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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from bimmerman in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    This is hysterical, but I cannot figure out of they used way too much or not enough.
     
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Miggins in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from TigerTedd in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    This is hysterical, but I cannot figure out of they used way too much or not enough.
     
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from i-Ram in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    Jasper Carrott was the second comic I ever saw live and he was really good.
    My first was Mike Yarwood in Blackpool when I was about 12 and I loved it.
    And my third was Phil (scaly sea monster is my only impression) Cool in Matlock Bath.
    When I think of the comedy I like now to then it is sooooo different I can hardly believe it.
    Having said that, Carrott was a real game-changer in many ways.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Mucker1884 in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    Sadly, it was the whales head he had in his hands.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Miggins in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    I wrote an email for my list today that I thought some of you people may enjoy
    -------------
    I’ve just read a quite remarkable and scary book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker a Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

    Everybody knows sleep is good for you and not enough can hinder all forms of mental and physical health, but I had no clue how crippling a lack of sleep can be.

    Walker doesn’t stray into hearsay and on the occasions where there’s a correlation between poor sleep and poor health rather than causation he goes to great lengths to explain that.

    Here are some of the urban myths and scientifically proven facts from the book that may make you sit up and take notice, especially if you have kids and want to safeguard their long-term health.

    Myth # 1 - We need less sleep as we get older

    Nope, it just seems that way because sleep function declines as we age.

    Consequently, we presume struggling to get to sleep, or waking up earlier than we used to means we don’t need it.

    We do.

    We all need 7 to 8 hours.

    Myth # 2 - Some people just don’t need much sleep

    Ok, so this is somewhat of a volte-face from the last myth because there are some people who can get away with 6-hours and not see a negative impact on their mental and physical health.

    How many?

    About the same amount as those who get struck by lightning every year.

    Myth # 3 -  Our metabolism slows down in middle age

    It doesn’t.

    There is no discernible drop off in the rate of metabolism before you get into your 60s’ and even then it's not a certainty.

    However, things we normally associate with ageing and a slowing metabolism like weight gain, reduced memory function and higher blood pressure, can be directly attributed to a lack of quality sleep.

    Myth # 4 - If I miss a couple of hours I may as well miss the entire night

    A lack of sleep impacts us exponentially, not incrementally.

    This means that only getting 5 hours of sleep isn’t a bit worse than 6 hours, it’s a lot worse.

    And only getting 4 hours a ducking lot worse.

    This is why the Guinness Book of World Records removed sleep deprivation records because they can cause long-lasting physical and psychological harm.

    It’s also why very few countries (although the US is one) still use sleep deprivation tactics on prisoners.

    Myth # 5 - You can catch up on sleep at the weekend.

    It’s no good getting up after 6 hours of sleep all week and then bingeing at the weekend.

    Your body cannot catch up on lost sleep and the negative effects are cumulative.

    Myth # 6 - Sleeping tablets will help you sleep

    Since they’re called sleeping tablets, they really should, right?

    Alas, sleeping tablets don’t help you sleep.

    They just sedate you in the same way as a lot of alcohol does with the same deleterious impact.

    Speaking of which....

    Myth # 7 - A few glasses of wine will help me sleep

    Alcohol offers some benefits in terms of relaxing you for a very short period of time.

    But it's all downhill after that.

    Alcohol disrupts sleep because your body is working hard beating off what it sees as an invader (alcohol is a poison) at a time when it has more important things to do.

    Alcohol raises your core temperature which promotes wakefulness as does the accompanying dehydration and needing to go to the bathroom.

    It obliterates REM sleep (this is the reason why we remember so little after heavy drinking as that is when memories are formed) and sedates us rather than helps us sleep.

    That's why nobody bounces out of bed after a skinful feeling fresh and rested.

    Truth #1 - A lack of sleep can be worse than alcohol for driving

    Ten times more people die in accidents attributable to tired drivers than through alcohol and drug-related deaths combined.

