Category: the Rant Board
hi all, I was raving about this on quicknotes, but here I'll get more responses. I had to go to bed at like eleven o clock. It is thanksgiving vacation! Can't my mom understand that! I want to stay up: however long I want, whatever time of night, whatever day!
Lol, Alison. I feel your pain. I wanna stay up late too! But I guess our parents dont' want us to get used to staying up late. Because if we did then we'd never get up for school? I dunno. But I guess all they want is our well-being. Lol.
Caitlin
You should all do as you're told. I mean, kids today expect the earth! You already get more holidays than British kids anyway so I don't know what you're complaining about. Besides, sleep is a wonderful thing. i can't get enough of it myself, and I've always thought those sleeping policemen are very lucky being able to sleep all the time and, I presume, get a policeman's sallary for it. It is slightly disconcerting having one of our emergency services sleeping on the job, I must admit, but if their contracts of employment require sleeping policemen to sleep then good luck to them! I tell you, Allison, in a few years time if you decide you want to go to university you'll be forced to stay up late on occasions finishing off your essays, and you won't like it.
Further to the reference to sleeping policemen, does anyone know whether if they can't get to sleep when on duty they're not performing their job to a reasonable standard? can they be disciplined for staying awake? If a policeman is assigned to a squad of sleeping policemen but then discovers he's developed insomnia, can he claim compensation? If a sleeping policeman is ever required to testify at trial, how can he give evidence when he was asleep at the time of the incident in question? Is there a career structure for sleeping policeman, and if so, how many hours sleep does one have to do before one becomes a sleeping commissioner of police? Do the US have a sleeping section of the FBI or is that just the way it seems because some of the agents are a bit slow on the uptake? Maybe, kids of America, you could come up with answers to these questions as a form of whittling away your plentiful vacations, or as we refer to them in the old country, school holidays.
Allison and company. When I was a kid I had a set bed time too, even on vacation. It's just life. Trus tme. It's good to have a set sleeping schedule.
Shame Liam can't be so enlightening on the subject of our sleeping public servants.
Lawlord your bang on form and 11.00pm? hmmm try having children then your ready for bed by 8.30.
And what are the rules on sleepers on our railways also just how the hell do they get any kip while several ton's of speeding train goes ratting over them every few hours....or days depeding on delays ect of which there are many since the Tories screwed up the railways.
ooops! Now i fully expect to be dragged to Smithfield while being roundly pelted with rotten fruit & veg hung drawn and quartered then when im too tortured to enjoy it horsewhipped before dissection...Alive!
Suddenly being sent to bed early seems like bliss.
I deffinatly agree with liam on this one along with lawlord, it's always good to have a set time deffinatly, and lawlord I couldn't agree with you more on the colege/university statement. There have been times I've been up all hours doing term papers, and it was like I didn't even know who the bloody hell I was because of that, and you hit the nail on the head about kids today wanting everything under the sun, hell when I was out of line as a kid I was told so by the strap, and glad of it when I look back today. I always say there's nothing wrong with these little monsters in the school system today that can't be cured by a quick return to the days of corperal punnishment, just an opinion.
Well, I don't have a set bedtime, but I like going to bed once I'm there and sleepy, and then I dont' want to get up. But when I'm playing and having fun, i dont' want to go to bed! Lol! But I just go to bed whenever my mom tells me to lol. And yes, I have already had some late nights finishing off homework, and it's not fun. As for sleeping policeman, they're just being lazy. Cops aren't supposed to sleep on the job.
Caitlin
No no no Kaitlin over here we really have sleeping policemen, honestly! They lie in the road so as to make sure the cars observe speed limits.
Seriously, Lawlord? If we have that here, they're off their job and generally punished? I think? Will have to consult someone on this.
Caitlin
I might add that I thoroughly recommend power naps. I used to have them when I was at school, just half an hour's kip in the sixth form common room at lunchtime and it did me the world of good. The same goes for Oxford and I daresay that once I'm required to be in court all day conducting long and complicated trials I shall try and squeeze in the odd window of shut-eye. Goblin, I have not contemplated the idea of having kids to date, but I agree that their propensity to despise sleep is a characteristic of which they need to be cured. all right, children's programmes are scheduled for the early morning on television over here, and that partly addresses the problem of hyperactive youngsters, but in my view this doesn't go far enough. In my opinion, just like they always warn kids to ask permission from the person who pays the bill before calling the show, a similar warning should be issued on the early morning programmes against waking up adult members of the household who appreciate the joys of sleep. Nothing lengthy, nothing complicated, but instead something along the lines of: "Before we start the show, kids, just a quick reminder not to wake the grown-ups in your house up before 9:30 AM, or they'll bloody kill you!"
Indeed, sleeping policemen are quite common here, typically in country lanes or residential areas. By the way, your propensity to use the question mark as a substitute for the full stop is striking.
