Dullest thing you can think of

[Dave Grossman]

Quick, what's the dullest thing you can think of?

(Yes, it's another random question relating to the game script. I should probably start a new section for these....)

[Yohmi]

Negociate with a slot-machine...

[Astro Gnocci]

chatting on msn

[numble]

Clipping your toenails while sitting on the john

[Welshy]

I had an E-Marketing Seminar today ....that was probably the dullest thing my ears have ever had the misfortune of overhearing. I even tried to block it out by humming the tune from the A-Team in my head :(


(daytime television is a close second)

[dloeke]

Chemistry class with a senile, 70 year old woman.

[War-overlord]

Actualy this was an idea of my brother so credit to him, but it was reorganising the living room so all furniture would be alphabetised. Realy listening to that idea made me want to go and clean out my desk( which is an incredibly dull thing by itself).

[fco.]

working in a toll gate in the middle of a desert highway on christmas eve

[Astro Gnocci]

working in a toll gate in the middle of a desert highway on christmas eve

this makes me thing of another one...
Counting rubber/erasers (and there was 666 of them... no i'm not one of these gothic kids) in a supermarket a 6 am

[jp-30]

Listening to my brother tell me about the new polo shirts he wants to get embroidered with his company logo, their nylon to lycra ratio, How some have safety strips and some don't, and how well they iron. And also about the safety vest he bought his dog from the same store. And then listening to him tell my wife the exact same thing.

[Teeboy]

Waiting for the download e-mail on release day.

F5...........F5.........F5.........F5.......;)


or taking the sesame seeds off a meatball sub, then lining them up in order of size, followed by hue.

[Hero1]

a presidential debate

[Marvin]

#000000

(sorry)

[Maratanos]

saving 50 files one at a time off the web.

Or more.

[Myzer]

Celery

It's like God's own dull.

[Dave Grossman]

You people are fast!
Thanks a lot. Very helpful!

[Kevin]

#000000

(sorry)

That would be the NULLest thing you could think of....

[Squinky]

Grabbing screenshots. :D

[Udvarnoky]

Attending class in black and white slow-motion with mono sound.

[Mel]

Scientific seminars about signalling pathways. [/science geek]

[xChri5x]

Mass

MESSAGE IS TOO SHORT OMG!

[Sir Lemming]

Reading every single review of Situation: Comedy posted on that blog.

[octochan]

data entry. anyone ever work as a temp?

[glo_kidd]

Citezen Kane. Sure it broke a lot of ground in the film industry, but there was a ton of ground to break at the time

[ShaggE]

I'm beginning to look forward to every new question Dave posts lol

My answer would be "listening to Ben Stein do a book-on-tape version of War and Peace"

[fhqwhgads]

Decaf coffee

[Derwin]

comparing the drying speed of freshly applied paint and extracted sap on a Rocky Mountains Bristlecone Pine (note: a Foxtail pine actually adds excitement, so please casually refrain from using one in place of the blah Bristlecone)

[Erwin]

Having dinner.

--Erwin

[fco.]

RPG fighting

[pfaffer]

Reading these replies. LOL j/k.

[Harald B]

Category theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory). And that's despite the fact that I'm a mathematician and mostly don't mind working with formalisms and abstraction...

[fajerkaos]

School... In a hot summer day...

[abdallah]

Bank papers.

[ShaggE]

Discussing the average air velocity of an unladen african swallow.

[glo_kidd]

No seriously guys... Its Citezen Kane :D

[Dave Grossman]

Category theory (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category_theory). And that's despite the fact that I'm a mathematician and mostly don't mind working with formalisms and abstraction...

Category theory may itself be duller than... well, than things listed in this thread, but I did have a pretty good time with the Wikipedia page on it. I looked at the entry on category theory as well as a number of the related linked entries, and the language is full of all sorts of wonderful phrases that only seem to be defined in terms of each other (perhaps appropriate under the circumstances). The more I read, the less I knew, and I was taken with the uneasy feeling (not uncommon to Wikipedia pages) of being unsure whether I was looking at something real, or at an elaborate superfictional put-on that someone had created as an art project or social experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Jurassic_Technology). Which was kind of fun....

[Keir]

Installing Microsoft Office 4.3 Pro from floppy

[Marvin]

That would be the NULLest thing you could think of....

Argh. Outgeeked.

Actually, I've remembered the real dullest thing ever - menu programming.

[ShaggE]

That reminds me.... DOS is a good candidate for dullness too.

[Jekill]

this makes me thing of another one...
Counting rubber/erasers (and there was 666 of them... no i'm not one of these gothic kids) in a supermarket a 6 am

reminds me of having to turn glasses of marmalade so they have their print towards the customer in the supermarket. and yes, all 20 rows of 'em...

[dunkpork]

Reading really boring writing, like English Restoration literature (try drama and comedy like Man of Mode, The Plain Dealer, The Country Wife, or Way of the World), or any really badly written computer manual.

