3 Smart Things About Sleeping Late

1 // You may need more sleep than you think.
Research by Henry Ford Hospital Sleep Disorders Center found that people who slept eight hours and then claimed they were "well rested" actually performed better and were more alert if they slept another two hours. That figures. Until the invention of the lightbulb (damn you, Edison!), the average person slumbered 10 hours a night.

2 // Night owls are more creative.
Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.

3 // Rising early is stressful.
The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am. So if you get up then, you may experience tension. Grab some extra Zs! You'll wake up feeling less like Bert, more like Ernie.

2 // Night owls are more creative.

Artists, writers, and coders typically fire on all cylinders by crashing near dawn and awakening at the crack of noon. In one study, "evening people" almost universally slam-dunked a standardized creativity test. Their early-bird brethren struggled for passing scores.

DAMN RIGHT. Ahem.

3 // Rising early is stressful.

The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am.

Yeah, because I'm beating the crap out of my snooze alarm.

Cuddly Toys of Death

If you’re sick of all the cute, sweet plushies out there, then these great toys are for you. They’re by artist Patricia Waller who has a ton of other awesome designs as well. These specific toys belong to her “Accident” series and the “How to kill your first love” series. I love the teddy bear myself.

It's so hard to pick a fave, but I love the tiger, the shark and the unicorn.

The stress hormone cortisol peaks in your blood around 7 am.

Wouldn't that totally depend on when you went to sleep?

I love those old ads for martial arts books in the back of comic books and science/mechanics magazines back in the '70s. This one is just so over the top (plus the ASSCAPS are pretty advanced for 1970):

DIM MAK - “The Death Touch” (Feb, 1970)

DIM MAK - “The Death Touch”

in this exclusive book!

BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY.

The BLACK DRAGON FIGHTING SOCIETY is the WORLD’S DEADLIEST FIGHTING ORGANIZATION which has included in its closed membership the top fighting experts of the DREADED CHINESE TONG SOCIETY - the oriental, and more vicious counterpart of the Mafia. Its members, who are the world’s top Masters in the oriental fistic and grappling arts, train in the most SECRET and FORBIDDEN aspects of the DEADLY Chinese fighting arts of GUNG FU. TAI CHI CHUAN, CHUAN-FA, KEMPO. HSING Yl, PA-KUA, SHAOLIN BOXING and DIM MAK.

Until recently the forbidden training secrets of the society have been closely guarded by the members who were sworn to secrecy and joined together thru their initiation ceremony of blood. Breaking of the oath to secrecy meant death by torture to the offender.

Now for the first time their FORBIDDEN SECRETS OF TERROR can be shared with you.

...

POISON HAND.

Considered by many as evil and cruel; the lethally savage ripping, tearing, slashing, clawing and gouging techniques which comprise the POISON HAND ARSENAL are used to attack (by strike, touch or pressure) the nerve centers, pressure points, major blood vessels and vital organs of the body. You will learn the original 77 “POISON HAND” techniques of ancient China in actual photographs showing them in application. These are not photos of drawings, but actual photos of COUNT DANTE applying these torturing techniques which are meant to maim, disfigure, cripple or kill and have been used by oriental terrorists and assassins to MURDER!

That ad was parodied by Monty Python: [link]

WHY ALL THE CAPITALS?

Because THE most likely kind OF person TO answer THIS sort OF advertisement HAS less trouble under-STANDING words if they ARE written in BIG letters.

That ad was parodied by Monty Python: [link]

Huh. I've never seen that. I love the picture of the LAPP-GOCHMASTER!

He also says that every man goes through a "heroic" effort every day to not cheat on his wife

Which is -- I don't even need to say this -- insulting as hell to men. It reduces them to nothing more than a brain stem and a 6-inch (if they're lucky) piece of equipment.

And/or rapists.

SRSLY? Dude has a low opinion of his own nasty self, is what I think.

He's arguing in favor of marital rape. Why would you assume these hypothetical "other women" have any greater say in the matter than the hypothetical wives?

I wouldn't go quite that far. He seems to regard sex as his just due for being the awesome Lord of the Manor he imagines himself to be, and it doesn't sound like he's above wheedling and whining until he gets his way. But I think it does a disservice to women who are actually physically forced into the act by their husbands to equate their situation to ones who make a decision to have sex with asshats like the writer in order to shut them up.

Personally, I think the hypothetical woman involved with him should tell him the heroic effort is a nice thought, but no longer required, and let him go grace some other unlucky woman's bedroom with his majestic presence.

But I think it does a disservice to women who are actually physically forced into the act by their husbands to equate their situation to ones who make a decision to have sex with asshats like the writer in order to shut them up.

If you're subjected to constant whining/wheedling/begging/demanding, and you cannot get him to leave you alone, it's DUBIOUS consent -- at best -- if you have sex with him just to shut him up.

Physical force is not the only means by which men rape women.