    Going 16-hours without sleep and then driving is as dangerous as being legally drunk.

    But, most accidents aren’t caused by people falling asleep at the wheel in the traditional sense.

    They are caused by people being slower to react than normal and making poorer decisions because of fatigue.

    Plus, there is something called microsleeps that may only last two seconds or less, are commonplace and indiscernible to the person having them.

    A two-second microsleep doesn’t seem like a lot, but at 30 mph it can take you across four lanes of traffic before you snap out of it....or die.

    Truth # 2 - Forget losing weight if you’re short on sleep

    When you’re body is short of sleep it prefers to burn muscle and preserve fat because it’s dealing with an existential threat.

    Also, a shortage of sleep suppresses the production of the hormone leptin, which tells you when you have eaten enough.

    And for the trifecta of weight-losing crapiness, the prefrontal cortex (responsible for good decision making) is overridden by the hypothalamus which is insisting on two burgers, fries and a big duck off shake because it’s in survival mode.

    Truth # 3 -  Kids shouldn’t be allowed to fall asleep watching TV

    You shouldn’t put a child to bed after he or she has fallen asleep, but as they are doing so.

    Otherwise, you can reduce their ability to self-nurture causing sleep difficulties later in life.

    Truth # 4 -  Kids shouldn’t be made to get up too early

    Kids have an advanced circadian rhythm of about 3 hours, meaning that they’re owls, not larks.

    Put another way, asking a kid to get up at 7 am for school is like asking an adult to get up and go to work at 4 am every day.

    And it’s not just a question of pushing through it, their ability to learn is SEVERELY hampered for the first half of the day.

    Experiments by schools in the US showed huge jumps in grade point averages when they pushed the school start day back.

    Even so, kids are still made to get up too early because it fits with parents' and bus company schedules and it’s just the way we have always done things.

    Truth # 5 - Pulling an all-night to learn is counterproductive

    After as little as 15 hours awake the brain's ability to learn falls off a very steep cliff and the ability to absorb information degrades rapidly.

    Also, a good night's sleep before learning is wasted if you then have poor sleep the following nights because it takes the brain at least 3 nights of sleep to move that learning into long term memory.

    Truth # 6  - Don’t get a flu vaccine if you’ve had a bad night's sleep

    Having a flu vaccine (and I presume this is the case with Covid, but the book came out in 2018, so I'm guessing) when you are sleep deprived can reduce its efficacy by as much as 50%.

    Insufficient sleep suppresses the immune cell response.

    Truth # 7 A warm bath before bedtime really does help you sleep

    Not just because it relaxes you, but also because blood rushes to the surface of your body causing your core body temperature to drop (the opposite of the aforementioned alcohol).

    Which is exactly what’s needed to sleep well.

    This is the reason why if you are too hot in bed at night you may well stick your feet out from under the duvet.

    This causes your feet to cool so your body reacts by sending lovely warm blood there and dropping your core temperature.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Miggins in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    This is hysterical, but I cannot figure out of they used way too much or not enough.
     
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from maxjam in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    You can mitigate the effects of not enough at night by napping in the day. In fact daytime napping (biphasic sleep) is closer to how we were designed to exist from a health standpoint.
    The island of Ikaria in Greece maintained siestas when the rest of Greece fazed them out. They now call is the island where people forget to die because the average life expectancy is so much higher.
    We all dream in REM sleep, but we only tend to remember them when we have them close to waking up.
  9. Haha
    Bob The Badger got a reaction from i-Ram in How much dynamite does it take to blow up a whale?   
    This is hysterical, but I cannot figure out of they used way too much or not enough.
     
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Mucker1884 in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    Scroll on by.

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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Wolfie in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    I wrote an email for my list today that I thought some of you people may enjoy
    -------------
    I’ve just read a quite remarkable and scary book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker a Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

    Everybody knows sleep is good for you and not enough can hinder all forms of mental and physical health, but I had no clue how crippling a lack of sleep can be.

