China Romance
General Discussion and Useful Links => The Campfire => Topic started by: ahkiwi on August 25, 2009, 04:21:48 pm
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Hard out sleepers!
www.sleepingchinese.com (http://www.sleepingchinese.com)
Anyone seen this sort of thing when they visited China?
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Yes
All over the places. Driver sleeps in their car parked on the pavement, and people resting their head on the table at smaller resturant etc, made me want to do the same. :icon_cheesygrin:
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Sleeping is one of the Chinese favourite pastimes, my better half, can doze off at anytime during the day if she has nothing else to do. As the pictures show, some can sleep just about anywhere too. I think you'll be amazed just how many have a regular mid-day doze too. From top directors of companies to the lowest soul, ...all will try and grab a bit of doze time during the day... haha!!
David...
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yes all over the place and the smaller the city the more you see this
hell i think some sleep while driving with it on cruise control
just joking but that is a whole other issue
Ted
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I've seen this local. An Asian high school girl everyday on the bus would take a snooze. My lady said "She likes to sleep"? I'm waiting to see what she meant by this? Like most of the day? I hope not.
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I can't do that sort of thing, I wake up feeling worse than when I started :-/
hehe, it's good to see the airport security guy asleep while the bags go through the xray :icon_cheesygrin:
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God my daughters would fit right in there....lol :angel:They could sleep for their Country...lol:icon_cheesygrin::icon_cheesygrin:
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God my daughters would fit right in there
Mine too. Well their mother was a good sleeper? Goes to bed at 9 PM and got up a 2 PM? My daughters aren't that bad, to bed at like 1 AM and wake at 11 AM.
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I saw this absolutely everywhere, in supermarkets, in malls, in train stations, public parks, just about everywhere,. I just put it down to the fact they all work incredibly long hours.
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Yes I have seen it all over China.My wife worked at a hospital in Shenzen they used to close for 2 hours every day so that they could all go to sleep.
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For God's sake don't tell the warmongers what time they do this at, or they'll fly over and drop a bomb...lol
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Hmmmm...... I think I'll take a nap.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ :sleepy:
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Hey when I was there I fit right in!
I had no problem sleeping in the taxi, in the air plane, wherever I could.
But I had an ulterior motive. I wanted to rest in these places so I could be well rested and ready for the night action.
It worked quite fine for me!
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In my wifes hospital they give them two hour lunches so they can take a nap. When she goes back to work while I am still here, will work out fine. lol
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Some do work incredibly long hours, but most work normal type hours. It doesn't really matter they will still have a sleep given the opportunity. On day's off work they will have at least a 2 hour sleep/doze around mid-day if they have nothing else on that day. Hong Kong is similar, but they are a lot more discreet about it .... They tend to ''hide'' and sleep!! ...haha!!
David...
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In southern Europe they have it too, called a siesta, Greece, Portugal and Spain have this, maybe parts of Italy too.
I know in the south of China in Guangzhou some office workers have it too, they just call it "afternoon nap" but it amounts to the same aka a "siesta".
I seem to recall reading that this is a natural thing and very healthy to do, certainly, when in holidays in Greece in the past i did it as everything shut down for a couple of hours around midday and it was very easy to adapt to and take part in myself i must admit.
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Ronan.
Here in Cyprus the shops close from 1 pm til 4 pm, bloody annoying is is too. At one time, even the big supermarkets closed for 2 hours lunch break, thank god that's all stopped now. So we have traffic rush hours 4 times a day here!! ..haha!! As you say, it's common all round the Med',
They say , too hot to work, better work in the late afternoon. Maybe, ...in the days ''Before'' A/C but technology has caught-up and taken over that poor excuse now... They still use the A/C's be it mornings and evenings when the shops are open.
Now, ....well now the excuse is ... A/C very expensive to run, better to close shop and go home!! What do they do when they go home?? yep, ...you guessed it, turn on the A/C unit's!!! ...hahaha!!!
Any excuse for a sleep!! lol!!
David....
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My friend's son married a Chinese lady, some of her family came for a visit and stayed at my friend's house. Yes, you guessed it! They brought their tradition along too of a mid-day nap. My mate was astonished and couldn't believe it!
Just to digress for a moment but I have seen this sleep thing a lot in Thailand and rather liken it to an old Martini advert in the UK of any time, any place, any where, because that is how it is. I had to walk out of a barber shop once because I could not wake him up to cut my hair.
I have often wondered if that is why they seem to look so young.
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Yes Irish Italy too. 3 hour afternoon breaks.
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Hey Amigo, mexico was first with the siesta. We invented it. - Jose, Pablo and Juan.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
I also wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that there is less O2 in the air and more crap to breath...
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Nothing New to me.
I have seen them asleep on many occasions - usually when I thought they were enjoying things only to find they were snores not grunts of pleasure!!!
Willy