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2007-01-31 Europe

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Posted by tu3031 2007-01-31 15:46|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bertrand said sleepiness causes 20 percent to 30 percent of highway accidents across France each year.

Yeah, guzzling wine for breakfast don't have nuttin' to do with it. Nope. Nuttin at all.

Posted by Dreadnought 2007-01-31 16:56|| 2007-01-31 16:56|| Front Page Top

#2 Heck, if they take their nap on the stamping machine in the steel mill they'll fall asleep fast. I just don't want to be on the bus when the driver decides it's nap time.

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2007-01-31 17:02|| 2007-01-31 17:02|| Front Page Top

#3 The ministry's online "Passport to Sleep" recommends cutting down on coffee, tea, colas, and athletic activity after 8 p.m., shunning TV time or working late in the evening, and listening better to the body's own sleep signals, such as yawning.

Notice - no word regarding wine or other alcoholic beverages there.

Drink alcohol, stay up to late, get up to early, go to your 35-hr work week (at which you probably spend about 20 hrs actually doing actual work), wash, rinse, repeat - and one wonders why the poor souls are tired all the time.

"Work, work, work, work, work, work, hello, boys!" Blazing Saddles

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-31 17:25|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-31 17:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "Drink alcohol, stay up to late, get up to early, go to your 35-hr work week (at which you probably spend about 20 hrs actually doing actual work), wash, rinse, repeat - and one wonders why the poor souls are tired all the time."

Two problems with this.

One, you left out the midmorning white wine break that's popular there.

Two, what's this reference to washing?

Posted by no mo uro 2007-01-31 18:55|| 2007-01-31 18:55|| Front Page Top

#5 #4: "Two, what's this reference to washing?"

Damn, nmu - you owe me a new monitor!

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-01-31 20:16|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2007-01-31 20:16|| Front Page Top

#6 Just so they don't nap more than 35 hours per week at work. Won't want to break the law.

Posted by DMFD 2007-01-31 23:00|| 2007-01-31 23:00|| Front Page Top

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