Not having a boring life?

Scanlas The 2nd

What qualifies as not having a boring life?

Having read numerous posts in the "having a child" thread where it was mentioned that people with boring lives have kids to fill the void.

I'm curious what people classify as a boring life.

frozenfrozen

enjoy yourself

Professey Chin

Actually doing stuff instead of thinking about maybe doing stuff

Mickey H

Tell us your thoughts OP.

feargale

Chinpool wrote: »

Actually doing stuff instead of thinking about maybe doing stuff

How could a minute on this planet be boring? If God made any more interesting place he kept it for himself.

monkeysnapper

Sitting in after work on a Thursday night listening to the wind and rain while on the phone to my sister in Florida rave on about how life it just lovely and she's making loads of money.

Ugh the bitch . If that's the case I want my Bon jovi cd back I lent her back in 1995

Where To

If i was dictator leader of this country anyone who used the word bored would be taken outside and shot.

longhalloween

Where To wrote: »

If i was dictator leader of this country anyone who used the word bored would be taken outside and shot.

As the saying goes, only boring people get bored

dj jarvis

frozenfrozen wrote: »

enjoy yourself

and if enjoying yourself is doing nothing and being boring then happy days

thread end

tempura

There is no point to asking that question. You may consider my life boring and I may consider your life boring !

Its like asking what is the best hobby to have !

Everyone is different

Unless of course you want this thread to turn into a nit picking one, where everyone defines what is boring based on their own likes. If that's the case go right ahead......... but is that not a little boring ?

brummytom

I think it's natural to always think you could be doing more, things could be better etc.
It depends what you find interesting really. What I might think of as a great night could bore someone else to hell.

As long as you're happy, there's no reason to be bored. Rather than thinking 'God, I'm bored', get off your arse and go and enjoy yourself.

Fox_In_Socks

longhalloween wrote: »

As the saying goes, only boring people get bored

Why do you bore people?:eek:

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Abi

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

Having read numerous posts in the "having a child" thread where it was mentioned that people with boring lives have kids to fill the void.

Well that is some peoples perception of it, they're entitled to it, but it's pretty nasty to say that. Parents don't choose to have children because they want to fill a void, it's a vicious assumption if you ask me.

For a lot of people, prior to even being in a relationship they already have decided they would like children, and that is not just women alone. Some men are quite vocal about wanting children.

People that see parents as having no lives are judgemental, which I feel is not fair.


You only have to look at threads like What your child did / said that made you laugh thread to see just how much enjoyment parents get from their children.

Celly Smunt

Abi wrote: »

People that see parents as having no lives are judgemental, which I feel is not fair.


You only have to look at threads like What your child did / said that made you laugh thread to see just how much enjoyment parents get from their children.

you see,i see people like that as the type who do nothing but talk about their children and live boring lives.They want to share everything their child does,says and achieves.I don't give two shit's about anybody's child.When parents speak to me about their children the first thing i think is "so what".

Is it bad for me to say i'd be more interested in what their dog did rather than their baby?

Edit: for example,my friend started showing me pictures of his child in a nativity play the other week telling me how they're going down a treat on facebook.Who gives a fook,the last thing i want to see is somebodies child in a nativity play.

Fox_In_Socks

pmcmahon wrote: »

you see,i see people like that as the type who do nothing but talk about their children and live boring lives.They want to share everything their child does,says and achieves.I don't give two shit's about anybody's child.When parents speak to me about their children the first thing i think is "so what".

Is it bad for me to say i'd be more interested in what their dog did rather than their baby?

My Johnny said the exact same thing today, it was soooo funny!

Actually what if Abi turned out to be your mother, pmcmahon? She's on boards.ie, but you didn't know.

So now you are telling her that people talking about their children or something their children did, being worthless to you and all the time you are telling Abi (Mum) who could be facebooking a friend telling her about this poster she disagrees with called pmcmahon.

And the friend, unbeknownst to Abi, posts here under an unknown username agreeing with pmcmahon, unaware (shock/horror!) that pmcmahon is the person that is the child of her friend (Abi) that she's sick of hearing about!

