THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Cerveza mas fina on October 28, 2012, 06:43:54 PM
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before there were alarm clocks?
Im reading a book now set in some fantasy world and this dude has to be somewhere 5ish in the morning. How does he do it?
Despite my degree in history im baffled. Im just assuming shops opened when the owners wanted and all other appointmenta where made well after sunrise at set times when the church bell rang.
Im talking about city folk not farmers btw.
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Believe it or not our brain chemistry has a built in clock function! That shit sets itself based on your sleep patterns and what the body needs to rest. I don't even use an alarm clock anymore, I'm so programed. I wake up at 5:30am each day on my days off I can't sleep in more than an extra hour or so. If I sleep past that time the cat's wake my ass up to feed them.
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No AC
Window shutter/curtain half open
Roosters everywhere
No lazy technology
Will power
Sharingan
And the list goes on.
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:nsfwThe title screen is weird. And it's shady as hell.
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Oh I know I wake up a few min before my alarm usually, but this habbit has to be created.
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They weren't limp-wristed pansies like modern people.
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this is why children and women exist, hth
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I was in AZ a week ago, I had a flight the day after- so I decided to make sure I knew how to make the alarm clock work, and that I could wake up as early as I needed to. So I set it up- went to bed. So there I was the next morning- three minutes before the alarm was set to go off- staring at the clock waiting....
I think if a person cares enough its pretty easy to wake up.
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Once the sun set there probably wasn't a whole lot to do so I'm guessing they all went to sleep pretty early. Makes waking up early much easier.
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Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.
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Churches and temples often take it upon themselves to wake everybody up at dawn EVEN THOUGH it is now the 21st century and everyone has fucking alarm clocks. Not that i'm bitter about living next to a bunch of Buddhist temples oh no
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Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.
Dude, thats the piece of information I was secretely wishing to get here.
I had this lingering memory that that the invention of "time" had something to do with transit etc. but couldn't quite remember. Thanks.
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Their wives woke them up with their mouth around their cock. Just how it should be.
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Usually you had gout or some other unspeakable disease that didn't allow you more than 2 hours of consecutive sleep.
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Thanks for the insight. I'll definitely direct all future history questions to Lager now that I know he's an expert
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How did they know what time to be at work before there were clocks? Shit must have been so confusing back then.
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Thanks for the insight. I'll definitely direct all future history questions to Lager now that I know he's an expert
Well I specialized in the history of Anti-Semitism actually, as you might imagine PD if you study history you don't study ALL history.
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZoWmS.jpg)
Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper's. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London. . Undated. Photograph from Philip Davies' Lost London: 1870 - 1945.
(from imgur http://imgur.com/gallery/5O0Zn)
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I'd knocker-upper, amirite guys? :drool
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BUT HOW DID MARY SMITH WAKE UP?! :dizzy
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I'd knocker-upper, amirite guys? :drool
Looks like it's too late going by that pic
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Eh, my internal clock wakes me before my alarm even goes off. If you just wake up at a certain time enough it becomes habit.
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uh..... lol
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Big_Ben_2007-1.jpg/382px-Big_Ben_2007-1.jpg)
Im sure that most cities had clock towers or bell ringers to ring at dawn or later, at intervals.
Man that tower is badass, not quite walrus level of badass but almost
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Time and schedules as we know it didn't really come into play until sychronized time and that came more into play when trains became standard mass transit.
Dude, thats the piece of information I was secretely wishing to get here.
I had this lingering memory that that the invention of "time" had something to do with transit etc. but couldn't quite remember. Thanks.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/new-time-to-keep-everything-from-happening-at-once,3564/
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(http://i.imgur.com/ZoWmS.jpg)
Before alarm clocks there were knocker-upper's. Mary Smith earned sixpence a week shooting dried peas at sleeping workers windows. Limehouse Fields. London. . Undated. Photograph from Philip Davies' Lost London: 1870 - 1945.
(from imgur http://imgur.com/gallery/5O0Zn)
Man how did she get up on time
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Drink tons of water right before bed.
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they slept fine and in a consistent pattern because they didn't have internet or TV
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How do I not wake up for work on weekends? Jesus, Brain- shut the fuck off for a few days.
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How do I not wake up for work on weekends? Jesus, Brain- shut the fuck off for a few days.
same here. and if I go out and drink and get wasted till the wee hours of the morning, my brain still only gives me an extra hour-hour and a half. >:(
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Another necro-bump!
(http://i.imgur.com/t0d5b.jpg)
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I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.
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I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.
Does your internal clock adjust for weekends when you don't have to get up early, holidays, etc?
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Chickens
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I don't use an alarm. I wake up around 6am every weekday morning without fail.
Does your internal clock adjust for weekends when you don't have to get up early, holidays, etc?
Yeah, it actually does. And if I do wake up at 6am, I go right back to sleep until Lil' Gundam decides to get up at 8:30.
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What do you do for daylight savings time?
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What do you do for daylight savings time?
I wake up?
I don't know, I just wake up. It's weird.