Thread: Ideas For Torturous And Boring Things

Ok;
1) ride the public bus system for hours with nothing to read.
2) fill in every single square on a piece of graph paper
3) take apart and put back together a small engine. (chainsaw or something)
4) flip a coin 3x10^3 times, and figure the probability of it landing on the edge.

Hope that helps. I dunno about the small engine; I'd probablly enjoy that, actually.

1) ride the public bus system for hours with nothing to read.[/b]

And I would probably enjoy that (people watcher).

My ideas:

Graph a simple function without a calculator (plug in X=0, graph Y; plug in X=0.1, graph Y; plug in X=0.2, graph Y etc...) and show your work.

Use tweezers to move a pile of sugar from one place in your house to another

craft an item out of wood, but use only fine sand paper.

calculate pi the hard way

make a full-length, motion picture out of sticky notes (at 24 plus frames per second)

Set your computer's desktop to a pattern, then draw the background on a piece of white paper with just a pencil, with enough detail that it looks basically the same (but not drawing the icons).

Type the first chapter of your favorite book. If you make a typo, you cant' hit backspace; you have to start over.

Read a book backwards, that is, the words in reverse order so that you have no idea what it means.

Count. Forever.

Clean your room when you have already cleaned it just an hour ago.

watch grass grow
watch count the nunber of dust particles in the air
sharpen pencils untill there isn't a pencil left, repete

Watch bad football.

Originally Posted by Developer

Watch bad football.
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haha! good one.

cut a piece of paper in two. Then cut each of the two new pieces into two again. Then cut the four pieces of paper into two. Then cut the eight...... continue with this until your pieces of paper are smaller than 0.25cm x 0.25cm

The thing is, plenty of ideas here are beneficial....for your brain.....
It's actually quite hard thinkin about boring stuff, why not draw entire pages with a pencil then rub it all off neatly....

Put a potato in a draw, close the draw and then take it out and repeat.
Look at a space on the wall and DO NOT let your mind wander.

Originally Posted by krookedking

The thing is, plenty of ideas here are beneficial....for your brain.....
It's actually quite hard thinkin about boring stuff, why not draw entire pages with a pencil then rub it all off neatly....
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yea, some ideas might be benificial for some poeple, but it's ok, I don't nassasarily need ideas that will be boring and unbeneficial to everyone.

I would now like to direct your attention to ideas that would be turturous but without the boring aspect.
One example is my idea of not eating anything the whole day except some cooking oil.
Here's some more:
(If your female ) go to work without makeup.
If it's a hot day and you need to drive then turn the air-conditioner in the car to heat.

Wow....well, ehm....stay upside down for long, stop breathing 'till you really want to breatn and at that point wait another 10 seconds (oops this may be too dangerous)....
Just put your head into the loo after some big business....and just stare at it....(I can't believe I'm saying this )

Water Torture.

For those that didn't see the Mythbusters episode, here is an explination



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Water torture is boring.

Hang upside-down and read a genre of book you can&#39;t stand. To ease the boredom, every time you turn the page, you have to draw a picture before you can continue reading. Make sure the ground is within reach so that you can pick up anything you drop.

Originally Posted by Brilliand

Water torture is boring.
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I think that is the point.

tortuous, huh? Try sandpapering the bottom of your feet, or your fingertips raw. the entire day will be agony.

(safecrackers used to do that actually, so they could feel the tumblers better; Neal&#39;s useless fact for today.)

Or sniff amonia. This might be dangerous, though.

Originally Posted by dodobird

(If your female ) go to work without makeup.
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I would like to recomend this, I think that most girls look better without.

How &#39;bout snorting cayenne pepper up yer nose

Hmmm, take a icecube and put salt on it, then run it on your skin it burns for a long time. listin to a tape of someone scratching their nails of a black board. put tape on random parts of your body (parts with hair only) and every hour rip one off. Eat only your least favorite food for a day

Originally Posted by Xnyper

I would like to recomend this, I think that most girls look better without.

How &#39;bout snorting cayenne pepper up yer nose


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I&#39;ve accidentally snorted a Pixie Stick before. Good god, but it&#39;s painful to have sugar crystals go up your nose...

Torturously boring: manually convert a part of an obscure Victorian etiquette manual (or some other obsolete, boring text) into 7-bit ASCII. Then manually convert it back.

A) Doing what your future LD method is

B) Reading this thread

-go to school
-go to work
-learn an irritating and repetitive song on guitar and play it continuously till your fingers bleed
-stay still for the whole day
-watch a kids show, on repeat for the whole day

Watch curling&#33; Gets me out in a sec&#39;&#33;

Originally Posted by PNG_pyro

2) fill in every single square on a piece of graph paper
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Every other square.

Do Sudoku - impossible Sudoku.