# Are you currently multi-tasking? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 6, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553 "2021-05-06T23:53:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/1 "2021-05-06T23:53:39Z")
While typing this I am watching “Bloodbath At The House Of Death” and baking some chicken nuggets. You? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/2 "2021-05-06T23:56:14Z")
I’m watching _Jeopardy!_ ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/3 "2021-05-06T23:58:46Z")
I’m watching a city planner playing **Cities: Skylines** on YouTube and eating an Impossible Burger cheeseburger. ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2021, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/4 "2021-05-06T23:59:42Z")
I’m reading this during long transportation runs while playing World of Warcraft. ---
**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/5 "2021-05-07T00:41:10Z")
Reading this, holding my cat, and watching the fire (in the fireplace). ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/6 "2021-05-07T00:43:08Z")
Brushing my teeth and reading The Dope. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/7 "2021-05-07T00:48:11Z")
Chewing M&Ms with peanuts. And breathing. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/8 "2021-05-07T00:54:27Z")
Australian comic icon Rod\_Quantock had a phrase for this which I aspire towards … “psychologically inert”. Incapable of thinking and breathing at the same time. “You could always tell when they was thinking, they’d be lying on their back and blue in the face.” 🥶 Not there yet, but we’re working on it. 🙃 > **[Rod Quantock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Quantock)** > > Pages for logged out editors learn more > > > Rodney Edward Quantock OAM (born 1948) is an Australian stand-up comedian and writer. Quantock is known for his pioneering style of stand-up comedy, which is often politically driven, as well as being the face of bed retailer Capt'n Snooze for many years. Described as "a living Melbourne treasure" by The Age newspaper, he has also achieved great prominence with his involvement in political activism and social justice and as a speaker at many pub... ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/9 "2021-05-07T00:57:21Z")
skimming emails, playing bejeweled, waiting for my wife to meet me for dinner. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/10 "2021-05-07T01:54:04Z")
Cuddling with my daughter and watching last night’s Dodgers game. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2021, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/11 "2021-05-07T01:55:32Z")
Watching Rachel Maddow, browsing here, and playing Final Fantasy XIV. In other words, it’s a normal weekday evening. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/12 "2021-05-07T01:56:14Z")
Does reading the Dope and drinking Dr Pepper count as multi-tasking? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/13 "2021-05-07T02:00:52Z")
> [@SCAdian](#): > > Does reading the Dope and drinking Dr Pepper count as multi-tasking If chewing M&Ms and breathing counts… ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/14 "2021-05-07T02:46:59Z")
I’m drinking a beer, pretending to happy to see people, and actively not killing everyone around me. So, you know, like every other waking moment of life these days…plus or minus a video gaming or an eating. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2021, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/15 "2021-05-07T04:06:00Z")
Reading da Dope, eating vanilla bean ice cream AND breathing. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/16 "2021-05-07T05:26:34Z")
Watching “Frankenstein General Hospital”, drinking Old Rasputin Russian imperial stout, and retyping this over and over and ovre again until I get it right. ---
**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:** [May 7, 2021, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/17 "2021-05-07T05:38:23Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > drinking Old Rasputin Russian imperial stout, and retyping this over and over and ovre again until I get it right. Well the over and over and **ovre** still needs some work. Unless you were going for the oeuvre of the works of Frankenstein’s General Hospital. Me? I’ve cut back to just breathing and reading da Dope. Finished the ice cream. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/18 "2021-05-07T05:39:52Z")
> [@BippityBoppityBoo](#): > > Unless you were going for the oeuvre of the works of Frankenstein’s General Hospital. Yeah, that’s what I was doing, sure and you betcha. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/19 "2021-05-07T06:22:04Z")
“Multi-tasking”? I can barely single-task. I suppose I can claim to do a sort of poor man’s style of multi-tasking if you consider long periods of alternating single-task focus to qualify. It currently consists of the following steps: First, I focus on da Dope and read stuff. Occasionally I grace the site with some of my brilliant observations and witticisms. That done, I turn my attention to my wonderful ice-clinking vodka martini, and focus on quaffing some generously apportioned imbibitions. After that, I focus on whatever snacks may or may not still languish on my right-hand side. Perhaps a pepperoni stick. Perhaps a baked sausage roll. Or perhaps nothing at all, which, sadly, is most often the case. At which point, I turn my attention back to the vodka martini. After that, it’s back to da Dope. The pattern generally repeats until I either go off to bed or fall off my chair. YMMV. P.S.- I am retired, and therefore no longer responsible for my actions. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2021, 11:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-currently-multi-tasking/941553/20 "2021-05-07T11:23:29Z")
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