Flamey Cancer Ball Avoidance techniques

Doctor DooM

Hello fellow noctites, I need some advice.

I woke up today and despite my thermally lined extra thick curtains WITH blackout lined roller blind (home appliances mod, not for nothing) there was still sunlight creeping in, disturbing my slumber (not in work til 3).

I need advice, and would also like some anecdotes, on the important nocturnal task for the pale skinned night creatures that is flamey cancer death ball avoidance.

HALP!

shellyboo

I suggest this...



You'd look super Doomy pretty in that!

Or perhaps this one?



DISCLAIMER: Pure specualtion on my part :o:pac:

Methinks this would be most appropriate though...

Shiminay

Silver foil on your windows - reflects away light and heat.

Zwillinge

Or black tape over the windows. It might help!

Doctor DooM

shellyboo wrote: »

? :eek:





...Actually, the f off one is quite me.

Doctor DooM

Kharn wrote: »

Silver foil on your windows - reflects away light and heat.

Zwillinge wrote: »

Or black tape over the windows. It might help!

Both good ideas, both with the added extra of making my neighbours think I have gone insane and therefore leave me alone to the wee small hours (when I can skulk around scaring them)

tribulus

I sleep in my wardrobe hanging upside down, works well.

Edit: Mmm could you construct some kind of fort?! Or light blocker in the same vein as a wind blocker around your bed?

Doctor DooM

tribulus wrote: »

I sleep in my wardrobe hanging upside down, works well.

Edit: Mmm could you construct some kind of fort?! Or light blocker in the same vein as a wind blocker around your bed?

I'm more of a werewolf than a bloodsucker.

Hm... I could pile up all my dvds and tpbs next to the window...

Futurecrook

We could blow up the sun? Or if you got a dark sheet and hung that up, taping the edges down, as an extra layer between the blind and curtains?

Doctor DooM

Futurecrook wrote: »

We could blow up the sun? Or if you got a dark sheet and hung that up, taping the edges down, as an extra layer between the blind and curtains?

Now we're talking. We got to take the power back.

tribulus

SDooM wrote: »

Hm... I could pile up all my dvds and tpbs next to the window...

Tradepaperbacks? Did you used to work with books?

I reckon if there's just a small beam of light coming through you could just strategically place one pile to block it and save some room and mess if you knock it over.

Shiminay

SDooM wrote: »

Both good ideas, both with the added extra of making my neighbours think I have gone insane and therefore leave me alone to the wee small hours (when I can skulk around scaring them)

Only draw-back to foiling your windows is the Garda Drug squad calling over to see where all the dope you're growing is

Doctor DooM

tribulus wrote: »

Tradepaperbacks? Did you used to work with books?

I reckon if there's just a small beam of light coming through you could just strategically place one pile to block it and save some room and mess if you knock it over.

Nah I just know the difference between them and graphic novels

Kharn wrote: »

Only draw-back to foiling your windows is the Garda Drug squad calling over to see where all the dope you're growing is

My house was once raided (incorrectly) for drugs, remind me to tell you the story at the beers!

The irony being I want the place cool not hot

grames_bond

Futurecrook wrote: »

We could blow up the sun? Or if you got a dark sheet and hung that up, taping the edges down, as an extra layer between the blind and curtains?

ya cant blow up the sun.....doom wants to f*ck the sun! :pac:

Futurecrook

SDooM wrote: »

Now we're talking. We got to take the power back.

Exactly. I've already started drawing up the plans. I want revenge! I was in Spain before and fell asleep with the curtains drawn, but there was sunlight coming through a gap in the curtains and I woke up with sunburned feet! :mad: :pac:

girl_friday

Futurecrook wrote: »

I was in Spain before and fell asleep with the curtains drawn, but there was sunlight coming through a gap in the curtains and I woke up with sunburned feet! :mad: :pac:

It could only happen to you FC!! :eek:

Doctor DooM

Futurecrook wrote: »

Exactly. I've already started drawing up the plans. I want revenge! I was in Spain before and fell asleep with the curtains drawn, but there was sunlight coming through a gap in the curtains and I woke up with sunburned feet! :mad: :pac:

See how the sun loving gits feel when it's perma nocturna time!

orestes

Sleep in a coffin/casket?

Nevyn

You need a large bed canopy.

http://interiordec.about.com/cs/canopybeds/l/aacanopybedsg.htm

Attache the curtain poles to the ceiling all around the bed boxing in it
And hang with dark drapes black or red which are lined or leather
Then all you need is a few furs for your bed.

grames_bond

that picture hurts my eyes!! good gawd thats pink bright!

dave.omeara

If the silver foil or black tape doesn't worry your neighbours, what if you brick off your windows then, place air vents strategically coming out of the house. For added effect you could have people constantly arriving at the house but make sure that no one ever sees them leave.

Hmmm, I think I've latched onto the making the neighbours think you've gone insane part rather then the block out the sun part.

Aisling(",)

sleep in a room at the other side of the house when the suns at your side.
or wallpaper over your windows
or sleep with a cooling gel eye masks...helps with the bags so they say
or alternativly just roll over!

cyberwolf77

I sleep the days away in my basement( actually a den under my front porch but we calls it the basement.)

Crumble Froo

SDooM wrote: »

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...Actually, the f off one is quite me.

im quite fond of the '**** off unless you're bringing food' one a mate got me for my long distance flights.

but i found, in my old dingy gaf, that double glazed windows with water between them (apparently it's quite expensive to get fixed, so we just left it) lets less light in than teh cleaner, transparent ones, and my one curtain (the other one that i wanted to 'borrow' had since been used as cushioning on a makeshift beam for my gymnast sister), so i thumbtacked it to the wall, to make sure it covered the whole window, and, it must be said, that was really quite effective at keeping all light out.

Doctor DooM

You know, there is a simple enough way to build a canopy using bendy curtain rails...

star-pants

SDooM wrote: »

You know, there is a simple enough way to build a canopy using bendy curtain rails...

There's also those mosquito like nets that just attach to the ceiling and then the material circles the bed. Though I've slept in a bed like that and I felt trapped. Hiding under the duvet does me!