# 80 bad, bad, bad things to do **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [February 18, 2021, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248 "2021-02-18T19:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/21 "2021-02-21T17:46:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network What’s wrong with that? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/22 "2021-02-21T17:47:30Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#): > > What’s wrong with that? Nothing, other than work avoidance. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/23 "2021-08-18T14:51:41Z")
[ Feb 21](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/20) - RV cross country. - Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting - Procrastinate about housework - Go ice fishing - Go rock fishing - Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. - Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw - Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend - Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. - Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons… 11, Put out shelled corn for the wildlife - and not what I was originally going to post: Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) - Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. - Use junk mail to make origami animals - What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . - Drive without a spare tire. - Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. - Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle - Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring - Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network - Set off fireworks after 10:00pm. ---
**Author:** ![LegendHasit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/legendhasit/32/8246_2.png) [@LegendHasit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegendHasit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 9:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/24 "2021-09-04T09:37:20Z")
1. ``` RV cross country. ``` 2. ``` Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting ``` 3. ``` Procrastinate about housework ``` 4. ``` Go ice fishing ``` 5. ``` Go rock fishing ``` 6. ``` Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. ``` 7. ``` Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw ``` 8. ``` Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend ``` 9. ``` Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. ``` 10. ``` Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons… ``` 11. ``` 11, Put out shelled corn for the wildlife ``` 12. ``` and not what I was originally going to post: Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) ``` 13. ``` Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. ``` 14. ``` Use junk mail to make origami animals ``` 15. ``` What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . ``` 16. ``` Drive without a spare tire. ``` 17. ``` Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. ``` 18. ``` Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle ``` 19. ``` Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring ``` 20. ``` Binge-watch old episodes of Match Game on the Game Show Network ``` 21. ``` Set off fireworks after 10:00pm. ``` 22. ``` Let dust bunnies take over the hallway ``` ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/25 "2021-09-04T21:29:29Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ tidying things up a bit, and adding a new entry _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2021, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/26 "2021-09-04T22:00:37Z")
> [@Bicycle\_Bill](#): > > What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . My personal specialty… ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2021, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/27 "2021-09-08T03:48:17Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/28 "2021-09-09T00:29:18Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2021, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/29 "2021-09-09T00:36:02Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/30 "2021-11-29T23:15:10Z")
1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27.Cow Tipping ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/31 "2021-11-30T01:21:42Z")
1. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. Almost free food. the Muslim boyfriend of the Lil’Wrekker is not amused ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/32 "2021-11-30T06:55:43Z")
1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27. Cow Tipping 28. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. 29. Respond to a ‘complete this survey to win a gift card from \_\_\_\_\_\_’ in your email And for the record … You’re aware of how big and heavy a cow _REALLY_ is, right? it is almost impossible to ‘tip’ a cow without heavy equipment. I’m a Wisconsin guy, and I know. _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/34 "2021-11-30T17:33:15Z")
[quote=“smithterry813, post:33, topic:933248, full:true”] 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27. Cow Tipping 28. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. 29. Respond to a ‘complete this survey to win a gift card from \_\_\_\_\_\_’ in your email 30. Procrastinate for a whole week so that you can do everything in one day. 31. Write angry letter to your local newspaper, then remember it shut down in 2011. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/35 "2021-11-30T17:40:28Z")
[quote=“Kent\_Clark, post:34, topic:933248, full:true”] [quote=“smithterry813, post:33, topic:933248, full:true”] 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27. Cow Tipping 28. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. 29. Respond to a ‘complete this survey to win a gift card from \_\_\_\_\_\_’ in your email 30. Procrastinate for a whole week so that you can do everything in one day. 31. Write angry letter to your local newspaper, then remember it shut down in 2011. 32. Pick your nose while interviewing for that great job you really, really want. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/36 "2021-11-30T19:41:42Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27. Cow Tipping 28. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. 29. Respond to a ‘complete this survey to win a gift card from \_\_\_\_\_\_’ in your email 30. Procrastinate for a whole week so that you can do everything in one day. 31. Write angry letter to your local newspaper, then remember it shut down in 2011. 32. Pick your nose while interviewing for that great job you really, really want. 33. Go to the food shelf on their “now or never” giveaway day, get an absolutely enormous amount of cake, pie, brownies, pastry and cookies, and pig out 'till you’re sick. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/37 "2021-11-30T19:48:18Z")
**80 Bad, Bad, Bad Things to Do** _(Nothing illegal. We’ll go to 80 and start over again.)_ 1. RV cross country. 2. Consume a quart of ice cream by oneself at one sitting 3. Procrastinate about housework 4. Go ice fishing 5. Go rock fishing 6. Order a large pizza and a diet Coke and chow it down. 7. Stay inside and wait for The Big Thaw 8. Binge watch the entire first season of Teletubbies in one weekend 9. Go on vacation to Cancun when your constituents are stuck at home freezing with no power. 10. Stand underneath a tree full of pigeons 11. Put out shelled corn for the wildlife 12. (and not what I was originally going to post) Swear at Discourse for insisting on doing various weird things with the numbers of this list. (I think this version worked, sort of.) 13. Pass gas while in line in a grocery store. 14. Use junk mail to make origami animals 15. What I was originally going to post: Stay up too late. Sleep late, because you stayed up too late. Stay up too late, trying to finish something you started too late because you slept late. Repeat . . . 16. Drive without a spare tire. 17. Buy three boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. Eat them all in one sitting. 18. Be twenty minutes late to dinner because you just had to finish this one last boss battle 19. Don’t shovel the driveway, just let the snow pile up, and don’t drive until spring 20. Binge-watch old episodes of _Match Game_ on the Game Show Network 21. Set off fireworks afte 10:00 PM 22. Let dust bunnies take over the hallway 23. Challenge ‘worse’ – as in, _“As bad as things are, it could be worse.”_ 24. Tonight’s dinner: potato chips and snickers bars 25. Plot revenge on asshat driver in White pickup truck. Don’t follow through. 26. Watch late night TV. Call every 800 number in the ads for information on reverse mortgages, burial insurance, and miracle healing water. Have the information mailed to your neighbor who mows their lawn at an ungodly hour on the weekends. 27. Cow Tipping 28. Bake cheap Ham you bought after Thanksgiving. 29. Respond to a ‘complete this survey to win a gift card from \_\_\_\_\_\_’ in your email 30. Procrastinate for a whole week so that you can do everything in one day. 31. Write angry letter to your local newspaper, then remember it shut down in 2011. 32. Pick your nose while interviewing for that great job you really, really want. 33. Go to the food shelf on their “now or never” giveaway day, get an absolutely enormous amount of cake, pie, brownies, pastry and cookies, and pig out 'till you’re sick. 34. Develop a line of cheese-flavored communion wafers. Trademark the name “Jeez-Its.” ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/38 "2021-11-30T20:26:55Z")
Wow! @kenobi_65 , that was a nice one. Are you sure it’s not blasphemy or something? 😳 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/39 "2021-11-30T20:31:15Z")
@Beckdawrek: I am of the belief that if God didn’t have a sense of humor, He would not have created jokes. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/40 "2021-11-30T20:31:58Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I am of the belief that if God didn’t have a sense of humor, He would not have created jokes Or me. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2021, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80-bad-bad-bad-things-to-do/933248/42 "2021-11-30T20:34:55Z")
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