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Advantages of being a night owl.

  • 30-05-2014 12:30am
    #1
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭


    The last couple of weeks my working day don't start till 6pm and work to about 3-4 am, I am really enjoying how quiet the countryside is and not having the nosy neighbours popping in with a small engine for repair which is grand but have to put up listening to them talk trash about the weather, politics, general ****e.
    The reason it all started is due to working on a few projects but the other couple of lads are working normal days and come at 6 and stay till 10, I work away on my own have the radio going away in the back ground and happy out.
    Starting to like this new schedule, what do others think? Am i joking myself and should I go back to 9am -6pm working day?


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  • #2
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    What do you do? Also, 6-10??. That's either 4 hours or 16, and neither is too typical..


  • #3
    wendell borton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,336 ✭✭✭wendell borton


    Im more of a barn owl.


  • #4
    keith16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,061 ✭✭✭keith16


    Being able to hunt delicious mice from an unstoppable aerial vantage point.


  • #5
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    The magical ability of turning day into night


  • #6
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    What do you do? Also, 6-10??. That's either 4 hours or 16, and neither is too typical..

    Gone mad busy repairing small engines, chainsaws, strimmers, lawn mowers etc, time of the year. The 6-10 is the lads that call for a few hours and work on the other projects.


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  • #7
    umop.episdn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭umop.episdn


    Great if you're single, not so great if you're trying to go to bed at 7.30am when the kids are just getting up


  • #8
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Gone mad busy repairing small engines, chainsaws, strimmers, lawn mowers etc, time of the year. The 6-10 is the lads that call for a few hours and work on the other projects.

    Ever fixed a Hatz? :D


  • #9
    rwg
    Closed Accounts Posts: 445 ✭✭rwg


    You can turn your head around 360 degrees and smack yourself in the back of the head


  • #10
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Tail Docker wrote: »
    Ever fixed a Hatz? :D

    No not yet, you would never know what might roll in tomorrow though :)


  • #11
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    No not yet, you would never know what might roll in tomorrow though :)

    Not feckin rolling a whole lot at the mo. :mad: :D


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  • #12
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    The farmers are really invading after hours recently :D


  • #13
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    The farmers are really invading after hours recently :D

    Top of the morning to ya :)


  • #14
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    I just saw an owl a few minutes ago. Was coming up the road and he whooshes out in front of me and sits on a gate porch. So I ask him, what's the advantages of being a night owl? And do you know what he says?

    Nothing.


  • #15
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    And do you know what he says?

    Nothing.

    Is it because you were walking backwards?


  • #16
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    Is it because you were walking backwards?

    No, silly.

    It's because owls don't speak English.


  • #17
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    It's dangerous being a night owl when you're depressed and unemployed 'cause it makes me either ruminate on all the shít things in life (while ignoring the good things) or tune out completely and mindlessly sit there stuffing my face and being a slob.

    Still, it is nice being able to avoid people and not have to pretend to be happy or make awkward forced smalltalk.


  • #18
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    No, silly.

    It's because owls don't speak English.

    I always understand them :confused:

    You have to ask the right question. Usually a random thing.

    The answer is always right :)


  • #19
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    No, silly.

    It's because owls don't speak English.

    Do owls have a language? are they fluent in many languages maybe?


  • #20
    The Backwards Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 18,299 ✭✭✭✭The Backwards Man


    Chucken wrote: »
    I always understand them :confused:

    You have to ask the right question. Usually a random thing.

    The answer is always right :)

    They only speak to you cause you're an owl wan. :p


  • #21
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    They only speak to you cause you're an owl wan. :p

    One of these days.......boyo :P


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  • #22
    Sir Arthur Daley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,720 ✭✭✭Sir Arthur Daley


    Chucken wrote: »
    One of these days.......boyo :P

    Thereis no shiela like an old shiela :)


  • #23
    Dr Turk Turkelton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Dr Turk Turkelton


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    It's dangerous being a night owl when you're depressed and unemployed 'cause it makes me either ruminate on all the shít things in life (while ignoring the good things) or tune out completely and mindlessly sit there stuffing my face and being a slob.

    Still, it is nice being able to avoid people and not have to pretend to be happy or make awkward forced smalltalk.

    Have you heard of alcohol?


  • #24
    Chucken
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,459 ✭✭✭Chucken


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    Have you heard of alcohol?

    Have you heard of Cop On?


  • #25
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Dr Turk Turkelton wrote: »
    Have you heard of alcohol?

    have you heard that alcohol is a depressant


  • #26
    fRlEnd
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭fRlEnd


    Sharp beak. Good eyesight. Good hearing.


  • #27
    Oblong Gator
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 ✭Oblong Gator


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    The farmers are really invading after hours recently :D

    Whooo...?


  • #28
    Oblong Gator
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 12 ✭Oblong Gator


    --LOS-- wrote: »
    The farmers are really invading after hours recently :D

    Whooo...?


  • #29
    SeantheMan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,912 ✭✭✭SeantheMan


    Sir Arthur Daley wrote: »
    The last couple of weeks my working day don't start till 6pm and work to about 3-4 am, I am really enjoying how quiet the countryside is and not having the nosy neighbours popping in with a small engine for repair which is grand but have to put up listening to them talk trash about the weather, politics, general ****e.
    The reason it all started is due to working on a few projects but the other couple of lads are working normal days and come at 6 and stay till 10, I work away on my own have the radio going away in the back ground and happy out.
    Starting to like this new schedule, what do others think? Am i joking myself and should I go back to 9am -6pm working day?

    I used to do shift work , so some weeks would work 8pm-8am.
    You're probably isn't as bad..as you can get home early enough to wake up early enough...but it's still into the early hours.

    For me the worst thing was on a sunny day, when my mates would want to go for a beer or out somwhere, especially on a Friday and you couldn't because you're shift was only starting ...while theirs was finishing.

    The biggest benefit as you say was driving, the roads were quiet to and from work, but after 4 years I'm glad I'm finished with nightshifts....takes its toll on you


  • #30
    Ted_YNWA
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,799 ✭✭✭✭Ted_YNWA


    The Backwards Man wrote: »
    I just saw an owl a few minutes ago. Was coming up the road and he whooshes out in front of me and sits on a gate porch. So I ask him, what's the advantages of being a night owl? And do you know what he says?

    Nothing.

    would have thought he"d say it's a HOOT.


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  • #31
    Lyaiera
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,818 ✭✭✭Lyaiera


    There's nothing like the rush you get when dawn rolls around.


  • #32
    --LOS--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,028 ✭✭✭✭--LOS--


    Oblong Gator wrote: »
    Whooo...?

    The ones with the hatz and the turf


  • #33
    Arthur Beesley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,537 ✭✭✭Arthur Beesley


    My mate is a bit of a sh*te hawk. Does that count?


  • #34
    Tail Docker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,954 ✭✭✭Tail Docker


    Lyaiera wrote: »
    There's nothing like the rush you get when dawn rolls around.

    That's what Lenny used to always say.


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