Ways to occupy yourself if you are self-isolating due to Covid-19

Isolating yourself could be frustrating, demoralising and boring, but in today’s world of instant communication we are at least virtually connected to the outside world. Self-isolation could be used an an opportunity for doing something you always considered doing but e we had the time.

Here’s a few of my own suggestions:

1) Learn a new language or brush up on one you partly know. There are lots of internet resources.

2) is there an untouched musical instrument in the house? Now would be the time to start learning to play it. Maybe achieve a little competency by learning g off a tube within the two weeks.

3) Is there a paintbox, brushes and paper or canvas in the house? How about trying to produce a little work of art.

4) Try a bit of creative writing. Could have a short story well-honed within the couple of weeks.

5) Do some home decoration you hadn’t been able to get around to doing. Opening that gun of paint that was lying in store waiting for the opportunity.

Any more suggestions? ...

Johnny Sausage

Be on boards all day every day making holier than thou comments and then run away when the mask slips

Leg End Reject

Sort out the hotpress.

Clean the inside of your cupboards.

Create a Walter Mitty Boards account.

Get sectioned.

JohnnyFlash

A big bag of cans.

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Become a new generation of boomers?













Actually wait no, don't do that, the planet is fcuked.

donvito99

Determine how many faps required to top oneself.

greasepalm

Start a new project.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Coffin

Reruns of Oireachtas Report.

wing52

Sweep the chimney.


With petrol.

cj maxx

Put all them spuds you bought in a panic buy to use .make poiteen and stay in spendid isolation for months

Timberrrrrrrr

I tend to browse charity shops while in my local town for books, currently have 12 on the shelves that I have not got around to reading. Between that and a good store of coffee beans (and food obviously) I am pretty much sorted.

Flick the bean

greasepalm

greasepalm wrote: »

Start a new project.

https://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Coffin

Love this

Plumbthedepths

Go on the main Corona virus thread and instill as much fear as possible.

We could post our descriptions and files of little achievements during self-quarantine, boost our morale. Eg our little work of art. Our nicely tended balcony. A poem we wrote. Keep up our morale, have fun. Post up our own Corona cartoons and decent jokes.

Leg End Reject

I wonder could one make an untrue panic stricken call to their GP, explaining how one was unfortunately exposed and needed to self quarantine?

Would a GP automatically furnish one with a 2 week medical certificate for work?

If the answer to all of the above is yes my answer is go on holiday.

banie01

If anyone is self-isolating and at a loose end...

I have a couple of essays due that I just cannot motivate myself for yet

gmisk

Buy a Kindle

Sardonicat

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Sort out the hotpress.

Clean the inside of your cupboards.

Create a Walter Mitty Boards account.

Get sectioned.

1. &2. NEVER!
3. Could you be bothered?
4. Looking increasingly likely with each passing day, as it is.

Sardonicat

banie01 wrote: »

If anyone is self-isolating and at a loose end...

I have a couple of essays due that I just cannot motivate myself for yet

The trick is to wait til you have roughly 24hrs left. I always found panic to be my greatest motivation

Littlehorny

BrownFinger wrote: »

Flick the bean

Going by your username I'd wash my hands first if I were you.

cojomo2

BrownFinger wrote: »

Flick the bean

Wash your finger first.

banie01

Sardonicat wrote: »

The trick is to wait til you have roughly 24hrs left. I always found panic to be my greatest motivation

Ya see in my previous life I always found that to be very true.
Some of my very best work, was laid down in deadline inspired rushes...

But!

I'm trying to put the "mature" in mature student and set the example of well planned work to the kid!

It's not going great :pac:

Results are good but actual workflow is let's just say...
Old habits die hard!

dhaughton99

donvito99 wrote: »

Determine how many faps required to top oneself.

It’s already rubbed raw.

greasepalm

Leg End Reject wrote: »

I wonder could one make an untrue panic stricken call to their GP, explaining how one was unfortunately exposed and needed to self quarantine?

Would a GP automatically furnish one with a 2 week medical certificate for work?

If the answer to all of the above is yes my answer is go on holiday.

But they will be checking up on you daily to see any change in your condition,2 week holiday and coming back with a deep tan cough cough.

Sardonicat

banie01 wrote: »

Ya see in my previous life I always found that to be very true.
Some of my very best work, was laid down in deadline inspired rushes...

But!

I'm trying to put the "mature" in mature student and set the example of well planned work to the kid!

It's not going great :pac:

Results are good but actual workflow is let's just say...
Old habits die hard!

I thought that too. I must tell you, you're doing it wrong, banie. Let the kids show you the way it's done. Enjoy your life between panic striken interludes. You're guaranteed to never grow old. And if I ever find out if any of those feckers has grown into a boring old fart while I've being making a public spectacle of myself for years based on their influence I will come down hard on them.

