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Originally posted by Flushdraw View PostBetween working night shifts and playing poker, i've been a 0-4 hours of sleep person for about 10 years. In the past year, it's stretched to 4-5 every night, but a little less if i play a session and go deep. I get a midday slump if i do <4 hours sleep like i used to, but 5 does the job now.
I'll head to bed between 12-2 most nights and watch something if i'm not tired, and then up at 6-6.20 every morning. Weekends vary, but a similar amount of sleep. Not ideal in any way, but a longer sleep time usually results in a broken sleep or restlessness.
I used to be close to that level but happily I'm fairly steady now getting 7 - 8 most nights and very much better for it.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by Strewelpeter View PostThat sounds very unhealthy, likely there will be a price to be paid physically and mentally.
I used to be close to that level but happily I'm fairly steady now getting 7 - 8 most nights and very much better for it.
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Originally posted by Flushdraw View PostBetween working night shifts and playing poker, i've been a 0-4 hours of sleep person for about 10 years. In the past year, it's stretched to 4-5 every night, but a little less if i play a session and go deep. I get a midday slump if i do <4 hours sleep like i used to, but 5 does the job now.
I'll head to bed between 12-2 most nights and watch something if i'm not tired, and then up at 6-6.20 every morning. Weekends vary, but a similar amount of sleep. Not ideal in any way, but a longer sleep time usually results in a broken sleep or restlessness.
That said no matter what i tried I couldn't fix it when I was on nights, I think that's just an almost insurmountable obstacle.
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostAbout five days in a row of getting into bed with eight hours sleep on the agenda. Amazing (or maybe not) how much extra energy it gives you during the day.
I know zuut insists on his minimum 9 hours of sleep a night, but would anyone habitually get by on a lot less sleep? Find the usual six hours to be an absolute killer by about day 3 in a week.
crash night usually involves falling asleep when putting deadpigeon to bed in our bed and waking up several hours later to put her in her own bed
I went by that napoleon slogan for years
6 for a man, 7 for a woman and 8 for a fool.
However, I reckon I should probably change it up soon.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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My sleep patterns were shocking up until 10 yrs ago, got into a good routine on Holidays with Sunrise waking me at similar times every day for 2 weeks. Carried that on with one of those wakeup lights when I got home and It honestly changed my life for the better. Have no screens in my bedroom at all, Philips hue lights and Google Home Speaker only gadgets I have allowed. Theres a different dynamic altogether when the day starts off waking gradually, the lights ramp up slowly and room is bright at 6.50am.Low fee Euro/UK money transfer, 1st transfer free through my referral
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostReading another depressing book about sleep. It seems for optimal health and well being we should be sleeping and eating at a strict schedule, with no late night alcohol. It's great to have the blueprint but who can keep to that? GG if you've children, and gg if you want to keep any semblance of a social life.
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Originally posted by eoghan104 View PostSpeaking of newborns, my friends asked me to be Godfather to their little girl and the christening is next month. What should I be like at present wise? Money? Voucher? Gift?
Any experience here? Cheers
The important thing, IMO, is to keep in touch and be available for them later in the teens and onwards.Turning millions into thousands
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Originally posted by KevIRL View PostNice no work if you can get it
I can't imagine that's a picnic.People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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A pregnant mother had to carry more than £200 of shopping up two flights of stairs after her Asda delivery driver refused to help, she claims.
Amy Natasha Botten, 20, who is 20 weeks pregnant with her second child, shared a video online of the food delivery.
Ms Botten can be heard pleading with the driver for help as "her son was crying upstairs alone" at the flat in Feltham, west London.
Asda said it "got it wrong on this occasion and that it was truly sorry".
In terms and conditions of delivery on its website, the firm says that unless there are particular circumstances their drivers should offer to take the shopping "into your home".
Posting on Facebook, Ms Botten said: "This shouldn't be happening to anyone, putting aside bad health, lonely and elderly, disabled, pregnant.
"It should not be happening. It's called home delivery.
"I just had to carry £200 monthly shop up two flights of stairs alone, pregnant with pelvic problems. No choice but to leave my son on his own crying."
In the video clip, she asks the driver: "Can you not help me with this last little bit because my little boy is up there crying his eyes out?"
He responds: "I'd rather not."
She then says: "You'd rather not? But this is your job."
As an apology, the Feltham Asda store gave a bottle of champagne and flowers to Ms Botten.
"We always try to offer our customers great service but clearly we got it wrong on this occasion and we are truly sorry", an Asda spokesperson said.
