That thread is too long
My wife went in the premature labour on Wednesday afternoon. She has been in since then with contractions that they have just managed to stop thankfully. They have been filling her with steroids to help the babies lungs develop as they are sure that it will be coming early. I haven't slept since Tuesday am am really beginning to feel it.

Whats the longest you have been awake for? Why? What was it like?

I am pretty sure this has been asked before so alt question is... Men would you get a vasectomy? Women would you get your tubes done?
( Peej, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:23, 79 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Alt answer: I will be having my own babby in August *prouds*
yes, once I have two, tubes are getting a knot
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:25, Reply)

Bit late for me to get my tubes done now.
My eggs are probably all manky by now.

Good luck for you and the Mrs though.
( girlinthehole, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:26, Reply)

So Edwina Currie was right all along?

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Yeah!
They're still in me, rotting away as we speak.
( girlinthehole, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:28, Reply)

She was right that John Major was a surprising skilled and caring lover.

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:29, Reply)

hope things are ok
56 hours. just because. It was pretty weird by the end to be honest.

I am toying with the idea before I can accidentally have any kids.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:27, Reply)

Best of luck to you, the missus and the kid
My longest time with no sleep was around the 60 hour mark. I was in hospital with a broken leg, and just could not sleep as I was in discomfort the whole time. In the end the nurses gave me something to help me sleep, but before then I was dopey as anything.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:31, Reply)

Hope all goes well for you, your wife, and your baby, my thoughts are with you.
(for whatever that might be worth)

Longest awake without any sleep at all, 48-50 hours. (I worked for an oil company in the 1980's boom and we were on call 24 hrs a day, 7 days a week. It was crazy. I commony was up for two days at a go).

A lot of nights when waiting for a gas well to come in I was able to get an hour or two "nap" in my company truck and sometimes I would be going for three days like this. It was nuts and unhealthy as hell. we all chain smoked and drank gallons of coffee.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:34, Reply)

Hello you : )
Back home now?
( girlinthehole, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:37, Reply)

Been home a while, I leave for CA the 31st. Should be traveling about a week a month this year.
Way too much. Hotels (even good ones) suck.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:39, Reply)

It must be a bitch.
Your neighbour been clearing the snow in his shorts again?
( girlinthehole, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:40, Reply)

Thankfully , no, it's still a possibity but not too likley this weekend.

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

Hope all goes well fella. How's Akira being with it all?
I've been awake for 48 hours before, drank the sun up at a festival, was a good laugh.

Alt Q: Once I've had 3 kids, I'll consider it.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:35, Reply)

Akira has been with Kayleighs mum in Bodmin
but I'll go and get her today, She's been good as gold apparently which is odd because she's a little brat at home!
( Peej, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:55, Reply)

Good good

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:59, Reply)

Hope all goes well.

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:38, Reply)

Been awake for several days and nights
towards the end everything feels dreamlike and you do stupid things.

Alt Q: I'd get it done now if anywhere would do it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:40, Reply)

The hallucinations are the best though!

(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:48, Reply)

I'd get snipped now if they'd do it
My mum would murderise me though.
And thanks in advance for any offers to help snip me, very kind but no.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:58, Reply)

sadface
*puts away shears*
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

Eek, I hope she and the baby are alright
although I believe you said she was 7 months recently, so that's premature but not uber premature. They should both be absolutely fine if there's no other complications.
I stayed awake for about 50 hours once, was going on holiday to the US and couldn't sleep on the plane or once we got there. I don't function at all well without sleep and was starting to go a bit mental.

Alt - no, probably not. It's quite invasive for women, I believe, certainly more so than it is for men - if I was in a relationship and couldn't risk/afford anymore kids or whatever, I'd ask my other half to consider it. If he wouldn't, then surely two forms of contraception should pretty much negate any chance of getting pregnant? It's worked for me so far.
(berk, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:43, Reply)

Are those two forms your face and your vagina?

(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:56, Reply)

Please punch him in the face for this tomorrow berk

(PsychoChomp, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:24, Reply)

Yeah shes just over 31 weeks
So they only need to worry about the lungs really and everyone knows lungs are one of those pointless organs that they really aren't sure what they do. I'm not worried just not quite ready.
( Peej, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:57, Reply)

pft lungs are overrated ask wooks

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:59, Reply)

The pill and abstinence?

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:57, Reply)

See above
mine was funnier, chinstable
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:58, Reply)

Mine was politer, fatty

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:59, Reply)

Why would I care about being polite to berk?
1) I'm married, so no chance of any norkage
2) berk doesn't do the sex anymore so point 1 is moot anyway
3) we're totally best "Going to see Pulp at the Wireless Festival in teh summer Buddies" so she loves me and won't think I'm a bastard for making a funny joke.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:07, Reply)

Pulp?!
Oh dear...
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:17, Reply)

Oh shush your face
Pulp are awesome.
(berk, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:21, Reply)

esome ful
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

I had an album in my teens
Listened to it again on mp3 last year, it's universally shit.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

I also had an album in my teens.
Luckily for me, it wasn't by Pulp.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:27, Reply)

