How many hours a day would Cambodians sleep if they could?

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Re: How many hours a day would Cambodians sleep if they could?

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Inspirada wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:49 pm If you gave the average healthy 20 - 40 year old Cambodian person so much money that he or she never had to work, how many hours a day would he or she then spend sleeping?

It's like 14 hours a day, right? Something like that.
Maybe you're focusing on the long lunch break during the hottest hours too much and overlook loads of ordinary jobs starting at 7 and and stopping at 5?
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Kammekor wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 6:59 am
Inspirada wrote: Sun Jun 18, 2023 6:49 pm If you gave the average healthy 20 - 40 year old Cambodian person so much money that he or she never had to work, how many hours a day would he or she then spend sleeping?

It's like 14 hours a day, right? Something like that.
Maybe you're focusing on the long lunch break during the hottest hours too much and overlook loads of ordinary jobs starting at 7 and and stopping at 5?
I pass quite a few vendors/stalls which are already open when I pass on my way to work around 6.45am and will be still open until at least 6pm, and they are open 7 days a week.
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How many hours would any of us sleep if we could?
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techietraveller84 wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 9:33 am How many hours would any of us sleep if we could?
I am in Bed at least 9 hours/night, not all of it asleep
In a nation run by swine, all pigs are upward-mobile and the rest of us are fucked until we can put our acts together: not necessarily to win, but mainly to keep from losing completely. HST
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There is a subset of the population called 'long sleepers', of which I am one. I go to bed at 10 pm, out like a light. I get up at 10:30 am. Every day. Even so, my 4 cats outsleep me.
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Hesitant to answer the question, I wonder at the OPs motivation for posting. Do I detect a subtle undercurrent?
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Freightdog wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 11:19 am Hesitant to answer the question, I wonder at the OPs motivation for posting. Do I detect a subtle undercurrent?
Yes, it's hypothetical and highly subjective.. :?:
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Freightdog wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 11:19 am Hesitant to answer the question, I wonder at the OPs motivation for posting. Do I detect a subtle undercurrent?
Yes, I also get a whiff of eau de racism.
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It's more of differentiating those with the proper motivation and those without... The who fall in the latter probably will do 14 hours or more bc of the in between naps haha

A good amount of locals do move up the social ladder bc regardless of the negativity there is good coin to be made. All comes down to motivation
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rgrowden wrote: Mon Jun 19, 2023 10:50 am There is a subset of the population called 'long sleepers', of which I am one. I go to bed at 10 pm, out like a light. I get up at 10:30 am. Every day. Even so, my 4 cats outsleep me.
whoa 12 hrs a day???? how did you manage school and work as a young man?
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