Get all the achievements for each paradox title on steam, and finish the main campaigns on the older titles. HOI series, Stellaris, EU/CK, Imperator Rome.

There you go. Your next year mapped out.

Wibbs

donvito99 wrote: »

Determine how many faps required to top oneself.

Going on current if personal "research", I'd likely have full arm failure from acute RSI in each joint long before I succumbed to a directly masturbatory demise.

Leg End Reject

greasepalm wrote: »

But they will be checking up on you daily to see any change in your condition,2 week holiday and coming back with a deep tan cough cough.

Jaundice. Sure I might need more time off for that.

Sardonicat

Leg End Reject wrote: »

Jaundice. Sure I might need more time off for that.

But what if there was an outbreak where you are on holiday? You'd have to be quarantined at the beach side resort for even longer, which would be a crying shame, wouldn't it?

Leg End Reject

Sardonicat wrote: »

But what if there was an outbreak where you are on holiday? You'd have to be quarantined at the beach side resort for even longer, which would be a crying shame, wouldn't it?

Quarantinception.

I'm warming to the idea, unless it's a fever of course.

Feisar

donvito99 wrote: »

Determine how many faps required to top oneself.

I enflamed my foreskin once from too much fappage.

ChikiChiki

Sardonicat wrote: »

The trick is to wait til you have roughly 24hrs left. I always found panic to be my greatest motivation

4 hours is better. Started one at 4pm one day after work for 8pm submission and nailed a rare 85%.

How long do ye reckon you could get away with not going to work for?..a couple of weeks?.. could you just rock up again afterwards going "ah, I'm grand"?

Wayne Jarvis

Feisar wrote: »

I enflamed my foreskin once from too much fappage.

An acronym of your username for you good sir. (With a slight cheat.)

Foreskin Enflamed Incandescent & Scalding After Rubbing.

Andrew00

Wankin all day probably and watch movies

Church on Tuesday

A big **** off jar of Nutella.

Leg End Reject

[Deleted User] wrote: »

How long do ye reckon you could get away with not going to work for?..a couple of weeks?.. could you just rock up again afterwards going "ah, I'm grand"?

The beauty of it is that you don't actually have to be sick, you just stay at home on the off chance you might be incubating it.

spurious

Make a fortune charging 50 euro a go to 'collect a few messages' for those hiding from the plague.

cloudatlas

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Isolating yourself could be frustrating, demoralising and boring, but in today’s world of instant communication we are at least virtually connected to the outside world. Self-isolation could be used an an opportunity for doing something you always considered doing but e we had the time.

Here’s a few of my own suggestions:

1) Learn a new language or brush up on one you partly know. There are lots of internet resources.

2) is there an untouched musical instrument in the house?

Any more suggestions? ...

Are you high?! My work will make me work from home and my laptop isn’t as good as my pc with two screens. I read in my spare time anyway. Enjoy making stuff out of drain pipe cleaners and toilet roll.

corner of hells

Imagine self isolating for two weeks , then opening your front door and finding everyone is dead or a zombie.

Bigbagofcans

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

A big bag of cans.

Which reminds me, I must stock up.

skooterblue2

BrownFinger wrote: »

Flick the bean

Flick someone elses bean?

Blueshoe

Smoke an ounce and do pushups

biko

Learn to code

skooterblue2

corner of hells wrote: »

Imagine self isolating for two weeks , then opening your front door and finding everyone is dead or a zombie.

28 days all over again?

spaceHopper

I've two kids I go to work for a break there is only so may times I can hear in one day I'm bored.


Sleep I've about a 7 year deficit so I'll sleep most of the first week - this will also conserve food
I just bought a bike so early morning cycles in the park will be on the cards.
Give the neighbors some thing to look at I'll dig 3 gave size holes in the garden one day then fill them in the day after.
I might take up hacking and hack into a bank to steal an Nigerian Prices legacy from his dead King / Father...
When I was a kid I used to love MacGyver and the A-Team so I'll see what I can make out of the random stuff in the shed, make be a paint tin cannon or a lawnmower drone

Sardonicat

^^^^^
You've got a random stiff in your shed? Maybe you should start digging those grave size holes now.

spaceHopper

Sardonicat wrote: »

^^^^^
You've got a random stiff in your shed? Maybe you should start digging those grave size holes now.

OK grammar police chill, I can't "tpye" for sh1t

Sardonicat

spaceHopper wrote: »

OK grammar police chill, I can't "tpye" for sh1t

Not grammar policing at all! Thought it made a good post great, actually.

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Read all of Proust.