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I miss the LNT's ,though i have to admit I didnt realise that I missed them till a few minutes ago. The perfect LNT needs a drunk,someone working and a student desperatly trying to finish some work.It should include drawings and whimsy.

I used to miss getting up the next afternoon and reading entire threads of late night goodness which I couldn't remember. It was like reliving the magic of drunkeness the second time round. I also miss the late night drunk msn conversations with Whits.

I'm boring now, sorry Yeo. The only reason I'm still awake is because I slept for 12 hours last night.

Im boring to,but im 40 in 2 weeks :o.I seem to have lost my sense of fun and imagination somewhat in the last couple of years.I wonder why,must be old age I suppose.I might start taking drugs and going out and stuff again.

I'm really struggling with sleep at the moment, which is annoying the next day when I'm tired and could nap anywhere.

I wonder if its possible to survive having a 30min nap in every 2 hours. That might work for me at the moment. I'm sure there's some REM sleepy losing my religion science bollocks which says that won't work.

Thanks for starting this yeovil.

Im sure theres an actual sleeping principal like that

The Uberman's Sleep Schedule

Sleeping Hours
The Uberman's sleep schedule revolves around forcing yourself to rely on six twenty to thirty minute naps spread throughout the day for your daily dose of sleep. I stuck to thirty minute naps, currently having them starting roughly at 2 AM, 6 AM, 10 AM, 2 PM, 6 PM, and 10 PM every day.

How & Why It Works
Over the course of a normal eight hour sleeping period, your body moves through a continuous cycle of five distinct sleep stages. Of these, stage 5 REM sleep has been found to be the part of the cycle that provides the benefits of sleep for your mind.

Essentially, the trick of the Uberman's sleep schedule is to trick your mind into entering REM sleep as soon as you drift into a sleeplike state. Unfortunately, the only real way to do this is through sleep deprivation of sorts.

Yeah, it sounded familiar to me whilst I was typing it. I'm pretty sure that you only start your proper sleep cycle a few hours into sleepy time, so I can't see how it would work.

ooh you beat me too it.

I'm sure I read something which said it can't possibly work.

Hello.  As one of 4 online, I just thought I drop in to say hello.  Sorry I am also boring and Im only up because Ive just got back from working.  40 in 3 months.  Dull dull dull.

40 what?

e Gigs?

Is it not good that you are busy?

its 940 here and im nearly fallin asleep watchin the oscars so i reccomend that if u need a nap!

Im thinking of going to the Natural History Museum for my birthday to look at the stuff 8) Stuff is great,especially Dinosuars!

Ooh neat a lurkerish type,whats ndc stand for? where are you?

I reckon it stands for Notre Dame College which is in Ohio. How did a town fan end up there?

unfortunately its 40 years old. Not busy at the moment. 20 gigs in 3 months. Down 15 on last year. Very poor. Very worrying.

Ooh Amirs on,he might post and tell us about his attractive Sister.

i am a lurker... coming out of my shell is hard for me! I live in new york...ndc is to do with the uni i went to

ahh shit mate. That makes sense now I read it again. Wasn't thinking of ages for some reason. You've made it +10 over Logan's Run. Bloody pensioners.

Any sign of work picking up at all or is is still looking a bit bleak?

but we're nice,especially us late night types.

Sometimes I miss being an insomniac.  I rarely used to go to bed before 2am, now I'm normally tucked up in bed by 9.30pm.  Old age eh!

Where's the next generation of pissed up teenagers tpyn#ig leik thhis, so everyone knows their drunk?

New York! Bloody show off. I thought my holiday in Cornwall was exciting.

Are you from Swindon or have you found your way to supporting the mighty town through more random means?

I have an attractive sister, who I should be e-mailing now as I haven't spoken to her since Christmas Day.  I tried to get her to post on the TEF once, but she didn't seem too keen.

exactly! Facebook stole the TEF youth..or something

notre dame is right on a footy scholly there due to head coach being english and now wangled myself a job in the big apple working for a sports firm last year...

i am from swindon but left home at 17 to move to the states...miss it bigtime and havent been home since 09 so itching to get bk to the cg...missing last year at wembley was devestatin since i watched the shite over the previous 10/11 years

Im not sure if its sad or great that I remembered that,I'll plump for great.

Probably best not to bother planning a trip back this season.

Oh crap, I infected the LNT with negative football nonsense

I vote great as well, seeing as I have a knack for remembering completely pointless information from years back.

If you go to the Natural History Museum, try to go when then have the wildlife photography exhibition on.  I went in 2009 and 2010 and stayed there for hours each time.

You really didn't miss much at wembley, if I could go back in time I'd tell myself not to bother.

If I'm being fair then it was a cracking day out up until the football started, then it just went wrong.

You might be itching to get back to the cg at the moment, but you should be careful what you wish for.

Ooh DMRs on now,maybe he could do some drunk typing for us,just for old times sake.

I haven't been in a museum for years. Well not a proper one. The old town museum still has the crocodile which I drop in on occasionally, I find it rather comforting for some reason. Even if it did used to terrify me as a kid.

I remember going to museums as a youngster, my entire judgement of the interestingness of the place would be on how many buttons you could press to do things. Simple days.

You must have been pretty good to get a football scholarship ndc-red. Did you enjoy college out in America? I had a friend who went to UCLA for a year and she loved it. I was always extremely jealous.

wembley would have been great for the day out even if the footy was shite...i made the pub open early here so i could watch it but was still tough to take...

ahh well the red bulls start up again soon, even if the mls is shite and they arent even in new york at least watchin terry henry should be decent. The cosmos are coming back next year with Cantona as the general manager so that could be interesting too!

