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Weirdest thing you've done to pass away the time

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  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Worked in a large Pharmacueticals plant with rather large plant rooms and a pallet truck. Used to use the pallet trucks in a similar method to those 3 wheeled devices you see kids with now a days and race around the plant rooms to get around quicker. Was great fun to say the least.


  • Posts: 24,867 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Itzy wrote: »
    Worked in a large Pharmacueticals plant with rather large plant rooms and a pallet truck. Used to use the pallet trucks in a similar method to those 3 wheeled devices you see kids with now a days and race around the plant rooms to get around quicker. Was great fun to say the least.

    Ha, did the same when I worked in a supermarket. We'd race in the deliveries area, it had a ramp as well so you could built up some speed.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    It was great fun, but I had no ramps. So I had to build up momentum myself by pulling back on the handle and turning it quickly. I used to get some speed up, which was the funny part.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭lilium inter Spinas


    When I was a teen, I went through a phase where I attempted to pierce different parts of my body... using a thick sewing needle and a lit candle to singe the tip. *cough* I learned a lot about my threshold for pain and had some cool piercings to show off at school.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Was that safe?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭lilium inter Spinas


    Itzy wrote: »
    Was that safe?

    Not at all. I ended up with some gnarly infections and scarring from certain attempts. >_o; And I ended up letting most of the more 'successful' ones close up. Only have the outer helix and tragus left on my right ear left.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    Not necessarily a good idea. I had a lip piercing done professionally and wish I kept it. Addicted to tattoos aswell, need to get another soon :P


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 727 ✭✭✭lilium inter Spinas


    Itzy wrote: »
    Addicted to tattoos aswell, need to get another soon :P

    I can relate... I got my very first one a year ago and I've been so restless to get another. I just can't figure out what I want or where I want it. Call me crazy, but that buzz and feeling of the needle against your skin... ooooh. Gives you shivers. The good kind. :p


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 19,242 Mod ✭✭✭✭L.Jenkins


    I love the feel of the tatto gun :D Feels very nice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 59 ✭✭Excedion


    Me and a friend went spear fishing....in a river with no fish....with no way to get the spears back after we had thrown them.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 182 ✭✭Dizzicizzi


    Worst thing I have done is play Tetris all night... Of course it stopped me sleeping even more, because every time I shut my eyes afterwards, all I could see were Tetris blocks falling and I was still slotting them all together :eek: . So I spent the rest of the night researching the known phenomenon of "The Tetris Effect"... Not a good way to spend an evening in fairness :rolleyes: .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,711 ✭✭✭Redhairedguy


    Working in post production, you tend to find yourself with quite a bit of spare time. We had one contract for a month back last summer, where I had about 5 hours downtime every night, whilst I was waiting for footage to encode.

    After about day two of this, I began to hatch a plan. I had a spare Xbox at home, and one of the audio suites had a 50 inch LCD in it for clients to view work in progress, not to mention the 5.1 surround sound speakers within the room.

    So for the guts of a month; every night I would sneak my Xbox into the room, connect it up to the TV and speakers and game for between 4 - 6 hours, completely undisturbed whilst waiting for my footage to be ready.

    Then in the morning before I left, I'd pack up my console again. Reconnect all the cables and outputs in the audio suite. Sneak the box containing the console under a load of other boxes, and head home. No one ever found out, except for one guy who was sworn to secrecy in return for 12 consecutive matches of Black Ops. :D

    Okay. Not exactly weird or anything; but definitely the best way I whiled away time. :pac:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    I started going over my old uni maths notes about 4 weeks ago... Not good!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,113 ✭✭✭SilverScreen


    I once took apart an old Gateway 2000 PC partly out of curiosity but mostly out of boredom. I took out the hard drive, CD drive, floppy disc drive (remember those!), modem and a few other bits and pieces and cleaned the dust off everything. EVERYTHING. Got the motherboard looking spotless. Had a nice little look at it all and put the whole lot back together again.

    Riveting story I know.


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