Perhaps somebody can explain to me why the notion that "a bunch of external noises keeps people awake" seems to be such a fucking revelation to slashdot readers?
I mean... how is this even a thing? News flash: LOUD (relative to ambient) NOISES WHILE YOU TRY TO SLEEP TENDS TO WAKE YOU UP. It doesn't mean your brain is "super extra powerful" or that you're "super mega ultra sensitive to patterns as a result of your intense brainpower."
I don't care so much about the background noise if it's manageable enough, but having a TV on certainly will keep me awake all night. It really amazes me how people can sleep with the TV on. No matter what's on, how crappy the content or how tired I am, if the TV is on I just can't switch my brain off. My brain seems to be forced into paying attention to what's being said and it will keep me awake for hours and hours. Eventually I guess I could sleep out of exhaustion after many many hours, but I never dared to put myself through that torture.
Any TV-sleepers out here (those who like to sleep to their TVs on) care to comment on how they cope with it?
... kills the engine below 5mph when the car is in neutral and clutch is out, then the moment you hit the clutch to pop her back in gear she fires up again, so quickly that it's almost impossible to get your foot on the gas before she's running.
Hum, curious here about the part of switching off only when in neutral. At least here in Brazil, the general recommendation by the transit authorities is to never have the car in neutral while driving. In certain situations you might even get yourself a traffic ticket or have your vehicle detained for that (driving in neutral). So as a general rule, when stopping at the traffic light, the usual drill is to hit the clutch all the way and put in 1st. It gets pretty tiresome at times having to keep the clutch all the way so often (especially when the traffic is too heavy) so sometimes people will put it to neutral so as to not have to keep hitting the clutch.. but that would be the an exception, not the rule.
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