# I'm bored
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 29, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492 "2005-10-29T19:46:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/1 "2005-10-29T19:46:05Z")
Help me!
What can I do?
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### Author:  [@Amaranta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amaranta)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/2 "2005-10-29T19:49:50Z")
Write my paper comparing two Supreme Court of Canada cases?
Wash my car?
Decide what I should eat for lunch today?
Any one of those three would be good.
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### Author:  [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/3 "2005-10-29T19:52:21Z")
Clean out your pantry?
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/4 "2005-10-29T20:29:52Z")
Call someone?
I was feeling bored earlier, so I called a co-worker who I’m becoming friends with and now I’m meeting her for dinner in a couple of hours. I’ll be getting into the shower any minute now. No more boredom! 🙂
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/5 "2005-10-29T20:37:08Z")
Knit and watch tv.
It’s what I’m doing (until I took a break to come here, that is.) 😃
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/6 "2005-10-29T21:06:13Z")
I’m doing you one better, **ivylass** – I’m knitting, watching TV, AND reading the Dope. 😃
My all-purpose cure for boredom, however, is to take a nap.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/7 "2005-10-29T21:13:48Z")
Exactly how many hands do you have, **Mama**? How can you scroll through the threads, much less type, if you’re knitting?
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### Author:  [@Mama\_Tiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Tiger)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/8 "2005-10-29T21:22:43Z")
Just pause, hold both needles with one hand for a second, scroll, and resume knitting. Or, if I’m feeling particularly dexterous, tap the page down key with the end of my needle.
It helps that I’m not knitting something requiring huge amounts of attention or finesse, of course.
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### Author:  [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/9 "2005-10-29T21:47:01Z")
Hey, **Kytheria** –wanna trade?
I’m miserably stressed out at the moment. It’s a gorgeous Saturday afternoon (rapidly fading into night), and I’m sitting here in the lab, working on a presentation. I’m giving the presentation to my lab group on Monday (they’re going to sit through my presentation and give me feedback, so that when I do my little song and dance in front of the faculty and all the other grad students on Friday, I don’t look too totally idiotic.)
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### Author:  [@dare\_devil007](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dare_devil007)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/10 "2005-10-29T22:08:00Z")
Could you tutor me in eleventh grade biology? I have a test on Monday. 😃
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/11 "2005-10-29T22:09:15Z")
Internet + porn = not bored anymore. 😃
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/12 "2005-10-29T22:32:16Z")
Buy 100 bottle rockets.
Proceed to try and come up with 100 unwise things to do with them. 🙂
FTR, I’ve already got “remove vent cover from air duct, shoot rocket through ventilation shaft of hotel you’re staying at” checked off the list.
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### Author:  [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/13 "2005-10-30T02:11:49Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> FTR, I’ve already got “remove vent cover from air duct, shoot rocket through ventilation shaft of hotel you’re staying at” checked off the list.
_Please_ tell me you didn’t register under your real name… :eek: 😉
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/14 "2005-10-30T02:28:59Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> Buy 100 bottle rockets.
>
> _Proceed to try and come up with 100 unwise things to do with them_. 🙂
>
> FTR, I’ve already got “remove vent cover from air duct, shoot rocket through ventilation shaft of hotel you’re staying at” checked off the list.
#37 - Attempt to unleash your inner Werner von Braun by constructing multi-stage rockets by taping 2 or more bottle rockets together.
This never works. :smack:
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### Author:  [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/15 "2005-10-30T03:18:38Z")
> [@Kythereia](#):
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> Help me!
>
> What can I do?
play with cat (or dog)
clean a closet; in the process, find some long forgetten thing and reminisce
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/16 "2005-10-30T05:06:48Z")
Oh boy, are you in for a treat! I have a huge list of stuff you can do when you’re bored. here’s some of the best…
THINGS YOU CAN DO WITH ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
**1. Push your eyes for interesting light show**
See a variety of blobs, stars and flashes. Try to make out things - if your subconscious trying to tell you something? Can you control what you see by presing different areas with different forces?
**2.See how long you can hold your breath**
Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Some tips: hyperventilate beforehand, and stay as still as possible.
**3. Try not to think about polar bears**
This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about polar bears anyway.
**4. Scratch yourself**
Go ahead, scratch yourself now. Even if nothing itches, go ahead. Doesn’t that feel pretty good?
**5. Pinch yourself**
What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? Is it all in your mind? Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.
**6. Look at something for awhile, shut eyes, study after image.**
Fun to combine this one with pushing on your eyes.
**7. Watch TV, repeat everything said in Italian accent**
Sort of entertaining. Fun to pretend the people on the screen are actually talking that way.
**8. Pick up a dog so it can see things from your point of view.**
Think about it: A dog has only seen your house from a viewpoint of 6" to 2’ high. Also try looking at things from its point of view, too.
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### Author:  [@Pan4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pan4Life)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/17 "2005-10-30T08:19:58Z")
How about a game of riddles?
Or maybe a quiz on scientific geneologies of sub-terrerean African monkies?
(hey, to make it fun…only the indigeneous species count for bonus points!)
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### Author:  [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/18 "2005-10-30T08:23:48Z")
Someone is reading in a house at night. Suddenly, the lights go out. The person has no flashlight, nor is there any moonlight. There is no means by which any illumination is hitting the pages, yet he continues to read without inturruption. How is this so?
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### Author:  [@PinkShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkShoes)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/19 "2005-10-30T08:55:30Z")
He has a miner’s hat on a helmet?
He has a wireless computer and is reading a story on the internet?
Or how about it’s daylight?
He goes outside and reads under a streetlight?
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### Author:  [@PinkShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PinkShoes)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2005, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-bored/328492/20 "2005-10-30T08:57:19Z")
> [@PinkShoes](#):
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> Or how about it’s daylight?
I retract this statement.
I’m dying to know. Tell us. Pleeeeeeease!
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