Biggest waste of time

2lazytogetup

Listening to the radio last night and sports presenters were noting when they go to their deathbed they will look back and feel that they probably wasted so much time following the Irish soccer team, watching the matches and following what was going on with the drama etc.

This made me reflect on how i've wasted time -

1. going to charity shops looking for the ultimate find. 95% of the time left empty handed, its all junk.

2. ripping CDs and searching to download movies. now i have Spotify and Netflix So days of downloading and saving to an external hard disk. all wasted

3. Waiting for buses, often the #17 dublin bus, often for 55minutes each time. now just jump in the car. hours wasted

4. Going out for drinks on saturday nights cause of the fear of missing out in my 20s. i could have learned something in that time

what about you - hours spending time on boards.ie perhaps?

Bob Harris

What isn't a waste of time?

BeerWolf

My /playtime back when I was playing World of Warcraft...

/shudders

FortuneChip

2lazytogetup wrote: »

4. Going out for drinks on saturday nights cause of the fear of missing out in my 20s. i could have learned something in that time
?

You learned it was a waste of time

Edgware

FortuneChip wrote: »

You learned it was a waste of time

And that after 14 pints of Guinness you are better off without the Vindaloo

lazygal

Doing religion in school.

ToddyDoody

2lazytogetup wrote: »

Listening to the radio last night and sports presenters were noting when they go to their deathbed they will look back and feel that they probably wasted so much time following the Irish soccer team, watching the matches and following what was going on with the drama etc.

This made me reflect on how i've wasted time -

1. going to charity shops looking for the ultimate find. 95% of the time left empty handed, its all junk.

2. ripping CDs and searching to download movies. now i have Spotify and Netflix So days of downloading and saving to an external hard disk. all wasted

3. Waiting for buses, often the #17 dublin bus, often for 55minutes each time. now just jump in the car. hours wasted

4. Going out for drinks on saturday nights cause of the fear of missing out in my 20s. i could have learned something in that time

what about you - hours spending time on boards.ie perhaps?

My hamster died unexpectedly a few months back. Complete waste.

nthclare

Threw out a few old clocks last night, absolute waste of time....

punisher5112

Life in general is a waste of time but not only that the world's resources.....

We are all wasting.

completedit

LMAO it’s all pointless. Your Saturday night on the beer was shared with friends, forming human connection, how is that any more pointless than sitting at home on Udemy learning about code or some other bollox that has no other value than the one we assign to it?

topper75

completedit wrote: »

... or some other bollox that has no other value than the one we assign to it?

Is all value merely assigned?

What does "quality" mean Phaedrus?

-- oh no not down that ****ing rabbit hole again! :eek:

GBX

Time spent reading sh1te threads on here.

ToddyDoody

GBX wrote: »

Time spent reading sh1te threads on here.

I wish to have as many posts as you some day.

GBX

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I wish to have as many posts as you some day.

Glad you have some ambition in life. Keep it up.

Your Face

Biggest waste of time lately is using the internet.

Badly Drunk Boy

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I wish to have as many posts as you some day.

You've a slightly higher 'post per day' level than GBX so I'm sure you'll get there! :pac:

randd1

If you waste time do you damage shorten eternity?

Ubbquittious

I for one am glad i have terabytes of music and movies downloaded so I don't feel the need to pay for some subscription service

smilerf

Reading this thread

ToddyDoody

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

You've a slightly higher 'post per day' level than GBX so I'm sure you'll get there! :pac:

I guess my point was having thousands of posts yet saying 'this is s*it' is a bit screwed up.

topper75

What is time well spent?
Is it effort expended that moves you forward towards a particular goal?
Is it nothing to do with goals at all, whereby the expended effort yields its own immediate satisfaction as you go along?

Only when you can define 'time well spent' can you begin to consider was is and isn't a waste of time.

There is no one meaning to life. There is only 'a' meaning, that you assign. Terrifying burden. It follows therefore that all value is therefore likewise assigned by an individual through their own viewpoint. One person's trash is another person's treasure. So it follows that one person's time well spent is another person's waste of time.

oLoonatic

- Reading this thread on boards.