Lol Lwlord, was that a compliemnt? And I totally agree about the whole having a reminder on the early mornign show thing, only I think that it should be on the late night shows for grownups, and it shoudl say, "Do not laugh loudly and make a lot of noise, because there are poor children trying to get a decent rest above you!". And also, how exactly do you do those quick naps? I mean, how do you fall asleep so quickly, at will, in somewhere that, I presume, does not contain a comfortable bed?
Caitlin
You don't need a bed to get to sleep Kaitlin, but I've got into the habit of being able to sleep sat at a desk or with my head resting on a pile of books or something of that sort. aS for late night warnings, you kids really are confusing: one minute you complain because grown-ups send you to bed early, the next minute you're complaining because your sleep is being disrupted! Make up your minds!
re sleeping policeman. like lawlord, I've seen a lot of them, and they do a dam good job of slowing the traffic, as the ppl have to dodge them while they kip on the road. you see, under mr blair, the policing problem is so massive we have to have police doing their jobs almost twenty four hrs a day, and that includes sleeping on the roads!
Really the fact that we have sleeping policemen is a cynical ploy by the government because apparently they earn less than normal policemen. so when Mr Blair promises to put an extra 5000 police on our streets, he really means sleeping policemen who are less expensive. Has anyone tried waking a sleeping policeman up? You can't get anything out of them!
Lol sorry, can't make up my mind about sleeping. Maybe i will in a few years. Lol! I can generally fall asleep anywhere, on anything, if I'm tired enough. But sometimes, if I want to take a nap and know I should, I can't!
Caitlin
There were a lot of good points in all these responses, along with the humor of the sleepers, policemen, etc.!
My being a parent of one of the responders prompts me to indicate the real variability of the sleeping schedule around here. School days are pretty well set, farely early. Weekends are usually quite late. Last evening we were all Very Very late, and I have to believe the complaint really came from the fact that parents weren't in bed before the kids, as often happens around here for the older ones. Sorry, but I couldn't quite quit as early as usual with our company here. You Did have a good many extra hours though, please remember. And usually we're open to negotiation, just not quite At That Hour! We parents love you kids very much, and I promise you'll all live through it.a
I have to say I hated sleep schedules when I was younger because I'm naturally a night person so I always woke up right around the time they told me to go to bed. After we moved into a house with doors I circumvented the problem by simply closing the door and then staying up as long as I needed to. I still have a crazy sleep pattern but it works for me and my schoolwork gets done so I'm not complaining.
Lol yeah I like to stay up fairly late, not extremely late though, just 'til like eleven or twelve on weekends and usually earlier on school nights, and get up at like 8 AM.
Caitlin
There's something wrong with you people there really is, if someone enjoys getting up at 8 AM then there really is something amiss. And by the way, Kevin, I wasn't joking about sleeping policemen. WE have sleeping policemen in this country, in areas where the highway authorities want cars to travel at five miles an hour or something e.g. a college campus, holiday resort etc. These sleeping policemen lie in the road so that cars have to slow down.
I have never heard of sleeping policemen before, wow! like do you not really mean literally lay on the road? surely not?!
I was up at 6.30 this morning and NOT by choice!.
The little man is just like me up early {full of beans possibly of the jumping variety judging by his squirming} then shattered by 8.00pm.
I don't really enjoy getting up at 4:30 in the morning just so I can be coherent by 10 but at this point I'm so used to getting up super early that my body refuses to let me sleep... Except at this house where I take way too many naps. lol
The naps are the problem pal try to cut down on them and your body clock will eventually re-adjust.Though I've a cheek alright I fell asleep last night....Right enough it was only the news.
Yeah sleepin gpolicemen really exist, honestly. Incidentally, I was thinking that a kid's ideal parents would be a sleeping policeman on day-shifts and a teacher. That way, the policeman could catch up on sleep while he was at work and be all rested and ready to look after the kids when he returned home. The teacher would be working during the day and sleeping at night, but would only have to work during the shcool termtime so would be able to look after the kids during their holidays. The combined incomes would also make sure that the kids were well provided for and not junior young offenders. and if they turned out, against all odss, to be junior young offenders, then their policeman parent could arrest them if he wasn't on duty of course, because if he was he'd be asleep and wouldn't know that any crime had been committed. Oh yes and one more question: are sleeping policemen allowed to join the armed response units?
When I am at home on vacations, my mother rules me, too. I have to be in bed at the same time as my sister who is two years younger than me and who has school when I don't, which is half past ten. I am not a child. She should think about how old I am. Not 5 or 6, no, 18. And as long as she does not accept that, I will not come home more often from my boarding school. That's all I have to say about that.
um like duh. guys sleeping police men are what we in the states call speed bumps. heheheheahahahah gullable people. lol smile- angel
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I can't believe the sleeping policeman dibaite is still going on here! hats off to ll and the rest in the UK for stringing our friends over the water along for so long!
Well anyway, the thing about my mum ruling me on holiday makes me want to come home less.
what? I'm confused about my latest post to this really old board topic! did someone hack into my account? Lol haahahaha