Originally Posted by fiddler

Nah not even. But 8hrs of absolutely nothing is mind numbing. And it's so creepy too. The radio isn't crackling every five seconds, your phone isn't ringing. It gets very very quiet.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.