Posted on 05/10/2009 3:23:17 PM PDT by lewisglad
Or vivarin.
In college I and many of my classmates were awake continuously for five days and nights finishing a project. What we found, to our surprise, was that after 36 hours or so we could seemingly go on indefinitely, numb but functioning. Apparently it is a feature of the human nervous system, designed by God, that permits indefinite functionality in extreme situations. We didn’t find our limit (though one fellow fell asleep on the toilet) because we finished our project, and in the forty years since I have had no desire to push it further.
Ya...it’s almost as bad as being a new parent.
When my son was born...I was awake for two years...
“Oh, the horror.”
Can you just INAGINE the media’s hollering if our enemies took US Soldiers, cut thier nuts off, hung them from a bridge with thier penis in thier mouth, and set them afire?
Imagine the media outrage over THAT torture!
OH WAIT......
This was asked on left-leaning reddit.com and apparently the answer is "all of them".
They left out the part that was torture - for the whole 11 days they were forced to watch Obama speeches.
Poor babies.
Imagine having to cram for finals and staying awake that long.
We used to eat no-doz like candy.
Nobody ever accused our profs of “torture”.
Wow, great idea!
They don't even need real ones...just digital loop recordings of screaming babies. That and barking dogs....maybe hogs too.
Didn’t Bill Gates keep his Microsoft staff awake this long working on bugs in Windoze?
If we truly wanted to twist the torture knife we could in addition to the sound of screaming newborns add helpful voices of advice “Your not doing that right”. “Are you sure the baby is not too cold, too hot, too wet, too hungry?” “Your only making it worse, here let me do it.”
“Did the doctor say she should be doing that?” “Did the doctor say you should be doing that.” “Let him cry.” “Never let him cry.” and the cruelest one of all.
“Sorry, I know you just got to sleep after being awake for 34 zillion hours but I need to know where do you keep the rose scented cardamom flavored with banana spice oil?” At that point the prisoner would either shoot himself or attack the guard and thus be shot. All good.
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