The 51 most boring things of modern life revealed…

1. Party Political broadcasts 50.90%

2. Being kept on hold 45.95%

3. Queuing in the post office 44.45%

4. Traffic jams 42.90%

5. Shopping channels 42.65%

6. Doctor waiting rooms 37.30%

7. Slow Wi-Fi 34.35%

8. Waiting for a delivery 33.60%

9. Train delays 32.30%

10. Ad breaks 31.30%

11. Football pundits/analysis 31.10%

12. The Kardashians 29.65%

13. Bowls 28.85%

14. Selfies 28.65%

15. Horse racing on the TV 28.10%

16. Ed Milliband 27.35%

17. Fifty Shades of Grey 26.80%

18. Darts 26.30%

19. Gordon Brown 25.50%

20. Men playing Fifa 25.30%

21. Diet chat 24.95%

22. Formula One 24.60%

23. Rice cakes 24.55%

24. Filling in tax returns 23.10%

25. Cricket 23.05%

26. Bargain Hunt 22.10%

27. Snooker 21.75%

28. Kanye West 21.65%

29. David Cameron 21.35%

30. Scrapheap Challenge 21.15%

31. Football 19.45%

32. Other people’s family trees 19.00%

33. Loose Women 18.25%

34. Updating your CV 17.90%

35. Top Gear 17.60%

36. Shakespeare 16.85%

37. Gwyneth Paltrow 16.80%

38. PowerPoint presentations 16.35%

39. Coldplay 16.15%

40. Time team 15.30%

41. People telling you about their dreams 15.15%

42. The Gadget Show 15.05%

43. Bono 14.55%

44. Company meetings 14.05%

45. Question Time 14.05%

46. Buying socks 14.00%

47. Washing the dishes 13.90%

48. Gardeners World 13.80%

49. Small talk 13.75%

50. Alan Titchmarsh 12.10%

51. This thread!

Thanks for reading!

Meh CBA to read all that, going back to Mumsnet…….

52. End of year reviews. Who GAS?!

20. Men playing Fifa 25.30%

That’s come out a few years too early.

pretty sure all that adds up to more than 100 so what do the % denote?

Can you be bored and angry at the same time?

Can you be bored, angry and aroused at the same time?

If people find buying socks boring, then believe me they’re buying the wrong socks.

When I read the thread title I had a Schrodinger moment.

Sadly the cat was a rotting maggot ridden corpse.

13. Bowls 28.85%

Eh?

maccruiskeen, I think he mean bowels. You know, that game old people play on the village green.

Can you be bored, angry and aroused at the same time?

Ah, my permanent state.

willard – Member
maccruiskeen, I think he mean bowels. You know, that game old people play on the village green.

Brilliant.

Now I can’t get the image of oldies playing “bowels” out of my mind.. Aaaargh!

1. Lists of the top …./Compilations of the most …. things. 88.96%

52. And yet you posted on the thread posts 10.77%

1. Lists of the top …./Compilations of the most …. things.

And yet you posted on the thread.

Not sure if I got those the right way rou… zzzzzz

Out of that list, there’s only 2 and 4 that have any relevance to my life, so I must be living in a state of high excitement most of the time!
Possibly…

I’m still stuck on ‘bowels”.

It has now evolved into an Olympic sport in my mind. Oldies having to give samples to prove they haven’t doped on Syrup of Figs.

This could be bigger than Quidditch…

Just need some rules now.