# Boring Thread (Don't Read) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2012, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945 "2012-01-09T18:20:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![carnut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnut/32/3531_2.png) [@carnut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnut)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/101 "2012-01-28T21:19:34Z")
> [@Man\_With\_a\_Cat](#): > > Man oh man, I have a lot of boogers today. Here, have a hankerchief. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/102 "2012-01-28T21:29:12Z")
This thread is still alive. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/103 "2012-01-28T22:13:05Z")
Sometimes, in my darkest thoughts, I wish I’d never learned what it is to be in love and have that love returned. ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/104 "2012-01-28T23:23:20Z")
I met with my interior decorator today, and we chose colors from some Behr pallets I had from a previous life. Then I met with my painter, and he wants to use Sherwin Williams. I’m trying to convert the colors. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Gagundathar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a183cd/32.png) [@Gagundathar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gagundathar)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/105 "2012-01-28T23:25:06Z")
I miss my wife. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 28, 2012, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/106 "2012-01-28T23:30:19Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > Sometimes, in my darkest thoughts, I wish I’d never learned what it is to be in love and have that love returned. Hang in there. I waited twenty five years. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/107 "2012-01-29T00:46:10Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Hang in there. > I waited twenty five years. 🙂 lol. I was entirely joking (and quoting an elton john song no less). I am in a happy relationship, and even if I weren’t, I’d still be happy 😃 But thank you for the support! I was mainly trying to de-rail the thread by posting something serious, in a completely nonchalant way as if it belonged. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/108 "2012-01-29T00:49:47Z")
> [@drewtwo99](#): > > lol. I was entirely joking (and quoting an elton john song no less). I am in a happy relationship, and even if I weren’t, I’d still be happy 😃 > > But thank you for the support! > > I was mainly trying to de-rail the thread by posting something serious, in a completely nonchalant way as if it belonged. Just showing of to the New and Improved Mrs. Plant. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/109 "2012-01-29T01:47:25Z")
Now my cat is sitting beside me with her front paws on my leg, being all cute and purry. She obviously wants something. ---
**Author:** ![florez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9e5f3/32.png) [@florez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/florez)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/110 "2012-01-29T01:52:39Z")
I got distracted when someone walked past the window. His wool hat looks like my wool hat. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/111 "2012-01-29T02:02:51Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Now my cat is sitting beside me with her front paws on my leg, being all cute and purry. She obviously wants something. Don’t let her near the keyboard. I made soup. It was okay. ---
**Author:** ![brainstall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@brainstall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brainstall)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/112 "2012-01-29T02:08:58Z")
nm ---
**Author:** ![emmaliminal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@emmaliminal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emmaliminal)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/113 "2012-01-29T02:50:39Z")
I found out my husband borrowed my tweezers last month when he was trying to solder the laser printer’s board back together after something broke when he accidentally dropped it because his office was such a mess. It didn’t work (the soldering) and my tweezers are somewhere in his office. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/114 "2012-01-29T03:26:52Z")
> [@brainstall](#): > > nm It was roast pork, darn you! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/115 "2012-01-29T03:45:20Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > This thread is still alive. Hmmmm? What? I was just resting my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/116 "2012-01-29T03:55:41Z")
…But existing is all I basically _DO_… 42 ---
**Author:** ![Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Digital_is_the_new_Analog)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/117 "2012-01-29T04:02:55Z")
Two guys came by the house today to install a light bulb. -D/a ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/118 "2012-01-29T04:06:47Z")
I was at a Scout winter camp today and spent most of the time with my toes and fingers cold. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/119 "2012-01-29T04:08:13Z")
> [@Digital\_is\_the\_new\_Analog](#): > > Two guys came by the house today to install a light bulb. > -D/a So now we know how many guys it takes to screw in a digital light bulb. That verges on the exciting. ---
**Author:** ![racer72](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/racer72/32/3075_2.png) [@racer72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racer72)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945/120 "2012-01-29T04:39:33Z")
I painted a board today just to watch it dry. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boring-thread-dont-read/608945.md?page=7)