GBX

ToddyDoody wrote: »

I guess my point was having thousands of posts yet saying 'this is s*it' is a bit screwed up.

Who said or what exactly is the "this is sh1t" part? I didnt. I said the wasted time was spent reading sh1t threads - no specifics. :rolleyes:

ToddyDoody

GBX wrote: »

Who said or what exactly is the "this is sh1t" part? I didnt. I said the wasted time was spent reading sh1t threads - no specifics. :rolleyes:

Do you enjoy boards on the whole?

GBX

ToddyDoody wrote: »

Do you enjoy boards on the whole?

For the most part yes, If not I wouldn't be on here. But as with everything, what you and I like is subjective. What I consider is shít others cant get enough of. Thats life.

ToddyDoody

GBX wrote: »

For the most part yes, If not id wouldn't be on here.

Good to hear.

Sometimes I think Ireland is a bit like Russia. In Russia, smiling is seen as a sign of stupdity, or equivalent. In Ireland, its like expressions of positivity is a sign of stupidity, or equivalent - its not, if only it were that easy.

KilOit

Average 6 hours a day for 4 years playing WoW, thoroughly enjoyed it though even if it was a big waste of time in the grand scheme of things

Bigbagofcans

2lazytogetup wrote: »

2. ripping CDs and searching to download movies. now i have Spotify and Netflix So days of downloading and saving to an external hard disk. all wasted

There was no other alternative so it had to be done. I wouldn't be thinking negatively in that way.

Social media (particularly Instagram) has to be the biggest waste of time. Spending hours each day watching people's stories of them in the gym, sipping coffee, selfies. Just to feed other people's narcissism.

At least with Boards there's entertainment (most of the time), it can be informative and some posts make me laugh out loud daily.

aristotle25

Staring at your mobile phone. Scrolling through the same stuff you just scrolled through 30 mins ago.

Put it away, look around, be present, talk to people, look at the world, breathe, think, don't think. Most things are better than being a slave to those devices.

Your Face

aristotle25 wrote: »

Staring at your mobile phone. Scrolling through the same stuff you just scrolled through 30 mins ago.

Put it away, look around, be present, talk to people, look at the world, breathe, think, don't think. Most things are better than being a slave to those devices.

The reason I use my phone in public is because people are far less interesting these days.

BraveDonut

Irish at school.
I was there to learn so that time could have been focused on learning something useful

ToddyDoody

Your Face wrote: »

The reason I use my phone in public is because people are far less interesting these days.

The phone is people, just remote people who share your interests.

Your Face

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The phone is people, just remote people who share your interests.

To a point perhaps, its more of a representation of people.

_Brian

2lazytogetup wrote: »

Listening to the radio last night and sports presenters were noting when they go to their deathbed they will look back and feel that they probably wasted so much time following the Irish soccer team, watching the matches and following what was going on with the drama etc.

This made me reflect on how i've wasted time -

1. going to charity shops looking for the ultimate find. 95% of the time left empty handed, its all junk.

2. ripping CDs and searching to download movies. now i have Spotify and Netflix So days of downloading and saving to an external hard disk. all wasted

3. Waiting for buses, often the #17 dublin bus, often for 55minutes each time. now just jump in the car. hours wasted

4. Going out for drinks on saturday nights cause of the fear of missing out in my 20s. i could have learned something in that time

what about you - hours spending time on boards.ie perhaps?

Some laugh that you get your movie needs on Netflix.

I saw most of their content when it was released, by renting it from the video cave for £3 a night back in the 90’s

nthclare

nthclare wrote: »

Threw out a few old clocks last night, absolute waste of time....

Got a few watches and tied them together to make a belt. A waist of time

aristotle25

aristotle25 wrote: »

Staring at your mobile phone. Scrolling through the same stuff you just scrolled through 30 mins ago.

Put it away, look around, be present, talk to people, look at the world, breathe, think, don't think. Most things are better than being a slave to those devices.

Sent from my iPhone

s7ryf3925pivug

I have achieved 100% efficiency in my usage of time.

Edgware

BraveDonut wrote: »

Irish at school.
I was there to learn so that time could have been focused on learning something useful

You didnt do too bad. 1st replacement on the vilage idiot list can't be sneezed at.