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From: GUEST,washtub bass
Date: 26 Jan 01 - 07:15 AM

build one.

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From: Firecat
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 03:13 PM

Well, to everyone who's suggested I start boozing, I don't drink, and haven't since my ex-best mate's 14th, where she got me totally ratted and I was very poorly.

CarolC, I LOVE the harry Potter books. My fave is the Philosopher's stone but i wasn't too keen on the Goblet Of Fire. Dad can recite the rules of Quiditch!

As for the rest of you, sorry, but i'm still bored!! Oh,well. To attempt to curb my boredom, I'm now going to shout rude things at the contestants on Who Wants o Be A Millionare when they use their lifelines in an incorrect manner (IE when theyknow the answer!)

Byee!

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From: Amos
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 03:33 PM

Chill, 'Cat. Boredom is a self-imposed confession. Beat the rap, dude, check your attitude and get over the stall of your own imagination and responsibility. Given that you are a person of infinite talent, potential and creativity, the first step is to notice who it is that is creating the condition. Then you can do something about it.

If this seems insurmountable, get out and walk backwards around the block. You'll be amazed how much more possible things seems when you get back.

Your call...

A

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From: grumpy al
Date: 27 Jan 01 - 06:09 PM

smoke somthing highly illegal then try to play an instrument, hours of endless ammusment. the Grumps

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From: Firecat
Date: 28 Jan 01 - 08:44 AM

Amos, are you SURE I'm a personage of "infinate talent, potential and creativity"??????????? I'll bet you any money I'm not! (Well, I would if i was a betting type girl, butas I'm only 17, I'm not!)

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From: GUEST,Professor Boligraffo
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 06:19 AM

I cannot help as I have never suffered from the condition except in the company of bores when my solution is to depart in haste. Otherwise there are not enough hours in the day. Try visiting a Hospice for terminally-ill children. It might put your churlish ingratitude into perspective. Boredom comes from within and life, my friend, is all too short to waste on a condition arising from spiritual, intellectual and cultural laziness.

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From: English Jon
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:02 AM

Draw pictures of cats dping amusing cat-things.

Cheers, Jon

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From: Firecat
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:04 AM

Sorry, Jon, but I can't draw to save my life!! I might get my boyfriend to draw them and I'll colour them in though!

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From: English Jon
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:14 AM

Fair enough. My ex couldn't draw cats either.

The cat was not amused, and said very rude things about it.

"corrrr.doesn't look anything like me...corrr. I'll getchyou... corrr"

and so on.

Jon

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From: Firecat
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:23 AM

Thanks Jon, I needed a laugh!! That actually sounds like Greebo when she's getting at the other 11 mousers (We lost the other kitten 4 days ago)

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From: English Jon
Date: 29 Jan 01 - 10:31 AM

Yes, I'm sorry about that.

I lost custody of mine a month ago when boy/girl thing came to an abrupt, if not altogether unexpected close. More upset about the cat than anything.

"Corrr.fink you've got problems. I jus' wanna know whos gonna give me my Cafoo. corrr. bleedin' Humins. Bloody liability...corrrrrrrr."

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From: Firecat
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 09:26 AM

Preeeeeeeeeeeeeeecisly!! That's what mousers are trained to think!

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From: English Jon
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 10:28 AM

Corrrr. yeahhhh. I'll get those mices....mrp?! How come you never get fed mouse flava cafoo? corrr. gap in the market, i reckon... corrrrrrrrr.

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From: Firecat
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 10:45 AM

OK, now it's just getting silly!

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From: English Jon
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 10:55 AM

Sorry. I miss him. Little furry sod always used to talk like that. And then he'd bite you.

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From: Troll
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 12:49 PM

The easiest way to avoid boredom is to become a schizophrenic like us. We always have someone to talk to and go for walks with. He likes cola and he likes orange drink so we never drink the last one. This saves many an argument.
Best of all, there's someone to agree with us when Skeptic starts HIS bushwah.
And if all else fails, we get out our candles and our ball of string and go exploring the caverns of our mind.

troll

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From: Troll
Date: 02 Feb 01 - 12:51 PM

All except Freddie who just informed us that HE'D rather read. He is such a prat!

troll

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From: Firecat
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:46 AM

Just to say that I've found another way to combat boredom. Write really cheesy poems about it! Quite like this one actually!

