The Boring New Thread
yeah, so.... here it is.
i got nuthin
You could start a new boring thread.
I am so tired of this.
You got no lovers if you got no wheels.
Who sprayed the can of Boring® all over this room?
Now I have to go buy a can of Whoop-Ass®
:zzz:
(that looks nothing like the sneak preview)
Did it have a banana seat? Did you clip cards to the spokes so it would make motorcycle sounds?
I walked down the street yesterday. I saw a car. It was blue. Then something exciting happened. I saw a tree. It was big.
And a Sissy Bar?
I think they prefer "gay bar"
Sand bar.
Yeah, I'm floundering.
(Was that too interesting?)
There is a pencil on my desk. Do you have pencils? Do you like them? Do they like you?
Did it have a banana seat? Did you clip cards to the spokes so it would make motorcycle sounds?
I clipped cards to the spokes so it would sound like a 1985 Honda Civic (with a hole in the muffler) driven by a 17 year old in 2012. So, basically, like a crappy lawnmower.
I also leaned over really far on my right arm when I rode it, to produce an effect of 'cooly disinterested' and 'sort of tired.'
I was precocious and futuristic.
There is a pencil on my desk. Do you have pencils? Do you like them?
Somebody told me once that somebody in my family worked in the Dixon pencil factory on Long Island. I wonder if there ever was a Dixon pencil factory on Long Island. I'm thinking it was an uncle that worked there, but I don't remember any uncles on that side of the family. Who would that have been?
I have relatives. Do you?
Relatively speaking. I mean, I have a few cousins and stuff.
I would like to work in a pencil factory. I wonder what hours they worked?
I just can't decide between quiche and pot pie.
it would be better than working in a fudge factory, that foshizzel
I was at work all day. Got home about an hour ago, like usual.
I'm looking through a Lakeland catalogue, playing the old game of "you get one free thing from each page - what is it?"
Lakeland sell kitchen items and I do not have my own kitchen.
I wonder if I should have another cup of coffee? Maybe I'll wait until the meeting in an hour, and have one then.
*staring pensively into space while thinking* "He never has a second cup of coffee at home."
(I think Glatt'll get that one.)
I drilled out a few over the weekend.
I wonder if I should have another cup of coffee? Maybe I'll wait until the meeting in an hour, and have one then.
I'm having decaf. Ho hum.
*staring pensively into space while thinking* "He never has a second cup of coffee at home."
(I think Glatt'll get that one.)
Glatt never throws up at home.
;)
As for me, I am having a second cup of coffee. Because, you know, eff it.
This coffee meme is getting big, taking on a life of its own. Too much for the boring thread. Should I start another thread about when and where we're drinking coffee?
I don't know. Sounds too in ter es ting
There are supposed to be bagels at this meeting coming up. My boss asked me to check to make sure the bagels are already there. This is really the boss's secretary's job, but she's coming in late today. So I went by the conference room, and there are no bagels. So I stopped by the receptionist's desk and asked about the bagels. She checked the schedule and saw that bagels had been ordered, and said that she expected them to be delivered just before the meeting is supposed to begin. But my boss said that a meeting yesterday, the bagels were delivered an hour into to meeting (that's a long meeting. Glad I wasn't in that one.) and it was almost lunch time by then, so nobody ate the bagels and they went to waste. She wants me to make sure the bagels are delivered promptly for this one. But I don't know who delivers the bagels.
The good news is that I just heard the secretary's voice, so I think I can ask her to check on the bagels. she'll know who delivers them.
God, I bored myself just typing this damn post. At least there will be coffee there.
The meeting is about a roll out of new improved Wi-Fi coverage throughout the building and some new network server that will improve productivity.
But there will be coffee and hopefully bagels.
paint drying! :right:
Let's watch...
glatt i hope you get a better batch of bready bagels before the bunch of bagel beggers believe the bagels should be brought back before breakfast.
Still no bagels. The receptionist is checking on them.
DAMN YOU BAGELS. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
...The meeting is about a roll out of new improved Wi-Fi coverage throughout the building and some new network server that will improve productivity.
...
Improved productivity to offset the productivity lost to bagel and coffee (hopefully) meetings.
paint drying! :right:
Let's watch...
It's brown.
*biting nails*
Have the bagels arrived glatt? :worried:
That was almost too much thread drift
The suspense was growing and becoming exciting
But then it got boring
Nice save, Glatt
I'm done my coffee. No bagels.
My bagels are carb-free.
(This actually means I'm eating cream cheese with a spoon)
I'm done my coffee.
done WITH! What are you, from Delaware County? :D
done WITH! What are you, from Delaware County? :D
Yessireebob. Three cups for me. Is that a county thing?
Holy crap, that was a long and boring meeting. I just got out.
And nobody ate any bagels. So I ate one even though I didn't really want one. Just to make the boss feel like they weren't a waste.
Yup I'm pretty sure that dropping the "with" is local.
We didn't say that in Harrisburg. I only began encountering it in college (Reading) and then with my ex-wife (Brookhaven) and J (Chester).
The Jersey people would say "I'm going up the mall!" (instead of to the mall)
That's ok UT. The WisCANson people say...drive BY the mall, instead of TO the mall.
