Are you feeling Bored? Here's Some Ideas to Help Cure It..
- Run here and there. It's a good workout. That's what my dogs do...
- Go (pretend) vampire/ghost hunting. Wait until midnight, wear dark clothing and bring night equipment (read guides on night-ops online). Bring a camera, or better yet, a video camcorder. Find an abandoned house or a cornfield, or any other interesting areas to explore. Go with some friends, or go by yourself. Create a documentary and pretend you're in the movie Blair Witch Project. Watch a scary movie or documentary before heading out to get the psychological effect going. Pick up on every suspicious thing you see. Be sure to film all your greatest moments. That morning, watch the film, edit it, put in some creepy spy music, and show it to all your friends. Do this every night, create your own series, and post it on the web site you made. If it gets popular, you'll be too busy maintaining your web site to even come close to boredom.
- Lock yourself in your room and get extremely drunk. Set up a web cam so all your friends (and creepy pedophiles) can watch you. The next morning, watch the video and notice all the stupid/funny things you do when you're drunk. Remember this the next time you go to a party.
- Start a mailing list. Send out funny jokes, stories, pictures, interesting links, web blogs, news articles, game reviews, etc. Once it gets popular, put ads in your emails and make lots of money. Start your own pyramid scheme for your stupid friends. After all this, you'll wonder why you didn't scam your stupid friends before, isn't it profitable?!?!
- Socially engineer a rumor. Make it something extremely interesting and controversial. Tell all your friends, and tell them to tell everyone else. This is a good way to get back at someone you really hate.
- Find a nice block of wood and learn to throw knives and make them stick in the wood, use some old kitchen knives. That could come in handy if you are ever attacked in your kitchen.
- Learn to roll a quarter across your knuckles. It is easiest, if you start with a larger coin such as a 50-cent piece. This will ease your boredom and is sure to impress at your next social function.
- Grab an impromptu microphone and pretend you are Elvis, or some cool new musician who’s tearing up the charts, and put on a concert for people who are not there.
- If you don't like the rumor idea or "concert stuff" you could always plot how to take over the world.
- Take some prescription drugs that will knock you out. Go to sleep and try to dream, or have an out of body experience. If you succeed, keep a journal, write down your discovery, and submit it online to be discussed.
- Use your secret mind power. Pick a passing by and try to use your mind power to command them do something, like drop their bag or knock into someone. The law of averages dictates that sooner or later one of your mind commands will come true, so you can convince yourself that you really have super human powers and waste even more time trying them out.
- See how long you can hold a note. Not that much fun, but it sure passes the time. Play with a friend, or try to beat your own personal best. Inhale deeply and then try and make a noise for as long as you can. Earn extra points for making your partner laugh or ending on an amusing note.
- Try to not think about penguins. This is especially hard, because by trying too much, you remember what you were trying to avoid thinking of. If you try too little, you end up thinking about penguins anyway.
- Pinch yourself. What is pain? Why is it unpleasant? There's nothing physical about it - it's all in your mind. Plus, after pinching yourself for awhile, boredom will seem nice next to being in pain.
- Pretend to be a car. Make appropriate revving noises in your head as you walk along and add a racing commentary as you pass strangers in the street. Use blinking eyes as indicators for extra authenticity.
- See what's in your neighbour's rubbish/trash. You can learn a lot about people by what they throw out. You might uncover some dark secret about them. Plus, they might be throwing out something with value that still works, like a VCR or some porn mags.
- Step off a curb with eyes shut, imagine it's a cliff. To get any benefit out of this one, you have to have a good imagination. Don't step off immediately, build up to the jump. Study the ravine below. Feel the winds at that altitude. Step off and...AHHHHHH!!!!!
- Stare at the back of someone's head until they turn around. This works on the "I have the feeling I'm being watched" principle. Conduct an experiment-does this really work?
- Have a "Who is less competitive" competition. Trying to win at this will make you lose. Trying to lose makes you win which makes you lose. Not trying at all makes you lose which makes you win which makes you lose.
- Create your own list & please don't send to me.
DISCLAIMER: Obviously, a lot of these suggestions are really dumb things to do, so don't take them seriously.