Celly Smunt

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

My Johnny said the exact same thing today, it was soooo funny!

Actually what if Abi turned out to be your mother, pmcmahon? She's on boards.ie, but you didn't know.

So now you are telling her that people talking about their children or something their children did, being worthless to you and all the time you are telling Abi (Mum) who could be facebooking a friend telling her about this poster she disagrees with called pmcmahon.

And the friend, unbeknownst to Abi, posts here under an unknown username agreeing with pmcmahon, unaware (shock/horror!) that pmcmahon is the person that is the child of her friend (Abi) that she's sick of hearing about!

my ma's dead.Thanks for that.

dj jarvis

pmcmahon wrote: »

you see,i see people like that as the type who do nothing but talk about their children and live boring lives.They want to share everything their child does,says and achieves.I don't give two shit's about anybody's child.When parents speak to me about their children the first thing i think is "so what".

Is it bad for me to say i'd be more interested in what their dog did rather than their baby?

Edit: for example,my friend started showing me pictures of his child in a nativity play the other week telling me how they're going down a treat on facebook.Who gives a fook,the last thing i want to see is somebodies child in a nativity play.

where do you start ...................
its called EMPATHY , just work forward from that

Abi

pmcmahon wrote: »

you see,i see people like that as the type who do nothing but talk about their children and live boring lives.They want to share everything their child does,says and achieves.I don't give two shit's about anybody's child.When parents speak to me about their children the first thing i think is "so what".

Is it bad for me to say i'd be more interested in what their dog did rather than their baby?

Edit: for example,my friend started showing me pictures of his child in a nativity play the other week telling me how they're going down a treat on facebook.Who gives a fook,the last thing i want to see is somebodies child in a nativity play.

I'm no more interested than you are in a strangers children, if I'm to be completely honest. But if I know somebody on a personal level, yes actually I do. Be they family or friends, you've known them such a long time, and you're watch a new chapter in their life unfold.

This world is not just all about me, after all.

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

My Johnny said the exact same thing today, it was soooo funny!

Actually what if Abi turned out to be your mother, pmcmahon? She's on boards.ie, but you didn't know.

So now you are telling her that people talking about their children or something their children did, being worthless to you and all the time you are telling Abi (Mum) who could be facebooking a friend telling her about this poster she disagrees with called pmcmahon.

And the friend, unbeknownst to Abi, posts here under an unknown username agreeing with pmcmahon, unaware (shock/horror!) that pmcmahon is the person that is the child of her friend (Abi) that she's sick of hearing about!

*screams*



:eek:

Celly Smunt

dj jarvis wrote: »

where do you start ...................
its called EMPATHY , just work forward from that

It's not empathy,i can have empathy with almost any other situation.I just don't want to know about peoples children.

longhalloween

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Why do you bore people?:eek:

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*Reply with an extremely NSFW image*

Kichote

A blast off the shotgun

Driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed

Being out in the fresh air

Working on a pet project

Travelling and meeting new people

Riding a nice byor whos on the pill so she wont have kids that will put a damper on it all

And so on.

Latchy

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What qualifies as not having a boring life?

Making sure you have some variety of interests and hobbies and making time for other things (and people) instead of just one that takes up all your time .

I'm curious what people classify as a boring life.

the thing about trying to classify what's a boring life will no doubt not be so boring to somebody else for example, if I say somebody who doesn't travel abroad much leads a pretty boring life they could easy reply and say '' I have no interest in traveling abroad '' .

dj jarvis

pmcmahon wrote: »

It's not empathy,i can have empathy with almost any other situation.I just don't want to know about peoples children.

ok

i want to know a CERTAIN amount about others children , but just not wanting to know anything is a tad extreme , how is it a bad thing , a smiling child , how is that a bad thing ?

people with kids may look boring , but trust me , they are the busiest people you know

Celly Smunt

dj jarvis wrote: »

ok

i want to know a CERTAIN amount about others children , but just not wanting to know anything is a tad extreme , how is it a bad thing , a smiling child , how is that a bad thing ?

people with kids may look boring , but trust me , they are the busiest people you know

It's not that i don't like children,of course i like children.I think they're great.I just don't need to know every little thing they do.