I used to tease hell out of my ex..."gonna wave hi to it on your way past it?"
I'm looking through a Lakeland catalogue, playing the old game of "you get one free thing from each page - what is it?"
Lakeland sell kitchen items and I do not have my own kitchen.
Why are you doing this?
Because I had an enforced day off of work today (48 quarantine due to vomiting virus) and it arrived in the post.
Basically, I was bored.
I am unfamiliar with this concept. Couldn't you have had a nice day out? Gone for a swim? Met new people?
I am in quarantine.
Trying not to spread the bug.
I did go for a walk.
I started a new book (reading I mean)
I checked out autism sites on t'internet and made notes.
And some other stuffski.
But I read kitchen equipment catalogues like poor men read high performance car magazines.
There is always some handy gadget I have never heard of and immediately crave.
However I am aware that this is a time-filler and 99% of people would find it exceptionally boring.
Hence its inclusion here.
real quarantine. oh ugh. sorry I missed that. I just don't get the whole catalogue/magazine reading thing. But then I'm not a shopper. Which is weird seeing as I'm a hoarder.
Gotcha.
Nope, my quarantine is [was] pretty real - this vomiting bug is doing the rounds and I already live with two people considered vulnerable. I've been super careful about hand washing, separate towels, plates and cups etc, but mostly just staying away from them.
My nephew also had to come round until midday because of a serious crash on the road to his school, no traffic could get through. He lucked out, because he hadn't finished his science homework, so he did it here. He had the bug over the weekend.
Tiger went to the Drs today about his persistant cough and then threw up all over himself in the waiting room. So he's off until next week anyway. But that can only be a coincidence, as I was out of the classroom laminating when the kids came in on Monday and I didn't start puking until 09.45.
Still, what's more boring than hearing about someone else's illness, so it fits the thread :)
I'll tell you my dreas next... Oh, I already do.
I am in quarantine.
Trying not to spread the bug.
I did go for a walk.
Is this haiku? ;)
... I already live with two people considered vulnerable. I've been super careful about hand washing, separate towels, plates and cups etc, but mostly just staying away from them.
My nephew also had to come round until midday ... He had the bug over the weekend.
Tiger went to the Drs today about his persistant cough and then threw up all over himself in the waiting room. ... But that can only be a coincidence, as I was out of the classroom laminating when the kids came in on Monday and I didn't start puking until 09.45
Once someone has contracted the bug they can be contagious for days before the onset of symptoms. You may have been previously exposed to someone who was asymptomatic at the time. Nothing you can do about that for others; because, you won't immediately know you've contracted it. It's another reason why annual vaccination against dominant strains is important to vulnerable categories of people.
I know - I've only been careful after the onset.
But it was Half Term last week (a week off school) so I guess I didn't pick it up from any of the children.
And my nephew almost definitely got it from my neice - neither of whom I've seen in two weeks (until today).
You do what you can. I could have picked it up sitting next to someone on the bus.
(I think - not sure how virulent it is - I just know I got it)
People infected with the Norovirus can still be contagious for a week or more after the symptoms are gone and they feel perfectly fine.
Yebbut - how quickly do the symptoms show?
Whatever I had (I can't honestly claim it was Nonovirus, just that it sounds similar) came on fast. I left home Monday morning thinking I just had the lingering cough from my cold two weeks ago.
One hour 45 minutes later I was on my knees in the staff toilets.
If my source of contagion was school it would either have to germinate for over a week, or be something like The Stand.
Not pooh-poohing anything, just asking a question.
Enquiring minds and all that.
Maybe it's just that Diz put his bum in my face during that night or something.
ETA - from a being infectious POV, I feel awful enough missing THREE DAYS! of school.
I can't wait to go back tomorrow.
I swear I'm not Typhoid Mary.
(I do wonder if they ate my cake though...)
Please take all this interesting sickness talk to another thread.
Please take all this interesting sickness talk to another thread.
Seriously.
I put dinner in the oven.
I was itchy then I was scratchy.
Damn cats.
Yebbut - how quickly do the symptoms show? ...
... ETA - from a being infectious POV, I feel awful enough missing THREE DAYS! of school.
I can't wait to go back tomorrow.
I swear I'm not Typhoid Mary.
(I do wonder if they ate my cake though...)
Check with your local health authorities for the prodromal period of the most likely strain of stomach flu endemic to your area this season.
Consider wearing a mask at work for a few days, for the protection of others, if you might unexpectedly come close to them like children
who haven't already been exposed running up to you. Adults are easier to keep at a distance so you can just maintain your other infection control measures at home and at work for them the rest of the week.
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I'm not feeling very well. I was fine before reading this thread.
They did eat my cake.
Mrs B said she did wonder why I was leaving school mid-morning looking so awful, but put it out of her mind when she smelled the chocolate.
They did eat my cake.
Mrs B said she did wonder why I was leaving school mid-morning looking so awful, but put it out of her mind when she smelled the chocolate.
cake
and death?
Dicing with death whilst slicing the cake.
Stop using whirling halberds then -that's way too interesting
cake and death?
yes. cake and death. I give you
Deathcake Royale.
