Who came up with 'sleeps' anyway?
I fucking hate it. When firebox.com put a sleeps countdown on their website I boycotted them.
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:32, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

I think it was amoeba.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:34, Reply)

Is that a B3ta user?
If so, someone tell rob to give me their address so I can walk past their house with a look of stern disappointment on my face. (I was going to say slap them but that's not really my idiom...)
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:41, Reply)

Agreed
Vile phrase.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:40, Reply)

agreed

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:44, Reply)

Yeah.
Everyone knows it's 'period of bodily shut down to aid rest and stop people from killing each other via the medium of ratty tiredness'.

Duh!
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

I've been saying sleeps since I were a nipper.
Nowt wrong with sleeps.
( girlinthehole, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Feel free
he sleeps,she sleeps, knock yourself out.

don't defend the horrifyingly awful attempt to sound festive and cute by marketing departments... it's like defending domestic abuse (if the beaten wife was called 'sleeps')
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 9:50, Reply)

Roota started it.
*runs away*
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:00, Reply)

Wasn't Roota expressing the desire for people to stop saying 'sleeps'?
Also careful how you go with all this ice, you could break a hip.
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:03, Reply)

Depends how you interpret it I suppose.
On the one hand she could have been saying shut up to people who say 'sleeps'. On the other, she may have been expressing her excitement at the impending festered season and telling people to shut up for berating her of this child like ecstasy she is currently feeling.

I don't know. I'm confused now.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:06, Reply)

I really hope it wasn't an American 'SHUT UP' like something out of a Nickelodeon show...
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:09, Reply)

It was 'Shut up!' like Mojojojo
or "Children of the niiight...shuttup!"
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:13, Reply)

mojojoClueless the series.
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:18, Reply)

[s][/s] on either side, but using the less than/greater than brackets.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:20, Reply)

why thank you!
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:22, Reply)

Oh, you mean like "Shut u^u-uuhp!"
No. I mean like MojoJojo, in a disgruntled villain way.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:20, Reply)

And I just googled Mojojojo, and now am unsurprised you use 'sleeps' as a measure of time...
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

He would kick your arse
and he will do, as soon as he becomes powerful.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:26, Reply)

I'm a little bit ashamed that the theme tune is now running through my mind. I didn't know I knew most of the words...
(ElectricSexPants would like to be the Sultan of something, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:29, Reply)

I had the board game but it's now in an ex's mother's house.
I didn't care abut anybody but Mojo.
And Buttercup. A bit.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 22 Dec 2010, 10:32, Reply)