intelligent people never get bored

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i was home for christmas and said i was bored and my mom was like "they say intelligent people never get bored" and then tried to get me to clean
what do you think

― liz p. (lizjoydiv), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:04 (twenty-three years ago)

one of my high school english teachers used to say this. she taught high school english.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd say that if anything the reverse is the case.

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Zen people never get bored.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Everybody gets bored sometimes, such is life.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 09:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Parents who turn your emotions into a gambit to achieve completion of household tasks - DUD.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Isn't that lesson number 2 at Parent School though? Lesson Number one being How to Make Your Offspring Feel Like Infants With a Simple Look.

― smee (smee), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:21 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was younger if I ever said "I'm bored" I always got told to read a book, I guess I got off lightly.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 20 January 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm seriously starting to take the book reading thing seriously. But then I am bored a lot. Books!

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:10 (twenty-three years ago)

spookily combining two threads - things to do when you're bored.

― Mark C (Mark C), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I hate the saying that only boring people get bored. I reckon intelligent people get bored because of all the boring people.

― toraneko (toraneko), Monday, 20 January 2003 11:59 (twenty-three years ago)

potheads never get bored is closer to the mark.

nothing to do... smoke some pot!

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 20 January 2003 12:08 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was intelligent (IE could hold up 1/2 ov conversation w/o sounding stupid) I did get bored from time to time. Now I have sunk into state ov knuckle-dragging de-evolved stupidity, I find that I tend to get desperate rather than bored. Oh well.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:39 (twenty-three years ago)

i used to say 'if you're bored you're boring' a lot...amazingly, not one slap/punch! and you could certainly argue that its the more intelligent people who are more likely to get bored because they're 'above' so much supposedly

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Be Zen. It's great. Enjoy the boredom. Then it becomes fun, and fun is never boring!

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Monday, 20 January 2003 13:49 (twenty-three years ago)

bored ? !!!!!
how can u be bored with
soulseek.com in existence ?

it won't last forever you know.

― piscesboy, Monday, 20 January 2003 13:51 (twenty-three years ago)

I only ever said, "If you're bored, you must be boring," to people I didn't like.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I think intelligent people may be more likely to get bored because they need more brain stimulation.

But I don't know. Little kids get bored all the time and I wouldn't think they were that intelligent.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Lazy people get bored more often I suspect.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Maybe really intelligent lazy people get the most bored?

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Monday, 20 January 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's more "creative people never get bored," in the sense of "people who live in fantasy dream worlds never get bored." Waiting in line? Switch on Epic Fantasy Thought Mode!

― Maria (Maria), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:11 (twenty-three years ago)

also, "creative people never get bored" in the sense of "oh no. free time - pressure's on to realize my fantasy dream world and if i don't i'll punish myself and i'm off for another cup of coffee".

― Honda (Honda), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:16 (twenty-three years ago)

only boring people get bored

My mother used to say this all the time, and as a result I spend much of my life wondering just how boring I am.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 20 January 2003 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I am an intelligent lazy person and I am currently very bored. This is because I'm neither being paid to be intelligent or be lazy :(

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

certainly many of the masses are paid to be bored. this should be something to boast of on your resume: a talent for enduring a wide range of types/levels of boredom. that is being truly well-rounded.

i'm not so good at it myself though. not the being bored, the enduring it part.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 20 January 2003 16:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't believe your mother said that intelligent people never get bored

― Mandee, Monday, 20 January 2003 17:38 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm bored.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:36 (twenty-three years ago)

"When I was younger if I ever said "I'm bored" I always got told to read a book"

Me too, and I think it was my saving grace, the only reason I looked smart in school. Actually I have just realised I should translate this into work - make being bored a reason to catch up on some reading, rather than make some coffee and plod on with the boring task (or play on the internet). Hurrah - thank you ilx!

― isadora (isadora), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:43 (twenty-three years ago)

If someone says to you "intelligent people never get bored" the correct answer is "They do if they're with you."

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 20 January 2003 19:59 (twenty-three years ago)

eleven months pass...

OMG SO FUCKING BORED

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Monopoly?

― Vyvyan (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"You have won second prize in a beauty contest.... smash Rik over the head with the bank."

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:33 (twenty-two years ago)

"i'm very very sober and i'm very very bored!!"

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Everyone! Everyone! Pay attention to me!"

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:41 (twenty-two years ago)

The Australians and I are again of the same mind.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Ned, come over here to live.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Your idea of Mexican food is a place in Melbourne called Taco Bill = you are severely deficient in what I need to survive.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

you need to go to Bluecorn. you would then forgive.

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Except that also sounds like a cryptic sex club.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm only moderately bored. But I'm listening to WFMU and drinking a Brooklyn Lager, so life isn't too bad.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

bluecorn = the best darn mexican in all of melbourne

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:49 (twenty-two years ago)

If you like cryptic sex clubs, come to Sydney.

There is at least one genuinely good, authentic Mexican restaurant in Sydney.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but unless you've actually been to Mexico, Texas or California to make a good comparison this is quite possibly like saying 'the best African highlife guitarist in Vladivostok.'

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they actually serve blue corn at Bluecorn? That would be cool.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe you could set up a kick-ass mexican restaurant somewhere in australia and become filthy stinking rich!

do they station american troops in australia? if so, then i find it HARD TO BELIEVE that there aren't any decent mexican restaurants down there.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

unsurprisingly this isnt making me any less bored

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:51 (twenty-two years ago)

do they station american troops in australia?

