Silliness I am very disappointed in MobileRead members - Page 4

ravenne · 12-22-2008, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

I just woke up after an 11 hr sleep-athon. Don't hate me.

Please show your sleeping licence for sleeping 11 hours in a row. As MR-member you´re only allowed to sleep 3 hours, then log in, post at least 23 messages and go back to bed for another 3 hours. Thanks for your cooperation.

desertgrandma · 12-22-2008, 01:39 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

Please show your sleeping licence for sleeping 11 hours in a row. As MR-member you´re only allowed to sleep 3 hours, then log in, post at least 23 messages and go back to bed for another 3 hours. Thanks for your cooperation.

but but........I'm old.....
(in querulous voice)

ravenne · 12-22-2008, 03:30 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

but but........I'm old.....
(in querulous voice)

You´re NOT old. Trust me on this. You have a kindle, you read ebooks, in short: You are the next generation. So no excuses, sorry

yvanleterrible · 12-22-2008, 03:49 PM

To quote Hawkeye in the series M.A.S.H. :
"I'm not sleeping, I'm just inspecting the inside of my eyelids for holes"!

badgoodDeb · 12-22-2008, 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by RWood

Deb: I always get up at 6:30 am (although I often have to correct the clock when it shows things like 10:45 am), always start work at 8:45 am (again sadly, I must often change the clock as it seldom keeps the proper time.) I quit work exactly at 5:05 pm (even when the clock claims it to be 1:00 pm) dinner is promptly at 6:00 pm and its lights out at 9:30 pm even if that is several hours after David Letterman's "Top Ten List."

I admire your punctuality. With you as inspiration, perhaps I can attain such heights of regularity too. I shall put your scheme into practice!

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

but but........I'm old.....
(in querulous voice)

LOL!!!

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Originally Posted by ravenne

You´re NOT old. Trust me on this. You have a kindle, you read ebooks, in short: You are the next generation. So no excuses, sorry.

You know, DG dear, -- I think Ravenne is right. Anyone with an ebook-reader of ANY flavor is part of the new generation, and is definitely young of mind, at the very least. I suspect I'm aged half-way between you two --- and wondering now if I need to forgo sleep (oh, but I LIKE it so!) for ebook reading. Would it count if I just put the kindle beneath my pillow?? Oh, but drat those fragile screens -- I probably can't use that shortcut!

DixieGal · 12-22-2008, 04:06 PM

I love sleep. I'm very good at it.

desertgrandma · 12-22-2008, 04:40 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

You´re NOT old. Trust me on this. You have a kindle, you read ebooks, in short: You are the next generation. So no excuses, sorry

Dammit!!! That excuse works 99% of the time in real life. We get all sorts of 'outs' because of our age.

Forget things? "never mind, dear, we all forget things as we age."

Cranky? "never mind, she's just old and they do get cranky"

Put foot in mouth? "never mind, she didn't really mean to say that, its just her age"

But here? Nooooooo.........! Thanks a lot!

LazyScot · 12-22-2008, 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by DixieGal

I love sleep. I'm very good at it.

I love sleep as well. Sadly I'm clearly not as good at it as DG; however I make it a point to practise for many, many hours a day.

Seabound · 12-22-2008, 07:56 PM

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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

To quote Hawkeye in the series M.A.S.H. :
"I'm not sleeping, I'm just inspecting the inside of my eyelids for holes"!

I LOVE M*A*S*H. There was this one episode where there were tons of wounded coming in, and they had to do surgery round the clock. So the only sleep they got was in the form of short, forced naps when they would have sad, strange dreams. When the emergency was over and they could finally get some decent rest, they refused to sleep for fear of having strange dreams again.

To sleep, perchance to dream--

Seabound · 12-22-2008, 07:58 PM

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Originally Posted by ravenne

Please show your sleeping licence for sleeping 11 hours in a row. As MR-member you´re only allowed to sleep 3 hours, then log in, post at least 23 messages and go back to bed for another 3 hours. Thanks for your cooperation.

An MR sleep police--cool!

desertgrandma · 12-22-2008, 07:59 PM

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Originally Posted by LazyScot

I love sleep as well. Sadly I'm clearly not as good at it as DG; however I make it a point to practise for many, many hours a day.

You know, I just want to make something perfectly clear here. I do not sleep that much on a normal schedule.

Honest.

Seabound · 12-22-2008, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Dammit!!! That excuse works 99% of the time in real life. We get all sorts of 'outs' because of our age.

Forget things? "never mind, dear, we all forget things as we age."

Cranky? "never mind, she's just old and they do get cranky"

Put foot in mouth? "never mind, she didn't really mean to say that, its just her age"

But here? Nooooooo.........! Thanks a lot!

Seabound · 12-22-2008, 08:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

I would like to officially protest the suggestion that I sleep. I know for a fact that I do not sleep, because I have never been woken by an alarm clock. I am always wide awake when my alarm goes off. (I really set it for the cat, as I am trying to encourage her to wait until the alarm before begging for breakfast. So far, she is proving to be a slow learner. At 17 years old.) In fact, I do spend 5-6 hours a day in a state that may seem to the layman to correspond to sleep, but in fact, is not.

Cats are alarm clocks.