You must have been pretty good to get a football scholarship ndc-red. Did you enjoy college out in America? I had a friend who went to UCLA for a year and she loved it. I was always extremely jealous.

yeah it was an absolute dreamboat, great people, great place and women love the english accent so cant complain on the whole...best decision i ever made

Good LNT Yeovil. Much better than my last few efforts.

Hats off to NDC, you should post more. I hope when you do get back to the hallowed arena of the county ground you aren't too disappointed with the entertainment on show.

I'm probably going to get woken up by a hyperactive three year old in a few hours so really need to try and get some sleep.

Night y'all

yay 3 pages

night

i enjoyed that. good work.

If only I knew, I could have done some drunken posting last night.

I got drunk because I'm fed-up with being skint because people keep giving me bills to pay. I thought it only appropriate to get pissed, stroppy and sulky.

But then I watched Father Ted and cheered up.

I'm bored. What time counts as late night? What's the etiquette with these things? Do I need to start my own thread at an appropriate time or is bumping this one allowable? 

It is my belief that a traditional LNT would begin sometime after midnight and each night would have it's own new thread.

However it's now 2011, we're all a bit older with responsibilities and things (except me and Ben) so the goalposts have moved.

I've lost all commitments and responsibilities in the last year, so count me in. I'm currently on a bus after devouring bucketfuls of chicken wings at Hooters, go me!

I'll try after midnight and see if anybody is interested. I might start a thread about Swedish glam rock bands. That's bound to bring on late night discussion.

this is about as late as it gets for me nowadays.
since ditching night shifts, i'm usually in bed by midnight.

What happened to STFC Village? He used to amuse me whilst I was staying up until 7am in the morning drinking wine until the shops opened and I could go get more wine and a macdonalds breakfast ready for early morning Knightmare on challenge.

Is that red or White with an egg mcmuffin?

Red. Always Red. Never been a huge fan of white, I'll drink it of course. But it's not my favourite.

What do you drink with whitebait?

Beer.

That makes sense. Lager or bitter?

I'm aiming to get to bed at 3am and have a target time to wake up 6am.

Hmmmm.

If proper beer, something not too dark but robust enough to compliment the nice salty fried battery goodness of the little baby fish death. A nice refreshing lager is also a very acceptable option though, and I have downed a few pints of Cruz Campo whilst tucking into some whitebait tapasy action on quite a few occasions.

I've been really struggling with sleep recently, it's bad when you start justifying really small amounts of sleep.

I generally get to about 8hours before I need to get up and decide that 7hours sleep will be enough, then its 6 hours sleep will be fine. Then 5. Then 4. Then it's 3 and I'll get what I have to do done and probably have a nap at some point (which you never do). Then you spend the entirety of the next day knackered, but then by the time it's time to go to sleep again, you've been battling through it all day and you're sort of broken through the tiredness and it's repeat as before.

I reckon a good hoppy beer such as hophead would go down nicely with said fish.

Mmmm I'll see if my dad is up for tapas pre Walsall.

That cruzcampo is lovely stuff, especially to wash down those chicken livers or aubergine chips...

Those aubergine chips!!!

Easily cookable at home but I still order every time!!

I need to pester my dad for food more often, the best thing about working there was nibbling as you went through your shift. Especially on the fried stuff where it was easy to chuck a few extra in. Aubergine chips and whitebait and calamares. I used to love the croquetas too, especially the jamon ones, but I don't think he does them much any more, to be fair they were a fucking pain.


oh and chicken livers sherry paprika thyme cream yum.

Can you get the recipe for Turks and Christians rice and lentil thing? Still can't work out how the lentils were flavoured.

I had a mole in the kitchen for a while and he isn't giving up the recipe.

I probably could but I'm not sure posting my dad's recipes on an internet forum would go down too well!

I don't ever remember making that, pretty sure it didn't go on the menu until after I left,  it might have made an appearance as a special before then. I do have some vague memories of early tasting trials of it.

He went travelling didnt he?

Have any of you tried Les Chats yet? It's obviously more sit down and restauranty, in big contrast to the very casual nature of Los Gatos. Went round there on a Sunday January for my dad's birthday, fucking lovely. Definitely worth a go if you're fed up of the usual sit down Italian or Indian that Swindon offers quite repetitively.

Clearly, that is fair enough. Nice food though. Moros y cristianos? Moors and Christians. Something like that.

Not yet, might see if the other half will take me for my birthday, the menu looks great

My mum's been hassleing to go for lunch. My mate said it's a once a week type place rather than once a month. He might have pretensions above his standing or access to better restaurants than Swindon.

I eat out so irregularly that making a comparison between eating somewhere once a month and once a week is off my scale of experience! It's definitely not trying to be a pretentious place, just something a bit different, delicious and not too expensive.

I thought my dad was fucking mental when he said he was planning to open another place, especially in the middle of a recession. but then I thought the same when he opened Los Gatos with no restaurant experience at all. He's proved me wrong on that. Although it was fucking chaotic at the start.

I'm hungry now you cunts. I'll just drink more.

Your dad deserves a knighthood for services to food in swindon. Les chats is ace too. My mum and dad are two of your dads biggest customers.

Maybe they shouldn't eat out so often.

Well it's late again. Anybody up to much?

I'm playing football manager. My sleep patterns are buggered completely.

I;ve had a few beers and feel fantasssssssstic