[Keir]

i've occasionally picked up books in charity shops if they look awesomely dull - proud members of my library include 'Copper Compounds In Modern Agriculture' and 'Concrete Design'

[dunkpork]

You think the old saying "That book put me to sleep" is a cliche, but ten minutes with characters with names like Fainall (oh... OHHH how DROLL!) and Manly (oh yes, quite), who make the most gruesomely banal commentaries on then modern society, will have your head hitting the pillow during high noon.

It isn't that there isn't something to learn from all the ribald cuckoldry (tittering laughter), or insights to be gained from nobility traveling freely between England and Spain during the early 1700s, or of the moral relaxation of English society during Charles the II's reign, it's just that...

*Head hits keyboard*
*Drool covers keys*
*Snores resound*

[Fancy Worm]

Trying to memorize Department of Defense form numbers, and their purposes.

[dunkpork]

Oooh... forms. That reminds me...

Software Engineering format documents. Duuulllllllllll.

Try finding a good military software specification document.

[Derwin]

Trying to memorize Department of Defense form numbers, and their purposes.

That also reminds me of something... having to memorize US government acronyms... each department had a handbook, small typed, of many-many pages. They had an acronym for literally everything... luckily, I have forgotten them all :)

[doom saber]

Counting every strain of hair on a person's scalp.

[Mattb]

Helping another human being....

[Fancy Worm]

"Choose Your Own Adventure" books exclusively featuring household chores.

Turn to page 24 if you sweep the kitchen.

*flip flip*

You didn't sweep the kitchen and it becomes infested with ants.

[dloeke]

Henrik Ibsen. There are some alright Norwegian playwrights, but he, who just happens to be our most acknowledged one, literally makes me turn emo and want to cut myself on the paper after reading just a few pages. Literature that dry is what scares people away from reading. :rolleyes:

[Johnny Walker]

Changing every word in every single book in the British Library to the word "dull" and then reading out all the books in a boring monotone.

That would be pretty dull, but not as dull as waiting for a new episode of Sam N Max! :)

[doom saber]

Give names to all the pebbles in your fish tank.

[Fancy Worm]

That one time I was stuck in my own irrelevant cut-away gag.

[MrSneeze]

Watching a car rust.



Try doing it without blinking. Go on.

[HeidiRLynn]

Watching golf on TV.

[Mel]

In the spirit of Heidi's post:

Watching the Weather Channel*.







*When I visit my aunt and uncle in Minnesota, it's invariably on TV and on mute. :p

[Yohmi]

In TV's dull things, I love watching skynews just to hear that music when they show weather and news of the day... ta ta tataaaaaa... taaaaaaaa... taaaaaaa...

[edit] Oh wait... they have changed it ! Damn :( I prefered the old one, they did the dullest thing :(

[dreamingchristi]

Glandular Fever (or Mono as you strange perverters of the English language are wont to call it). Not sure you could make that into a joke though. But there's nothing quite as dull as a month of lying on your back feeling too ill to move.

[Fancy Worm]

Counting the same object over and over again.

"One. One. One. One. One.....

....

One."

[Zeek]

A three-hour letchure on contemporary art from a teacher that sounds like Ben Stien, but lacks any kind of knowledge on the subject matter in a surprisingly comfortable letchure room after sundown.

The dullest three hours of my life. Have way through the semester, I took the period as my nap time.

[Oilers99]

Playing a graphic adventure game in 2007!

Err, wait...

[G1orkatsos]

trying to think something good to write at this topic........

[dunkpork]

Trying to explain things to people =\

[Josh]

Constitutional Law.

[Larrin]

Daytime television. It's the real reason that people get jobs.

[pixelat3d]

Daytime television is awesome for the fact that people can refer to it as 'my shows'. Which show doesn't really matter, they're all the same.

On topic: Waking up in the morning and going through your morning ritual is pretty dull (shower, brush teeth, smash an alarm clock etc.)

[IronCladChicken]

Action man's (GI Joe's?) sex life - Lots of big guns and absolutely no genitals

[Keir]

getting an email telling me about episode 3 reviews when i can't play it yet and they'd be full of spoilers :D

[fhqwhgads]

getting an email telling me about episode 3 reviews when i can't play it yet and they'd be full of spoilers :D

That's not dull. Its frustration.

[Fancy Worm]

Here's one:

a dusty, ancient bowling ball.

HUURRR HURRRR!! WORDPLAY!! *DOWNS CLAP*

[Sean A]

Reading off binary numbers to a tech support guy.

[abdallah]

Roses are #FF0000
Violets are #0000FF
All my base
Are belong to you

:D Ha!

(Thought i had put more than 10 characters.)

[Dave Grossman]

Daytime television. It's the real reason that people get jobs.

Once upon a time I was in a band called Daytime Television....

(I didn't expect this thread to last so long. Apparently talking about dull things is less dull than doing dull things.)

[Oilers99]

Once upon a time I was in a band called Daytime Television....

(I didn't expect this thread to last so long. Apparently talking about dull things is less dull than doing dull things.)

Not quite. Normal dullness has become dull to us. We are trying to transcend dullness, by taking the thought of everything of a dull nature, and combining their powers. It's the path to boredom, and therefore, enlightenment.

[fhqwhgads]

(I didn't expect this thread to last so long. Apparently talking about dull things is less dull than doing dull things.)
*yawn*

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