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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

Doesn't make much sense. Like a reminder to wake up. Always found it backwards in all honesty.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Really?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Better than waking up to set an alarm to go to sleep...

Just needs a nice gentle wake up tune.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

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By *horecruxCouple over a year ago

SE4

I mean....

It's tried and tested bud

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them."

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Better than waking up to set an alarm to go to sleep...

Just needs a nice gentle wake up tune."

Sounds like something from a life is a simulation theory. In which case nothing is gentle.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

As I only actually go to work a few months a year I seldom use an alarm clock. Only when I need to interact with the other world.

But would miss flights and appointments without it.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I set one but usually wake up before it goes off

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By *iss Penny TrationWoman over a year ago

To be honest, it’s a pretty reliable way to make sure you’re up in time for work and that? If setting an alarm to get my kids to school and to get me to work on time makes me backwards then so be it

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

I take it you just magically get up at the right time every day regardless of how tired you are then?

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

I set 3 alarms and sometimes snooze them lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

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By *iss Penny TrationWoman over a year ago

My deepest sleep is when I snooze every 9 minutes for 45 minutes hahaha

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By *iss Penny TrationWoman over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone."

Can I ask what other way you would guarantee to be up at a certain time every morning? Just out of curiosity ....

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By *horecruxCouple over a year ago

SE4

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone."

Tell us more

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone."

Go on then OP tell us your opinions,

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Can I ask what other way you would guarantee to be up at a certain time every morning? Just out of curiosity ...."

When I was little we used to believe that banging your head on the pillow the same amount if times as the time you needed to get up told your brain when to naturally wake you.

So if you needed to be up at 6 you'd bang your head 6 times. You couldn't do any other time than on the hour though

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By *iss Penny TrationWoman over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Can I ask what other way you would guarantee to be up at a certain time every morning? Just out of curiosity ....

When I was little we used to believe that banging your head on the pillow the same amount if times as the time you needed to get up told your brain when to naturally wake you.

So if you needed to be up at 6 you'd bang your head 6 times. You couldn't do any other time than on the hour though

Guaranteed. 100%.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Tell us more "

Like I said I get people are going to be of the opinion that 'if I don't set an alarm I won't get up for work, lose money, miss appointments, dates, times...' and all that yada. But if it wasn't for an alarm clock how could you definitely say you would miss out.

But my main point is I can't see how it improves anything by linking your existence to some made up time frame.

Not to mention the health implications it probably has.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"But my main point is I can't see how it improves anything by linking your existence to some made up time frame.

Not to mention the health implications it probably has."

As I said above I seldom go to work, and only use the alarm clock when I need to synchronise with other people / events.

A made up timeframe is handy when mixing with others as long as they are using the same one.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Oooffft. I live in reality and need to get up for work. Simple. Nice life if you can have it though.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I love alarm clock. When I wake up it tells me good morning and let's me know what the weather is going to be like

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone."

Do you think people would wake up at the time they needed to, without an alarm?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Do you think people would wake up at the time they needed to, without an alarm?

No, not all would be awake. I don't really like the term 'needed to' in this instance either but that's another story.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"But my main point is I can't see how it improves anything by linking your existence to some made up time frame.

Not to mention the health implications it probably has.

As I said above I seldom go to work, and only use the alarm clock when I need to synchronise with other people / events.

A made up timeframe is handy when mixing with others as long as they are using the same one."

I think near all humans use the same time frames.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Do you think people would wake up at the time they needed to, without an alarm?

No, not all would be awake. I don't really like the term 'needed to' in this instance either but that's another story."

Ah so you think, society would work better if we all did things on our own time frames. So if I just woke up when I wanted and turned up. At work when I felt like it?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them."

Life would be very different for me. For starters I'd be late for work every day and loose my job, then I wouldn't have money, which would have a severe impact on my life. So yes, life would be extremely different without an alarm clock.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Do you think people would wake up at the time they needed to, without an alarm?

No, not all would be awake. I don't really like the term 'needed to' in this instance either but that's another story.

Ah so you think, society would work better if we all did things on our own time frames. So if I just woke up when I wanted and turned up. At work when I felt like it? "

Potentially, but not so much because you feel like doing things to your own schedule but because you are that person who is made to do that. There isn't a one size fits all way for anything and if there was I don't think life as we know it would exist. The universe is completely random and trying to tie some patterns of time or routines into it just makes no sense.

I get people are going to be perplexed at why I said this, but it's just an opinion on something I don't really see any reasonable answer to. Other than someone else's opinion.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

This is why I enjoy my night shifts. Go to bed as everyone wakes up to their alarms.

Get up to no alarm when I'm ready.

Early turn I keep wakeing and thinking how much longer untill the alarm goes off.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

So nothing would have to be 'on time' be use there is no time. Things would happen when they happen.

If we wanted to meet how would we know to be in the same place together?

Public transport would be.... Well the same because the tumetilanles are up the swanny anyway

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

I would have lost my job long ago. I’m up at 6am for work. And on weekends, I’m lucky if I wake before 9am.

Can’t tell if this is a troll or not - seems like a silly thing to troll about

I'm not here to troll.

I accept all the usual 'obvious' reasons to use one.

I've just got a lot of opinions about how they're really not helping anyone.

Can I ask what other way you would guarantee to be up at a certain time every morning? Just out of curiosity ....

When I was little we used to believe that banging your head on the pillow the same amount if times as the time you needed to get up told your brain when to naturally wake you.

