The Boring New Thread
 

yeah, so.... here it is.

i got nuthin

You could start a new boring thread.

I am so tired of this.
You got no lovers if you got no wheels.

Who sprayed the can of Boring® all over this room?

Now I have to go buy a can of Whoop-Ass®

:: shuffles his feet ::

:zzz:


(that looks nothing like the sneak preview)

I had a bicycle.

Did it have a banana seat? Did you clip cards to the spokes so it would make motorcycle sounds?

And a Sissy Bar?

I walked down the street yesterday. I saw a car. It was blue. Then something exciting happened. I saw a tree. It was big.

I think they prefer "gay bar"

Sand bar.

Yeah, I'm floundering.

(Was that too interesting?)

There is a pencil on my desk. Do you have pencils? Do you like them? Do they like you?

I clipped cards to the spokes so it would sound like a 1985 Honda Civic (with a hole in the muffler) driven by a 17 year old in 2012. So, basically, like a crappy lawnmower.

I also leaned over really far on my right arm when I rode it, to produce an effect of 'cooly disinterested' and 'sort of tired.'

I was precocious and futuristic.

Somebody told me once that somebody in my family worked in the Dixon pencil factory on Long Island. I wonder if there ever was a Dixon pencil factory on Long Island. I'm thinking it was an uncle that worked there, but I don't remember any uncles on that side of the family. Who would that have been?

I have relatives. Do you?

Relatively speaking. I mean, I have a few cousins and stuff.

I would like to work in a pencil factory. I wonder what hours they worked?

I just can't decide between quiche and pot pie.

it would be better than working in a fudge factory, that foshizzel
http://www.tcnj.edu/~hofmann/humor/Misc/fudge.jpg

I was at work all day. Got home about an hour ago, like usual.

Oh! Ah...

Hrm.

I'm looking through a Lakeland catalogue, playing the old game of "you get one free thing from each page - what is it?"
Lakeland sell kitchen items and I do not have my own kitchen.

Last night I watched TV

I wonder if I should have another cup of coffee? Maybe I'll wait until the meeting in an hour, and have one then.

*staring pensively into space while thinking* "He never has a second cup of coffee at home."


(I think Glatt'll get that one.)

I drilled out a few over the weekend.

I'm having decaf. Ho hum.
Glatt never throws up at home.

;)

As for me, I am having a second cup of coffee. Because, you know, eff it.

This coffee meme is getting big, taking on a life of its own. Too much for the boring thread. Should I start another thread about when and where we're drinking coffee?

I don't know. Sounds too in ter es ting

There are supposed to be bagels at this meeting coming up. My boss asked me to check to make sure the bagels are already there. This is really the boss's secretary's job, but she's coming in late today. So I went by the conference room, and there are no bagels. So I stopped by the receptionist's desk and asked about the bagels. She checked the schedule and saw that bagels had been ordered, and said that she expected them to be delivered just before the meeting is supposed to begin. But my boss said that a meeting yesterday, the bagels were delivered an hour into to meeting (that's a long meeting. Glad I wasn't in that one.) and it was almost lunch time by then, so nobody ate the bagels and they went to waste. She wants me to make sure the bagels are delivered promptly for this one. But I don't know who delivers the bagels.

The good news is that I just heard the secretary's voice, so I think I can ask her to check on the bagels. she'll know who delivers them.

God, I bored myself just typing this damn post. At least there will be coffee there.

The meeting is about a roll out of new improved Wi-Fi coverage throughout the building and some new network server that will improve productivity.

But there will be coffee and hopefully bagels.

paint drying! :right:

Let's watch...

glatt i hope you get a better batch of bready bagels before the bunch of bagel beggers believe the bagels should be brought back before breakfast.

Still no bagels. The receptionist is checking on them.

DAMN YOU BAGELS. DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!

Improved productivity to offset the productivity lost to bagel and coffee (hopefully) meetings.
It's brown.

*biting nails*

Have the bagels arrived glatt? :worried:

Bagels are here!

That was almost too much thread drift
The suspense was growing and becoming exciting
But then it got boring

Nice save, Glatt

I'm done my coffee. No bagels.

My bagels are carb-free.

(This actually means I'm eating cream cheese with a spoon)

done WITH! What are you, from Delaware County? :D

Yessireebob. Three cups for me. Is that a county thing?

Holy crap, that was a long and boring meeting. I just got out.