    Walker doesn’t stray into hearsay and on the occasions where there’s a correlation between poor sleep and poor health rather than causation he goes to great lengths to explain that.

    Here are some of the urban myths and scientifically proven facts from the book that may make you sit up and take notice, especially if you have kids and want to safeguard their long-term health.

    Myth # 1 - We need less sleep as we get older

    Nope, it just seems that way because sleep function declines as we age.

    Consequently, we presume struggling to get to sleep, or waking up earlier than we used to means we don’t need it.

    We do.

    We all need 7 to 8 hours.

    Myth # 2 - Some people just don’t need much sleep

    Ok, so this is somewhat of a volte-face from the last myth because there are some people who can get away with 6-hours and not see a negative impact on their mental and physical health.

    How many?

    About the same amount as those who get struck by lightning every year.

    Myth # 3 -  Our metabolism slows down in middle age

    It doesn’t.

    There is no discernible drop off in the rate of metabolism before you get into your 60s’ and even then it's not a certainty.

    However, things we normally associate with ageing and a slowing metabolism like weight gain, reduced memory function and higher blood pressure, can be directly attributed to a lack of quality sleep.

    Myth # 4 - If I miss a couple of hours I may as well miss the entire night

    A lack of sleep impacts us exponentially, not incrementally.

    This means that only getting 5 hours of sleep isn’t a bit worse than 6 hours, it’s a lot worse.

    And only getting 4 hours a ducking lot worse.

    This is why the Guinness Book of World Records removed sleep deprivation records because they can cause long-lasting physical and psychological harm.

    It’s also why very few countries (although the US is one) still use sleep deprivation tactics on prisoners.

    Myth # 5 - You can catch up on sleep at the weekend.

    It’s no good getting up after 6 hours of sleep all week and then bingeing at the weekend.

    Your body cannot catch up on lost sleep and the negative effects are cumulative.

    Myth # 6 - Sleeping tablets will help you sleep

    Since they’re called sleeping tablets, they really should, right?

    Alas, sleeping tablets don’t help you sleep.

    They just sedate you in the same way as a lot of alcohol does with the same deleterious impact.

    Speaking of which....

    Myth # 7 - A few glasses of wine will help me sleep

    Alcohol offers some benefits in terms of relaxing you for a very short period of time.

    But it's all downhill after that.

    Alcohol disrupts sleep because your body is working hard beating off what it sees as an invader (alcohol is a poison) at a time when it has more important things to do.

    Alcohol raises your core temperature which promotes wakefulness as does the accompanying dehydration and needing to go to the bathroom.

    It obliterates REM sleep (this is the reason why we remember so little after heavy drinking as that is when memories are formed) and sedates us rather than helps us sleep.

    That's why nobody bounces out of bed after a skinful feeling fresh and rested.

    Truth #1 - A lack of sleep can be worse than alcohol for driving

    Ten times more people die in accidents attributable to tired drivers than through alcohol and drug-related deaths combined.

    Going 16-hours without sleep and then driving is as dangerous as being legally drunk.

    But, most accidents aren’t caused by people falling asleep at the wheel in the traditional sense.

    They are caused by people being slower to react than normal and making poorer decisions because of fatigue.

    Plus, there is something called microsleeps that may only last two seconds or less, are commonplace and indiscernible to the person having them.

    A two-second microsleep doesn’t seem like a lot, but at 30 mph it can take you across four lanes of traffic before you snap out of it....or die.

    Truth # 2 - Forget losing weight if you’re short on sleep

    When you’re body is short of sleep it prefers to burn muscle and preserve fat because it’s dealing with an existential threat.

    Also, a shortage of sleep suppresses the production of the hormone leptin, which tells you when you have eaten enough.

    And for the trifecta of weight-losing crapiness, the prefrontal cortex (responsible for good decision making) is overridden by the hypothalamus which is insisting on two burgers, fries and a big duck off shake because it’s in survival mode.

