The Boredom Thread: What do you find boring (and why)?
Silhouette Man
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Welcome to the Boredom Thread. I thought I would create this thread to collate stories of what you find boring in everyday life, whether at work or at home or in your leisure time. As the thread title indicates I'd also like to know the reasons why you find certain things boring.
Conversely, hopefully this will be an interesting discussion about what you find boring (and why)!
Conversely, hopefully this will be an interesting discussion about what you find boring (and why)!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
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In my opinion you get bored if you don't engage emotionally and intelectually with something. I have no knowledge or emotional connection to the players and teams in football, but I connect emotionally with Czar Peter and his colourful personality and intelectually with how he changed Russia.
I'm with you there on football, N24. I agree that books are much better to lose yourself in! -{
And on the whole royal "we" ownership of football fans with their teams and players this is a brilliant sketch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU
And on the utter boredom of the unending nature of football this is a great skit too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM
"It will never be finally decided who has won the football!"
Have you noticed how most sports fans are happy just following their sport and occasionally meeting a fellow fan, but many football fans demand that everyone else is a fan too and thinks it something wrong with you if you're not interested?
It's great to meet another football non-fan -{
Yes, I have. Any mild criticism of say the national team in the World Cup (in my case Northern Ireland) is taken as a personal insult. These people really live, breathe and sleep football! One woman who used to work with me even commented, "You don't like football?! You're not much of a man!" I thought, "Well, thank you!"
(Huge football fan here, but it took me a while, so no judgment from me on those who aren't.)
You see, politics is our sport. I follow the appointments to the new Johnson Cabinet just as keenly as some sports fans follow the football results! To my way of thinking, it's much more interesting (and ultimately more important at a national level).
I think the referee (in democratic politics at least) is called the electorate.
But the elctorate don't really rule on laws being broken, they rule based on if if they like the politics. In some ways they are more like the audience in sports. If they don' t like how their team is playing they stop going to the matches and the trainer and players lose their jobs. I guess the supreme court and impeachment are the closes one gets to referees in politics.
Hey! I saw that!
You really should read it to give it a chance. It's obviously one of my favourites.
Life's too short for boredom, anything bores me, I move on........ after-all this life is not a rehearsal!!
Cheers :007)
So many Books to read, music to listen to, or play. Movies to watch
odd jobs, posting on AJB007, listening to radio Comedy on BBC Radio 4,
and of course, lots and lots of specialist Gentlemen's Interest images on
the internet.
Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff available to consume that I can never choose so I just remain bored.
Personally, I am never bored in my personal life - away from my unpleasant day job, which alternates between interminable boredom and crippling anxiety. Whether I'm writing, spending time with my girlfriend and pets, or simply reading or doing hobbies, I'm always mentally engaged...even in relaxation {[]
"I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
"Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
Just discovered ( by accident ) one of my all time faves,
Hamish Macbeth ( amazon prime ) with Robert Carlyle as
A policeman in a sleepy Scottish village.