I've often been in the situation where over dinner with friends,or at lunch with co-workers (especially co-workers),where it's almost a competition for them to out do each other with what their little ones have been doing,saying etc etc,trying to get me to comment and go "awh".Well sorry,i don't like talking about children i don't know and i don't like parents who boast about their children and expect me to be interested.And i wouldn't expect a person to dote over my children either.

Czarcasm

dj jarvis wrote: »

ok

i want to know a CERTAIN amount about others children , but just not wanting to know anything is a tad extreme , how is it a bad thing , a smiling child , how is that a bad thing ?

I get where pcmahon is coming from- they have no interest in kids the same way I'd have no interest in soccer. It's not whether it's a "good" or a "bad" thing. It's just a subject that's interesting for some, not so interesting for others. Reminds me of the time one of my brothers "unfriended" my other brother on facebook because he kept constantly flooding the other brother's wall with baby pics! I could see his point- it gets tiresome quick!

people with kids may look boring , but trust me , they are the busiest people you know

Probably only the ones YOU know, in all fairness. There's an art form to making parenting look like hard work!

dd972

monkeysnapper wrote: »

Sitting in after work on a Thursday night listening to the wind and rain while on the phone to my sister in Florida rave on about how life it just lovely and she's making loads of money.

Ugh the bitch . If that's the case I want my Bon jovi cd back I lent her back in 1995

I'd rather the width of the Atlantic between me and a Bon Jovi CD.

mikom

Kichote wrote: »

A blast off the shotgun

Driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed

Being out in the fresh air

Working on a pet project

Travelling and meeting new people

Sounds like a day in the life of Frog Ward.

humbert

dj jarvis wrote: »

people with kids may look boring , but trust me , they are the busiest people you know

You can definitely be boring and busy.

Fox_In_Socks

mikom wrote: »

Sounds like a day in the life of Frog Ward.

Oh!

Agricola

I grew up in the country in a big hurling parish and my house was near the local pitch. I've never played a competitive game of gaa at any level, and never went to a match. A huge amount of people would think I must have a boring existence. They are right...... but not for this reason.

Ando's Saggy Bottom

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What qualifies as not having a boring life?

Figuring out what you really want from life nd then doing your best to attain it. No time to be bored if you do that.

feargale

Agricola wrote: »

I grew up in the country in a big hurling parish and my house was near the local pitch. I've never played a competitive game of gaa at any level, and never went to a match.

Was it a case of the nearest to the church, the furthest from god ?

wandatowell

do some sh1t.

I've just made a badass playlist that I'm going to listen when training.

Irishcrx

wandatowell wrote: »

do some sh1t.

I've just made a badass playlist that I'm going to listen when training.

Ohhh girl look at that body...ohhh girl look at that body...I work out!!

Sorry

HHobo

feargale wrote: »

How could a minute on this planet be boring?

You should try working my job for a minute.

feargale wrote: »

If God made any more interesting place he kept it for himself.

... yeah, I'm fairly sure it was the other guy who invented this kind of work.

HHobo

longhalloween wrote: »

As the saying goes, only boring people get bored

What kind of people, according to the sayings, are easily amused?

HHobo

dj jarvis wrote: »

where do you start ...................
its called EMPATHY , just work forward from that

EMPATHY goes both ways. Endless stories about how your bundle of joy managed to take two steps unaided are probably exciting from your point of view but for the love of God, have a little empathy for the rest of us.

Consider the your above to refer to any random excited parent. When the person you are talking to looks like a deer trapped in the glare of headlights and then their eyes start to glaze over and finally you can actually see the will to live draining out of them, show a little compassion and stop talking about your kids

ToddyDoody

If you don't go to the pub twice a week U must have aspergers

There are people I know who are on the dole and just sit around at home all day doing nothing. By nothing I mean watching tv. And perhaps having a few cans. They never do anything else. And could easily get a job if they tried. (Loads of hotel jobs in this town)


Maybe they don't find it boring. I don't know.