    Truth # 3 -  Kids shouldn’t be allowed to fall asleep watching TV

    You shouldn’t put a child to bed after he or she has fallen asleep, but as they are doing so.

    Otherwise, you can reduce their ability to self-nurture causing sleep difficulties later in life.

    Truth # 4 -  Kids shouldn’t be made to get up too early

    Kids have an advanced circadian rhythm of about 3 hours, meaning that they’re owls, not larks.

    Put another way, asking a kid to get up at 7 am for school is like asking an adult to get up and go to work at 4 am every day.

    And it’s not just a question of pushing through it, their ability to learn is SEVERELY hampered for the first half of the day.

    Experiments by schools in the US showed huge jumps in grade point averages when they pushed the school start day back.

    Even so, kids are still made to get up too early because it fits with parents' and bus company schedules and it’s just the way we have always done things.

    Truth # 5 - Pulling an all-night to learn is counterproductive

    After as little as 15 hours awake the brain's ability to learn falls off a very steep cliff and the ability to absorb information degrades rapidly.

    Also, a good night's sleep before learning is wasted if you then have poor sleep the following nights because it takes the brain at least 3 nights of sleep to move that learning into long term memory.

    Truth # 6  - Don’t get a flu vaccine if you’ve had a bad night's sleep

    Having a flu vaccine (and I presume this is the case with Covid, but the book came out in 2018, so I'm guessing) when you are sleep deprived can reduce its efficacy by as much as 50%.

    Insufficient sleep suppresses the immune cell response.

    Truth # 7 A warm bath before bedtime really does help you sleep

    Not just because it relaxes you, but also because blood rushes to the surface of your body causing your core body temperature to drop (the opposite of the aforementioned alcohol).

    Which is exactly what’s needed to sleep well.

    This is the reason why if you are too hot in bed at night you may well stick your feet out from under the duvet.

    This causes your feet to cool so your body reacts by sending lovely warm blood there and dropping your core temperature.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Mucker1884 in Wordle   
    I stopped doing Wordle because it's at least 50% luck to score a quick win.
    Quordle on the other hand is 90% skill and strategy because getting lucky on one quadrant won't help you with the others.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Alph in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    I wrote an email for my list today that I thought some of you people may enjoy
    -------------
    I’ve just read a quite remarkable and scary book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker a Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

    Everybody knows sleep is good for you and not enough can hinder all forms of mental and physical health, but I had no clue how crippling a lack of sleep can be.

    Walker doesn’t stray into hearsay and on the occasions where there’s a correlation between poor sleep and poor health rather than causation he goes to great lengths to explain that.

    Here are some of the urban myths and scientifically proven facts from the book that may make you sit up and take notice, especially if you have kids and want to safeguard their long-term health.

    Myth # 1 - We need less sleep as we get older

    Nope, it just seems that way because sleep function declines as we age.

    Consequently, we presume struggling to get to sleep, or waking up earlier than we used to means we don’t need it.

    We do.

    We all need 7 to 8 hours.

    Myth # 2 - Some people just don’t need much sleep

    Ok, so this is somewhat of a volte-face from the last myth because there are some people who can get away with 6-hours and not see a negative impact on their mental and physical health.

    How many?

    About the same amount as those who get struck by lightning every year.

    Myth # 3 -  Our metabolism slows down in middle age

    It doesn’t.

    There is no discernible drop off in the rate of metabolism before you get into your 60s’ and even then it's not a certainty.

    However, things we normally associate with ageing and a slowing metabolism like weight gain, reduced memory function and higher blood pressure, can be directly attributed to a lack of quality sleep.

    Myth # 4 - If I miss a couple of hours I may as well miss the entire night

    A lack of sleep impacts us exponentially, not incrementally.

    This means that only getting 5 hours of sleep isn’t a bit worse than 6 hours, it’s a lot worse.

    And only getting 4 hours a ducking lot worse.

    This is why the Guinness Book of World Records removed sleep deprivation records because they can cause long-lasting physical and psychological harm.

