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Why do you post in the middle of the night?
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Until this week I was working odd shift patterns. If on a late I would stay up very late and lie in very late. I'd end up online in the middle of the night sometimes. Mightily relieved to be rid of shifts. I know they work for some people but not me.
Old King Cole, in the rude version of the song, "called for his pipe in the middle of the night"; but he was a monarch, and could do whatever he wanted. If he'd lived in Internet times, no doubt he -- plus at need, his "enablers" -- would have posted in the middle of the night, if that had been his fancy.
alxndr
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I frequently browse the forum at night, generally because of shifts, or simply because I'm rubbish at getting myself to bed at a sensible time.
TT-ONR-NRN
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Speaking of which, I’m typing this at 00:00...
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EDIT: Ah damn, it posted at 00:01!
Z.
EDIT: Ah damn, it posted at 00:01!
roversfan2001
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Because I'm rubbish at forcing myself to sleep so end up spending hours reading old topics and before I know it it's gone 2am and my body clock is completely ruined for a few days. There was a prolonged period over the summer where I was nocturnal because I stayed on my laptop all night. 
There really is one of those for virtually any situation! I know @PermitToTravel keeps finding them for situations I speak to them about!
I’ll come back to this argument at 3am, when I’ve had time to simmer and think of a reply thatno-one can disagree with.no-one is around to disagree with
Fixed that for you
tsr
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Ah, the irony of reading this thread at 1528 on a Thursday afternoon...
For me, odd posting times are mainly about working hours. And then when I'm on rest days / leave etc., I usually switch back to a "late turn" sleeping pattern, as I'm more of an evening person. Usually I sleep from 1am to 8.30am if left to my own devices.
For me, odd posting times are mainly about working hours. And then when I'm on rest days / leave etc., I usually switch back to a "late turn" sleeping pattern, as I'm more of an evening person. Usually I sleep from 1am to 8.30am if left to my own devices.
12am? I guess you mean midnight, given the context... We won't revive that topic (yet) again!
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12am is midnight!
satisnek
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Because I think my body clock is wrong... Left to my own devices (ie, with no work or anywhere to go the next morning) I'll go to bed at about 1 am and get up about 9 or 10. Right now it's Friday night/Saturday morning, I've no requirement to get up early, so here I am, having come back from the pub, relaxing, browsing this forum and will go to bed soon 
as is 12 pm too. The trouble is that some people use that to mean noon. Best not used at all.
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Agree! One afternoon I tried to force my way into a library, having looked at the times and thinking it was (bizarrely) open until midnight. When the doors absolutely refused to open it eventually dawned on me that it had closed at noon.
RailUK are slowly building a fleet of robots to take over the DfT and RDG, using the posts on these forums to determine what we want and how things should be done. 56 have been built so far, the number online will drop occasionally due to testing etc.
They'll be the likes of Google and Bing, who trawl the website to index it so that it can be searched by their engines
That’s what you want me to believe. I’m surprised Lrd hasn’t been silenced yet.
It is the Strangers from the film Dark City. When everyone is asleep they rebuild the world and you wake up as someone else.
backontrack
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You in Year 11 then? It's good to know that there's more than just a few of us faced with GCSEs this year
For me nowadays I rarely use this forum heading into the wee hours. Most of my posts and browses come at the weekend, and there'll often be telly on in the evenings so I won't be posting then.
I've seen the Strangers. They wear Network Rail uniforms. Sometimes they fail to rebuild the world before the clock starts again and it causes all sorts of problems.
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Watching the Ashes!
Drinking wine...
Howz it looking?
The first day went pretty well didn’t it (I’m not pretending that I’m an expert)?
2 main reasons for me
The first and current reason is 3 years old and the other is 5 years old and neither of them like sleep and survive on about 6 hours..... I need 8!
The other reason is being on call and waiting for servers etc to reboot and needing something to keep me awake if the neither of first 2 reasons aren't doing their job!!
The first and current reason is 3 years old and the other is 5 years old and neither of them like sleep and survive on about 6 hours..... I need 8!
The other reason is being on call and waiting for servers etc to reboot and needing something to keep me awake if the neither of first 2 reasons aren't doing their job!!
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Comic: "Are you coming to bed" "I can't, this is important" "What?" "Someone is wrong on the internet."
This was my reason tonight. I was enjoying the discussion and had just opened a bottle but it seems the person I wad trying to educate has gone to bed. So here I am
This was my reason tonight. I was enjoying the discussion and had just opened a bottle but it seems the person I wad trying to educate has gone to bed. So here I am
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