Now I don’t want to offend anyone so I’ll start by offering my most sincere respect for whatever floats your boat (within reason) but I’ve just come across the term ‘online safety razor community’. Do any other members have opinions or experience of very dull ways of spending down time? My personal favourites are: 1. The people who spend their leisure time driving around the M25 London orbital 2. The online safety razor community (got to be up there on any list surely?) 3. Writing this. What are your top 3?

I am sure that plenty of people think that discussing snuff is rather dull.

Of course. It is.

Discussing politics is dull, mostly because people get worked up over it and can’t act civilized.

I don’t know what my top 3 would be but I know the #1 dullest activity is watching Nascar. Watching cars drive around a giant circle for hours at a time is the dullest, boringest way to spend your time in my books

Maybe the dullness is the appeal?!? Ken

Perhaps. It is all in the eye of the beholder I suppose. @n9inchnails: I agree.

A dull safety razor definitely sounds a bit dodgy to me! And then there is always the excitement to be had driving all the way round the M60 around Manchester…

Well, I think spending time just for the sake of letting it pass is the only really dull way of using your available time, so, well, that’s my top 1. Oh, and watching people do things (specially if they’re repetitive) is usually boring, I agree with n9inchnails and cstrokes4, but lots of people like doing it, so, well, it depends on your preferences. Also, @snuffster , how is discussing something you like dull? (or was it sarcasm?), and, @cstrokes4 , why isn’t getting worked up a fun thing to do? I don’t personally like it, but at least seeing people do it is usually amusing, and they look like they’re getting de-stressed.

In the Summertime, I enjoy watching bees work or getting down on the ground to watch the activity of a group of ants as a large rain storm is gathering.

Watching the trade test transmission card. Up until the 1970s TV airtime in the UK was very limited. Most of the time you would switch on to find nothing but a static test card and switch off again. Amazingly there is a Test Card Club, which issues its own magazine. Videos and now CDs may be purchased from the club so those devotees of the sublimely boring can sit round the television watching a static card for hours on end. This must be the most spectacularly uninteresting leisure pursuit in history. The founder of the Test Card Club was so captivated by the BBC2 card he married the girl depicted. They spend all their available time watching it. If you have nothing better to do with your life then feel free to download it and watch it from your monitor http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/testcards/images/other/bbc1\\_clock\\_testcard\\_1978b.jpg

“Test Card Club” We have a winner folks!

@Bart , wow, I didn’t know there really are people who enjoy that kind of thing aside from me. @street carp , LOL! I was going to say that.

Winner, winner, chicken dinner.

“Test Card Club” "We have a winner folks! " Not necessarily. Researching further one discovers that there are other British clubs devoted to the inexpressibly dull pastime of transmission card watching including ‘The Test Card Circle’, whose members gather round a television set each month for an evening of shared enjoyment. They too issue a journal and welcome new members. Join these paradigms of mind-numbing dullness on: http://www.testcardcircle.org.uk/ or for their rivals in monotony go to: http://www.test-cards.fsnet.co.uk/ BTW - The card depicted above is known as Test Card F of 1967 and is acknowledged by test card aficionados as the most engrossing of the televisual treats on offer. The really boring cards are those in black and white.

There are “hole watchers” as well. They will spend every free minute to hang onto the high fences around sites where new buildings are erected and watch the people digging the holes.

looking at the ceiling to see what type of paterns come out. Sober I might add.

reading the post on the link below may just be the most boreing thing I can think of. http://snuffhouse.vanillaforums.com/discussion/4485/ot-worlds-dullest-leisure-time-activities./#Item\\_9

Pieter, seriously? Well, I guess seeing that is interesting. Seeing hole watchers react to workmen could be interesting too, why not? bob, when I’m, ehem, “busy”, in the bathroom, I find very interesting patterns in the floor (being sober, of course ). PP, LOL! I’ve been missing your posts lately. I’m glad you’re back to work.