    It’s also why very few countries (although the US is one) still use sleep deprivation tactics on prisoners.

    Myth # 5 - You can catch up on sleep at the weekend.

    It’s no good getting up after 6 hours of sleep all week and then bingeing at the weekend.

    Your body cannot catch up on lost sleep and the negative effects are cumulative.

    Myth # 6 - Sleeping tablets will help you sleep

    Since they’re called sleeping tablets, they really should, right?

    Alas, sleeping tablets don’t help you sleep.

    They just sedate you in the same way as a lot of alcohol does with the same deleterious impact.

    Speaking of which....

    Myth # 7 - A few glasses of wine will help me sleep

    Alcohol offers some benefits in terms of relaxing you for a very short period of time.

    But it's all downhill after that.

    Alcohol disrupts sleep because your body is working hard beating off what it sees as an invader (alcohol is a poison) at a time when it has more important things to do.

    Alcohol raises your core temperature which promotes wakefulness as does the accompanying dehydration and needing to go to the bathroom.

    It obliterates REM sleep (this is the reason why we remember so little after heavy drinking as that is when memories are formed) and sedates us rather than helps us sleep.

    That's why nobody bounces out of bed after a skinful feeling fresh and rested.

    Truth #1 - A lack of sleep can be worse than alcohol for driving

    Ten times more people die in accidents attributable to tired drivers than through alcohol and drug-related deaths combined.

    Going 16-hours without sleep and then driving is as dangerous as being legally drunk.

    But, most accidents aren’t caused by people falling asleep at the wheel in the traditional sense.

    They are caused by people being slower to react than normal and making poorer decisions because of fatigue.

    Plus, there is something called microsleeps that may only last two seconds or less, are commonplace and indiscernible to the person having them.

    A two-second microsleep doesn’t seem like a lot, but at 30 mph it can take you across four lanes of traffic before you snap out of it....or die.

    Truth # 2 - Forget losing weight if you’re short on sleep

    When you’re body is short of sleep it prefers to burn muscle and preserve fat because it’s dealing with an existential threat.

    Also, a shortage of sleep suppresses the production of the hormone leptin, which tells you when you have eaten enough.

    And for the trifecta of weight-losing crapiness, the prefrontal cortex (responsible for good decision making) is overridden by the hypothalamus which is insisting on two burgers, fries and a big duck off shake because it’s in survival mode.

    Truth # 3 -  Kids shouldn’t be allowed to fall asleep watching TV

    You shouldn’t put a child to bed after he or she has fallen asleep, but as they are doing so.

    Otherwise, you can reduce their ability to self-nurture causing sleep difficulties later in life.

    Truth # 4 -  Kids shouldn’t be made to get up too early

    Kids have an advanced circadian rhythm of about 3 hours, meaning that they’re owls, not larks.

    Put another way, asking a kid to get up at 7 am for school is like asking an adult to get up and go to work at 4 am every day.

    And it’s not just a question of pushing through it, their ability to learn is SEVERELY hampered for the first half of the day.

    Experiments by schools in the US showed huge jumps in grade point averages when they pushed the school start day back.

    Even so, kids are still made to get up too early because it fits with parents' and bus company schedules and it’s just the way we have always done things.

    Truth # 5 - Pulling an all-night to learn is counterproductive

    After as little as 15 hours awake the brain's ability to learn falls off a very steep cliff and the ability to absorb information degrades rapidly.

    Also, a good night's sleep before learning is wasted if you then have poor sleep the following nights because it takes the brain at least 3 nights of sleep to move that learning into long term memory.

    Truth # 6  - Don’t get a flu vaccine if you’ve had a bad night's sleep

    Having a flu vaccine (and I presume this is the case with Covid, but the book came out in 2018, so I'm guessing) when you are sleep deprived can reduce its efficacy by as much as 50%.

    Insufficient sleep suppresses the immune cell response.

