I am a tard

[deathboy]

Seeing as so many of my friends are linking to this, I thought I'd have a look...

Tres amusante.

Then, I come to this entry:


#17: Kunte still likes the bathroom:

Today Kunte asked me if he could use the bathroom. Since he hadn't already used all his bathroom visits, I let him. Once again, he spent a good 15 minutes in there, but I didn't hear any flushing or gurgling sounds. I knocked on the door and didn't get any response. Finally I opened the door to see what was going on.

Kunte was laying face down in the middle of the bathroom with his eyes closed. Immediately fearing the worst I rushed over to him to see if he was alive. As soon as I sat next to him and started looking for vital signs he sits up and looks at me. In a frantic voice, I asked him if he was alright, if anything was wrong. He smiled and said,

"No I was just sleeping."

"Sleeping?!?", I inquired, "If you needed to take a nap you could have asked to go to the nurse, why are you sleeping in the bathroom".

"Because the tile is cool."


... the thing is... both at home and on holiday (in those tiled bathrooms you get in spanish hotels), I've totally done that... a few times.

Of course, I wait until there's no-one else around so that I don't look like a mentalist.

I don't see what's so odd about it, frankly. The tile is cool.

I also go to sleep with a fan next to my bed, pointing at me, no matter what the temperature as I like the sound and the feel of cool air (it's excellent when you're drunk and feel sick - makes you feel a lot better and able to sleep), I often play a 3hr mp3 soundtrack of rain I put together, and I love the sound of hairdryers and washing machines.

I think anyone who doesn't do these things is missing out.

Comments

[herdivineshadow]

My dad has two tapes. One of the sound of the mini heater we have in the porch where he smokes and another of the sound of running water.

Now, I don't mind them, but he does insist on playing them at full volume and I can't hear the music playing on my laptop. heheh

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

your dad is clearly a wise man.

ask him to mp3 the tapes for me?

:)

[herdivineshadow]

heh I don't think he knows what an mp3 is. I can, however, get hold of a copy of the tapes, if you want. :)

[faerierhona.livejournal.com]

I ALWAYS have my bedroom window open. I can hear the wind, rain, the silence of snow...

The only time I've slept in the bathroom was when I passed out (oops) but that's cos I like cool but soft textures. Hence I have pure silk sheets, (that and I'm a hedonist)

[blaadyblah.livejournal.com]

I often play a 3hr mp3 soundtrack of rain I put together.

That sounds good, I want a Thunderstorm version!

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I have one of those too... :)

give me a bit, I'll upload it for you :)

[sexbat.livejournal.com]

If you release that 3 hour MP3 as a CDR 'Album' I for one will buy a copy

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Actually, it's a slight trick as I have a half-hour mix I put together of lots of nice types of rain (which I queue 6 times), and another set of mp3s of thunderstorms, etc.

... I'm uploading them at the mo if you're interested, skipper...

interested?

[sexbat.livejournal.com]

I certainly am !

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

I have one I made for a friend a while back. Just a rainstorm I recorded. Bits of low rumbling thunder and even a few distant sirens following a horrendous car crash where the driver was decapitated...and you don't find that in yer average new age rain.

I shall have to get hold of it again as a few people have asked for copies.

I spoofingly made a cover hawking "Genuine Mancunian Rain" little knowing that people were actually interested in genuine Mancunian rain.

[rataxis.livejournal.com]

I totally agree re the fan for noise and breeze. White/Pink noise is great to sleep to.

I'd like to hear your rain noises.

And yeah, I've slept with my cheek pressed against the cool tile of a bathroom floor, before.

[markeris.livejournal.com]

`tard!

Apparently when I was younger I used to curl up against the hoover (when it was on) and fall asleep.

This may explain my excitement over TG reforming.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

hoovers rule also :D

I'd ask my mom if I could do the hoovering, then go the other side of the house, turn the hoover on and have a nap... :)

[hexadb.livejournal.com]

I used to have a recurring nightmare about being attacked by a hoover.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

that's because you're so feeeeelthy!

[denari.livejournal.com]

yeah post that link to the rain/thunderstorms, been looking for a decent one of those for a while :)

[dystopatica.livejournal.com]

Jaysis, my boyfriend does everything you've just mentioned, I always thought he *was* just a mentalist.

He insists on having a fan running in sub-arctic temperatures for the noise and when hes feeling ill he makes me hoover/turn on the hairdryer to help him sleep.

I however prefer slight fluctuations in noise rather than static sounds. Like the TV turned really low so you can hear the pitch and flow of peoples voices without actually making out proper words. Ahhhhhhh.

*snore*

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

Your chap is obviously a king amongst men. And, disturbingly, my missus falls asleep to the telly all the while (and I get her to dry her hair in the morning sitting on the bed so I can listen to the noise).

Chances are we're actually the same couple.

:)

[dystopatica.livejournal.com]

Heh, if we are the same couple can I have my cashpoint card back please? You left this morning with it and I'm skint.

Ta love!

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

heh... I'll pop it in the post... now, where's my dinner?

;D

[dystopatica.livejournal.com]

If we were really the same couple you'd know the rule. You buy it and I cook it. Thats the way it works in my world. Hence my preference for luncheon vouchers, you buy it and I just eat it. *grin*

[zenmonkeykstop.livejournal.com]

You could do worse than to have a go at boodler:

http://www.eblong.com/zarf/boodler/

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

and, on a shittier note:

Virtual windchimes!

http://www.ewtoo.org/~deathboy/flash/chimes.html

... by me :)

[ex-froodtheh193.livejournal.com]

you mentalist :)

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

and I love the sound of hairdryers and washing machines.

That's because you're so UBER-INDUSTRIAL! ;)

You are a decidedly odd individual, Scott

[lazrus-armagedn.livejournal.com]

You're not my grandmother, are you?

Re: You are a decidedly odd individual, Scott

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

yep.

come to nanna.

[miss-soap.livejournal.com]

I have to admit I thought you were a mentalist when you deliberately sat in my room when I was drying my hair. But as to the tile thing - yup, been there, done that. Splendid when you're pissed, too.

[echo-echo.livejournal.com]

One thing I miss about TV's now is the uber high pitched whine they used to make. I could tell a TV was on in the room even if the sound was off. Or maybe my ears aren't what they used to be.

But yep, either have PC fan or desk fan on at night. And windchimes in my window. Yours drove me mad actually! They are random, not chaotic. I think the gentle patterns they make are really soothing. The same reason we like watching sunsets, or running water, the ocean. Humans love chaos.

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

when he *lets* them.

[ketlogic.livejournal.com]

i find, when i go to bed, the faint murmer of a distant television in the kitchen, is quite reassuring.(maybe because i could always hear it when i went to bed in my younger years). Doesn't happen so much now everyone has usually gone to bed before i even get home.

Are you a Yank?

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

No, the tileS *are* cool damn it!

But yeah, we've all grown up in a world so infected with background noise that anything approaching true silence is more likely to freak us out than soothe.
Mind you, I could still do without @~#%$"£ seagulls at 3am.

Re: Are you a Yank?

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

doh... good point, but I was mostly just quoting the original... ;)

Puzzled

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

BTW I can't believe that no-one has added even the slightest #fnar-snerf# at what this kids name is.

Re: Puzzled

[deathboy.livejournal.com]

I believe the blog uses false names to protect all involved.

I hope.

:)

Re: Puzzled

[sarah-mum.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but why call the kid KUNTE???