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demonrail666 02.10.2009 05:20 PM

hedge mumper

Glice 02.10.2009 05:20 PM

Earth Mother.

demonrail666 02.10.2009 05:22 PM

diddycoy

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 02.10.2009 05:23 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666

I'm off to deliberate over the decline of the empire with the local vicar.






 

"still they will, still they will, define the burdens of empire, by the moral decline, all in the present, its not so real, after all this time has come, how much longer? naive to have ever thought, that anything could be done.. now everything is lost, everything is lost.. naive to have ever thought, that anything could be done..now everything is lost.. everything is lost.."

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Originally Posted by Glice
This is such a fucking Londoner thing to say. Just because Dalston Kingsland doesn't have a decent cardiac hole doesn't mean the rest of the country isn't swimming in its own pigfat. I can get a sausage, bacon and black pudding buttie at work for less than a pound. Less than a pound!


man, I have no idea what the fuck you just said and I've been speaking english since I was born!

ye'ene metefah neber teaderegaleh..

Glice 02.10.2009 05:25 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
diddycoy


Coxcomb.

fishmonkey 02.10.2009 05:27 PM

i can never actually say the word "insomnia" when i do i just say it like in the song by Faithless with this loopy sound going in me head going .. "insommmmnia" and then its usually followed by "i cannnn get no sleep"

demonrail666 02.10.2009 05:29 PM

Flid

EDIT: That was directed at Glice, not you Fishmonkey.

Glice 02.10.2009 05:29 PM

Well, at least you haven't heard THAT FUCKING bunch of Welsh pricks whose name I've entirley forgotten but not that piss awful song. Bollocks, what were they called? That song about the Lemon... Buck Rogers... what was their fucking name?

Glice 02.10.2009 05:30 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Flid


Spacker.

SuchFriendsAreDangerous 02.10.2009 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
Well, at least you haven't heard THAT FUCKING bunch of Welsh pricks whose name I've entirley forgotten but not that piss awful song. Bollocks, what were they called? That song about the Lemon... Buck Rogers... what was their fucking name?


more of this gibberish! and I hang out with jamaicans! I can understand any patois, but not UK english... its like Peter Tosh said," My whole life I've been talkin in English but I still no like it, I still can not understand English!"

phoenix 02.10.2009 05:34 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
This is crap. It's 4am and I've tried everything: cocoa, watching a film, reading through the 'world music' thread and nothing seems to work. I've been like this for years now and it's a real pain. I usually don't get to sleep until around 6 or 7 in the morning and even then don't get more than about three or four hours actual sleep. It's OK while I'm not working but I start teaching again on Friday and desperately need to regulate my sleep pattern Anyone else suffer from this? Or, better still, anyone who used to suffer from it but found a way of sorting it out - without going on to sleeping tablets or reading Beowolf.


Last night was my first in a while.. Im not sure I even fell asleep before 5 am and its now 9 26.. I've just pulled myself out of bed after laying spread out across the bed widthways for the last hour after I woke from my wonderful 2 hrs sleep.

In the past a lot of mine was coupled with other mental issues.. You dont seem to have mentioned any of those.

You did mention you're in an arts related field.. drawings and concepts and imagery swarm my head if I lay there unable to sleep for more than an hour.. In the end I need to get up and write things down. That might help depending on what is happening in your head while you're unable to sleep.. I know sometimes I dont even seem to have 'thoughts'. Its just an inability to stop 'processing' kind of feeling. :(

If it happens for more than a day or two, I take valerian and make the effort to avoid electrical stimuli for the last 3 hours I plan on being awake. In the past my psychiatrist used to prescribe temazepam for a week or two to get my pattern back but, I never felt like I had actually been asleep after waking up.

Herbal remedies and prep for bed are the best imho. For once I agree with !@#$%!

Glice 02.10.2009 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Glice
Well, at least you haven't heard THAT FUCKING bunch of Welsh pricks whose name I've entirley forgotten but not that piss awful song. Bollocks, what were they called? That song about the Lemon... Buck Rogers... what was their fucking name?


Buck Rogers
Insomnia. Feeder was the band. Gash they were too.

Lurker 02.10.2009 05:42 PM

Oh yeah, I couldn't work that out either but seems obvious now. They were shit.

Lurker 02.10.2009 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

man, I have no idea what the fuck you just said and I've been speaking english since I was born!

ye'ene metefah neber teaderegaleh..




Hahahaha! Brilliant.