And nobody ate any bagels. So I ate one even though I didn't really want one. Just to make the boss feel like they weren't a waste.

Yup I'm pretty sure that dropping the "with" is local.

We didn't say that in Harrisburg. I only began encountering it in college (Reading) and then with my ex-wife (Brookhaven) and J (Chester).

The Jersey people would say "I'm going up the mall!" (instead of to the mall)

That's ok UT. The WisCANson people say...drive BY the mall, instead of TO the mall.

I used to tease hell out of my ex..."gonna wave hi to it on your way past it?"

Why are you doing this?

Because I had an enforced day off of work today (48 quarantine due to vomiting virus) and it arrived in the post.

Basically, I was bored.

I am unfamiliar with this concept. Couldn't you have had a nice day out? Gone for a swim? Met new people?

I am in quarantine.
Trying not to spread the bug.

I did go for a walk.
I started a new book (reading I mean)
I checked out autism sites on t'internet and made notes.
And some other stuffski.

But I read kitchen equipment catalogues like poor men read high performance car magazines.
There is always some handy gadget I have never heard of and immediately crave.

However I am aware that this is a time-filler and 99% of people would find it exceptionally boring.
Hence its inclusion here.

real quarantine. oh ugh. sorry I missed that. I just don't get the whole catalogue/magazine reading thing. But then I'm not a shopper. Which is weird seeing as I'm a hoarder.

Gotcha.

Nope, my quarantine is [was] pretty real - this vomiting bug is doing the rounds and I already live with two people considered vulnerable. I've been super careful about hand washing, separate towels, plates and cups etc, but mostly just staying away from them.

My nephew also had to come round until midday because of a serious crash on the road to his school, no traffic could get through. He lucked out, because he hadn't finished his science homework, so he did it here. He had the bug over the weekend.

Tiger went to the Drs today about his persistant cough and then threw up all over himself in the waiting room. So he's off until next week anyway. But that can only be a coincidence, as I was out of the classroom laminating when the kids came in on Monday and I didn't start puking until 09.45.

Still, what's more boring than hearing about someone else's illness, so it fits the thread :)
I'll tell you my dreas next... Oh, I already do.

Is this haiku? ;)

Once someone has contracted the bug they can be contagious for days before the onset of symptoms. You may have been previously exposed to someone who was asymptomatic at the time. Nothing you can do about that for others; because, you won't immediately know you've contracted it. It's another reason why annual vaccination against dominant strains is important to vulnerable categories of people.

I know - I've only been careful after the onset.
But it was Half Term last week (a week off school) so I guess I didn't pick it up from any of the children.
And my nephew almost definitely got it from my neice - neither of whom I've seen in two weeks (until today).

You do what you can. I could have picked it up sitting next to someone on the bus.
(I think - not sure how virulent it is - I just know I got it)

People infected with the Norovirus can still be contagious for a week or more after the symptoms are gone and they feel perfectly fine.

Yebbut - how quickly do the symptoms show?

Whatever I had (I can't honestly claim it was Nonovirus, just that it sounds similar) came on fast. I left home Monday morning thinking I just had the lingering cough from my cold two weeks ago.

One hour 45 minutes later I was on my knees in the staff toilets.
If my source of contagion was school it would either have to germinate for over a week, or be something like The Stand.

Not pooh-poohing anything, just asking a question.
Enquiring minds and all that.
Maybe it's just that Diz put his bum in my face during that night or something.

ETA - from a being infectious POV, I feel awful enough missing THREE DAYS! of school.
I can't wait to go back tomorrow.
I swear I'm not Typhoid Mary.
(I do wonder if they ate my cake though...)

Please take all this interesting sickness talk to another thread.

Seriously.

I put dinner in the oven.

I was itchy then I was scratchy.

Damn cats.

Check with your local health authorities for the prodromal period of the most likely strain of stomach flu endemic to your area this season.

Consider wearing a mask at work for a few days, for the protection of others, if you might unexpectedly come close to them like children who haven't already been exposed running up to you. Adults are easier to keep at a distance so you can just maintain your other infection control measures at home and at work for them the rest of the week.

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I'm not feeling very well. I was fine before reading this thread.

but, are you bored?

They did eat my cake.
Mrs B said she did wonder why I was leaving school mid-morning looking so awful, but put it out of her mind when she smelled the chocolate.