The light bulb inside your refrigerator can disturb your sleep

[DavidDvorkin]

even though the refrigerator is in a different room and the bulb is off when the door is closed.

I learn the most amazing things on DU!

[onager]

1. That fridge light can get you KILLED!

:scared:

[LeftishBrit]

2. Compared with that...

the heroine of 'The Princess and the Pea' must have had hide like a rhinoceros!

[mr blur]

3. This is why we keep our fridge in a huge lead-lined safe,

and all wear tinfoil hats around the kitchen.

You just can't be too careful.

[realisticphish]

4. not necessary

refrigerators are already lead lined, and can withstand nuclear blasts

[Orrex]

5. That's the best movie in the whole entire history of ever.

[realisticphish]

6. Shia le Beuf: King of the Monkeys

[Orrex]

7. He's so dreamy!

[realisticphish]

8. Almost as good as "Shia le Beuf: Motorcycle-Riding Hoolligan"

[SemiCharmedQuark]

10. "I'm a real toughie."

[TZ]

25. Saw this and IMMEDIATELY thought of you!

http://www.comcast.net/entertainment/reelnews/6980/shiaslamsspielbergbayformoviemissteps/
Comments? :popcorn:

[SemiCharmedQuark]

9. Noooo....

I weep about what they did to Indy. That was my favorite trilogy ever! I was even Indy for Halloween once (despite being a girl) :(

[realisticphish]

11. i don't include crystal skull in the series

i compartmentalize it as a terrible abomination, like the star wars prequels, or terminator: salvation

[lazarus]

12. or Rocky V

Which never, ever happened.

[onager]

23. He's King Of Transformers, too!

I just recently watched "Revenge of the Fallen," when I had a spare 3 days. That's how long it seemed to last, anyway. It wasn't exactly on the top of my "Must See" list, so I waited for the cable showing.

In the first one, I remember one of the Transformer bots saying something about their "god." I kept waiting for more insight into the exciting field of Transformer Theology, but they didn't pursue it.

"Revenge" had even worse CGI than the first one, and loads of goofy hugger-mugger about Egypt. The "Egyptian desert" looked more like Utah, with lots of mesas and buttes.

And probably was shot there. I watched the credits and noted the use of a "Southwest Unit." But they also shot in Egypt and Jordan.

The Dramatic Final Scene takes place at the Giza Pyramids, but at one point, the characters come ambling out of the very distinctive temple of Ramses II - the one with the giant statues in front. That's located in Aswan, about 500 miles away from the Giza Pyramids.

The "Egyptian villages" around their Giza Plateau don't look anything like the real deal. The streets were way too quiet, with not nearly enough cars, people, donkey carts, or Carpet Schools/Papyrus Museums to rip off the tourists.

Those "villages" are actually the suburbs of Cairo, which come up almost to the chin of the Sphinx. In fact, right across the street from the Sphinx you'll find a convenient Pizza Hut.

[realisticphish]

24. I still haven't watched that movie

I've tried, yes. Three times. Never made it more than 20 minutes. EVEN WITH RIFFTRAX I can't watch the damn movie.

[Warpy]

13. I read that part of the post and my mind boggled.

I still have a lot of trouble sleeping without light in my eyes.

I can see that people who live normal lives might have trouble sleeping with a lot of LEDs increasing ambient room light, but I suspect they'd suffer from insomnia even in a sound isolation room with blackout drapes and nothing electric.

[realisticphish]

14. sounds horrifying

i can't sleep in absolute silence. creeps me the hell out. I need a fan on, or a fishtank huminh, or my cat purring or something

even heavy traffic going by works, or crickets/tree frogs in the country, but i hate absolute silence

[lazarus]

15. same here

must have ambient noise. I usually run a fan, since I quit needing the CPAP machine.

I miss the sounds from outside when I lived in the country.

[realisticphish]

16. my parents

have a pack of coyotes that live nearby. If you didn't know what coyotes sounded like, that hellish noise at night could make you crap your pants.

It sounds like demons screeching at each other

[lazarus]

17. ours are fairly quiet

Coyotes around here have been seen in the streets, coming out of the canyons for some reason. We have a canyon behind our house, and behind the houses on the other side of the street, and coyotes live in both. Can't have outdoor cats around here, that's for sure.

But they're usually quiet. I agree that they're quite disturbing when they set up a racket.

[realisticphish]

18. we (well, they) live way out in the country

they have 2 cats that are indoor-outdoor, but they're old, and never leave the front porch. whenever we hear the coyotes, we do a quick head count of cats, and they always flee for the house long before we even hear them

[EvolveOrConvolve]

21. We have an owl that sits in a tree right outside our window

I don't know what kind of owl it is because I only see it at night, but it's a big bastard, and really, really creepy when it starts hooting. It's unbelievable how loud it is - it sounds almost like a human in extreme duress.

We also get coyotes, but they tend to be the loners skirting the edge of the desert looking for food. The gun nuts around here shoot them if they're seen.

[realisticphish]

22. have you ever heard a barred owl?

I've been on a few owl calls, and they are awesome. When you get a few of them together, they start chattering to each other. They sound like monkeys

You can basically have conversations with them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgOrZ3jSrB8


We used to have a Great Horned Owl that lived in our barn. One night, he was silhouetted in front of the full moon sitting on the peak. I wish I had had a camera...

[semillama]

26. The worst are nightjars

I had a friend who went camping in southern Ohio and a whip-poor-will decided the top of his tent was the best place in the world to call all night long.


You'd swear that the birds don't need to breath, that's how much they call.

[TZ]

27. I dunno..Bobwhites first thing in the morning are pretty annoying

The first 10 times I heard BOBWHITE! it was cute...then not so much.....

[SemiCharmedQuark]

19. Me too!

I get goosebumps in total silence. My husband says I'm Al Gore's mortal enemy because I often sleep with the TV on.

[realisticphish]

20. i usually have a fan on

and my computer on as well, playing music or a movie

I have some issues with my ears (pertaining to past ear infections, i think) and i can get ringing in them if it's too quiet.