Only available around Valentine's Day, this is probably the most decadence you can shove into a little $6.65 square. It's a layer of the bakery's classic chocolate cake topped with ganache made with Stumptown espresso and a fudgy layer of Theo Chocolate, all dipped in dark chocolate ganache with some chocolate shavings thrown on top.
I noticed it was very hard for sundae and glatt to be totally boring. Infinite monkey did a good job editing for drollness however. Still funny but droll.
We should have more boring threads. This was witty and interesting. :)
It is hot today.
It was hot yesterday.
It will be hot tomorrow, too.
Only in the 37 - 40 range, not so hot as to be newsworthily hot. Just hot enough to make it impractical to do anything interesting.
February rain in PDX ... now that is truly boring
This thread could be used at Guantanamo for interrogating detainees by boring them to tears rather than water boarding. It'd be eco-friendly!
Howling wind
Snow piling up here.
You're both on report for being interesting in the boring thread.
Well, it's interesting to
me.
Last night I dreamed I was looking after Posh & Becks new baby girl.
There were two odd things about that - apart from the obvious.
One was that she was about the size of a mobile phone, although that wasn't odd in the dream.
The other was that she was very obviously, definitely mixed race (dual heritage).
Even in the dream I found this puzzling.
I'd met all the grandparents, and both parents and nary a lick of the tar brush to be seen. No-one else mentioned it so I thought I'd just get on with my job.
And then today, I switch on the radio to listen to Danny Baker, and who is a guest on the show?
Reece Shearsmith - one of my heroes!
He has no connection to the dream.
Otherwise that would have been interesting.
Another great save from what was starting to be interesting.
Well done, Sundae !
I have apple cider K cups.
dude theres a cream for that
Does that cure the hiccups? Because I have the hiccups.
Holding my breath is the only thing that ever worked for me.
And sometimes it took its own sweet time to work too.
Oddly, visualisation made it more effective, once I knew exactly what was happening.
The mind is a muscle that can move the world (so says Stephen King, and why should I disbelieve him).
Do you still have them, Ms. Fobble?
They left... and then came back. And now they're gone again, but I fully expect they'll be back at least once more before the night is through.
If you use the lid of the pot just right they'll go away. ;)
I woke up feeling normal today. I've blown my nose at least once, already. I think my temperature is probably between 98.5 and 98.7 degrees F. I'll have a sandwich for lunch, maybe that'll keep me on an even keel.
I have to get motivated enough to go to the store to buy some food for dinner.
They left... and then came back. And now they're gone again, but I fully expect they'll be back at least once more before the night is through.
Clod is cheating by talking about goblins in the Boring Thread.
I've got the tiniest little headache, I almost wouldn't mention it.
I had one of those last night.
And when I woke up this morning, I felt like my neck was a little stiff. When I turned my head just so, I'd get a mild shooting pain. But I didn't feel it again after my shower.
But I didn't feel it again after my shower.
:eek:
ok, so if i am (according to the tag line) Vice-President of Resentment... whose the president?
i'm noticing that the user tag lines aren't very random. who comes up with these?
They are preprogrammed, changing with the number of posts you've made, and are the same for everyone who doesn't go to their "User CP" (control panel) to enter their own user title. Here you go:
never before revealed.
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I painted a wall last night. I watched it dry.
I came to work today. Took the usual route.
It was sprinkling when I got out of the Metro this morning. Now my umbrella is a little wet. My office is too small to open it up and let it dry out of the way, and the little nook in the hallway where I used to let it dry is currently occupied by a new person. I opened it up and it's partially blocking my doorway now.
I'd post a picture, but that would be too interesting.
I have an umbrella. It's grey.
that post goes in the Depressing new Thread.
of course, you'll have to create that first. I can't be bothered. too bored.
Time to empty and refill the dishwasher. I might run it right away...or wait to put some dinner dishes in, too.
Laundry, till dinner is done.
On the way to work I didn't have an accident.
That is a crazy coincidence, dude: I didn't have an accident either! :eek:
Congrats to Spexx and infi on the progress they've made with bladder control.
Laundry, till dinner is done.
This is not just boring, it is a useful reminder to me to get back to MY boring laundry!
Queen of the House
(to the tune of King of the Road)
Up every day at six
Bacon and eggs to fix
Four kids from one to four
Pretty soon there'll be one more
I got old floors to wax and scrub
And there's a dirty old ring in the tub
I'll get a maid someday
But till then I'm, queen of the house
No time to fix my hair
Need a new dress to wear
Old clothes will have to do
'Cause kids all need new shoes
I got bridge club each Tuesday night
He goes out with the boys and gets tight
But when the evening's through
He comes a home to the, queen of the house
I know the milkman, the iceman they come every day
They give me tips on the horses to play
And when I got the time to spare
I sit and wish that I'd picked a rich millionaire
I sing up every day at six
Bacon and eggs to fix
Four kids from one to four
Pretty soon there'll be one more
Oh, by Sundays I'm mighty glad
We send the kids to his mom and dad
It's the day that makes me glad
I'm, queen of the house
Up every day at six
Bacon and eggs to fix ...