Do you ever get bored?

Only the boring get bored.

I wish i could retire tomorrow so I could peruse my hobbies and interests, there is simply not enough hours in the day to do everything I want to do.
 
MeatSack said:
A lot of the time I'd rather speak to homeless people or strippers
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Must be an Edinburgh thing as that's what I seemed to do on my cousins stag do earlier this year lol, back up in a couple days but don't think the other half will appreciate the strippers like the lads did.. :o :p
 
I do when I'm at home, I miss the city and social aspect of it, at home for me I know pretty much hardly anyone thanks to my crappy like at high school where everyone hated me, so I've grown to dislike home, before I moved to Manchester for college/uni I did not mind the lack of social activity but now it does my head in.
 
I don't get bored easily, in fact quite the opposite - I never have enough time to do all the stuff I want to do (probably because I waste most of it on here :p).

What "bores" me however (for lack of a better word) is many people's seeming lack of interest in anything other than football, pop music, reality TV and celebrity gossip. I'm not interested in some silly american bimbo's latest relationship breakdown, little Timmy off the xfactor's traumatic childhood, or whether 50 Cent has a new album out.

(that being said, I'm sure some of the stuff me and my mates talk about is utterly boring to most people too XD)
 
hilly said:
I get bored with my job, absolutely. But during my own free time, I'm never bored 99% of the time.
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This. 100% this!

However conversations with people who contribute little more than one word at a time frustrate me so I end up stopping talking to them as they clearly can't be bothered!
 
Going by the dictionary definition of being bored, I never am, and I doubt any of you are either.
How can you ever be bored if you have a smartphone in your pocket?

And a lot of you are sounding like those annoying people who need to constantly be engaged and can not appreciate the art of sitting in silence :P
 
Small talk is the result of 2 or more people who can't hold up their end of a conversation feeling arkward. I'm surprised you get it so often as there is usually someone to take the lead. It's really no shame to not lead the conversation so long as you can listen but I do wonder if dismissing so much conversation as small talk doesn't just mean you're a bad talker and a bad listener.

Could you just try to be a little more involved in what others are saying? Dedicate a little bit of thought to what has just been said and you may find it leads somewhere (one topic leads to another which leads to... conversation).
 
Cleeecooo said:
I hate most people. They think they're unbelievably dull. So many people I've had the misfortune to talk to are hung up on trying to be politically correct, overly polite an you can never get an interesting conversation going.
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Same. But that is because most people are stupid and fixated on mindless things.
 
MeatSack said:
In life. I mean I feel like I've had every conversation a million times and despair at the idea of small talk. Only really in depth discussions keep my attention. A lot of the time I'd rather speak to homeless people or strippers about random takes on life as opposed to the normative mindset everyone seems to hold.

Maybe I just need to get laid and regain my sense of humour. :)
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So I guess you're not all deep and meaningful after all, this is the MeatSack we all know and love.
 
I never get bored. If I am on my own, I can be sat there doing nothing and not be bored. My mind will wonder and I will sit there and have a think. Im lucky to get any time to myself, so being bored just isnt an option.

I do agree that some people are proper boring though. Some people just have no substance to their life, or they talk about the things everyone in the world does every single day. Hardly topic of riveting conversation.
 
Zefan said:
Nope. It's just you being a weirdo and not understanding people.
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Nope. I understand people very well and don't have any social difficulties etc that you are presuming I suffer from. Were I a hermit then I would accept your comment wholeheartedly.

There is no problem with being cynical but i was probably not being serious... Equally I think it's more than plausible that when you do meet people there is sometimes a need on one or other side to find shared interests or things in common in order to be a prerequisite for conversation. I always think that this is such a shame as it means that many will not be able to move beyond themselves.

You are right however that often the problem is with the person with the attitude that it is the others and not themselves. Also alcohol can make things worse as it can often leave you being lethargic and unable to come up with anything to say as easily as if you were more sober. I certainly find that it's much easier to interact with people when compus mentis.
 
If people aren't interested in talking to you about "your stuff" and just focus on themselves, maybe you're just not very interesting.

The fact that you put words in my mouth and went in to all that says a lot. I never said anything about social difficulties, I just said you were a bit weird.
 
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