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New game: Cures for boredom thread
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TinyBubbles said on January 23, 2006 13:24:
..but i’d have no problem doing no 7 and no 13 ;)
TinyBubbles said on January 19, 2006 13:35:
My pens keep dissapearing!! I bought like 15 not too long ago and they have all gone! WTF?!? Who is taking my pens???? What is happening to them???:|
And NO they are not in the sofa..
TinyBubbles said on January 19, 2006 14:05:
I am buying stuff of Amazon.. only i am pretty sure i havn’t got the money on my card hahahahaha. This could be interesting..
ally77 said on January 19, 2006 16:26:
Tinybubbles.... I have that pen problem as well! it’s like they just dissappear!
I am sucking a mint!
zaine said on January 19, 2006 19:42:
I thought this title was CURSES of boredom!
i thought you were being very mean :P
told you I am dyslexic!! :’(
why is that one of the hardest words to spell?!
kachina008 said on January 19, 2006 22:00:
I’m never mean :P just dull and bored sometimes, ick!
today I had to take a Dutch test, about which i found out like, 30 mins before it began. THAT was fun :S
ally77 said on January 19, 2006 23:23:
No I thought it said Curse as well when I first read it... had to look twice! lol
I really need to go to bed, I have another busy day tomorrow then I am off till next Wednesday!
Any ideas from you all to cure boredom at work... and please don’t say “do some work” - I am simply not paid enough for that!
LittleSpooky said on January 20, 2006 00:30:
I thought it said “curses” as well. Of course, I’m some what higher than a kite at the moment. I took some Robitussin DM (for coughs) about 20 hours ago... and it’s still affecting me now. It says it’s alcohol free, but when I got up a couple hours after taking it, to use the bathroom... the walls were too far away. If I’d fallen over... that would have been it, don’t think I woulda gotten back up.
So now.. I’m debating on goin to bed until dinner time and just letting my body try to recoup.
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 20, 2006 06:55:
I got these from an email entitled “How To Keep A Healthy Level Of Insanity”, but they will work just as well to cure boredom (especially at the office)...
1. At lunch time, sit in your parked car with sunglasses on and point a hair dryer at passing cars. See if they slow down.
2. Page yourself over the intercom. Don’t disguise your voice.
3. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
4. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it “in”
5. In the memo field of all your checks, write “for sexual favours”.
6. Finish all your sentences with “in accordance with the prophecy.”
7. Dont use any punctuation marks
8. As often as possible, skip rather than walk.
9. Ask people what sex they are. Laugh hysterically after they answer.
10. Specify that your drive-through order is “to go”.
11. Sing along at the opera.
12. Put mosquito netting around your work area. Play a tape of jungle sounds all day.
13. When the money comes out the ATM, scream “I won!”, “I won!” “3rd time this week!!!!!”
14. When leaving the zoo, start running towards the parking lot, yelling “run for your lives, they’re loose!!”
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 20, 2006 08:39:
@kachina: Are you gonna try some of them? Let me know how it goes! Take pictures!! LOL
TinyBubbles said on January 20, 2006 14:07:
dyslexic!! :’(
why is that one of the hardest words to spell?!
Hahaha that has made my day :D !!
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 21, 2006 16:49:
@TinyBubbles: LOL!! Must have been a great laugh! Haven’t tried any of them myself yet :(
TinyBubbles said on January 23, 2006 13:23:
Lol no. I was only a child then and i only did it to embarres my stupid uncle who embarresed me when we went to see the movie Schindler’s List. Tit for Tat.
He will never take me to the zoo again and i will never go with him to see another Steven Spielberg so called “from a jewish perspective” movie.
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 24, 2006 14:48:
Hi Guys. Still bored? Here are some dares to try out:
ONE-POINT DARES
1. Ignore the first five people who say ’good morning’ to you.
2. To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace.
3. Leave your fly open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”.
4. Walk sideways to the photocopier.
5. While going in an elevator, gasp dramatically each time the doors open.
6. When in elevator with one other person, tap them on the shoulder and pretend it wasn’t you.
7. Interrupt your conversation with someone by giving a huge dejected sigh.
8. Use your highlighter pen on the computer screen.
THREE-POINT DARES
1. Say to your boss, “I like your style”, wink, and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers.
2. Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle.
3. Shout random numbers while someone is counting.
4. Every time you get an email, shout ”email”.
5. Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has got over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso.
6. Keep hole punching your finger. Each time you do, shout, “dagnamit, it’s happened again!”. Then do it again.
7. Introduce yourself to a new colleague as “the office bicycle”. Then wink and pout.
8. Call I.T. helpdesk and tell them that you can’t seem to access any pornography web sites.
FIVE-POINT DARES
1. At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem extra points if you actually launch into it yourself).
2. Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times.
3. For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Dave”.
4. Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two”.
