I am officially boring.

[Nervous Rex]

I just heard a podcast about a recently published study - on the most boring person in the world.

And I check so many of the boxes.

According to the study, the most boring person in the world is a religion person who works in data entry, enjoys watching TV and lives in a town. I am religious, live in a suburb of Reno, not a "town" but a little city (the biggest one, in fact), enjoy watching TV, and work in programming. Okay, so not data entry, but still not a hot topic at parties.

The most boring hobbies are: sleeping, religion, watching TV, observing animals, mathematics. I love four of those five (all but observing animals).

I think that the study missed an opportunity to include people who don't just enjoy boring hobbies, but can obsessively monologue about them for several hours. I believe the autistic demographic has a real opportunity to stand out in the World of Boring.

I have known for a long time that the things that interest me bore others - heck, I'm so boring I once talked a lawyer to sleep at work.

I found one little bit of silver lining in this: Boring people do what makes them happy, not what makes other people happy. I've learned to be happy with my hobbies, even if no one else cares about them.

That is all. Feel free to read, reply, or ignore ... I'll just be here in the corner, being boring.

 

[Tom]

I knew we excelled at something! Boring Pride! No march though. Ruins the nap schedule.

 

[Judge]

When I see "studies" like this I can't help but think of Freud's concept of "transference". That perhaps what really constitutes a "boring" person would be someone who decides to create such a "study" in the first place.

There is no serious standard for what implies a boring person. It's as subjective as art.

So forgetaboutit!

 

[Jordy]

mathematics boring ?

 

[Nervous Rex]

mathematics boring ?

I know, right? Boring is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

 

[Nervous Rex]

When I see "studies" like this I can't help but think of Freud's concept of "transference". That perhaps what really constitutes a "boring" person would be someone who decides to create such a "study" in the first place.

I thought something similar. A bunch of sociologists were called boring, so they set out to prove that there was something more boring than them.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I look at such attempts to shove people in pigeonholes based on characteristics that cannot be quantified or shown to be causal as supremely boring.

Yes, I find some people boring, but not because of the mentioned characteristics.

 

[Richelle-H]

I read something like this and I start to assess my life. Was it all that boring or would what I saw and did induce ennui in the general populace?

I was, although completely accidental and passive on my part, in attendance at the very first super bowl at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1967.

I was in attendance at the very first live performance of Pink Floyd's THE WALL, otherwise notable for the pyrotechnics that, at the end of the first number, accidentally started a fire in some drapery above the stage, causing the performance to come to a halt for some time while the smoldering curtains were taken down and extinguished.

I was an on site support person throughout the entire 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal

I have seen more of the world than most. A denizen of the US, I have been to Australia twice, seen a fair bit of the southern parts of the UK, spent two and a half months living and working in Amsterdam in 1975 and during that time visited Brussels. I have been in every state in the US except Alaska and Maine and seen a fair number of those states Capitol cities.

I would dare any supposedly less boring person to match that. YES, it is true that I am more interested in my own comfort and enjoyment than that of others, but I think everyone is basically like that on some level whether or not they wish to admit it.

Isn't something like this just a bit like adult shaming by those whose lives must be particularly boring doing research like this. I say that authors of this study are the most boring people in the world.

 

[Qoyote]

Love the like to dislike ratio, 11 to 98! Some people don't like the truth...

I took it as a study of what people think is boring, not what's actually lame. (Who still thinks journalism is exciting though... some journalism, sure, but whoever wrote "The Kardashians move their same old act to new real estate on Hulu", which isn't too far down on CNN's front page right now, they've gotta be bored to tears. And that's the national outlets!)

I agree that sociology's up there for most boring though, for the same reason religious hobbies are. People who don't like them see them similarly.

 

[Slim Jim]

I was, although completely accidental and passive on my part, in attendance at the very first super bowl at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1967.

Ever pass through Sunset. (Is what I'm wondering.) What a time to be alive.

Maybe you spotted four strange guys, just standing there, up above. (It looks to be Chatau Marmont in the background.)