Also kudos for being prepared for the world and learning English before you were born. Very organised.

sarramkrop 02.10.2009 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by fishmonkey
i can never actually say the word "insomnia" when i do i just say it like in the song by Faithless with this loopy sound going in me head going .. "insommmmnia" and then its usually followed by "i cannnn get no sleep"


HEY!

blunderbuss 02.10.2009 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by fishmonkey
i can never actually say the word "insomnia" when i do i just say it like in the song by Faithless with this loopy sound going in me head going .. "insommmmnia" and then its usually followed by "i cannnn get no sleep"

HEY HEY!

demonrail666 02.10.2009 05:59 PM

Gabba Gabba Hey!

demonrail666 02.10.2009 06:38 PM

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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
more of this gibberish! and I hang out with jamaicans! I can understand any patois, but not UK english... its like Peter Tosh said," My whole life I've been talkin in English but I still no like it, I still can not understand English!"


To be honest, nothing Glice has said in this thread so far could really be considered English, as such. From what I understand it's more an elaborate form of incantation created by his ancestors many centuries ago in order to ward off things like plague, and progress. I suppose in that sense, Glice's community is quite similar to the various Amish ones you have in the US. Only where they sell mostly wicker, the main source of income for his comes mostly from selling pegs and multi-packs of brillo pads at what we refer to as boot sales. Saying that, many now blend into modern society quite well, although it's still customary even now to see their women-folk (known within his community as Wombs) wearing headscarves similar to the one shown in this picture.




 

NWRA 02.10.2009 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Call me old fashioned but wouldn't a humble alarm clock sort out any potential problems in that department?


I usually sleep through it but then when I wake-up I have a vague recollection of having heard an alarm, and turned it off, while being asleep. It's odd.

Does anyone sleepwalk? I used to have a problem with it. Once on a schooltrip to Scotland, I was asleep while I climbed down from my bunkbed, undressed myself and pissed on my friend. It was awesome. Shame I wasn't able to see his face.

demonrail666 02.10.2009 06:58 PM

Something not that dissimilar happened to me last Christmas. Only in my case the problem wasn't sleepwalking but Smirnoff.

joe11121 02.10.2009 11:14 PM

Bah, I too suffer fromInsomnia. It's terrible, some nights i find myself up past 6 am.

ploesj 02.11.2009 01:10 AM

bleh, yesterday i went to bed around half past midnight, fell aslep around two (very good, since i had to get up at six again)... i managed to sleep for a few hours, and it seemed like i'd be able to sleep four hours in a row, if it weren't for those BLOODY FUCKING SPANISH TOURISTS who arrived at their hostel a few houses away at four in the morning, only to find out that they wouldn't open the door anymore. so they just decided to start yelling, singing, kicking the door, breaking pots of plants and throwing th pieces at the indow. in the middle of the city. this lased for about half an hour, then someone at the hostel let them in anyway. fuckers. i didn't get any more sleep. two hours, yay!

demonrail666 02.11.2009 06:42 AM

Well, I went to bed last night at midnight, read a smashing interview with Robert Wyatt and fell asleep about an hour later, waking up atl 9.30 the following morning. I only hope I can do the same tonight.

Thanks again for all the tips and advice.

ploesj 02.11.2009 06:43 AM

my teacher saw the dark circles under my eyes, discussed my work and sent me home for a nap. ive just been sleeping for another extra two hours, almost ready for my next class. it's done me so well, i think i will love ehr forever for this.

NWRA 02.11.2009 07:16 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Well, I went to bed last night at midnight, read a smashing interview with Robert Wyatt and fell asleep about an hour later, waking up atl 9.30 the following morning. I only hope I can do the same tonight.

Thanks again for all the tips and advice.


The one in Uncut? Wyatt is always good value in interviews.

Rob Instigator 02.11.2009 10:19 AM

you bastards and your insomnia have rubbed off!

Last night I lay in bed and could not sleep. I did not get to sleep until 1:30 AM or so, and had to be up at 5:30 for work!@ sonic youth forum is ruining my life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

;)

!@#$%! 02.11.2009 10:22 AM

ha ha, i almost complained of the same.

i took a strong green tea at 3pm and by 1130 i was WIRED.

fortunately i took a double-strength sleep potion which swiftly knocked me out. i woke up at 630 and have been reading in bed since then. ah, to get up, arghhhh...

This Is Not Here 02.11.2009 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Well, I went to bed last night at midnight, read a smashing interview with Robert Wyatt and fell asleep about an hour later, waking up atl 9.30 the following morning. I only hope I can do the same tonight.

Thanks again for all the tips and advice.


Good stuff


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