6. After every sentence, say ’Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in: “The report’s on your desk, Mon.” Keep this up for one hour.
7. In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, “Shut up, damn it, all of you just shut up!”
8. At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again!”
9. Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now.”
10. Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit; smash biscuit with your fist.
11. During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door.
12. Hump the photocopier. When someone spots you, stop and cough embarrassingly, then lean in to the machine and whisper loudly, “I’ll call you tonight”.
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 24, 2006 15:24:
@rox-kuryliw: Just trying to help cure the boredom ;)
kachina008 said on January 24, 2006 16:11:
woohoo i get 6 points!! I’ve done #3 and 4 on the three point dare list!
TinyBubbles said on January 26, 2006 13:30:
No 4 is just too sad hahahaha. But i’ll admit to no 3 :)
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 26, 2006 14:30:
I’ve also done the random number thing a couple of times before. BTW: Do I get points for every time I did it?
I’m trying to find opportunities to try some of the others.
TinyBubbles said on January 28, 2006 12:51:
I’m trying to get a point for no 1 but freaking nobody wants to say “good morning” to me!!
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on January 29, 2006 14:46:
@TB: Is everybody around you also working on #1 then? Points to them, I guess... LOL
zaine said on January 29, 2006 19:11:
you could always get an ipod and try to figure out how i-tunes works.
always a giggle...
TinyBubbles said on January 31, 2006 12:54:
I heard this on the radio this morning:
In 1981 Prince Charles got married and the Pope died and Australia lost the ashes.
In 2005 Prince Charles got married, the Pope died and Australia lost the ashes.
Mmmmmm
If Charles is still alive in about 24 years time and decides to get married again then i’d be very worried if i was the Pope then :O And i’d cancel the ashes if i were an aussie :P
kachina008 said on February 1, 2006 06:44:
What are Ashes? I’m figuring it has something to do with cricket?
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on February 1, 2006 13:47:
@kachina:
Yes, the Ashes is a cricket series between England and Australia. Here’s some more info (http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/the_ashes/history/2190854.stm):
“The origins of cricket’s oldest international contest go back to 1882, when the third Australian team to tour England achieved the unthinkable.
Until then, the English had never been beaten on home soil, but Australia, led by by WL Murdoch, shocked the “Mother Country”.
England, with the legendary WG Grace in their ranks, lost by seven runs, Aussie fast bowler Fred Spofforth taking 14 wickets for 90 runs.
The following day, a mock obituary ran in the Sporting Times “in affectionate remembrance of English cricket, which died at the Oval on 29th August, 1882”.
It added: “The body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia.”
Those mythical ashes became a reality when the next England team to tour Australia.
The Hon Ivo Bligh was presented with an urn containing the burnt remains of a bail after beating the home side 2-1*.
Thus “The Ashes” were now a tangible sporting prize, although they remain in the safekeeping of cricket’s spiritual home, Lord’s.
After regaining their honour, England went on to win the next seven Ashes contests, starting with the first home Test series against Australia in 1884.”
TinyBubbles said on February 7, 2006 14:31:
I went to a public loo, didn’t wash my hands, then ate chocs :)
living on the wiiiiild side heeheeeee.
FirstGirlOnTheMoon said on February 10, 2006 14:24:
I’ve found some boredom cures for when you are out shopping. The last one’s my favourite.
1. Get 24 boxes of condoms & randomly put them in people’s trolleys when they aren’t looking.
2. Set all the alarm clocks in House wares to go off at 5 minute intervals.
3. Make a trail of tomato juice on the floor leading to the ladies toilet.
4. Walk up to an employee and tell him/her in an official tone: ’Code 3 in House wares... and see what happens.
5. Go to the Service Desk and ask to put a bag of M&M’s on credit.
6. Move a ’CAUTION - WET FLOOR’ sign to a carpeted area.
7. Set-up a tent in the Camping Department? and tell other shoppers you are sleeping over and invite them in if they bring pillows from the Bedding Department.
8. When a clerk asks if they can help you, begin to cry and ask: “Why can’t you people just leave me alone?”
9. Look right into the security camera, use it as a mirror and pick your nose.
10. While handling large knives in the Kitchen Dept, ask the clerk if he knows where the anti-depressants are located.
11. Dart around the store suspiciously, while loudly humming the theme from Mission Impossible.
12. Hide in a clothing rack .. . . and when people browse through, say: “PICK ME!!! PICK ME!!!”
13. When an announcement comes over the loudspeaker, hit the floor and assume the fetal position and scream “NO!...It’s those voices again!!!”
14. Go into a fitting room, shut the door and wait a while... then yell loudly: “There’s no toilet paper in here!”
kachina008 said on January 19, 2006 11:23:
It’s simple. Let’s help alleviate each others’ boredom by posting something interesting.
Here’s my contribution:
Procrastination is the worst sort of disease there is :S