Boring things you think are amazing

hightower1

Microwave overns - still find them totall sci fi.
Wireless internet - Amazing even after all this tme.

Cokeistan

I think a lot of people would find fishing fairly boring. I absolutely LOVE IT!!!!!

44leto

Maybe boring to non tech heads. But I did something amazing last night. I was in work and I was reading the paper at a down time. I came to the tele section and a programme "The King and the Playwright: A Jacobean History" (about Shakespeare) was on and I really wanted to see it.

So I went into my phone downloaded the Sky+ app and set my Sky+ recorder from work, from my phone and I am looking at it now.

Utterly incredible technology, it has made me **** green, an amazing age we live in.

44leto

Paddy Cow wrote: »

How It's Made. Glued to the tv while it's on but never remember any of it afterwards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHSu0trGkRg

Porno

paddyh117

re Flute video

don't know who that woman is doing the voiceover, but it's a terrible voice compared to the English guy on the show over here!!

John Doe1

Bubble wrap:)

clean bedding if i was rich i would have my bed changed everyday .

mikemac1

Scented candles

Love to chill in the evening and have a candle going, Vanilla is my favourite

Not just for the ladies you know, anyone can like them

Flincher

Thefirestarter wrote: »

New socks. Put them on. Feel the first-time-wearing-sensation.

I think it's a sock losing it's virginity.

I'm fascinated by the fluff left on my feet after wearing new socks for the first time.

If I take new socks off, and hop straight in the shower, I often end up staring at the fluff at the drain wondering where it came from, before finally realising "oh ya, I was wearing new socks"

Jordan 199

John Doe1 wrote: »

Bubble wrap:)

I love squeezing the bubbles in bubble wrap until they pop. So damn diddly great.

COYW

Taking off in planes and the Amish.

Caraville

Flat pack furniture. Love building it!

Also hotels- love looking them up and researching them online and making a mental wish list of where I want to go, even ones I've no hope of ever affording!

Big Nasty

Mashed spuds, beans and butter combo. Simplest thing ever but I challenge any Michelin star chef to come up with a better taste combination.

emeraldstar

itac wrote: »

Stars. And Space. Space is awesome, yet it only hits me just how awesome now and again if I'm outside on a clear night & the thousands upon thousands of stars are visible. Makes me feel rather tiny & insignificant, but in a good way. So yeah, Space is awesome.
(yes I know that sounds rather nerdy. Don't care, space is awesome!)

How is Space boring? Space is everything!

grindle

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Mashed spuds, beans and butter combo. Simplest thing ever but I challenge any Michelin star chef to come up with a better taste combination.

Shaws sausages, Galtee Hickory rashers, Clonakilty black pudding, Kerrygold butter, Chef ketchup, M&S demi-baguette.

*takes a bow*

swimming in a sea

the roll thing that gets fluff and hairs off your jacket

Cee-Jay-Cee

Big Boobs. Is there anything they cant do....

Paparazzo

Poirot. What a legend

bellylint

sunflower27 wrote: »

The human body is pretty incredible, too

also that we are made up partly from virus' that have hijacked us along the way that now we depend on for our life.

Big Nasty

CJC999 wrote: »

Big Boobs. Is there anything they cant do....

Why would they be boring in the first place though!?!

44leto

MCMLXXV wrote: »

Why would they be boring in the first place though!?!

When you are full and not hungry anymore.

vangoz

Clouds, big aul fat chunky ones, especially when contrasted with patches of clear blue sky.

A full moon at dusk

Space on a clear winters night. People are impressed by big things, like the grand canyon for example - just look up and you see thousands of unimaginable sized nuclear explosions at distances away that have to be measured in the billions! That's what I call impressive.

Big Nasty

44leto wrote: »

When you are full and not hungry anymore.

Tits never get boring lad.;)

stupidusername

Birds. More specifically pigeons. They're all fantastic.and entertaining. Don't know how anybody could be not interested

kumate_champ07

Brasso

littlejp

Baking yeast is pretty amazing.

mikemac1

stupidusername wrote: »

Birds. More specifically pigeons

Rats with wings

A friend lived in an estate where someone kept pigeons and they would circle around the estate for exercise and **** all over the houses and cars.

There are beautiful birds, why pick the vermin of the bird world

Sleazy Rider

Magnets.

How do they work?

Paparazzo

vangoz wrote: »

Clouds, big aul fat chunky ones, especially when contrasted with patches of clear blue sky.

A full moon at dusk

Space on a clear winters night. People are impressed by big things, like the grand canyon for example - just look up and you see thousands of unimaginable sized nuclear explosions at distances away that have to be measured in the billions! That's what I call impressive.

All pretty amazing and impressive, but when Poirot gets his teeth into a murder case it's equally impressive mon ami Hastings

mikemac1

Poirot, the only interesting Belgian man ever

DEFTLEFTHAND

Jethro Tull.

stupidusername

mikemac1 wrote: »

Rats with wings

A friend lived in an estate where someone kept pigeons and they would circle around the estate for exercise and **** all over the houses and cars.

There are beautiful birds, why pick the vermin of the bird world

They are beautiful. What makes them not?

44leto

stupidusername wrote: »

They are beautiful. What makes them not?

In estates when they sh1t on your drying clothes. They are noisy bastards as well and the excess feed spillage attract rats.

stupidusername

44leto wrote: »

In estates when they sh1t on your drying clothes. They are noisy bastards as well and the excess feed spillage attract rats.

