Wasting time

"TR members are some of the most passionate posts"

Our posts may speak of us in some way, but that is about the extent of that.

I'd be interested to know how time can be 'wasted', in the first place.

by the master2 Jun 16, 2008

As TR's resident Time Lord do I need to explain how Time is Wasted Boxfiddler? :p

Col ]:)

if you think you are up to it.

by the scummy one Jun 16, 2008

by replying to this thread :^0

by santeewelding Jun 16, 2008

You mark it.

I am become it.

Tell me how I waste.

by jellimonsta Jun 16, 2008

Kryptic...

Me understand not! :p

by hal 9000 Jun 16, 2008

[b]The Evolution Lie.[/b]

I'll let your boss know what you are doing on their time and see what happens. :D

Col

by the maverick phantom wanderer (formerly macoza, nodice, kp, etc.) Jun 16, 2008

now, where is my pic? :D

You bring up a point I have been thinking about a lot lately. What actually is a waste of time? If it brings you joy, is it really wasted?

Some people spend hours riding a bike or going for a long walk. Some spend hours in their yard. Some spend hours playing a video game. Why is any one of them a more valid way to spend your time than another?

I would say you decided to invest your time in reading and posting. B-)

What would I consider a waste of MY time? Not much this year, but years ago I wasted a lot of time on/with my ex. I pretty much do as I please now, and pleasing ME is never a waste! :D

The following applies to what I consider the concept of wasting time:

Any experience unrelated or counterproductive to your survival (if you are trying to survive), your enjoyment of life (i.e. those things you want to do), or duty (those things you believe you have to do) should be considered a waste of your time.

Nodice,
who is attempting to cry for the camera (will probably be unsuccessful since he has only cried twice in his life- including his first years of life.)

by the maverick phantom wanderer (formerly macoza, nodice, kp, etc.) Jun 18, 2008

and fake it for us! :D

As for your definition, fair enough as long as it is entirely an internal decision of what is a waste and what isn't.

You would be surprised how often I hear people talking down about what someone else has done and what a "waste" it is.

may not be a waste of time to others (though listening to someone speaking of how others have wasted their time is almost always a waste of time.)

I can honestly say I haven't wasted a single second.

by the maverick phantom wanderer (formerly macoza, nodice, kp, etc.) Jun 16, 2008

...I'd say the last 35 or so minutes of the movie 'The Happening' have been the most egregious waste of time this year. I won't spoil it for anyone (unless asked, of course), but I'm beginning to question my policy of not reading movie spoilers prior to going to the movie. Only thing that would have made it worse would have been to go to the cafe next door and order the PuPu Platter for dinner afterwards! ;-)

Other than that, the 30 minute conversation with the guy trying to get me to sign a petition for Ralph Nader's inclusion on the presidential ballot ranks up there as the only other major time wasters so far for me this year.

My conversation lasted only 5 minutes though, as I used emergency escape plan number 13.

The worst time wasters in my opinion are those people who try to convert you to their religion as they are often the hardest people to get rid of.

Nodice,
who failed to cry (no tears at all, not even tears of pain- I think this inability to cry comes from my grandfather, who hasn't cried in 70 years

I have NEVER had a problem with people out trying to convert. They have always been polite and respectful when I just tell them "no thank you".

They thank me for my time, grant me a wish that their god will care for me, and are on their way.

Where do you run into the rude ones?

...on whether or not the person thought he was doing a disservice to his candidate (my view) by approaching people going downtown (it was in the morning at the commuter train platform...so these were mainly white-collar workers from an upper-middle class area) looking far from professional (and smelling worse...which I did mention, too).

On a personal level, I have nothing against tattoos, piercings, etc. Hell, I've paid for both as gifts to people. HOWEVER, I think it poor strategy to approach a fairly conservative bunch looking (and smelling) as though you're about to get into the UFC octagon (this coming from a MMA practitioner and huge UFC fan) . Instead of the shirt that was borderline satanic in nature (I mean this seriously, too...not to jest or exaggerate), why not a polo, or at the least, a plain t-shirt? Soap and deodorant are wonderful things. Approach me and say 'excuse me, sir/madam, will you support choice in our election process?', and not 'hey, why don't you help get Nader on the ballot?' (again, I'm being serious).

Sorry, but if you have a campaign that presumably hasn't covered the best way to approach people, what will they miss if they actually get the big gig? No thank you!!