Boredom

Boredom is a three hour long maths lesson It's waiting for a bus when it just isn't coming It's dealing with a person who just won't listen It's working at a computer that's persistantly humming

Boredom is a person who's completely self centred It's listening to a lecture on a subject that you hate It's watching a raffle being drawn that you've not entered It's going to a meeting but you know that you'll be late

Boredom is a soap opera that's always on when you get home It's a silent conversation with the person that you love It's listening to a life story of one you've never known It's staring out of the window at the grey sky up above

Boredom is watching the news each and every night It's working with a person who just has to be the best It's watching to rough strangers getting in a fight It's lying in your bed when you honestly can't rest!

How do you combat boredom? I really do not know For me to combat boredom I stare out at the snow.

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From: Firecat
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:46 AM

Just to say that I've found another way to combat boredom. Write really cheesy poems about it! Quite like this one actually!

Boredom

Boredom is a three hour long maths lesson It's waiting for a bus when it just isn't coming It's dealing with a person who just won't listen It's working at a computer that's persistantly humming

Boredom is a person who's completely self centred It's listening to a lecture on a subject that you hate It's watching a raffle being drawn that you've not entered It's going to a meeting but you know that you'll be late

Boredom is a soap opera that's always on when you get home It's a silent conversation with the person that you love It's listening to a life story of one you've never known It's staring out of the window at the grey sky up above

Boredom is watching the news each and every night It's working with a person who just has to be the best It's watching to rough strangers getting in a fight It's lying in your bed when you honestly can't rest!

How do you combat boredom? I really do not know For me to combat boredom I stare out at the snow.

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From: Firecat
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:47 AM

Sorry,double posting! And if anyone could tell me how to do line breaks, I'd be most grateful!

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From: GUEST,Matt_R
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:54 AM

FC, to do line breaks, at the end of each line type a "<" then "br" then ">". That'll do it for ya! BTW have you heard JJ72 "Snow"? Heh heh heh.

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From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 11:01 AM

Had me scared for a minute Firecat. I was afraid that you were so bored that you were going to keep hitting the submit button until you either ticked someone off enough to get flamed or went head-on-head with Max about "freedom of speech". Oh well. No takers. Back to boring.

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From: wysiwyg
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 11:48 AM

Ah.... the mysteries of line breaks... Mudcat... and life.

Many of which are eloquently addressed RIGHT HERE!

~Susan

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From: Mrs.Duck
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 01:02 PM

Take up knitting Kate.

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From: mousethief
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 01:37 PM

I'm so borrid
Oh so borrid
It's so horrid
How borrid
I bees!
And my forrid
Keeps on smashing down into the keys
Lalalalala la la lalala!

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From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 05:32 PM

Get of your bum and do something interesting - I recommend painting something and then watching the paint dry - very interesting. Concrete setting doesn't have quite the same ambience, and anyway the weight on the bedroom floor can get a bit too much for the beams if you participate too often!
Or you could learn to do silly things with HTML
Or you could file your toenails - Alphabetically!!!!!


By the way SORCHA - What is this tunefinder project, what is the brief, and how does one take part?
QUACK
Geoff the Duck

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From: GUEST,Esmond
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 05:38 PM

Boredom is just the desire for variety. Just be aware of what is happening NOW and stop wanting something different. It will come along anyway. Do anything at all but do it wholeheartedly and boredom will cease immediately. Course, you might enjoy being bored in which case, fine. It can be interesting observing boredom too.

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From: GUEST
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 09:52 PM

Time to learn something...a new chord, a new instrument, a new language. I've been blessed with the knowledge of how truly fleeting this life experience is, and consequently don't have time for boredom. Boredom is a variation on a self-pity wallow.