I hate doing nothing.

minidazzler

Scanlas The 2nd wrote: »

What qualifies as not having a boring life?

Having read numerous posts in the "having a child" thread where it was mentioned that people with boring lives have kids to fill the void.

I'm curious what people classify as a boring life.

Having kids, a 9-5 job, 8 pints at the weekend, a 2 week holiday to a Spanish resort, having a wedding that resembles every other wedding, being safe in everything, punching a ticket til you turn 65 and can retire.

That said, I'm probably far more boring than I realise myself, but won't know it until I'm past time.

Fromthetrees

Pills, powders and potions can make an alright time unforgettable, or is that forgettable? No boredom anyway that's a promise, I think???

confuseddotcom

I ooze negativity out of every pore, I wallow in it! :pac: Maybe not so much procrastination. But anyways I was actually just thinking this week that if there's ever a reason not to have kids, not to create another being and bring any children into this world like me boring and bored is the reason! I feel bored mostly every second of every minute!! But I was reading a women's magazine last night while eating a yummy Toastie, and came across a quote; "Never set aside something for a special occasion, as LIFE is a special occasion." I just thought it was lovely. It made me want to cry.

Eve_Dublin

you see,i see people like that as the type who do nothing but talk about their children and live boring lives.They want to share everything their child does,says and achieves.I don't give two shit's about anybody's child.When parents speak to me about their children the first thing i think is "so what".

I can see it myself among friends and family - having babies/young children takes up most of your day. One of my friends spends most of her day breast feeding her son right now and trying to get him to sleep and grab a few hours sleep herself. That's her life right now. That's her news, so of course she's going to talk about it. Our mothers did it too and thank fook they did, eh? They're not boasting, they're telling you their news.

You're life is boring if you're constantly bored but don't do anything to change it. It differs from person to person. Being busy doesn't equate to having an exciting life.

dj jarvis

HHobo wrote: »

EMPATHY goes both ways. Endless stories about how your bundle of joy managed to take two steps unaided are probably exciting from your point of view but for the love of God, have a little empathy for the rest of us.

Consider the your above to refer to any random excited parent. When the person you are talking to looks like a deer trapped in the glare of headlights and then their eyes start to glaze over and finally you can actually see the will to live draining out of them, show a little compassion and stop talking about your kids

im not talking about my kids , and dont , unless asked.
i know who would be interested in listening to tales of my kids,
i would not put others through that - but in fairness , im of a age where the majority of my age group have grown up , stopped being sniveling whinging students with first world problems , so they would have kids , so its a mutual interest , so not boring to the people having the conversation.

so once again the student heavy AH , turns a thread about boredom into a i hate kids thread. such cynicism in the "younger" generation is a bit sad really.
talk about reverting to type :rolleyes:

You lot dont give a **** about our kids ? great !!! I equally dont give a **** about whatever the **** you do , but im not going on line whinging about you

you really must be boring

( not directed at anyone , but directed at everyone - can we not just go back to kicking civil servants and hating cats ? : )

UCDVet

Too many people think the opposite of boring is getting drunk at the same bars/clubs/pubs each week.

Geri Male

Kichote wrote: »

A blast off the shotgun

Driving a vehicle at an unsafe speed

Being out in the fresh air

Working on a pet project

Travelling and meeting new people

Riding a nice byor whos on the pill so she wont have kids that will put a damper on it all

And so on.

Taking a dump on a footpath in the small hours, wiping with toilet paper and leaving it beside the sh*it.

Then going back in daylight to see if it's still there and observe people's reactions.

dark crystal

Katie Taylor's voice is exceptionally boring. Great boxer, but that droning, monotone voice is positively narcoleptic to listen to.

In fairness, I find many sportspeople fall into this category, though.

cosbloodymick

The cure for boredom is masturbation

Fox_In_Socks

cosbloodymick wrote: »

The cure for boredom is masturbation

What's the cure for masturbation?

Ella

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

What's the cure for masturbation?

A girlfriend.

cosbloodymick

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

What's the cure for masturbation?

Who wants to be cured. 99% do it and the other 1% that say they don't are liars.