    Truth # 7 A warm bath before bedtime really does help you sleep

    Not just because it relaxes you, but also because blood rushes to the surface of your body causing your core body temperature to drop (the opposite of the aforementioned alcohol).

    Which is exactly what’s needed to sleep well.

    This is the reason why if you are too hot in bed at night you may well stick your feet out from under the duvet.

    This causes your feet to cool so your body reacts by sending lovely warm blood there and dropping your core temperature.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Bigfella in Do you get enough sleep (7 myths and 7 truths)?   
    I wrote an email for my list today that I thought some of you people may enjoy
    -------------
    I’ve just read a quite remarkable and scary book called Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker a Professor of Neuroscience at UC Berkeley.

    Everybody knows sleep is good for you and not enough can hinder all forms of mental and physical health, but I had no clue how crippling a lack of sleep can be.

    Walker doesn’t stray into hearsay and on the occasions where there’s a correlation between poor sleep and poor health rather than causation he goes to great lengths to explain that.

    Here are some of the urban myths and scientifically proven facts from the book that may make you sit up and take notice, especially if you have kids and want to safeguard their long-term health.

    Myth # 1 - We need less sleep as we get older

    Nope, it just seems that way because sleep function declines as we age.

    Consequently, we presume struggling to get to sleep, or waking up earlier than we used to means we don’t need it.

    We do.

    We all need 7 to 8 hours.

    Myth # 2 - Some people just don’t need much sleep

    Ok, so this is somewhat of a volte-face from the last myth because there are some people who can get away with 6-hours and not see a negative impact on their mental and physical health.

    How many?

    About the same amount as those who get struck by lightning every year.

    Myth # 3 -  Our metabolism slows down in middle age

    It doesn’t.

    There is no discernible drop off in the rate of metabolism before you get into your 60s’ and even then it's not a certainty.

    However, things we normally associate with ageing and a slowing metabolism like weight gain, reduced memory function and higher blood pressure, can be directly attributed to a lack of quality sleep.

    Myth # 4 - If I miss a couple of hours I may as well miss the entire night

    A lack of sleep impacts us exponentially, not incrementally.

    This means that only getting 5 hours of sleep isn’t a bit worse than 6 hours, it’s a lot worse.

    And only getting 4 hours a ducking lot worse.

    This is why the Guinness Book of World Records removed sleep deprivation records because they can cause long-lasting physical and psychological harm.

    It’s also why very few countries (although the US is one) still use sleep deprivation tactics on prisoners.

    Myth # 5 - You can catch up on sleep at the weekend.

    It’s no good getting up after 6 hours of sleep all week and then bingeing at the weekend.

    Your body cannot catch up on lost sleep and the negative effects are cumulative.

    Myth # 6 - Sleeping tablets will help you sleep

    Since they’re called sleeping tablets, they really should, right?

    Alas, sleeping tablets don’t help you sleep.

    They just sedate you in the same way as a lot of alcohol does with the same deleterious impact.

    Speaking of which....

    Myth # 7 - A few glasses of wine will help me sleep

    Alcohol offers some benefits in terms of relaxing you for a very short period of time.

    But it's all downhill after that.

    Alcohol disrupts sleep because your body is working hard beating off what it sees as an invader (alcohol is a poison) at a time when it has more important things to do.

    Alcohol raises your core temperature which promotes wakefulness as does the accompanying dehydration and needing to go to the bathroom.

    It obliterates REM sleep (this is the reason why we remember so little after heavy drinking as that is when memories are formed) and sedates us rather than helps us sleep.

    That's why nobody bounces out of bed after a skinful feeling fresh and rested.

    Truth #1 - A lack of sleep can be worse than alcohol for driving

    Ten times more people die in accidents attributable to tired drivers than through alcohol and drug-related deaths combined.

    Going 16-hours without sleep and then driving is as dangerous as being legally drunk.

    But, most accidents aren’t caused by people falling asleep at the wheel in the traditional sense.

    They are caused by people being slower to react than normal and making poorer decisions because of fatigue.