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From: Amos
Date: 21 Mar 01 - 10:06 PM

FC:

Yes, I am sure. Even if you have trained yourself out of it, it isn't something that ever goes away -- who you are is deeper than learning to ride a bicycle, you know!

Anyway, I should say that I am very impressed with your masterful construction of boredom. Here are hundreds of posts offering all these solutions and you have managed to slip them all, except the cat jokes!! Good work -- one of the most persuasive presentations of boredom I have ever seen.

Maybe you should try something life threatening!!

A

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From: Firecat
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 05:23 AM

Ok, Matt, I'm going to try
This line break thing although I don't know why!
Amos, I am not the sort
To risk my life in the name of sport!
Mrs. Duck, I've tried knitting before
And to be quite honest it's more of a bore! :-)))

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From: Firecat
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 05:24 AM

Thanks Matt!!!

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From: Gervase
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 05:37 AM

Hell's bells - not yet two decades of tedium under your belt and you're bored?!
The poety's a good palliative - but what you really need is passion (and I don't necessarily mean the sweaty sort - though that's a good way to purge boredom).
What makes you angry? What makes you think: "No way - that's unjust, unfair and unreasonable"?
Channel that anger and angst into passion - put it into your poetry or go out there and do something about it. People who want to make a difference may be a pain in the arse to others, but they tend not to get bored.
With me it's been politics, music and being an incurable romantic that has kept boredom at bay for more than four decades now (and I've probably made myself a roight royal pain in the arse to many with all three).
I'm not saying you won't get into hot water or sometimes say to yourself: "Sodding hell, why am I doing this?", but you won't be bored. Having kids relieves boredom, too (in inverse proportion to increasing angst) - but I wouldn't recommend that just yet!

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From: Firecat
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 07:28 AM

You're right about the kids Gervase!! I'm not having any until I'm married (ideally between 21 and 30) but the things I get worked up about aren't exactly the sort you can protest about!

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From: Mr Red
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 07:47 AM

TV is for boredom.

Mudcat is for er.... the gamut from A to B.

I would see if anyone else has the same idea but I am too bored.

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From: Bedubya
Date: 22 Mar 01 - 09:09 AM

When I get bored I play a guitar.

When I get bored with playing that guitar I play another guitar.

When I get bored with all the guitars I own I go out and buy a new guitar.

When I go out and buy a new guitar the wife gets upset because she thinks I already have too many guitars and we have a big row.

It is impossible to be bored while having a big row.

Cheers

bwl

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From: Firecat
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 11:39 AM

Thanks!! Sorry I've not answered for so long!

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From: WyoWoman
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 11:49 AM

You've been busy, right? See there.

I haven't been bored in 30 years. I agree with Mmario -- I feel sort of wistful sometimes, wishing I could remember what it feels like to be bored. There's a difference between loafing and boredom, however, and I'm a strong proponent of taking a day or two for some intensive loafing now and then. Loafing is best (in warm weather) if you have a large porch. Wintertime loafing is best accomplished in front of a fire ...

ww

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From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 17 Jun 01 - 09:41 PM

Paint a picture

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From: Firecat
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 04:07 AM

Yeah, Wyo, I have been busy. Well, I've just taken my AS Level exams!

john, I have actually tried painting before, but seeing as you couldn't actually tell what it was, I gave it up as a bad job!

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From: hesperis
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 08:02 AM

Well, last night I was bored, so I experimented with new software, and made my first totally electronic piece... I'm going to see what happens if I use my own samples from world instruments next time, instead of the classic electronic ones that came with the thing. This is fun!

Oh, and I made two skins for winamp, not that I actually use winamp, but I was bored. :)

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From: pavane
Date: 18 Jun 01 - 11:20 AM

Bedubya (BW?) Have you ever considered taking up a DIFFERENT instrument? There are 1000's to choose from, almost all of them easier to learn than guitar.

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From: Firecat
Date: 23 Jun 01 - 06:26 AM

Thanks to everyone!