If your chins ever saw a band as good as Pulp
they would smother your face in revenge for all that dreadful shit you subject them to.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:22, Reply)

I totally snubbed Jarvis Cocker by accident
At the Sickipedia comedy night. I leaned over his stupid head to read a poster, and didn't realise it was him until I walked away.
PUNK LIVES!
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:24, Reply)

He's a decent bloke, but I wouldn't buy a record off him.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:26, Reply)

snu kno
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:27, Reply)

I fear he's too bony
It'd be like trying to bang xylophone.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:30, Reply)

He curated that festival at the Barbican
and got some great bands on, inc Motorhead.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Doesn't make me want to fuck him

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:35, Reply)

Oh go on. He really fancies you.
You'd be doing me a favour to be honest.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:37, Reply)

There's not enough beer in the world

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:39, Reply)

AL:
you listen to Yngwie Malmsteen deliberately and for pleasure.

With this in mind your opinions on music are irrelevant. You also like a band called 'Therapy?' (their question mark), and they're fucking IRISH.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:32, Reply)

Monty:
You're a smallminded old man, who is constantly out of his head on massive drugs.

With this in mind your opinions on absolutely anything at all are irrelevant.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:36, Reply)

My mind is fucking large, I'll have you know.
I've spent years expanding it.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:38, Reply)

Ha! Very funny
yes, I suppose if you swap condoms for abstinence that pretty much describes the current situation.
(berk, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:25, Reply)

Condoms are all well and good
And don't get me wrong, a necessity until you're in a longterm relationship and both tested, but they are massive moment-killers.
It's all going passionately, clothes are being shed, hold on a minute love while I root around in the drawer to find one and "wrap it up before I slap it up".
Quote provided by Tim 'Big Dog' Westwood
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:29, Reply)

But, they do remove the problem of the wet patch
though it is annoying when you're away and you've forgotten to bring any.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:42, Reply)

I think it was around 63
Going out late, starting work at 4am not sleeping, barely eating.

I remember thinking a heard of black cats was following me everywhere. It was pretty weird. Then my friend suggested we have a spliff and I took about two tokes and happily passed out. Only to be woken three hours later by a deer SCREEEETCHING outside my window
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:57, Reply)

Wow, you don't look old enough to have been alive in '63,

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:26, Reply)

no I wouldn't
my brother died when we were both babies and my mom regretted getting hers done
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:58, Reply)

way to bring a downer on the thread K

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

what's not fun about death, eh

( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:05, Reply)

Hinding the bodies
It's like DIY, it always take longer than you think and clearing up is a nightmare.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:10, Reply)

it's not all fun and games, Al
you can have your fun, but you have to clean up
( Lisette von Falcon, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:19, Reply)

Shove some in the freezer for later

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:00, Reply)

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:10, Reply)

Spermcicle

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:28, Reply)

bit of a waste, her spraying it everwhere like that

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:01, Reply)

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:16, Reply)

Good luck to you all.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 14:59, Reply)

I've been up for a good few days on the trot before.
Why? M to the muthafuckin' D's of course. It's alright. You get used to it.

Hope all's well with the nip and your missus, PhillipJoseph.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:14, Reply)

McDonalds?

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:15, Reply)

Fast Food Guilt has never kept me awake for long

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:20, Reply)

Not for me, thanks. I'm middle class.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:23, Reply)

some people know if they definitely do/don't want kids
but i think quite a lot feel like i do - omg worst thing in the world right now, but equally wouldn't like to be told it's never going to happen. so no, i wouldn't do anything drastic.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:34, Reply)

As soon as people think it might not be possible,
they start to want them desperately, it seems. My sister cannot have kids for *medical reasons* and the subject is pretty much taboo.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:36, Reply)

As soon as people have kids they start palming them off on other people
because they're little brats.

How old is your Daughter now? Mines about to turn three and I am sure she is evil.
( Peej, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:42, Reply)

Mine's three in July
and is the sweetest, funniest little child I have ever met. She's extremely polite and pleasant-natured to a degree I have never seen before.

How long this will continue I cannot say, of course. Equally, I only see her once or twice a week so I get the best of her, I'm sure.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:45, Reply)

Mines three in a couple of weeks
and is also sweet, kind, polite and pleasant natured which is why I am sure she plotting something.

Unless she's tired then she's a brat.
( Peej, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:48, Reply)

I am amused and appalled in equal measures
how naturally deception and exploitation come to my kid - she's learnt from the best, of course - she tries it on big-time when she wants something and has already sussed me out as a soft touch.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:51, Reply)

she'll learn
when she is old enough to feel your hard touch
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:01, Reply)

I thought after the wife came off the pill it would take quite some time for her system to get back to normal
this was a mistake, it took 3 months and she's up the duff.
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:43, Reply)

She's been told there is a very high chance
they will end up with a similar personality to you, so she isn't allowed to risk it.


Lol jk! I know the real reason.
(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:44, Reply)

it's genetic ugliness isn't it?

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:47, Reply)

It seems to have skipped a generation with Montys daughter mind

(Bazongaloid, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:50, Reply)

PAEDO!

( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 15:52, Reply)

Are you saying you fancy my mum?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 21 Jan 2011, 16:00, Reply)