Last I checked the US still owns some hunk of way northern Australia and told everyone else to keep away.

unsurprisingly this isnt making me any less bored

We could schottische.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

they station them in Perth i think

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

schuplatte

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:52 (twenty-two years ago)

yahtzee!

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

No, wait, PINE GAP!

Info.

New thread time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

perth is supposed to be the coolest part of australia, yes?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a lot of fairly decent Mexican food here in the East Village of NYC, but not a lot of truly great Mexican food. The best Mexican food in this area that I know of is at Zaragoza Grocery which is a very tiny, cramped Mexican grocery store, that sells the most incredibly mouth-watering carnitas tacos, except they don't have any tables there or anything like that.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)

coolest? bahahahahaha

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

i like schuplatte cause i like the idea of ned and jess dancing in lederhosen

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Perth is great for happy hardcore.

No seriously Ned, my girl is 1/2 Californian and a good Mexican cook in her own right. She says there is one good Mexican restaurant in Syd and she MUST KNOW becuase she has the knowledge.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

mit wiener schnitzel

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:54 (twenty-two years ago)

MEIN SOUFFLEE!

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

But can you get Tequila with a worm in it in Australia? Surely that must be the true test.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure you can, not sure what that has to do with mexican resto's tho?

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

my bad, it's SCHUHPLATTE. all that kraftwerk hasn't made my german any better alas!

http://www.petitchalet.com/dance/images/alplogo.gif

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell you whats really hard to get here - GOLDSCHLAGER. But I already told Slutsky this, and then the thread went all scatalogical and err yeah.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:57 (twenty-two years ago)

can't you get it at Vodka Borscht & Tears?

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't have much to with restaurants, I guess. Actually, it's mezcal that has the worm in it.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i like schuplatte cause i like the idea of ned and jess dancing in lederhosen

:-)

my girl is 1/2 Californian

ONLY THE PURE RACE CAN BE ALLOWED TO JUDGE.

(IE, both my parents are Californian so ner. But I kid the music mole's doubtless way cool s.o.)

But can you get Tequila with a worm in it in Australia? Surely that must be the true test.

You can get a platypus mash, I think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

or am i thinking of something else altogether?! i suspect i am

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:58 (twenty-two years ago)

golden tits

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 03:59 (twenty-two years ago)

And now we can even get Big Red chewing gum here. And Hot Tamales.

We can even get the proper Absinthe - 'La Fee. But you know what we can't get? Grape Nuts. So I have to import them.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't this conversation just prove the assertion in the thread title? It doesn't? Oh.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:00 (twenty-two years ago)

how did you even find out about grape nuts, if they don't sell them in australia?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:01 (twenty-two years ago)

what about froot loops? froot broot? or KABOOM?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Because everything we see on TV is from America, and shoved down our gobs! :D

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

I wasnt allowed Froot Loops as a kid - all that food colouring and sugar = BAD.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)

http://theimaginaryworld.com/box722.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

a/k/a "bling bling cereal"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Jesus H on a pogostick. I feel diabetic just looking at it.

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Photoshop Busta's face onto that clown and you've got gold.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That must not be a cereal that's marketed in the US. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't use the word "sugary" on the box.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:06 (twenty-two years ago)

how did you even find out about grape nuts, if they don't sell them in australia?
-- Eisbär (llamasfu...) (webmail), January 16th, 2004. (llamasfur)

They sell them in England. You know me and you're going to England? You're bringing me back two boxes.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

the label's from the 70s, before the health nazis took over

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Sugar has become verboten on US cereal boxes too. There's a good website about it somewhere. Super Sugar Crisp became Super Golden Crisp. Sugar Smacks became just Smacks. Sugar Frosted Flakes became just Frosted Flakes. The list goes on.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Where are the Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs of my youth?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.retrocrush.com/archive2003/cereal/frostedstars.jpg

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:09 (twenty-two years ago)

B B but... it still HAS the same gross amount of sugar in it, and all the fake vitamins, yes?

(I mean I'm sure our cereals all do, they've made a MILO cereal now, BLERGH!)

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Definitely, the same sugar's still inside - just not in big letters on the front of the box.

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Trayce it is urgent and key that you contribute your thoughts on koala tacos.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:15 (twenty-two years ago)

what's more fucked up, that Huckleberry Hound is on the frosted sugar stars label or that there's an offer for what must be the FUGLIEST DOLL EVER?!?

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Koala tacos, Trayce. Your opinions.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

she's probably sitting there drooling as we speak

― the surface noise (electricsound), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah yeah I'm gettin' to it. Some of us have WORK to do, yeesh ;P ;P

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

The secret US base in Australia called Pine Gap -- inquiring minds etc.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:21 (twenty-two years ago)

she's probably sitting there drooling as we speak

or thumbing through her recipe book

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:22 (twenty-two years ago)

HOW DID YOU KNOW ABOUT MY FOOD PORN STASH OMGWTF

― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Never mind food pr0n, here's cleaning pr0n:

http://www.flylady.net

(totally work safe)

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 16 January 2004 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)

eleven years pass...

Human brains require stimulation. Extreme sensory deprivation leads to pathological responses. However, our brains are almost always oversupplied with sensory stimuli and are actively filtering out and discarding the vast majority of it.

I suspect that under these ordinary circumstances boredom arises when one's external stimulus falls below the threshold one is habituated to, leading to a purely mental blindness toward what is still a plentiful supply of available stimulation. iow, we continue to overlook what we normally don't notice, even when it is right in front of us. Overriding this acquired mental blindness is a learned skill. Blaming a young person's boredom on a lack of intelligence is lazy and thoughtless.

― Aimless, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:16 (eleven years ago)

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