28 Hour Day

Judgeneo · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:52

I was browsing XKCD earlier today, and came across this one about a 28 hour day
http://xkcd.com/320/

Has anyone here actually tried to do this? The extra time awake certainly seems useful, it would obviously interfere with your job though, so maybe us students should give it a go

V4NT0M · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:55

There's probably less than 1% people who could actually do that though...

I just do the 'go to bed when I want and get up when I need to' day and it works out pretty fine.

Judgeneo · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:57

Pretty sure most people could manage it for a single week, would be very interesting I think

Glaucus · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:57

Didn't some communist country try changing hours in a day and going to a 10 day week and general health plummeted. Same as us shift and night workers having a shorter life, we have evolved in nature for millions of years, although I suppose that doesn't really explain number of days in a week. Assuming it's true and not a common myth.

dl8860 · 20 Apr 2011 at 22:58

Your mum

Greenlizard0 · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:02

Look at the latest one and scroll down to 2069.

I shall spend the rest of my waking days trying to bring about this important freedom we have yet to enjoy.

Edit - second to latest one.

Van Hellseek · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:03

If we all started doing this employers would change work shift paterns to take advantage and we'd end up working 14 hours a day.

Glaucus · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:04

Van Hellseek said:
If we all started doing this employers would change work shift paterns to take advantage and we'd end up working 14 hours a day.

That would suck,good for the bank balance though, well for some of us.

Cleeecooo · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:06

I do something similar anyways.
2hrs sleep on fri and sat. Lots of sleep sunday night

Greenlizard0 · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:06

More time for me to think about putting through amendments for public masturbation.

Van Hellseek · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:07

Anyone read "The Game" [Neil Strauss]? How about a "sleep diet".

20 minutes of sleep, 4 times a night (iirc).

[FnG]magnolia · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:09

Greenlizard0 said:
More time for me to think about putting through amendments for public masturbation.

For or against? This is important.

Pawnless Endgame · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:10

I used to do this in during uni years when I had lectures on only 4 days. I thought it was me who invented it, or at least not many of us doing it. Staying awake 19 hours, then sleeping for 9. I still do it very occasionally, but can't really fit it around a 5-day working week.

InvaderGIR · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:11

AcidHell2 said:
Didn't some communist country try changing hours in a day and going to a 10 day week and general health plummeted. Same as us shift and night workers having a shorter life, we have evolved in nature for millions of years, although I suppose that doesn't really explain number of days in a week. Assuming it's true and not a common myth.

I tried doing nights (in a supermarket) and dropped over stone in a couple weeks. I'd advise against night working...but then I couldn't get a stable routine going. I basically ate one meal a 'day' which was when I was on break at work, then slept all day.

sigma · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:12

It is doable but it's ****ing **** and will most likely **** you up.

Shift work, been there done that. Never again please.

Greenlizard0 · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:13

[FnG]magnolia;18950728 said:
For or against? This is important.

Oh I'm absolutely for it.

Not everywhere mind. Outside the school gates is probably a no-no.

But outside the women's changing room yes yes.

Van Hellseek said:
Anyone read "The Game" [Neil Strauss]? How about a "sleep diet".

20 minutes of sleep, 4 times a night (iirc).

I've lost a friendship to that ****ing book.

Pawnless Endgame · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:13

Judgeneo said:
Pretty sure most people could manage it for a single week, would be very interesting I think

I managed 4 weeks in a row in 2001 and again in 2008, but only those 2 times.

Van Hellseek · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:14

Greenlizard0 said:
I've lost a friendship to that ****ing book.

How so?

Greenlizard0 · 20 Apr 2011 at 23:49

Van Hellseek said:
How so?

We were mates for about 2 years, regularly went out for beers etc. He was a decent bloke, a dentist student and minted (family crest) but didn't really have that much luck with the ladies. He wasn't socially that bad but never really seemed to pull. In that time period I think he went back with about 4 women, which to be fair makes his desperation pretty understandable and why I was patient with him for so long.

In one Jan he came back and said he'd heard of this pulling book. Thought it was a big joke but sure enough he showed a hardback copy with post it notes sticking out the side (?!?!).

From then on whenever we went out he started trying to do stupid things from the book. I don't mean just the cheesy openers, if you've read it you'll know what I'm talking about. This of course, successfully ruined any chance we BOTH had with the ladies which was ****ing annoying. However he started doing it to my female friends which as you can imagine was an issue especially when he didn't give it up. He also started doing it to my fellow course mates and potentially future colleagues - which after a few months was just not on.

Having sat down with him to have a quiet word he just laughed it off. The last part was a problem, and he seemingly didn't give a toss about how he was acting while out on the slosh - after all it wasn't his own friends and course mates. I looked at the book and pointed out the differences between him and Neil Strauss. He was a student and wasn't that good looking (in fairness to him he had Crohn's disease so pretty much look wasted all the time). Neil Strauss was already a published journalist/author and average looking. Still this didn't really stop him and so eventually just stopped picking up his phone calls.

In the ten months I put up with his crap and an apology never forth coming I just stopped picking up the phone (on a Friday and Saturday night only). The fact he kept ringing me for about 3 months - seriously that long - meant I wasn't the only one who got sick of him.

Pity really. But a combo of his desperation, (alcohol) and that book killed the fact we were mates. Still, life goes on, gotta get rid of idiots like that.