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Sleeping less than six hours a night leads to premature death, says Science. "People who regularly had this little sleep were 12% more likely to die over a period of 25 years or less than those who got the recommended six to eight hours." There is also a link between lack of sleep and sitting around at the bar for way longer than you should be even though you know NOTHING GOOD is going to happen and you'd be better off settling up and heading home, but you never learn, do you? And now you're going to die quicker. Happy now? You're a goddamn adult, go back to your apartment at a reasonable hour. God, you must be so ashamed. You're worthless. No wonder you'll never find someone who actually loves you. You sicken me.
Balk, get the hell out of my head, please.
I'm afraid that little Balk is in one's belfry to stay.
Mom?
"WHAT'S SO IMPORTANT? WHAT'S HERE WORTH COMING BACK FOR? WHAT YOU GOT WAITING FOR YOU?"
Toooooo…. Blaaaavvvee…
What if I curl up on the couch with drinks for 6 hours and then pass out for the remaining 18? What of longevity then, Science?
What's weird is after reading two articles on fatal insomnia and other sleep related disorders, one linked to here and another that same night in National Geographic, I got the best night sleep I'd had in weeks.
That last sentence is entirely unnecessary.
Does falling asleep in the cab home count?
One time the bus just kept going around and around, making its journey and I just slept and slept. Luckily the driver seemed to have a zen-like sense to yell at me right by my apartment!
There's gotta be a cure for sleep. Maybe more scotch.
I might die quicker but I'm awake for more of the time I'm alive. So perhaps I'm actually alive longer?
whoa
You just blew Meat-pole Tarzan's mind.
But sitting at home with a box of Target sangria and my cat seems so much more depressing!
Imagine if your cat kept coming home from Union Pool at 4:30 a.m. only to hog the couch, pawing at a different graphic designer every night.
Your Targets sell alcohol, private label or otherwise??
Jealous! Garge, you're in Mass., right? Maybe the Nashua Target has these goodies…I'll investigate soon.
Garge we have wine AND crazy stabby ladies at Target
http://laist.com/2010/05/04/family_says_weho_stabbing_suspect_s.php
OMG, Bittersweet, do get back to me! When I first got to Mass., I thought it was weird (but 'whatever') that there was no beer at the CVS but then started to hyperventilate after canvassing a huge Stop 'n Shop for 45 minutes and finding no alcohol section.
@kitten–if I didn't already have an avatar, that 3/4 view mugshot it to stab for!
@garge – the DC target sells many flavors of "wine cubes" http://pressroom.target.com/pr/news/consumables/wine/backgrounder.aspx – MA is all package stores :-(
@kitten: we don't have the Corbett Canyon but we have wackadoodle shooty dudes!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,269141,00.html
(our neighborhood Tarjay, in fact!)
@kitten — The L.A. County Sheriff's Department seems to have a budding Terry Richardson on mugshot duty, if that article's photos are any indication. "I know, let me stand on this chair and shoot down from there. You're angry! Pouty! MORE POUTY! OK, now take your shirt off."
If this post doesn't send me under my desk for the rest of the week, the "Dating for Seniors" banner ad currently at the top of the page will.
LEAVE ME ALONE, OLD MEN! I'M ONLY 42 AND I LIKE BEING SINGLE! EEESH!
I'll trade you for those cougars-seeking-young-guys ads I keep getting.
Why am I getting the "Find a Child in India" ads?
I'm guilty enough, without having to find lost children in foreign countries.
@Gef: Ok, I've got the cougar ad; now hand over City_Dater and I'll let you have it.
Maybe the cure is worse than the disease — now Overstock.com is trying to sell me FCUK jackets for $16.09.
All Springfield Suites, all the time for me. ugh.
Sorry, Springhill suites not Springfield.
I'm apparently older: Dodge and Bing. I'm off to a bar.
I'm even older – Mass General Gastroenterology Center. Kids, bring me my walker and a bottle of Pepto!
If you sleep 4 hours one night and 12 hours the next are you back on track?
I am going to experiment with this tonight. I shall report back tommorrow, assuming this "premature death" business can manage to hold itself off.
Going home early leads to masturbation which will also kill you.
What about day drinkers? I find if you pass out by 7p.m. you get a really refreshing night's sleep.
Your analysis is ALL. WRONG. Staying out at the bar is NOT the problem; it's those bastards who make you get up in the morning who are the problem.
Thing is–for Balk, we're those bastards who make him get up in the morning.
Balk–you have my permission to sleep in tomorrow.
You chose to post this today, when I got 2.5 hours of sleep last night? Not cool.
That, or you're speaking directly to me, which is also disconcerting.
Didn't get the Mother's Day card off in time again?