This thought occurred to me the other day, soon after I woke up with the urgent need to tinkle: I cannot recall ever being woken up from sleep by any urgent need to defecate. Anecdotal evidence (i.e. I asked a few people) indicates that, while being woken up by a full bladder is common, being woken up by a full colon doesn’t happen.
Why the difference? Certainly, at other times of the day, the need to defecate can be overpowering.
Sua
I think the colon has greater, how shall I say, excess capacity* than the bladder.
FWIW, I have been awakened by a need to download a big JPEG, if you follow me.
I too, have been awakened in the middle of the night, but mine was more of an MPEG.
Normally, bowel urgency would be of a less pressing nature, probably because of the greater capacity and resiliency of the intestines. The Bladder, with its small size and relatively inelastic when full consistency, would need to be emptied more urgently than the bowels.
Last night, for example, we went out to a BBQ joint, where I consumed a burger with pulled pork barbecue, two kinds of cheese, hot sauce and fried onion bits on top, sided by coleslaw and homemade potato chips. I was awakened in the night by what I’ll characterise as a “sudden need to establish a streaming video connection”, but that was due to the grease and overall volume of the meal.
download a big JPEG - 
mine was more of an MPEG - 
sudden need to establish a streaming video connection - :eek:
You guys are geeks!
I woke up at 3 this morning and had to download a very large .exe file. The excrutiating, extra large comes out sideways kind. This was preceded by the usual tinkle call at about 2:50. Climbed back in bed and tried to go to sleep but felt quite a bit of pressure down below. I tried to let off a little excess gas to see if that would help but it didn’t. It was almost 3:30 before I got back to bed and then the alarm went off at 4. And my wife just called and her only complaint was the aroma of our bedroom after I got up the second time.
What? Nobody’s BMP’s?
But the question everyone wants to ask, how many bits was it?
The other measurement is too unspeakable…
Iteki, the correct unit of measurement is a “buttload.”
Sua
For myself, the regular .jpg downloads almost never happen at night. However when I have an IBS attack, the ensuing .bmp (non-compressed if you know what I mean) download often happens at night, usually 3 or so in the morning…
I wonder why always 3’ish? It must be supper making it’s way through. The same for my father who has Chron’s.
I haven’t been this proud in a long time.
I typically wake up to the tune of a nice, tight, compressed MP3.
Bandwidth, gentlemen.
Bandwidth!
Man…y’all are really bringing back some bad RAM…
Personally, my JPG’s are usually in a ZIP file, and after un-compressing, I almost always do a windows update.
There were a couple times that I was awakend by a denial-of-service attack… I thought I was going to, but it didn’t happen…
After a curry or two, I will certainly wake up in the middle of the night with an extreme desire to dump the hard drive.
Incidentally, I’m sure mentioning this on the boards is OK, since peer-to-peer file sharing in this case would be, well, let’s just say unlikely.
I was thinking about the old Napters* outhouses and the modern day Kazza* port-o-lets. Unless your talking about direct networking.
ewww. :eek:
*The names were changed to protect the guilty.