I have seen more of the world than most. A denizen of the US, I have been to Australia twice, seen a fair bit of the southern parts of the UK, spent two and a half months living and working in Amsterdam in 1975 and during that time visited Brussels. I have been in every state in the US except Alaska and Maine and seen a fair number of those states Capitol cities.

That's cool. I think though in the end, it's how happy we were in these experiences, and not how many places we visited. Because, without peace of mind, it all becomes meaningless. End of unsolicited philosophizing. Somebody come drown me in the shallow waters before I get too deep. Or before I start to bore somebody to death.

 

[Darkkin]

I read too many romance novels, have the food sophistication of a picky toddler, compose bad verse, tidy for fun, read my dictionary, usually go to bed by 10 pm, and talk obsessively about my cat. I will out boring the most boring!

(Tosses down imaginary gauntlet. Cannot throw, ends up crushing toes. Yells: darn it.)

 

[Crossbreed]

(I heard that North Dakota is hiring a lot of boring people, lately...!)

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

I read too many romance novels, have the food sophistication of a picky toddler, compose bad verse, tidy for fun, read my dictionary, usually go to bed by 10 pm, and talk obsessively about my cat. I will out boring the most boring!

(Tosses down imaginary gauntlet. Cannot throw, ends up crushing toes. Yells: darn it.)

I'll trade you cat for cat. My spouse refers to my female cat, Mew, as my aspie doppelganger. I have been working on her for a year, and now she will let me pet her and pick her up at times without going ballistic.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

And, who ever thinks that geology and paleontology are lively? But, 3 years ago, I went on a geology trip to Morocco, with geologists and interested amateurs. What a great group of people and I had a great time from Marrakech to the Kem Kem beds near the Algerian border.

 

[Sherlock77]

I've always claimed to be a rather boring person myself... I know lots of people with far more exciting lives than me

 

[Atrapa Almas]

I just heard a podcast about a recently published study - on the most boring person in the world.

And I check so many of the boxes.

According to the study, the most boring person in the world is a religion person who works in data entry, enjoys watching TV and lives in a town. I am religious, live in a suburb of Reno, not a "town" but a little city (the biggest one, in fact), enjoy watching TV, and work in programming. Okay, so not data entry, but still not a hot topic at parties.

The most boring hobbies are: sleeping, religion, watching TV, observing animals, mathematics. I love four of those five (all but observing animals).

I think that the study missed an opportunity to include people who don't just enjoy boring hobbies, but can obsessively monologue about them for several hours. I believe the autistic demographic has a real opportunity to stand out in the World of Boring.

I have known for a long time that the things that interest me bore others - heck, I'm so boring I once talked a lawyer to sleep at work.

I found one little bit of silver lining in this: Boring people do what makes them happy, not what makes other people happy. I've learned to be happy with my hobbies, even if no one else cares about them.

That is all. Feel free to read, reply, or ignore ... I'll just be here in the corner, being boring.

Once upon a time there was a guy who had the most boring hobby of all. He just seated in a weird possition, closed his eyes and was like that for hours whitout moving, talking or doing any other thing. All his friends thougth he was such a boring and weird person.

Now millions of people do meditation every day.

 

[Darkkin]

And, who ever thinks that geology and paleontology are lively? But, 3 years ago, I went on a geology trip to Morocco, with geologists and interested amateurs. What a great group of people and I had a great time from Marrakech to the Kem Kem beds near the Algerian border.

This sounds awesome. All I did tonight was knock out two more segments on a rhymed fable about an angry bunny.

 

[Crossbreed]

And, who ever thinks that geology and paleontology are lively?

Geology rocks...!

 

[Sherlock77]

Does this count? But then I wasn't the person on the stage playing the music, and there were three other guys with far more professional gear than I had this past weekend... Why I think my life is boring, because I'm always the observer, then again don't mind that role anyway...

 

[Tom]

Does this count? But then I wasn't the person on the stage playing the music, and there were three other guys with far more professional gear than I had this past weekend... Why I think my life is boring, because I'm always the observer, then again don't mind that role anyway...

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She looks like she is getting a tooth drilled.