I'm pretty sure everything I said (I was much more tactful when discussing this with him) went in one ear and out the other. If you don't like the answer, don't ask me 'well, why not?' when I refuse to sign! :)

by charliespencer Jun 16, 2008

Which was more confusing? I have no intention of seeing 'Happening', so feel free to include spoilers in your response.

Any conversations on my front porch with religious testifiers.

....this year!! :)

ALERT: SPOILERS!!!! SPOILERS!!! (well, sort of...nothing too major)

Okay, I can get past the preachy element of the movie (it is plant life that is killing people, presumably). I actually enjoyed some of the ways people off'd themselves (one guy let lions tear him apart, another laid in front of a riding mower)...since I hadn't seen them in any movies previously.

What I can't get past is that you establish a set pattern of behavior for a character (in this case, sticks to logic and is strong willed), and then, all of a sudden, he changes it (just up and decides to 'let it happen' to him after just a few minutes of being in a bad situation). That irked me. Also, if someone DID believe it was the plants that were doing it...at the end of the event, would he go back to where he was living (near lots of trees and bad nuke plants), or, perhaps, scope out some fine property in the southwestern desert area??

BLAH!!!

if 20 million people thought it was lousy, it could still be a box office hit.

by charliespencer Jun 16, 2008

Behind the also-opening 'Hulk' and the second week of, of; ... man, I forget what was second on the weekend, but it opened last week. 'Happening' pulled only $30 million in the U.S., so that's maybe 5 million viewers or less.

by jamesrl Jun 16, 2008

The reason so many people go to an M. Night Shamalan movie, is that he made a great movie(Sixth Sense). Sadly he has tried to recreate the magic a number of times, and has failed to even approach his acclaim from his first film.

My brother in law, who works in entertainment and has a degree from film school typifies the feeling - he had great expectations after the first film, and is increasingly dissapointed since.

James

anything that even remotely glamorizes suicide is automatically scratched off the viewing list.

I also got bored decades ago with all the other "hack'em stack'em" flicks. Rarely an original thought, and just come down to basing a movie around gore effects to shock the viewers.

Plants, huh? Reminds me I am just about out of "Roundup".... ;\

...not to be viewed by anyone under 17, at least. I can't stand when parents take youngsters to anything so obviously age-inappropriate (and yes, there were kids in the audience...WTF). I am also not a fan of the gore-for-gore's sake....but if it goes with the film (chest bursters, for example), I can appreciate a little macabre creativity.

As for the plants...I suppose this movie was M. Night's way of 'going green'. It got to the point where the main character is reduced to begging a fake tree to leave them alone (I kid you not).

they were protesting the cruelty of KFC.

I stopped and bought some just because the dumb kids out front were stupid enough to be in full goth gear while trying to influence the world. The kids were going on about the cruel conditions, so I told them that "fear made the meat taste better". :0

Lesson to learn, must not look like a freak if you want people to take you seriously. It is all about maintaining the "Illusion of Respectability". B-)

JD! :D

The opposite is said to be so, you know.

who want to keep all the 'afeared' meat to themselves :)

but it could not out weigh the look on their young stupid faces.... B-)

And as Tony points out, is it REALLY? Who has tested this theory? Animal "rights" people?

To test, group A - a slow painful death, group B - quick and in their sleep.

Who would ALLOW such a test? Mengele? :0

'scaring up some vittles'.

...or were they emo???
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=emo

Not that it matters much...actually, it was just an excuse for me to pass along a link I find funny, in that "I'm glad that's not, nor ever was, me" kinda way. :)

I would have probably stopped, pretended like they were actually making a difference in my opinion, and said "you know, you're right. I'm not going to patronize KFC. Everyone knows that Popeye's chicken is the schiznet."

;)

by charliespencer Jun 16, 2008

Just a mean, green mutha from outer space.

by nicknielsen Jun 16, 2008

:^0

Too bad Hulk didn't do better.

"Hulk smash puny plant movie" just doesn't have the same impact now. :(

by jamesrl Jun 16, 2008

Animals slaughtered on the farm generally are not under any great stress, they move from wherever they are to the killing floor without getting tense.

Animals who are shipped in trucks to the slaighterhouse are highly stressed. They are tense, they are tightly packed into noisy vehicles. As a result their adreline shoots up. There was a case in Toronto where some cattle broke out of a truck on their way to the slaughterhouse, and one animal, who had been charging people all day, required thirty pistol shoots to bring him down - thats adreneline.

Its common wisdom among cattle farmers (and I have relatives who are) that the shorter the trip the better it is for the meat, and home is best. But hey they are biased towards eating their own cattle anyway.

James