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