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A waste of time

36 replies

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 14:30

What do you consider to be a waste of time?

My list includes ironing, bird watching, TV soaps and social media.

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CanYouHearThatNoise · 31/08/2024 14:42

Social media - Facebook, Twitter, etc
Queuing for anything
Ironing
Vacuuming
Most tv programmes, particularly "celebrity" ones
Womens' magazines

Smellslikeyeast · 31/08/2024 14:47

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SummerSplashing · 31/08/2024 14:48

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🤣🤣

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 14:49

SummerSplashing · 31/08/2024 14:48

🤣🤣

What's your excuse?

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SatansBobbleheadedDashboardOrnament · 31/08/2024 14:53

Going to overpriced concerts in massive venues where the musicians resemble ants and the audience spend all of their time filming on their mobile phones.

lovelyhat · 31/08/2024 14:53

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Ha ha yes. Why am I doing it?!

username44416 · 31/08/2024 14:55

Incessantly complaining about things you can change.

Putmeinsummer · 31/08/2024 14:57

'Pampering'

notprincehamlet · 31/08/2024 15:01

Work - years spent running round stressed to the gills expending brain cells on a hollow job to pay someone else's mortgage
And ironing - what a terrible waste of the prehensile thumb

Muchtoomuchtodo · 31/08/2024 15:02

Spending all morning trying to get Oasis tickets

dontforgetme · 31/08/2024 15:03

@Muchtoomuchtodo agreed!

SummerSplashing · 31/08/2024 15:06

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 14:49

What's your excuse?

I have BPPV & can't do much more than sit still today.

LadyKenya · 31/08/2024 15:11

Ironing
Listening to politicians

TheShellBeach · 31/08/2024 15:12

Watching football matches.

MonsteraMama · 31/08/2024 15:14

Watching reality TV. I'd rather eyeball battery acid.

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 15:14

MonsteraMama · 31/08/2024 15:14

Watching reality TV. I'd rather eyeball battery acid.

Me too! 😂

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Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 15:15

SummerSplashing · 31/08/2024 15:06

I have BPPV & can't do much more than sit still today.

That sounds rubbish. I meant to quote the other poster.

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SummerSplashing · 31/08/2024 18:36

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 15:15

That sounds rubbish. I meant to quote the other poster.

@Bingbangbingbongbingboo

thanks. It is rubbish! I got if after an accident. It's there all the time, it's ruined my balance & I have a bit nausea all the. I suppose I'm
lucky as I don't have too many days where it's this bad. But I can't do fuck all when it is. I kicked a heavy box yesterday (it makes my judgment of space all wrong) and my little toe is hurting now too! All
purplr like a baby aubergine! I had loads I wanted to do today but I can't look up, down or around, turning around makes the room spin faster! 🙄🙄🙄

I can only use the screen for a few.minutes at a time as it's like motion sickness on
overdrive.

i can't kniw.crochet... nothing except listen to the tv.radio/podcast.... but I want to get on with things 🤦🏻‍♀️🙄🤯🤬

UmbrellaEllaEllaElla · 31/08/2024 18:44

Sometimes wasting time is a real pleasure.

GigiAnnna · 31/08/2024 18:47

Nothing is a waste of time unless you're making progress or you are getting enjoyment from it. For me it's reading stuff on the Internet that I've got no interest in, but I'm doing it to prolong starting another task I need to do.

pictoosh · 31/08/2024 18:56

Elaborately decorated cakes.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 31/08/2024 18:56

Going to the toilet.

Fundamentally we've been designed wrongly. When we were created by (insert name here) they should have made it that food and liquid was processed and absorbed 100%.

I think I shall be speaking to the Vicar about the weaknesses of creation, but in the meantime I have a more pressing engagement in the 'smallest room'.

Viviennemary · 31/08/2024 19:00

Golf
Watching tennis
Watching cricket

BluebirdBoogie · 31/08/2024 19:18

Having a bath
Traipsing around shops
Spa days

Bingbangbingbongbingboo · 31/08/2024 19:26

Viviennemary · 31/08/2024 19:00

Golf
Watching tennis
Watching cricket

Yes, and football and snooker!

@BluebirdBoogie Despise shopping but do like a nice spa day.

@SummerSplashing You poor love 😪 Sorry to hear you're not feeling well.

I've have another - flying abroad only to sit by a pool reading and not bother going out of the resort to explore the local area and experience new cultures.

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