I have a pet peev when people say they are "bored".
Specifically it bugs me when someone starts doing something then stops doing it and says "I'm bored".
Not in a hip adult way (tired of doing X lets go do Y) but in the 5 year old way.
Why do an activity to be bored with it. Did the person really not think the idea through ahead of time.
I'm not talking about someone who is doing an activity for the first time either.
What really gets my goat is if it happens during an online game, the way people have the need to say it to others.I see it a lot in Wow, but it happens in general offline / real world life all too often.
Do people really expect to do an activity and be entertained by others just because they want it that way.
Take Eve online, I log in on a few characters and do a few daily things with them in repetition, and if something is happening that takes a while to complete or I have to wait, I'll surf the web or try a quick match of BF4 on the xbox ( all at the one desk ).
I won't shout out "I'm bored" in local.
If you did that in Eve you would be quickly trolled, probably tricked into something and ganked.
Even in wow if you are waiting you can alt tab or keep it in windowed mode while doing anything else.
Maybe its all about attention seeking.....
Mr Dictionary says this about "Bored":
noun
A big difference between the first and second that boils down to the person and the task.
What can I do about a person who says they are "bored"..... nothing really. I wouldn't waste my time repeating this blog entry or even pointing them to it.
They have chosen the activity, maybe they want the attention of others. All I can really see them getting is trolled by the people around them.
Anyway if I come across a person proclaiming they are "bored", I'll be muttering muppet under my breath then do what I've always done, ignored them.
On a side note I had declined the dude that applied to join my alts corp, no tricks or hassle just a plain decline. Am sure it was an alt of one of the pod killers the other week but on the other hand it could have been a spam application by a player in system.
a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person.
a cause of ennui or petty annoyance: repetitious tasks that are a bore to do.
So the first line is a person saying "I'm Bored" ( a person is bored )
The second is a task that causes annoyance, a person doing asteroid mining and saying "this is boring". ( an activity is boring )
A big difference between the first and second that boils down to the person and the task.
I think the first line best describes what I mean for this blog entry, a dull, tiresome, or uncongenial person. a person that says "bored" honestly not thinking it strange (thinking is involved a lot).
What can I do about a person who says they are "bored"..... nothing really. I wouldn't waste my time repeating this blog entry or even pointing them to it.
They have chosen the activity, maybe they want the attention of others. All I can really see them getting is trolled by the people around them.
Anyway if I come across a person proclaiming they are "bored", I'll be muttering muppet under my breath then do what I've always done, ignored them.
On a side note I had declined the dude that applied to join my alts corp, no tricks or hassle just a plain decline. Am sure it was an alt of one of the pod killers the other week but on the other hand it could have been a spam application by a player in system.
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