So if you needed to be up at 6 you'd bang your head 6 times. You couldn't do any other time than on the hour though

I still do that sometimes if it is a really important reason I have to be up

seems to work still

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would."

They would have to re employ people to walk the streets and tap on your windows to wake you up, like in days of old

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would."

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

Humans have always used time not by a clock but by seasons and weather. Day or night.

Time is in all forms not just a clock.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"So nothing would have to be 'on time' be use there is no time. Things would happen when they happen.

If we wanted to meet how would we know to be in the same place together?

Public transport would be.... Well the same because the tumetilanles are up the swanny anyway

When the sun is over the yard arm.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Humans have always used time not by a clock but by seasons and weather. Day or night.

Time is in all forms not just a clock. "

If you're directing that statement at me then yes I know how time works. But it's not really about the relevance of an alarm clock.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day."

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

"So nothing would have to be 'on time' be use there is no time. Things would happen when they happen.

If we wanted to meet how would we know to be in the same place together?

Public transport would be.... Well the same because the tumetilanles are up the swanny anyway

When the sun is over the yard arm."

Now I have to buy a yard arm.? Will they make a handy wrist sized one?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Doesn't make much sense. Like a reminder to wake up. Always found it backwards in all honesty. "
you're retired then

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By *risky_MareWoman over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them."

That's just plain silly lol!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Doesn't make much sense. Like a reminder to wake up. Always found it backwards in all honesty. you're retired then "

Not quite, sadly

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By *ce WingerMan over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Mine will go off any time you want it to,

Ding Dong

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By *lik and PaulCouple over a year ago

cahoots

I naturally wake up about now....if I did that every day I would be bankrupt....i need an alarm to work in the world we live in.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist."

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

That's just plain silly lol!"

I mean this hypothetically. Why's it silly?

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?"

*would turn up at 6am

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?"
I see it

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By *uteness69Woman over a year ago

Walthamstow

Rebellious thinking regarding time and constraints won't hold weight in a world where we are strapped into working for the man.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?"

I see your point and certainly an alarm clock helps to make sure that everyone turns up and so on. I'm not really considering practical elements to why alarm clocks are pointless.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I’d seriously be asleep till lunchtime without an alarm. I can sleep for England. An alarm is needed here!

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"I’d seriously be asleep till lunchtime without an alarm. I can sleep for England. An alarm is needed here! "

Used it this morning I see

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?

I see your point and certainly an alarm clock helps to make sure that everyone turns up and so on. I'm not really considering practical elements to why alarm clocks are pointless."

But life is practical, so you've just seen your own theory fail.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

The posts on here just get even more crazy.

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman over a year ago

evesham

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

"I’d seriously be asleep till lunchtime without an alarm. I can sleep for England. An alarm is needed here!

Used it this morning I see

Nope. A child was my alarm today

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

I wake up screaming covered in sweat.

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Rebellious thinking regarding time and constraints won't hold weight in a world where we are strapped into working for the man.

I probably am a rebellious thinker, but I don't think everything is an absolute given in the world where your bound to go down the same path as anyone or anything else. For instance to put in an example of when there must have been rebellious thinking (and to me the statement itself is rebellious now when you think about it) is that once the CEO of IBM said that there would be no use for computers in homes. So the very medium I am using to voice these opinions and conversing them was not yet contrived.

You're right and so is everyone in that time is key in the working world and I absolutely get the idea of alarms help this. But they don't seem like good ideas.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"Really?

I genuinely think life would be no different without them.

Agree that's likely to be the case but you're a little too pragmatic in this statement.

I'm theorizing at the removal of alarm clocks from existence. Nobody has them or ever did. You think life would be different? I don't think it would.

So how would education work? Pupils and teachers turning up into schools at different times of the day.

I seriously don't think education is built on the basis that everyone uses an alarm clock.

I don't have every answer to all permutations as I'm just one human and no scientist.

Obviously education isn't built on that basis. But the point I'm getting across is some children wouldn't turn up at 6am, some teachers wouldn't turn up until 11am, see my point?

I see your point and certainly an alarm clock helps to make sure that everyone turns up and so on. I'm not really considering practical elements to why alarm clocks are pointless.

But life is practical, so you've just seen your own theory fail."

No no, your life is practical.

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

If I am on early shifts I need to be up at 4:15am. Do you expect me to just wake up, jump out of bed, go yippee it's time to go to work

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By (user no longer on site) OP over a year ago

"If I am on early shifts I need to be up at 4:15am. Do you expect me to just wake up, jump out of bed, go yippee it's time to go to work "

I don't expect anything of you other than to be yourself

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By *andonmessMan over a year ago

A world all of his own

"If I am on early shifts I need to be up at 4:15am. Do you expect me to just wake up, jump out of bed, go yippee it's time to go to work "

Yeah it doesn't quite work for shift workers huh

Crawling into bed at 7am having worked all night, I sure as hell wouldn't wake up mid afternoon without an alarm clock

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By (user no longer on site) over a year ago

We could all just exist according to our own sense of time and readiness to do things. But we are social creatures and, therefore, synchronise with our wider communities so that we can share experience. This can range from there being someone available to pick you up swiftly in by ambulance, because they confirmed to their shift patterns, to turning up to watch a gig and the band actually being there.

So clocks are necessary to achieve this and, by extension, alarm clocks, for those who can’t just awake on demand at the required time.