to have a really low tolerance for people expressing boredom with their lives

[activate]

if it's boring you, do something about it

if you've got everything, do something for someone else

life is short folks and you never know what's round the corner

Venn diagram, Baroque?

Exactly GAIG

tethersend, I just really didn't need to have that visual in my head this evening

is there such a thing as washable sanitary towels ? < genuine question >

because anyone who uses them has too much fuucking time on their hands

Surely boredom is borne of tedium no matter what the circumstance

I'm glad I shared it, Peter. It helps the memory to fade.

I think she may have been bored.

Maslow as a twat. And a lot of the time, life isn't what you make it, life is what some other fucker or set of circumstances make.

I think the difference should lie between being bored/frustrated/whatever and whining all the time about being so.

Maybe the reusable sanitary towel person was bored and it gave her something to do?

< scrubs brain >

Also a fish kettle is a special kind of long pan to cook whole fish in. and yes, there are many kids of washable sanitary pads.

I think she may just have been a twat, TBH.

Sometimes it's hard to tell- bored or twat? It's so confusing.

Romanian orphans rocking to provide themselves with stimulation- twats, right?

Hang on.

I think
ennui: n.
Listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; boredom

probably describes the state of having everything one could possibly need, but can't be bothered to get off one's backside to do actually do anything.

As opposed to tedium, which is a very different state.

Do you know what I think?

This:

if it's boring you, do something about it

if you've got everything, do something for someone else

life is short folks and you never know what's round the corner

boogie - I use bored in the second circumstance - because it's easier on the ear (and the mind) to think of it as boredom rather than frustration. And yes tedium would be good - but bored is just easier (if I think of myself as frustrated I'll get annoyed and angry when I know there's fuck all I can do about it right nw, if I say I'm bored I can pretend that I can do something about..............like buying running shoes when I can't actually get out of the house on my own to run )

Tethers - that's it yes 'twas a Venn diagram - Economic, Social and Environment,

And if you have a hat wear it.

And if you are bored, get out of that state and start living

Doing too much there, sorry

ennui - good one

it's all feeling a little circular now

I'm tired and off to bed - i shall bore myself to sleep and rise in the morning hopefully able to walk in a straight line - that is always the most interesting part of my day life is indeed what you make it

I was born bored. I was one of those children who could never be satisfied, never felt fulfilled or nourished mentally. I have never stayed in a job for more than 3 years. I have had at least 25 jobs (in the same field). I have to be stimulated, I like the newness of change. I get bored usually about 15 months into a job. I try to change but sometimes (like now for instance) circumstances forbid.

You are a true lightweight activate.

Night night. Hope walking in a straight line is really hyperactively giggly mad non-boring-fun.

Whhhoooooooooooooooooop!!

[flings knickers into fire and perks up sturdy paella]

I'm with you and Betty Draper on this one. "Only boring people are bored"

I agree with Gettingagrip's post at 21:24.

Baroque then I think that we were using the word "bored" in different contexts.

I did some voluntary work in an orphanage 10 years ago where some of the "special needs" children as they were called at the time had no toys or anything to play with and it's the tedium of having absolutely nothing to do that "frustrated" them into hitting each other.

"nd it's the tedium of having absolutely nothing to do that "frustrated" them into hitting each other."

Wow - never happened where I volunteered (well I was officially "working" to start with but the project was cut so I continued to volunteer), and I can't say I ever saw any of my ex-extended family children hitting each other in frustration because they had nothing to play with either.

And my children have plenty of toys and still hit each other .

Boredom can bring with it frustration,, I see it as a by-product of boredom/tedium/dullness - whatever you want to call it.

Baroque, from the content and nature of your posts you sound unsuitable and unqualified to have got work in such a place.