The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for April 14, 2012
Transcript:
Wilberforce: You look sleepy. Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: I am! Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: Why is it that you're wide awake when your parents make you go to bed at night... Hurricane Hattie O'Hara: Then, after a full night's sleep, you're tired when you get up in the morning?
watmiwori almost 13 years ago
one of the great conundra of life. go know.
RonaldDavis almost 13 years ago
I forget who said “Every day you should do two things you don’t like to do. Every evening I go to bed and every morning I get up.”.
iced tea almost 13 years ago
That’s what I hated when I was a kid.
Boots at the Boar Premium Member almost 13 years ago
I remember going to bed at 9 and waking up with boundless energy at 6 as a kid. I wish I had stuck to that habit. Now I’m lucky I can get 9 hours sleep on the weekends. It’s nearly impossible to fall asleep before midnight during the work week.
No New Wars over 2 years ago
Kids have to do it because their parents make them. Their parents make them do it because their employers do. Their employers make them do it because the bosses do. The whole day cycle was created by he industrial revolution and the need to have a workforce working together. So most people either have to get up too early or too late for their system do so because of the workplace constraints.
We all know it is not what our bodies want to do, and have known it since childhood, but society is set up to make us behave in this way to make profits for others.