The Boredom Thread: What do you find boring (and why)?

Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
edited October 2020 in Off Topic Chat
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)!
"The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).

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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    edited July 2019
    Football. I just never managed to engage with what's going on on the field, I can't explain it any better. To me watching football is like watching paint dry. On the other hand I can find a biography of Peter the Great very engaging, so I guess I'm an odd one.
    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.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Football. I just never managed to engage with what's going on on the field, I can't explain it any better. To me watching football is like watching paint dry. On the other hand I can find a biography of Peter the Great very engaging, so I guess I'm an odd one.
    In my opinion bordom about what you engage emotionally and intelectually with. 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!" :))
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Great sketches in the links :)) :)) :))

    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 -{ :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 36,060Chief of Staff
    Count me in too, boys.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Great sketches in the links :)) :)) :))

    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 -{ :D

    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!" :))
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Sir Hillary BraySir Hillary Bray College of ArmsPosts: 2,174MI6 Agent
    Boring? How about the banter in the "UK Politics" and "Not-So Short-Lived" threads? :D

    (Huge football fan here, but it took me a while, so no judgment from me on those who aren't.)
    Hilly...you old devil!
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Boring? How about the banter in the "UK Politics" and "Not-So Short-Lived" threads? :D

    (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). :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    Yes, it's our sport. Sometimes I wish there was a referee in politics, but that's often called a dictator. :#
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Number24 wrote:
    Yes, it's our sport. Sometimes I wish there was a referee in politics, but that's often called a dictator. :#

    I think the referee (in democratic politics at least) is called the electorate. :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,704MI6 Agent
    I forgot about them - thank God we have 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.
  • Quentin QuigleyQuentin Quigley Terminal One, Hamburg AirportPosts: 1,150MI6 Agent
    Never Send Flowerzzzzzzzzzz
    Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Never Send Flowerzzzzzzzzzz

    Hey! I saw that! :D
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Quentin QuigleyQuentin Quigley Terminal One, Hamburg AirportPosts: 1,150MI6 Agent
    Never Send Flowerzzzzzzzzzz
    Hey! I saw that! :D
    To be honest, I've only read a bit of it. From 'John' up until 'Gardner'. :D
    Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
  • Silhouette ManSilhouette Man The last refuge of a scoundrelPosts: 8,646MI6 Agent
    Never Send Flowerzzzzzzzzzz
    Hey! I saw that! :D
    To be honest, I've only read a bit of it. From 'John' up until 'Gardner'. :D

    You really should read it to give it a chance. It's obviously one of my favourites. :)
    "The tough man of the world. The Secret Agent. The man who was only a silhouette." - Ian Fleming, Moonraker (1955).
  • Bond44Bond44 Vauxhall CrossPosts: 1,581MI6 Agent
    edited August 2019
    What bores me? People who prattle on in a crisis - a firm strike to forehead usually does the trick :))

    Life's too short for boredom, anything bores me, I move on........ after-all this life is not a rehearsal!!

    Cheers :007)
    My name is Bond, Basildon Bond - I have letters after my name!
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I have oft said to my kids " Only boring people get bored " :p

    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. :D
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • DrNo007DrNo007 USAPosts: 4MI6 Agent
    I have oft said to my kids " Only boring people get bored " :p

    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. :D

    Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the amount of stuff available to consume that I can never choose so I just remain bored.
  • LoeffelholzLoeffelholz The United States, With LovePosts: 8,988Quartermasters
    Politics on James Bond fansites is particularly boring, IMHO...and drearily predictable in its bent 8-)

    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 {[]
    Check out my Amazon author page! Mark Loeffelholz
    "I am not an entrant in the Shakespeare Stakes." - Ian Fleming
    "Screw 'em." - Daniel Craig, The Best James Bond EverTM
  • ChriscoopChriscoop Belize Posts: 10,449MI6 Agent
    I've come to find television a bit boring these days, not that there aren't some brilliant programmes and documentaries, it's just finding them, what with all the streaming services sometimes I just can't be bothered scrolling through it all!
    It was either that.....or the priesthood
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    It can be hard to find stuff on the streaming services, I only
    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.
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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