#21

I’m like that, but with Marvel films and Paddington. Life planned to Nov 2020 when I’m expecting Paddington 3.

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#22

Exactly, that’s the spirit!

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#23

I remember having a conversation once with someone who told me he wanted to live as long as possible because of all the video games he wanted to play and films he wanted to see.

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#24

Load of tedium occasionally interrupted by moments of acute stress.

Not a fan, tbh.

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#25

Who was it?

#26

When I was a kid and complained about being bored my parents said “only boring people get bored” so early on I learnt I’m a boring person

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#27

My university flatmate Alan who was from Liverpool. He had long blonde hair and listened to heavy metal. He would wear ironic t-shirts and his favourite food was a kfc bucket. A lady once came up to him in a pub to tell him he had brutal eyes, and we had a large falling out because I felt he was inherently misogynistic which made our last month together really excruciating in a completely necessary way.
Although he intended to create video games, and in fact studied computer science, I believe he now works for his father’s tree surgery business.

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#28

Very comprehensive, thank you.

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#29

Like we can canonise our own life experiences if we really try but to deny the multiple hours playing Tekken or looking at clocks over the years seems disingenuous.

#30

I never really got that into Tekken or beat-em-ups in general. Would occasionally play my mate Mark at them round his house.

#31

How did Mark end up

#33

*a realist who has accidentally internalised the logic of capitalism

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#34

Mark was one of my best mates that wasn’t in my circle of main-mates who I still see regularly (and indeed, every day for a couple of them). He was my geographically closest mate growing up so would spend most evenings round his house or him round mine watching Simpsons or playing Playstation or whatever.

He ended up leaving my hometown before I did to move in with a lass he’s now married to, we stay in touch and meet up whenever Brand New play London (or at least we did before all the allegations against Jesse Lacey came out).

Love the guy in that way that you can love a mate you very rarely see and only text every now and then to check in on them.

#35

I never got into Brand New whatsoever, hadn’t even heard of them properly before joining these boards.
He sounds like a nice if steady lad though.

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#36

Top things I spend time doing:

  1. Sleeping
  2. Working
  3. Pissing about on DiS

So yeah, pretty boring.

The snow days made me realise just how boring, when by virtue of having nothing to do I did the same thing 3 days in a row.

#37

LIfe’s not boring. If anything it’s the opposite, there’s too fucking much to do.

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#38

The key is leaning to retrain your brain to enjoy the boring stuff, and to limit the yearn for self-improvement to realistic levels. I get absolutely manic about stuff - better job, get fit, need more hobbies, etc, to the point that i struggle to really relax doing the fun but boring stuff.

I think it’s good to have a bit of a change of scenery, try new things, and to have a broad plan, but you’ve got to remember to do nothing a lot of the time, or to do one thing at a time, and not everything has to be going somewhere. We’ve become programmed to squeeze little bits of the boring stuff around the frenzied chug of everyday life, where it should be the other way round.

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#39

there are so many good, instantly accessible toprettymuchanyonesomethingaboutprivilege
great coffee, book, film, bag o drugs. Stop moaning

#40

Check your being able to enjoy things privilege, m1.

#41

The m1 is conversely a route of intense enjoyment