    Plus, there is something called microsleeps that may only last two seconds or less, are commonplace and indiscernible to the person having them.

    A two-second microsleep doesn’t seem like a lot, but at 30 mph it can take you across four lanes of traffic before you snap out of it....or die.

    Truth # 2 - Forget losing weight if you’re short on sleep

    When you’re body is short of sleep it prefers to burn muscle and preserve fat because it’s dealing with an existential threat.

    Also, a shortage of sleep suppresses the production of the hormone leptin, which tells you when you have eaten enough.

    And for the trifecta of weight-losing crapiness, the prefrontal cortex (responsible for good decision making) is overridden by the hypothalamus which is insisting on two burgers, fries and a big duck off shake because it’s in survival mode.

    Truth # 3 -  Kids shouldn’t be allowed to fall asleep watching TV

    You shouldn’t put a child to bed after he or she has fallen asleep, but as they are doing so.

    Otherwise, you can reduce their ability to self-nurture causing sleep difficulties later in life.

    Truth # 4 -  Kids shouldn’t be made to get up too early

    Kids have an advanced circadian rhythm of about 3 hours, meaning that they’re owls, not larks.

    Put another way, asking a kid to get up at 7 am for school is like asking an adult to get up and go to work at 4 am every day.

    And it’s not just a question of pushing through it, their ability to learn is SEVERELY hampered for the first half of the day.

    Experiments by schools in the US showed huge jumps in grade point averages when they pushed the school start day back.

    Even so, kids are still made to get up too early because it fits with parents' and bus company schedules and it’s just the way we have always done things.

    Truth # 5 - Pulling an all-night to learn is counterproductive

    After as little as 15 hours awake the brain's ability to learn falls off a very steep cliff and the ability to absorb information degrades rapidly.

    Also, a good night's sleep before learning is wasted if you then have poor sleep the following nights because it takes the brain at least 3 nights of sleep to move that learning into long term memory.

    Truth # 6  - Don’t get a flu vaccine if you’ve had a bad night's sleep

    Having a flu vaccine (and I presume this is the case with Covid, but the book came out in 2018, so I'm guessing) when you are sleep deprived can reduce its efficacy by as much as 50%.

    Insufficient sleep suppresses the immune cell response.

    Truth # 7 A warm bath before bedtime really does help you sleep

    Not just because it relaxes you, but also because blood rushes to the surface of your body causing your core body temperature to drop (the opposite of the aforementioned alcohol).

    Which is exactly what’s needed to sleep well.

    This is the reason why if you are too hot in bed at night you may well stick your feet out from under the duvet.

    This causes your feet to cool so your body reacts by sending lovely warm blood there and dropping your core temperature.
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    Bob The Badger reacted to Eddie in Watchable telly   
    We've just watched the first 3 episodes of "Pieces Of Her" on Netflix.
    Very good so far.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from TigerTedd in Wordle   
    I stopped doing Wordle because it's at least 50% luck to score a quick win.
    Quordle on the other hand is 90% skill and strategy because getting lucky on one quadrant won't help you with the others.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from S75 Ram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
  19. Haha
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Foreveram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Eatonram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from Premier ram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
  23. Haha
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from atherstoneram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
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    Bob The Badger got a reaction from archram in Wayne Rooney   
    To put that in perspective, Mowbray has been a manager 20 years, Rooney just over a year.
    Rooney is still learning.
    Also, Mowbray has a settled squad whereas Rooney has had vital players effectively given away.
    Nobody in here hears the team talks and truly knows what he's trying to do tactically, so a lot of talk about tactics is guessing.
    Similarly, we don't know if teenagers are just not sticking to task rather than being given the wrong ones.
    Tactics rarely overcome a lack of talent or  a massive shortage of experience.
    It's the latter that is really hamstringing Rooney.
    At the moment and imho, Rooney isn't part of the problem. I doubt Cloughie could have done a better job of galvanising the club.
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