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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan

During the hours of midnight to 6 AM, EST, I will generally recline on a horizontal pad in order to allow the muscles of my body to rest from the exertions of the day. (The occasion that I do not recline corresponds to occasional gallstone attacks, which require me to sit up all night.) During this time, I will frequently muse on the matters of the day, on future projects, or spend a few moments in random free association... a mental exercise, if you will, designed to refresh my brain cells, to allow recently acquired information to be examined and either stored in more permanent memory, or discarded, and to create new mental pathways that can lead to creative insights and inspiration.

Thank you for so accurately defining sleep. Yes, that is indeed a beautiful way to describe sleep.

montsnmags · 12-22-2008, 09:48 PM

I'm pretty much up at 8 to 8.30am every day, regardless of the time I go to sleep (which varies from 10pm through 2am). I generally "need" 8 hours, though I wouldn't rate sleep as something I'm desirous of. If I could eliminate sleep altogether, except for when I felt like it, I'd be very happy...well, maybe not "happy", but somewhat satisfied.

Sleep merely brings uncontrolled mind-altering visions of fear, or terror, or exposure, or lust, or administrative frustration, or ineffective violence, or dull irrelevant inconsequential moment, or subtle variations and intrusions of a possible physical, social or emotional reality that merely leads to utter confusion when the real reality breaks in with the sunlight. I'm sorry, but if I want my mind altered, I'd prefer to have control over it, thank you very much. The last thing I need is to let my id off its leash to rape and pillage my ego and superego, especially since I fear that the ego wants to join in and hold the superego down, and that the superego is not-so-cleverly-disguising-behind-fear its enjoyment of it all. I'd rather have them all conscious, sitting in a small, black room around a rickety, oak card-table, madly scribbling notes as bitter as the coffee onto its surface, and occasionally trying to play a variation of Russian Roulette with a bow-and-arrow (fire the arrow straight up, and try catch it with your forehead). Let them laugh and spit and drink and fight and cuss and dance in a blood-on-the-walls raging orgy, until the ignored sun starts bashing on the door shouting and threatening to call the dream police. That's the good stuff.

At least then I can watch what they're doing from the back row of the darkened, empty theatre that they're oblivious of from the stage, and write it all down to bear witness later on in court. Sleep? I don't like sleep. There's no-one around to draw the curtains.

Mmm, now the superego is looking both scared and excited, the ego just excited, and the id is taking off his freshly-drool-stained singlet...I wonder if their table needs a fourth player...

desertgrandma · 12-22-2008, 09:56 PM

Well, thanks to Montsnmag's description of sleep, I'm afraid to sleep again.................

12-22-2008, 09:48 PM	#59
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	I'm pretty much up at 8 to 8.30am every day, regardless of the time I go to sleep (which varies from 10pm through 2am). I generally "need" 8 hours, though I wouldn't rate sleep as something I'm desirous of. If I could eliminate sleep altogether, except for when I felt like it, I'd be very happy...well, maybe not "happy", but somewhat satisfied. Sleep merely brings uncontrolled mind-altering visions of fear, or terror, or exposure, or lust, or administrative frustration, or ineffective violence, or dull irrelevant inconsequential moment, or subtle variations and intrusions of a possible physical, social or emotional reality that merely leads to utter confusion when the real reality breaks in with the sunlight. I'm sorry, but if I want my mind altered, I'd prefer to have control over it, thank you very much. The last thing I need is to let my id off its leash to rape and pillage my ego and superego, especially since I fear that the ego wants to join in and hold the superego down, and that the superego is not-so-cleverly-disguising-behind-fear its enjoyment of it all. I'd rather have them all conscious, sitting in a small, black room around a rickety, oak card-table, madly scribbling notes as bitter as the coffee onto its surface, and occasionally trying to play a variation of Russian Roulette with a bow-and-arrow (fire the arrow straight up, and try catch it with your forehead). Let them laugh and spit and drink and fight and cuss and dance in a blood-on-the-walls raging orgy, until the ignored sun starts bashing on the door shouting and threatening to call the dream police. That's the good stuff. At least then I can watch what they're doing from the back row of the darkened, empty theatre that they're oblivious of from the stage, and write it all down to bear witness later on in court. Sleep? I don't like sleep. There's no-one around to draw the curtains. Mmm, now the superego is looking both scared and excited, the ego just excited, and the id is taking off his freshly-drool-stained singlet...I wonder if their table needs a fourth player... Last edited by montsnmags; 12-23-2008 at 01:39 AM.

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12-22-2008, 03:49 PM	#49
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	To quote Hawkeye in the series M.A.S.H. : "I'm not sleeping, I'm just inspecting the inside of my eyelids for holes"!

12-22-2008, 04:06 PM	#51
DixieGal Hi There! Posts: 7,473 Karma: 2930523 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Ft Lauderdale Device: iPad	I love sleep. I'm very good at it.

12-22-2008, 09:56 PM	#60
desertgrandma Enjoying the show.... Posts: 14,270 Karma: 10462843 Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Arizona Device: A K1, Kindle Paperwhite, an Ipod, IPad2, Iphone, an Ipad Mini & macAir	Well, thanks to Montsnmag's description of sleep, I'm afraid to sleep again.................

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