"This goes against our home shopping policies and we have offered our full apology to Ms Botten and are in contact with her to try and make amends."People say I should be more humble I hope they understand, they don't listen when you mumble
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Originally posted by MrsFlushdraw View PostCongrats to the Kayroos, was it a girl? not sure on reading the post.You are technically correct...the best kind of correct
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Hitch and/or Other Parisian walkabouters. I’m heading over on Friday with a few work colleagues. A few of them are heading off to the Motor Show (zzzzzz) . I’ve already set my mind on the reality room. (thanks for that) Any other novel suggestions for things to do in Paris other than the usual touristy stuff. I’m there Fri-Sunday
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostHitch and/or Other Parisian walkabouters. I’m heading over on Friday with a few work colleagues. A few of them are heading off to the Motor Show (zzzzzz) . I’ve already set my mind on the reality room. (thanks for that) Any other novel suggestions for things to do in Paris other than the usual touristy stuff. I’m there Fri-Sunday
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Originally posted by brady23 View PostI'm pretty insistent on getting 8 hours a night after working nights in BF & playing poker regularly with irregular sleep and realising how poor my health was relative to how I was in NZ. It took me such a long time to re-adjust to eating, training, sleeping & general mood..
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostHitch and/or Other Parisian walkabouters. I’m heading over on Friday with a few work colleagues. A few of them are heading off to the Motor Show (zzzzzz) . I’ve already set my mind on the reality room. (thanks for that) Any other novel suggestions for things to do in Paris other than the usual touristy stuff. I’m there Fri-Sunday
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostHitch and/or Other Parisian walkabouters. I’m heading over on Friday with a few work colleagues. A few of them are heading off to the Motor Show (zzzzzz) . I’ve already set my mind on the reality room. (thanks for that) Any other novel suggestions for things to do in Paris other than the usual touristy stuff. I’m there Fri-Sunday‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by V for Vendetta View PostA cycle tour around Paris is great fun.
It's currently been "actioned" hopefully goes through some day soon.
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostIrish Life are some bunch to deal with, have literally been trying to hand them money for about two months now, never had so much trouble trying to give someone business
It's currently been "actioned" hopefully goes through some day soon.‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by Denny Crane View PostMust do the maths on when it makes sense to go the self admin scheme route.
(Sorry for talking about this again Lazare )‘IF YOU had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.” Genghis Khan
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Originally posted by Lazare View PostFair play Iago, that sounds like a great move. I want to visit it now.
I'm over right now visiting my parents. They live near Murcia, renting a place in a golf resort. It's nice and all, very secure, picturesque etc, but it's pretty much all ex pat British and Irish people. I keep trying to persuade them to immerse themselves more in Spanish culture and move somewhere else. Valencia sounds ideal.
They won't do it, they're happy though.
Whereabouts are they mate? We're near Torrevieja.
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Originally posted by gorrrr72 View PostWhereabouts are they mate? We're near Torrevieja.
In the end the lure of the city won out for us.
Bit nervous about the language thing, but I guess we’ll have to pick it up. Probably won’t starve either way
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News story there that 1/3 of u25s in the UK don't drink. Seems a fairly general trend elsewhere too.
It is quite noticeable from the people around me that the number of people going out is tapering off year by year. Younger people are just in the gym now getting ready for instagram or sitting on the couch watching netflix?
The Chancery will be out of business in 5-10yrs at this rate.
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Originally posted by Gimmeabreakthat's cos the youth are all off their head on coke. no need for drink.
Judging by the amount of out of their heads skangers around town this afternoon, it must be great."We are not Europeans. Those people on the continent are freaks."
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Originally posted by Hitchhiker's Guide To... View PostIs that really a thing? Thought that had died off ages ago in terms of popularity.
Cocaine abuse is back at boom-time levels, a leading drug addiction expert has said.
Prof Colin O’Gara, consultant psychiatrist and head of addiction services at Saint John of God Hospital, said the numbers being treated for cocaine addiction were at 2007 levels.
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Originally posted by Iago View PostLooked at Torrevieja, beautiful duplex penthouse with a seaview for €95k
In the end the lure of the city won out for us.
Bit nervous about the language thing, but I guess we’ll have to pick it up. Probably won’t starve either way
Yeah, prices are grand in this area. I'm about 8km south of Torrevieja, I wouldn't live there, it's a bit of a shithole tbh.
Valencia is a beautiful city but I'm just not a city person so I couldn't see myself living there.
The language will come, mostly it will be Castellano (Spanish), they speak Valenciano too but most people speak Spanish unless you run into some snobs or particularly cuntish civil servants. Learn Spanish, that's all you will really need. My daughter does both in school because we are in the Valencian autonomous region so it's a requirement in school. They are taught in Castellano and Valenciano is a subject, much like the way they teach Irish in Ireland. (As an afterthought but you need it if you want to work in the civil service and certain other careers).
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Originally posted by Mike Bullocks View PostToday, Billy Joe MacAllister was blown off the Tallahassee Bridge.
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