PMSLMAO @ the test card club. It’s not very often you see that anymore on telly. You just have to join those clubs don’t you to see wtf they are on lololol. Stefan

Menna, it was kind of sarcastic (more purposely abtuse really) but I also recognise how ecentric this whole thing of hobbies is. Of course its dull discussing snuff I just happen to enjoy doing it and I don’t find any contradiction in that. I mean I don’t think things are meaningful just because I like them. Personally, I think it would be a tragedy on a global scale if the Human race stopped doing silly things. The test card watchers, amateur moustache growers and the international confederation of recreational wet shavers all make being alive less tedious. In a nice way.

one mans poison is anothers boring hobby.

As ever Bob you have it by the balls.

not that theres anything wrong with that.

The man’s a genius in my book…

just a party favor I got from God that’s all.

@Bob: Watching clouds to see faces/animals/human bodies etc forming as the clouds move on their way.

In addition to snuffhouse, I also research obsolete lighting methods (gaslighting, arc lamps, etc) and biomass gasification for vehicles. Just last night I was sitting at the local greasy spoon pinching Dental Mild and reading about woodgas cars and Robin Mackay’s excellent SAE papers on practical vehicular gas turbines. Recreationally, mind you. I’ve been out of college for 10 years…

snuffster , yep, you’re totally right. Silly things are indeed necessary, and they usually fuel big changes and discoveries PP, I’ve just realised why you said that, LMAO Pieter , I love doing that kind of thing when I have to wait LOL James S. , well, that could end up being useful to you. (Re)Discovering alternative ways to power vehicles is always a good thing.

You never know where anything is going to lead. Life has more to do with throwing dice then many people like to pretend. Think of all the little actions you may take throughout your life, think of a few specfic cases where something “insignificant” changed your life dramaticaly. Thinking things like that is more then a hobby for me.

@ Bob…come on mate “Say no to drugs”

@James s That is somewhat strange…but I have come across mention of it with the HOLZBRENNER VOLKSWAGENS (Kdf Wagons) (1942-1945) Yes, it was interesting and you have to wonder why we aren’t exploring it today?

How about listening to golf on xm radio.Only to beat by listening to Indy car races. What’s next, a fishing channel on xm?

Now PP drugs don’t talk so how are they gonna ask me a question.

@bob , yeah, I love thinking about reality too. It is really interesting, and getting to understand it is very helpful in enjoying life. Also, I ROFL’d at PP’s post and your answer. You’re great, both of you (:'D)

You know all fishing shows seem to be in the summer even though I know it would be boring as sin I’ve always wished they would make an ice fishing show. Then when it was just a touch to cold to be out on the ice I could at least watch somebody else freeze their ass off.

lol JD…the ice fishermen are never sober enough to make the shows. But thats really the whole point of ice fishing anyways. I guess we could always get blind drunk and pretend we are ice fishing. same thing.

Lol now that u mention it I don’t really even remember the last time I went ice drinking… I mean fishing. I thought that frozen pond water slushy tasted funny,

That’s brilliant sit on ice and no ones gonna both to see if you’re breaking any laws.

@Menma: Oh yes…one day I’m hoping to save up for an older carbureted pickup truck, which is a good candidate for a wood gasifier since it has a nice big platform for you to put all the equipment on! @Bart: There’s quite a movement in rediscovering gasification (I’m also a member at victorygasworks.com). Over a million vehicles ran on wood and charcoal gasifiers in Europe during WWII, when gasoline was either rationed or completely unavailable to civilians in many countries. Of course, after the war ended everybody dropped it like a hot rock since petrol was again available, but unfortunately a lot of the knowledge went by the wayside too. Great leaps are being made, though, in developing countries where “storebought” energy is unavailable and there’s often a surplus of biomass laying around…

@bob specially if you got a nice ice shanty to hide in

Ice hockey statistics can be pretty boring if you’re not into game.