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Not having a boring life?

  • 18-01-2013 12:19AM
    #1
    Scanlas The 2nd
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,144 ✭✭✭


    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.


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  • #2
    frozenfrozen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭frozenfrozen


    enjoy yourself


  • #3
    Professey Chin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51,054 ✭✭✭✭Professey Chin


    Actually doing stuff instead of thinking about maybe doing stuff


  • #4
    Mickey H
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,822 ✭✭✭Mickey H


    Tell us your thoughts OP.


  • #5
    feargale
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,639 ✭✭✭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.


  • #6
    monkeysnapper
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭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


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  • #7
    Where To
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,455 ✭✭✭Where To


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


  • #8
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭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 :)


  • #9
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭dj jarvis


    frozenfrozen wrote: »
    enjoy yourself

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

    thread end


  • #10
    tempura
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 604 ✭✭✭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 ?


  • #11
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭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.


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  • #12
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭Fox_In_Socks


    longhalloween wrote: »
    As the saying goes, only boring people get bored :)

    Why do you bore people?:eek:

    http://www.colourbox.com/preview/4831495-794692-construction-worker-carpenter-with-drill-drilling.jpg


  • #13
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #14
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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.


  • #15
    Fox_In_Socks
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,615 ✭✭✭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!


  • #16
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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.


  • #17
    dj jarvis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,485 ✭✭✭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


  • #18
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭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:


  • #19
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    longhalloween
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,207 ✭✭✭longhalloween


    Fox_In_Socks wrote: »
    Why do you bore people?:eek:

    http://www.colourbox.com/preview/4831495-794692-construction-worker-carpenter-with-drill-drilling.jpg

    *Reply with an extremely NSFW image*

    ;)


  • #21
    Kichote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 305 ✭✭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.


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  • #22
    Latchy
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    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 '' .


  • #23
    dj jarvis
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    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


  • #24
    Celly Smunt
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,463 ✭✭✭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.


  • #25
    Czarcasm
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    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! :D
    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! :D


  • #26
    dd972
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    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.


  • #27
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • #28
    humbert
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    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.


  • #29
    Fox_In_Socks
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    mikom wrote: »
    Sounds like a day in the life of Frog Ward.

    Oh!


  • #30
    Agricola
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    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.


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  • #31
    Ando's Saggy Bottom
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    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.


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