Many other birds will **** on your clothes.
The only time pigeons make any noise is when the male is trying to mate,it lasts about 10seconds. So you're mistaken about the noise.
And what has excess feed spillage got to do with pigeons?

guitarzero

What fascinates me is how people are fascinated with mundane things.

Dravokivich

Staring at the drippy things from ceilings.

44leto

stupidusername wrote: »

Many other birds will **** on your clothes.
The only time pigeons make any noise is when the male is trying to mate,it lasts about 10seconds. So you're mistaken about the noise.
And what has excess feed spillage got to do with pigeons?

True but the Loft was right next to my garden and they would fly in circles about 20 at a time, so they had more hits.

Its just something fanciers never think or care about. As for the noise its not that bad just a constant gurgling sound and the spillage of grain in the loft or the surrounds can't be helps, it the nature of the way they eat.

I will admit the rat bit maybe more urban myth then based on fact, as we are all not to far from a rat.

44leto

Sleazy Rider wrote: »

Magnets.

How do they work?

Why, very well.

davet82

Boring things you think are amazing

Boards.ie

spiritcrusher

The fact that some objects are so far away the distance has to be measured by the speed of light!

Davyhal

Tracing back family trees... Doesn't even have to be my family... Meet someone in the pub and they tell me their surname and where they are from, I change from a 24 year old lad into an 85 year old woman: "Oh sure, your grandfather would have been one of the Byrnes from Lisdoonvarna then is it?...."

stupidusername

44leto wrote: »

True but the Loft was right next to my garden and they would fly in circles about 20 at a time, so they had more hits.

Its just something fanciers never think or care about. As for the noise its not that bad just a constant gurgling sound and the spillage of grain in the loft or the surrounds can't be helps, it the nature of the way they eat.

I will admit the rat bit maybe more urban myth then based on fact, as we are all not to far from a rat.

As far as I know pigeons don't **** while flying.
And I can't see how they'd ever leave grain uneaten.even if they did they can't be blamed for rats getting left overs

mawk

emeraldstar wrote: »

How is Space boring? Space is everything!

its an awful lot closer to being nothing


boring/fascinating = bike brakes. just squeeze a little lever gently and you stop, but if you tried to stop by grabbing a rope or rubbing your feet off the ground it would be so much harder to stop.

physics eh?

RuailleBuaille

I dunno if it's boring, but I love when you cut open a pepper and find a new one growing inside it!

The King of Moo

About five or six years ago, before getting fast broadband, I would often be transfixed by the telemetry showing the upload and download speed of a torrent on bittorrent.
It would be especially fascinating when I'd be downloading something not very popular which would take some time to download.

It'd be pootling along at 2kb/s for seemingly an eternity and I'd be in despair, looking at the ETA of 3 weeks.

Then suddenly, the little green line would stab sharply upwards, and my heart would skip a beat! And it'd keep climbing up and up: 25 kb/s! 50 kb/s! 100 kb/s! ETA: 2hrs!!

Then it'd start to go down a little. Then down a little more... then it'd level off!! Then down a little more... but then back up again!

I'd literally sit watching for about half an hour at times, most of that time waiting for it to get over 10kb/s, but it was worth it for the thrill when it would start to increase!

Nowadays it's not really the same, as even the least popular film or tv show will download in a few hours maximum, but I'll still occasionally get the old thrill.


I also think I might not be alone in being fascinated by DVD player screensavers, and doing a little sex wee when the logo hits the corner of the screen perfectly.

D1stant

RuailleBuaille wrote: »

I dunno if it's boring, but I love when you cut open a pepper and find a new one growing inside it!

ABORTIONIST :mad:

44leto

The King of Moo wrote: »

About five or six years ago, before getting fast broadband, I would often be transfixed by the telemetry showing the upload and download speed of a torrent on bittorrent.
It would be especially fascinating when I'd be downloading something not very popular which would take some time to download.

It'd be pootling along at 2kb/s for seemingly an eternity and I'd be in despair, looking at the ETA of 3 weeks.

Then suddenly, the little green line would stab sharply upwards, and my heart would skip a beat! And it'd keep climbing up and up: 25 kb/s! 50 kb/s! 100 kb/s! ETA: 2hrs!!

Then it'd start to go down a little. Then down a little more... then it'd level off!! Then down a little more... but then back up again!

I'd literally sit watching for about half an hour at times, most of that time waiting for it to get over 10kb/s, but it was worth it for the thrill when it would start to increase!

Nowadays it's not really the same, as even the least popular film or tv show will download in a few hours maximum, but I'll still occasionally get the old thrill.


I also think I might not be alone in being fascinated by DVD player screensavers, and doing a little sex wee when the logo hits the corner of the screen perfectly.

I am kind of doing that now waiting for the Ides of march, to come in, it keeps jumping from 2 hours to 7 hours, its on 2 hours now.

Its good entertainment as long as I pay my movie tax.

foxyboxer

The Antiques Roadshow.

pawrick

foxyboxer wrote: »

The Antiques Roadshow.

Used to pop home sometimes for lunch from work and end up getting nothing to eat because of that show! It and How's it made are hypnotic.

Used to spend hours when I was young staring at the flames in the fire or water running from the tap (dame you water tax!).

Sky King

Maps. Love em. Ever since I was a kid. I love maps, would spend ages just looking at them.