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"Stop, Sip, Sleep".... they have this all wrong

  • 15-04-2019 4:07pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 5,528 ✭✭✭veryangryman


    ...in the RSA ad.

    Surely sipping coffee will not help you to do the next bit...sleeping!


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  • Site Banned Posts: 725 ✭✭✭Balanadan


    Sleep before the caffeine kicks in.

    Close it down lads.


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Caffeine doesn't hit immediately. Coffee, sleep for 15 minutes at the side of the road, wake up just when it hits.


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,405 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    Yeah,who can sleep like that at will,particularly in a car.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ Cristiano Thousands Turf


    The sleep time allows the coffee to kick in.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 991 ✭✭✭The Crowman


    That feels more like an ad for coffee than a public service advert. Bring back 1970s style shock tactic pifs with graphic carnage I say.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,419 ✭✭✭touts


    Don't know about the coffee part but I've driven once seriously fatigued and I'll tell you stopping and sleeping for a short while is the only solution. How I didn't kill myself and someone else before I got to a filling station to do the Stop Sip and Sleep thing I don't know. Just couldn't concentrate and really struggled to keep my eyes open. After less than an hour (with about 30 Min nap) I was much better and got home safe. If It happened again I'd just stop somewhere for a 30min nap and skip the caffeine rather than try to find a filling station.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    What about the 10% of the population that caffeine isn't a stimulant for?? :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,376 ✭✭✭Hande hoche!


    That feels more like an ad for coffee than a public service advert. Bring back 1970s style shock tactic pifs with graphic carnage I say.
    The one with the lad without the seatbelt flying around like a guided missile.


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,083 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    What about the 10% of the population that caffeine isn't a stimulant for?? :)

    meth?


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,355 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Fairly well proven that caffeine aids sleep performance for a short period, if you fall asleep before it takes hold.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,474 ✭✭✭jim o doom


    I was exhausted one day, had a coffee on the way home (wasn't driving) and so tired when I got in the door I went to bed and had a nap before the caffeine kicked in.

    Slept like a baby and woke feeling better than I have after any sleep I've ever had. Was awesome.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    Grayson wrote: »
    meth?

    Now you're thinking :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,555 ✭✭✭Roger Hassenforder


    kneemos wrote: »
    Yeah,who can sleep like that at will,particularly in a car.

    *waves


  • Registered Users Posts: 18,071 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Only thing to come from this will be Starbucks express siren song on the side of the road to lure men to sobriety.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,699 ✭✭✭Bacchus


    kneemos wrote: »
    Yeah,who can sleep like that at will,particularly in a car.

    Well they're trying to stop people from falling asleep WHILE driving... so maybe those people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,277 ✭✭✭Your Face


    Coffee doesn't stop me from sleeping.


  • Registered Users Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    kneemos wrote: »
    Yeah,who can sleep like that at will,particularly in a car.

    People who are falling asleep at the wheel and need to pull in?


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,766 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    kneemos wrote: »
    Yeah,who can sleep like that at will,particularly in a car.

    You obviously don't have kids kneemos.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,034 ✭✭✭mad muffin


    marcbrophy wrote: »
    What about the 10% of the population that caffeine isn't a stimulant for?? :)

    Stop, ****, sleep?


  • Registered Users Posts: 20,405 ✭✭✭✭kneemos


    *waves


    Hi.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,108 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Nearly fell asleep at the wheel on the M5. Whole family on board. :eek: Stopped at a service station and tried to nap. Eventually went into the shop and spotted some Red Bull. I'd never drank Red Bull before, so you can guess the effect...

    I think I was still awake the next morning. :D


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,439 ✭✭✭✭For Forks Sake


    That feels more like an ad for coffee than a public service advert. Bring back 1970s style shock tactic pifs with graphic carnage I say.

    Where's grandad?


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    Pherekydes wrote: »
    Nearly fell asleep at the wheel on the M5. Whole family on board. :eek: Stopped at a service station and tried to nap. Eventually went into the shop and spotted some Red Bull. I'd never drank Red Bull before, so you can guess the effect...

    I think I was still awake the next morning. :D

    And nobody could drive the last stretch? Jesus.


  • Registered Users Posts: 24,464 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    don't stop for too long though or you can get done for that too :pac:
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/111934861/sleeping-drivers-ticketed-for-freedom-camping-in-queenstown


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    https://www.vox.com/2014/8/28/6074177/coffee-naps-caffeine-science

    when you are tired you have loads of adenosine and caffeine stops more but doesnt clear what's there so you clear what's there with a nap but have caffeine first to stop more building up

    uhhh that's my understanding
    i need a coffee nap


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jeremyj1968


    I have my own method of staying awake when driving that I'm thinking of approaching the RSA with.

    "Stop, Score, Snort"


  • Registered Users Posts: 16,108 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    LirW wrote: »
    And nobody could drive the last stretch? Jesus.

    'fraid not. Wife was the only adult, and she couldn't drive.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭marcbrophy


    mad muffin wrote: »
    Stop, ****, sleep?

    You'd be out for 8 hours then! :pac:


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,331 ✭✭✭jeremyj1968


    I've always thought it was a stupid campaign though. People now laugh at the drink driving campaign that said "Just two will do" and I see this as similar. Surely if you are jaded tired then they should be advising you just to pull up at a cheap hotel and get a good night's sleep, or stay with a friend, or anything other than being on the road.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    I've always thought it was a stupid campaign though. People now laugh at the drink driving campaign that said "Just two will do" and I see this as similar. Surely if you are jaded tired then they should be advising you just to pull up at a cheap hotel and get a good night's sleep, or stay with a friend, or anything other than being on the road.

    Cos Ireland is littered with cheap roadside hotels and friends who conveniently live close by to wherever you're driving.


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