Mundane things you cant imagine Bond doing.

walther p99walther p99 NJPosts: 3,416MI6 Agent
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This crossed my mind the other day while watching Quantum,since the majority of his clothes in that film are from Tom Ford i found it hard to imagine Craigs Bond walking around their store looking at polo's and such or just clothes shopping in general. has their ever been something like that you found it hard to picture Bond doing?
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  • HoneyRyder'sGirlfriendHoneyRyder'sGirlfriend Dolphin Country, USAPosts: 17MI6 Agent
    Going to Starbucks, getting his oil changed, staying home and reading.
  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • AlexAlex The Eastern SeaboardPosts: 2,694MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.
    Yeah, that'll do it. B-)
  • zig zagzig zag EnglandPosts: 244MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.


    Having his prostate checked ha,ha,laughed me arse off at that one.
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  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,707MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.


    :)) :)) :)) or the 'Ole "Turn your head and cough Mr. Bond"



    I can't see Bond doing simple chores like mowing the lawn, cleaning the bathroom toilet, vacuuming the carpet, doing the dishes etc... Can't imagine him stopping in at a donut shop and getting a dozen donuts to bring into MI6 on his first day into work before a mission.
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  • mrbondmrbond Posts: 296MI6 Agent
    I can't imagine him looking after a baby or eating an MnS Meal for one. I can't see Bond ill like having the flu or a headache. I can't see him watching the repeats of Top Gear on Dave in his underware eating a bag of Doritos.
  • PPK 7.65mmPPK 7.65mm Saratoga Springs NY USAPosts: 1,253MI6 Agent
    I can't see bond doing the following, dusting his flat, taking out the garbage, washing his windows.
  • JADE66JADE66 Posts: 238MI6 Agent
    PPK 7.65mm wrote:
    I can't see bond doing the following, dusting his flat, taking out the garbage, washing his windows.

    Neither can Bond. That's why he has May, his treasured Scottish housekeeper. I have no problem seeing Bond
    shopping for clothes, heading for Dunhill Tailors and ordering a new suit.
    What I have trouble envisioning with Bond are the minor embarrassments; leaving a men's room with toilet tissue stuck to his shoe, leaving his fly unzipped, belching or passing gas during a meeting with 'M', having something stuck in his teeth, having to blow his nose.
    Bond doesn't do mundane things because Fleming never intended Bond to be mundane. Period. Bond exists in this hard, fast, exciting and very dangerous world so that we can exist in it too, through him. I don't think I want to imagine Bond doing anything mundane. I have to deal with the mundane enoughas it is.
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,619MI6 Agent
    PPK 7.65mm wrote:
    I can't see bond doing the following, dusting his flat, taking out the garbage, washing his windows.
    :o I realize, that I am really living the 007 lifestyle... :))
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  • LexiLexi LondonPosts: 3,000MI6 Agent
    Updating his status on facebook :))
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  • Dan SameDan Same Victoria, AustraliaPosts: 6,054MI6 Agent
    Thanks guys. :D
    Mr Martini wrote:
    Dan Same wrote:
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.


    :)) :)) :)) or the 'Ole "Turn your head and cough Mr. Bond"
    :))
    Mr Martini wrote:
    I can't see Bond doing simple chores like mowing the lawn, cleaning the bathroom toilet, vacuuming the carpet, doing the dishes etc... Can't imagine him stopping in at a donut shop and getting a dozen donuts to bring into MI6 on his first day into work before a mission.
    Indeed. Although it might be interesting to see whether he uses a gadget to mow the lawn or clean the toilet. ;)
    "He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back—that’s an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you’re finished. Nobody dast blame this man. A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." Death of a Salesman
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,998Quartermasters
    JADE66 wrote:
    PPK 7.65mm wrote:
    I can't see bond doing the following, dusting his flat, taking out the garbage, washing his windows.

    Neither can Bond. That's why he has May, his treasured Scottish housekeeper. I have no problem seeing Bond
    shopping for clothes, heading for Dunhill Tailors and ordering a new suit.
    What I have trouble envisioning with Bond are the minor embarrassments; leaving a men's room with toilet tissue stuck to his shoe, leaving his fly unzipped, belching or passing gas during a meeting with 'M', having something stuck in his teeth, having to blow his nose.
    Bond doesn't do mundane things because Fleming never intended Bond to be mundane. Period. Bond exists in this hard, fast, exciting and very dangerous world so that we can exist in it too, through him. I don't think I want to imagine Bond doing anything mundane. I have to deal with the mundane enoughas it is.
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    Absolutely right! :007)
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  • little nellylittle nelly London, EnglandPosts: 152MI6 Agent
    Cleaning the toilet
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  • little nellylittle nelly London, EnglandPosts: 152MI6 Agent
    Ectually I can't imagine him going to the dentist, but he does.
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  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    Posting messages on message boards...unless it was AJB, of course.
  • DaltonFan1DaltonFan1 The West of IrelandPosts: 503MI6 Agent
    I can't see Bond voting Labour, laughing uncontrollably, singing happy birthday to someone, not having a decent watch on, swotting a fly, sneezing, coughing, falling over, kicking something in anger and hurting his foot, driving an automatic, tearing his cruciate ligaments, paying for a duck house on expenses, doing DIY, dropping something(unless intended), being humiliated, whinging about the sprinkler ban, having to rummage in his pockets at customs in an airport, stalling the engine while driving, gossiping over the fence to his neighbours, reading the Daily Mail, tying his tie badly, struggling to remember something, tending to an itch or walking and shuuting the front door behind him only to realise that he has left his keys inside and then having to try and climb in a window in the view of various bypassers.
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  • Ask Dr NoAsk Dr No look behind you...Posts: 111MI6 Agent
    Running out of toilet paper while on the toilet, spilling coffee on his lap, having his computer fail as he turns it on and he hits the moniter while swearing, tearing his pants in public, coming up to someone and saying, "Hey Trish", only to find out that it's a man named Borris, getting wasted and driving then getting caught by the cops and having Moneypenny bail him out, getting stuffed on Eagle Boys pizza, scrubbing his shower down with A-Jax and then having a massive fail!

