Lydia: But you are a vampire. Spike: If I'm not, I'm gonna be pissed about drinking all that blood.

'Potential'


Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 22, 2010 10:25:44 am PDT #25479 of 30001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

What about those of us that fall asleep in front of screens?

Yeah, I sometimes find myself falling asleep while sitting up in front of the computer, and often while watching TV. And I almost always go to bed with a TV on in the bedroom so the flickering light against my eyelids can lull me.

Total darkness and I aren't good friends, though we occasionally work together when Happy Fun Migraine stops by for a visit.


Jesse - Sep 22, 2010 10:26:44 am PDT #25480 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

But TWO HOURS MONITOR FREE BEFORE SLEEP????

Seriously. I would never watch TV again.


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 10:28:06 am PDT #25481 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I muchly prefer total darkness for sleeping. If I get up in the middle of the night, I don't turn the light on but just feel my way to the bathroom. Once I broke a toe because a roommate had left a chair in the middle of the kitchen and I stubbed my toe on it. You think that'd learn me, but no.


erikaj - Sep 22, 2010 10:28:58 am PDT #25482 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!

Damn, Vortex, pretty!


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 10:29:31 am PDT #25483 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

I went to the source for that MI6 semen thing.

[link]

Another downside:

In addition, at least one agent had to be reminded to use only fresh supplies of the 'ink' when correspondents began noticing an unusual smell.


§ ita § - Sep 22, 2010 10:33:08 am PDT #25484 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm a delicate flower now and keep dark as much as possible (I have to remember that is not normal when I have guests over--oops) in case I feel sleepy so I don't have to get up and turn lights off. I hate my great big glowy front door. But I keep my bedroom pretty dark. It's lit by the computer LEDs only, mostly.


Strix - Sep 22, 2010 10:33:54 am PDT #25485 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

I have no prob not watching TV for two hours before going to bed, but cutting off the net is nigh impossible. I try to limit it, and I have never spontaneously fallen asleep in my life -- in front of TV, computer, etc. I've only once fallen asleep reading, and that was after taking my Ambien.

I have to be in bed, in the dark (usually with a pillow over my eyes), not too warm or cold, and quiet, or else some kind of ambient noise like an AC. Oh, and with as empty a bladder as possible.


Spidra Webster - Sep 22, 2010 10:34:36 am PDT #25486 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.

Timelies!

Another GRONKTASTIC morning. I went to bed at 3am. At 8:15am the local junior high school band marched down our street. I guess everyone feels like it would be churlish to complain about those adorable little scamps using our block to practice on so no one has. Me? I'm looking up rifles with appropriate sights and silencers... Tried to go back to sleep but then repairmen arrived. Honestly, I never thought this neighborhood would be noisier than my last one but it kinda is. Every morning someone's yardeners are using power tools.

I want to turn my hours around. I really do. But it hasn't happened and I'm feeling like death on toast due to mornings like these.

I do think the laptop use right up to bedtime isn't helping much.


Strix - Sep 22, 2010 10:36:33 am PDT #25487 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger

Oh, and there's no media in the bedroom. Sometimes I'll read a book on my touch, but that's it. I also have max two cups of tea or one cup of coffee in the morning, and that's it for caffiene.

And no intentional exercise after 7 pm, unless I'm going out dancing and drinking. And that happens so rarely, it is to laugh.


tommyrot - Sep 22, 2010 10:39:56 am PDT #25488 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

US millionaire leaves estate to Wombat Awareness Organisation

IN a real-life fairytale, an American millionaire has bequeathed $8 million to the Mannum-based Wombat Awareness Organisation.

"We are still in shock, we're still waiting for someone to say the money's not coming," director Brigitte Stevens said yesterday.

"It's unbelievable really, we're just blown away."

The millionaire, whose family has requested anonymity, unexpectedly visited the team of volunteers about two years ago to see the southern hairy-nosed wombats in the wild.

"I took him out into the wild population and showed him wombats with mange, wombats that were starving to death and wombats with burrows from motorbike tyres," she said.

The millionaire, who worked in the horse-racing industry, was captivated by the volunteers' tireless efforts to save what may be becoming an endangered icon.