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What's your definiton of boredom?

21:43 / 29.11.03

Because I definitely am. Bored that is. But 'Only boring people get bored', right?

(Oddly and quite interestingly, I've written 'bored' so many times that the word is starting to look weird.)

Strange Machine Vs The Virus with Shoes

01:19 / 30.11.03

Ikea on a Sunday, Toploader on the pa. Not dissimilar to Dawn of the Dead. Middle class professionals ruminating about throws, furniture and all the rest. Hell on earth? I think so.

02:48 / 30.11.03

am dying tamale death. ::yark:: not bored at all.

oh, hey, I just saw "shattered glass". the funny thing is that I had to look at my movie ticket right then to be sure that's what it's called. I really do think that what's left of my mind is going.

but anyway, good movie. when he's caught lying, tho, my toes were curled in commiserative agony. poor you, I thought. you dumbass crazy bastard.

09:53 / 30.11.03

Being in a works meeting that you don't want to be in, and have nothing to contribute to, but can't leave. At least if I'm at my PC I can surf, doodle or find something else to do. But those meetings.....

10:52 / 30.11.03

Strangest thing: I'm pretty sure I have never been bored: ther's always something to do (and I don't mean there are always jobs to do... which there are)

I hate the concept of boredom.

There are always about ten books/DVDs I could consume, Newspaper articles I've kept to read (when I get a chance) the internet, my subscription magazines piling up as yet unread, record/book/magazine/toy collections to arrange/rearrange (if I *really* want to give myself a treat)... and all that is just stuff to do in the house.

There's a whole world of social interation, media, culture and activity out there!

"Bored" should be banned

10:55 / 30.11.03

Boredom could be a form of depression, however... a situation where you can think of any number of activities, but none appeal, not because they are unappealing in and of themselves, but because of the bored person's state of mind. Maybe I'm never bored because I'm not a depressive type.

We're The Great Old Ones Now

11:25 / 30.11.03

Boredom: trying to work when your mind is on what's happening in a couple of hours, and the work is going really not well.

16:32 / 30.11.03

Boredom is when you simply can't or won't make the effort to entertain yourself...and I agree that it could be a kind of depression. Don't park yourself in front of the TV, that's about the worst thing you can do. Read. Go for a walk. Put on music you don't usually listen to and create something. Call someone you haven't talked to in a while. Dye your hair. Try out a new recipe.

You gotta shake up your routine, and by doing new things you create new connections between synapses or some such, and you literally change the structure of your brain, and by extension, your thoughts.

09:32 / 01.12.03

So it IS a state of mind.... there should be a Boredom Prozac™ available

10:14 / 01.12.03

Bored=trapped in a situation of interminable dullness when you want to do something else.
Like, erm, being at work for example. Bored bored bored bored bored. There are a hundred and one things I want to do and can't, bored.

11:53 / 01.12.03

Boredom is counter-revolutionary!
- Graffitti on walls of Paris, 1968

In 1968, France became paralysed when the revolutionary spirit furiously swept through the country. A new revolution seemed imminent when students and millions of workers united in general strikes and chaotic riots that shook the very foundations of western society.

I think they new how to not get bored...

More on the The Situationist International:
http://interactingarts.org/ia_situationist.html

21:21 / 05.12.03

Boredom can also be a blessing..it is a rest period. My Lama once said that boredom was very close to enlightenment, but he also has a little snicker afterward. Who knows what a Buddha thinks, eh?

"Interesting" is also a Chinese curse so, you may not want to be drawing that to yourself by banishing boredom with "interesting things" to do. Perhaps you need to call on someone who loves you and have them serve you red wine in a bubblebath to wash away the boredom and anything else you can think of. Go on...ya know you wanna.

Tryphena Absent

12:20 / 06.04.05

I'm really bored. Save my brain. It's not rotting, it's imploding. I am so bored that I can barely type.

12:24 / 06.04.05

I'm bored too. Bored bored bored bored bored. Seems to be theme...there's a truck parked on campus that has the claim "NI's biggest boring machine" emblazoned on the door. Maybe that's the reason. The evil Dr. Ennui is taking his Boring Machine for a test drive on my campus! Where oh where is the Hilarity Squad when you need them?

