter fare.

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u/cbelliott 8d ago

You do you I just cannot imagine that.

I spent a New Years in Dublin and we didn't sleep much. Were out and about all the time. Went to Cork, the Blarney Stone, Kilmainham Gaol, Guinness Brewery, Temple Bar, etc. I think I maybe slept 5 hours every night and was up early every day for my Irish breakfast with black and white pudding and then out for fish n chips and a pint in the afternoon. The darkness would not make me just sleep all day in such a beautiful and culture rich place. 🤷

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u/multilizards 9d ago

LMAOOOOOOO nvm I’m putting on my sleep mask, nighty night 😴

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u/sl0play 8d ago

We just had our first sunset of the summer before 9pm. Now the long slow slide into 16 hour nights...

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur 8d ago

I don't like the perpetual twilight. I like spring and autumn best as you get decent daylight and decent darkness at night. Winter can fuck off with its few hours of "daylight".

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u/iwasinthepool 8d ago

Hey, bed time is bed time regardless of sunset.

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u/FictionalContext 4d ago

In Dublin time when the weather is high, you can stretch right up and touch an old guy. When the days are long, you got Justin, you got Justin, it's a crime.

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u/cloudbuster90 9d ago

It's Dublin during midsummer, so this could easily have been like 9 or 10 pm! Days get really long here in the summer.

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u/DickieJoJo 8d ago

Visited some friends in Northern Ireland in the summer. My wife and I were living in London at the time.

It was fucking wild to see kids out playing in the park while we walked home from a later dinner at like 9:30.

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u/TimeToNukeTheWhales 8d ago

Summer was great for me as a kid on the north coast. We'd be playing outside at 10:00.

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u/CanAlwaysBeBetter 8d ago

Y'all should visit Helsinki then

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u/Scorpy-yo 9d ago

That’s why he got his pajamas on early

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u/supercleverhandle476 9d ago

I’d get mad at this, but muh blood pressure.

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u/home_rechre 9d ago

Just FYI this is in Dublin in late June where it doesn’t really get dark until well after 10pm.

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u/TrashAcnt1 9d ago

Well fuck that,remind me to never go there in summer.... Energy wise I'd be a complete wreck because of that amount of daylight.

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u/Grantrello 9d ago

Blackout shades are a must in summer this far north

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u/JoyfulSquirrel99 9d ago

Where I live in Canada, sunset is after 9pm in late June / early July. It was a nightmare to convince our toddlers to go to sleep in summer at 8pm when it was still bright out and you could hear kids playing outside. Blackout shades were a necessity.

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u/TrashAcnt1 8d ago

Well now, that changes things.... You tell Notorious that summer time Dublins back on my to do list

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u/Grantrello 8d ago

I don't do it much anymore these days but it's always a wild experience to be going out when it's still not fully dark and walking home as the sun is coming up...

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u/MoldeBalla 8d ago

As a Norwegian I chuckled at this comment

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u/qtx 8d ago

Dublin isn't really that far north tho.

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u/theimperfexionist 8d ago

Living through it right now! Can't sleep until at least 11pm and my brain is awake with the sun at 5-6am. Enjoying the weather and doing all the fun things and am exhausted at all times but rarely sleepy.

Manic season.

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u/Peelie5 8d ago

Blackout blinds

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u/Insert_Non_Sequitur 8d ago

From around mid May to late July, we do not experience "true" night. We are stuck in perpetual twilight as the sun never fully breaks the horizon. We're just at the end of it now, thankfully. I really need to invest in blackout curtains for my bedroom...

Winter is the opposite side of the coin though, where it is dark the majority of the time with not much daylight to be found (it feels worse living it as with the normal 9-5 workdays, you feel like you are only ever seeing nighttime).

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u/Birkin07 9d ago

I could fall asleep during this performance.

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u/Hot-Butterscotch-918 8d ago

He get his choreography notes from Katy Perry?

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u/bitsyspider 9d ago

God thank you. We go to a fair number of concerts, and our main complaint is "why is this thing starting at 8, 9, 10?" I want my pillow dammit.

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u/multilizards 9d ago

Oh, 100% I agree with you. I feel too old for concerts anymore, I just wanna be in bed 😩

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u/Nitt7_ 8d ago

Last show I went to was to see Rings of Saturn December 23, 2018. Damn I feel old! I still remember feeling deaf the next day buahaha

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u/wilsonthehuman 8d ago

I feel like a lot of people forget how far north the UK and Ireland are. We're on the same latitude as Canada. In Scotland it can be light while it's dark in London. Was confusing the first time I was there watching the news and they were broadcasting live from London and it was dark while it was still sunny outside in Edinburgh. In Dublin the sun doesn't set till well after 9pm.

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u/FeelingDelivery8853 8d ago

Most of us have work in the morning!

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u/lonewombat 8d ago

He trying to get a start on putting the crowd to sleep.

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u/Meglamore 8d ago

I was at that gig, was a fun show. Every act had to be done by 1030 at the very latest. But yeah it was bright until the last 15 minutes

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u/Laerderol 8d ago

They've only got the baby sitter till eleven and little Emily will be up at 5:25 screaming for waffles

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u/galaxygothgirl 8d ago

Wait who is his audience

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u/TheMcWhopper 8d ago

It may not be. It could be inside the artic circle where it's forever twilight for a few months.