What do you do when you get bored?

[ReservoirAngel]

When I get bored, I have sex. But that's not an activity everyone has immediate access to...

 

[jpblade666]

When I'm bored I usually watch classic wrestling online, but I'm also a HUGE wrestling fan. I also play games when I'm really bored I'll find a game I haven't played in forever or just gave up on or forgot about and try that again, I usually get really engrossed in the game.

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

When I get bored, I have sex. But that's not an activity everyone has immediate access to...

Well those of us who are single...imrpovise, shall we say.

OT: Watch a film, watch TV, play a game, listen to music, browse the web, go on Escapist, go on verbose rants, get drunk...improvise, hang out with friends, get drunk with friends, go home and sleep for ridiculously long hours. Yeah, pretty much that stuff.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I normally read a book by a lamp, there's something comforting about jumping into a fantasy world while your being imbued by a low wattage light source.

Hmmm.

I only really get bored when I have to work. I would quite happily spend the rest of my days on holiday and love every minute of it.

My answer is exercise. I may be hard to start, but it gives you energy and focus, I find it leaves me with a sense of well-being.

Rubbish, you play Max Paine 2! don't deny it.

Ok, you got me.

I'm sure I've completed it at least 10 times by now, I have the mechanics down to a fine art...

I haven't seen you around here for ages, Cold.

 

[DigitalSushi]

I normally read a book by a lamp, there's something comforting about jumping into a fantasy world while your being imbued by a low wattage light source.

Hmmm.

I only really get bored when I have to work. I would quite happily spend the rest of my days on holiday and love every minute of it.

My answer is exercise. I may be hard to start, but it gives you energy and focus, I find it leaves me with a sense of well-being.

Rubbish, you play Max Paine 2! don't deny it.

Ok, you got me.

I'm sure I've completed it at least 10 times by now, I have the mechanics down to a fine art...

I haven't seen you around here for ages, Cold.

Yeah I've been in the French mountains Skiing where I didn't have enough money for internet access, still good times were had, caused an avalanche that was in the local news because all four of us survived, pretty sweet.

Came back and decided to get funds I'd sell all my games, but fear not, Max Pain 2 is still in my collection, I was going to sell it but I stopped thinking to myself "Panda wouldn't want this", so Max now sits on my "Desk of Epicness", its a desk that houses all my epic shit, so Max is in between the Sword from Blade and a Crows wing a taxidermist made for me.

 

[teqrevisited]

I've always got plenty of spare videos sitting in my sub box, so I just watch those if all else fails. If not, I turn to old games that I've not played in a while.

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

I normally read a book by a lamp, there's something comforting about jumping into a fantasy world while your being imbued by a low wattage light source.

Hmmm.

I only really get bored when I have to work. I would quite happily spend the rest of my days on holiday and love every minute of it.

My answer is exercise. I may be hard to start, but it gives you energy and focus, I find it leaves me with a sense of well-being.

Rubbish, you play Max Paine 2! don't deny it.

Ok, you got me.

I'm sure I've completed it at least 10 times by now, I have the mechanics down to a fine art...

I haven't seen you around here for ages, Cold.

Yeah I've been in the French mountains Skiing where I didn't have enough money for internet access, still good times were had, caused an avalanche that was in the local news because all four of us survived, pretty sweet.

Came back and decided to get funds I'd sell all my games, but fear not, Max Pain 2 is still in my collection, I was going to sell it but I stopped thinking to myself "Panda wouldn't want this", so Max now sits on my "Desk of Epicness", its a desk that houses all my epic shit, so Max is in between the Sword from Blade and a Crows wing a taxidermist made for me.

Woah, sounds like an adventure...how did you cause the avalanche?

Good to hear the proper respects are being paid to the classics.

 

[funguy2121]

So I have 5/6 weeks off for summer. Other than do a few things to do with my university application, and maybe go out with friends a few times, I have shit all to do for about 4 of these weeks.

I'm 3 days into this massive break, and even the thought of opening a video game is boring me to death (which is rare for me). Normally when I'm bored I sit around refreshing sites like the Escapist and Youtube looking for something that might be interesting, and I don't know if I can handle that for 4 weeks >.>

So, inspire me Escapist, what do you people do when you're bored, what do you think I should do when I'm bored to hell?

Keep in mind that I'm extremely lazy and demotivated, that kinda limits a lot of things that I can be bothered to do.

I had suggestions aplenty, until I read the last statement.

Are you so entitled that you expect others to do your thinking for you? Then you should move to the states and become a Republican

I'd suggest that you get off your ass and do something. It's summer, you're young. Meet a girl, get laid. Go to some live shows. See X-Men, Super 8 or Horrible Bosses. Shop around for a show on DVD that you haven't seen yet (of which there are PLENTY). Do something you've never done before. Or, if you truly can't be bothered to do any of that, you can always sit around and feel sorry for yourself.

 

[Roserari]

Usually I find something to unbore me. Only to bore myself even further. Vicious cycle.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

Are you so entitled that you expect others to do your thinking for you? Then you should move to the states and become a Republican

Do my thinking for me?
I was asking for suggestions, because there's a chance that one person in the tonnes that visit this site might have thought of something that I haven't or remind me of something I enjoy. I was also interested to see what other people did when they were bored.

 

[aarontg]

Playing games, reading a book, excersizing, or going to the mall. But most of that bored time is spent wondering which one of those things I'll do.

 

[chuckman1]

1. Talk to girls (or guys) whoever you're attracted to
2. Party
3. Hang out with friends
4. Fapfapfap
5. Heroin (ok just kidding with that one)

 

[Still Life]

You could always try a new game of your favorite genre, whether it is FPS or RPG or RTS or Whatever.

You could masturbate.

You could try to play previously played games in a harder difficulty, I did this with God of War, Minecraft (Used to play it on peaceful all the time), Half Life 2, Spore, Mass Effect 1 & 2 and Bioshock, and they got at least twice as entertaining.

You could masturbate.

You could learn how to cook (if you don't know how)

You could masturbate.

You could disassemble your PC and give it a good ol' cleaning. On a related note, learn how to disassemble your PC and learn how to put it back together.

You could collect stamps since you fucked your computer disassembling it.

You could masturbate.

Pretty sure I can do all that simultaneously, whilst masturbating like a boss.