12:34 / 06.04.05

Grey Area, go and join in the mindfuck fun, it's slightly taking the edge off for me. I say slightly.

Ex

12:40 / 06.04.05

It's odd - in theory, I have the most boring of jobs (apart from my breif stint in a scotch egg factory). I unpack boxes, I check them against invoices, I repack them. 20 or so every day.

But I've been doing it for six months and I'm not bored. I don't know if this is because I've reached an enlightened state where I can find plesure in the smallest things (and wielding the stanley knife and tape gun is certainly fun). Or if it's because they're boxes of books. Because still, after howevermanyhundred boxes, every box is like Christmas. Even when the box is full of 23 textbooks on Tort. Still exciting. Because I am a cog in a machine that generates interesting conversations. See me whirr.

12:46 / 06.04.05

I think we should all swap jobs for the day I could do with some boxes and cogs, I'm trying to work out why an email message is sent from a server but it's driving me up the wall but if I stop I get bored and end up on here jumping from thread to thread hoping someone has updated something.

12:55 / 06.04.05

Where did you get your Lama from Strix? I'm sure I'd never be bored if I had one of them things.

14:54 / 06.04.05

I would so be up for a job swap with a carpenter. Or in fact any job that doesn't involve sitting at a computer and walking home without leaving behind physical proof that you have accomplished something. Honestly, the day I spent building the shelves for my office was the most satisfying work-related day I've had in the last six months.

15:27 / 06.04.05

Ah, I get the best of both worlds - I do furniture refinishing and things like that, but whenever work is slow I pick up temp office work (as I am today). Obviously I love my finishing job much more, but the office drone has its own appeal - it's almost like a paid day off, playing on the internet and drinking free coffee all day.

That said, I'm getting a little bored too, but what's really bothering me is this persistent sickly-sweet smell, some kind of disgusting air freshener - like fake apricot or - something horrendous.

I absolutely HATE being told that "only boring people get bored." My mom told me that all the time as a kid, and it's not true... boring people probably don't get bored, because they're content with boring crap. I say interesting people get bored because we're overeager for information/entertainment/change/etc.

And one more thing, this is too fucking hilarious:
Sadly for the patriarchal system of domination, the penis doodle has lost much of it's shock value due to dilution from widespread use.

Ah, God, I love it.

04:37 / 07.04.05

But... shouldn't that be good news for hegemonic cryptopatriarchs?

"Thank god! Now we don't have to worry about dick doodles making our brains explode every time we use the bath room!"

05:14 / 07.04.05

Boring is tunnelling to the centre of the Earth. To release the serpent energy.

16:32 / 07.04.05

This is a profile of a friend of mine who changed how I think about boredom.

The biggest change was the acceptance of the idea of boredom as a historically constructed phenomenon, tied to the Industrial Revolution and the modern concept of "leisure." People in the Middle Ages didn't get bored -- not in the way we mean it.

We chatted a couple times while she was working on the book.

20:28 / 07.04.05

Grant has all the cool friends. No wonder the rest of us are bored.

Come to think of it, is being bored like being fucked?

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

03:50 / 08.04.05

But 'Only boring people get bored', right?

I hereby offer anyone who is bored, items from my "to do" list, which has now gotten so long that I need to be able to live until I am 152 in order to get it all done. Of course, the way the government is fucking with Social Security and the stock market hates me, I won't be able to retire until I am 157, so it all works out, and I can spend my last five years at work playing Spider Solitaire.

12:21 / 08.04.05

What's on your list then Solitaire?

15:44 / 08.04.05

Boredom is the opposite of Anxiety.

16:20 / 08.04.05

Only if you find bordem to be calming and peaceful. I suppose some people don't.

16:20 / 08.04.05

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14:07 / 09.04.05

Actually, I believe that "calming and peaceful" is entirely apart from the anxiety-boredom spectrum. The AB spectrum has to do with the ability to manage attention, and thus interest. "Calming and peaceful" or in shorthand, Joy, is a completely different cup of tea from AB.

22:38 / 09.04.05

I'm not actually bored now, but I appear to have been very bored in 2003.

I have absolutely no recollection of starting this thread at all. That's how bored I must have been.