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  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,707MI6 Agent
    Trying to fix his Luxury car after a breakdown only to fail and having to bring it to a mechanic. Having to rent a 1974 Ford Pinto while car is in the shop. Going through the drive-thru at Burger King and ordering a whopper only to have ketchup drip on his dress shirt. I can't see Bond driving down the freeway in a Prius while holding his Chiuaua dog.
    Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
  • The Domino EffectThe Domino Effect Posts: 3,638MI6 Agent
    DaltonFan1 wrote:
    ...tearing his cruciate ligaments...

    I thought they were only invented during the last World Cup. 8-)
  • Ask Dr NoAsk Dr No look behind you...Posts: 111MI6 Agent
    For all these I imagine Sean Connery...

    Surf YouTube mindlessly, haves breaky and then finds out that he's out of milk, stubbing his toe on the door causing him to swear out loud so the neigbours hear him and then him telling them to f*** themselves when they give him a bad look, leaving his car keys inside the house and then locking the front door and realising that he needs his keys and having to go back inside, pouring too much salt on his burger and having to throw it out, giving a rude driver the finger but accidentally raising the wrong fringer by mistake, tryng to make his Wii turn on, waiting for The Office to come on TV, hating Master Chief, washing his car but forgetting to wind up the windows and ends up wetting the entire inside of his car, watching a movie at the thetre but running out of soft drink on the beggining adds and having none left for the movie, gracefully walking through the supermarket and avoiding everything but then tripping at the checkout...

    the list could go on...
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    "Oh look! Parachutes for the both of us! Whoops, not anymore!"
    "You see Mr Bond. You can't kill my dreams. But my dreams can kill you!"
    "Time to face destiny."
    -Gaustav Graves in Die Another Day-
  • hegottheboothegottheboot USAPosts: 327MI6 Agent
    All of these things Bond never could do. The mundane things in the novels are fascinating though.
  • Napoleon PluralNapoleon Plural LondonPosts: 10,467MI6 Agent
    little nelly wrote:
    Ectually I can't imagine him going to the dentist, but he does.

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    "Bond frowned. This wasn't his usual dentist. 'I'm afraid Mr Gentleforth is on leave. I'll be replacing him today.' Bond visibly relaxed. Of course, this was the time of year when Dan travelled to Maine; he was always keen to observe the lobster season in full swing. He should have paid more attention last time, but he was recovering from that Scaramanga affair. Let's see, that was the weekend he and Goodnight enjoyed a...."

    "If you'll just sit here, sir," the new man interjected, stopping his thoughts before they gathered steam. Bond obeyed, and if he had been feeling less guilty he may have noticed that the liquid in the glass beaker was just a subtly different shade of pink."

    To be continued...
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  • Commander StrangwaysCommander Strangways Morriston, FloridaPosts: 20MI6 Agent
    "Bond always liked to make a good breakfast, he poured milk on his corn pops and turned on the television ...."

    "Bond knew his enemy was waiting for him, he pulled up in his car and heard a metallic voice ask him something from a diabolical device, he spoke into it "Yes, I want the Double Whopper with Onion Rings" ....

    "Bond flipped the light switch on, his gun in hand, he checked the dresser to see if his hairs were disturbed, they weren't, he sat down and poured himself some vodka and turned on the television "It's Daaavid Letterman!" ...

    To be continued...
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  • Bella_docBella_doc Quantum's next target (Canada)Posts: 51MI6 Agent
    Ask Dr No wrote:
    ...getting wasted and driving then getting caught by the cops and having Moneypenny bail him out...
    Actually I can totally see that happening to Craig's Bond in one of his darker moments. Maybe the next time he lets the mission get too personal or gets frustrated by MI-6's red tape. Plus, we all know he likes a drink or six... :))
  • Dmitri MishkinDmitri Mishkin Kansas CityPosts: 334MI6 Agent
    I can't see him playing combat simulators on xbox360.
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  • DanjaqDanjaq San Francisco Bay AreaPosts: 92MI6 Agent
    Dan Same wrote:
    How about arguing with the neighbours over the leghth/height of a tree/fence etc... Also, waiting in his car and getting infuriated during a traffic jam; having his prostate checked; lounging in front of the TV and stuffing his face with pizza; reading the latest gossip on Prince William while waiting to meet M; and having to deal with a crying baby.

    Though reading Playboy isn't too mundane for him. :))
  • thinkissuethinkissue http://www.dvduz.comPosts: 3MI6 Agent
    Ectually I can't imagine him going to the dentist, but he does.
    mee too
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