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I was in B&Q buying some radiator paint for the bathroom radiator - I can feel your lifestyle envy already - when I overheard a couple next to me discussing the same. He wanted to buy normal radiator paint but she had seen the quick-drying can and said "Let's but the quick drying paint, that way we can do all of the bedrooms too. It will be fun!"
I just checked a few YouTube videos, in case I was missing something, but none of them describe painting radiators as 'fun!'.
Anyone else heard such strange descriptions applied to mundane or unpleasant tasks?
Watching people make objects out of wood on YouTube
Mountain biking in the winter
Running as an exercise (as opposed to chasing a ball which is fun)
Anyone else heard such strange descriptions applied to mundane or unpleasant tasks?
I guess the "fun" part is the sense of achievement in getting something done rather than the physical act (perhaps excluding having kids)
I just rebuilt a door frame and replastered around it that needed doing since I moved in.... I can't say the task was "fun" as such but it will be nice not to have plaster falling and the thing wobbling about when the door is opened/closed.
Now I suppose I'll need to paint the damned bare plaster ... and stick the architrave back. Not what I'd class as fun either but still ... I might feel some sense of achievement not having the door loose and making a mess.
she had seen the quick-drying can and said “Let’s but the quick drying paint, that way we can do all of the bedrooms too. It will be fun!”
I just checked a few YouTube videos, in case I was missing something,
The videos you're looking for are not on YouTube.
Running as an exercise (as opposed to chasing a ball which is fun)
Yep.
Also, if you spend some time on Dan Savage's website, you'll find that some people consider some very strange things to be fun.
I realise this is a serious answer to a light-hearted OP but I think people often mix-up "fun" with "fulfilling". For sure decorating falls into the definition of "fulfilling" (not fun).
Running for sure, and I say that as someone who really likes it...its mostly boring and painful but there is a zen-like fulfilment.
gravel biking
I've also come across several videos on Reddit/Youtube of cavers filming themselves kind of squeezing into impossibly tight and narrow spaces underground whilst they explore unchartered systems and I can say with 100% confidence that would in no way be fun for me, I get a tight chest just watching them.
I sort of understand the fulfilling / fun mix up. I enjoy swimming lanes for an hour, not because it is 'fun' but because it is relaxing and fulfilling in a similar manner to how you describe running.
Even then I struggle to see how painting a radiator is fulfilling. 'I used to walk into the room and see a dirty radiator but now, having spent a day painting it and watching paint dry I can walk into the room and see a radiator. I feel fulfilled' - said no-one, ever.
My take on it, based on some of the other conversations I heard between them, where Nick Knowles was mentioned, was that the woman felt that it was going to be fun to do their own Big Build but on a smaller scale, a much smaller scale, painting not just the radiator that needed painting but also two others that were apparently just fine and had only been fitted a year ago.
she had seen the quick-drying can and said “Let’s but the quick drying paint, that way we can do all of the bedrooms too. It will be fun!”
Missing an 'it in'....
I'd rather buy new radiators than paint them.
I’ve also come across several videos on Reddit/Youtube of cavers filming themselves kind of squeezing into impossibly tight and narrow spaces underground whilst they explore unchartered systems and I can say with 100% confidence that would in no way be fun for me, I get a tight chest just watching them.
Same here, but for added fun/fear watch some cave divers doing the same thing...
Look up Barkley Marathon fun run…
Describing painting radiators as fun can only be done by someone who has never attempted to paint a radiator. Especially in November.
Maybe for them, painting is fun?
Think about other passive hobbies. Colouring books aimed at adults are a thing. My ex used to spend hours of her life spinning wool or knitting. I know several folk who will spend weeks completing a massively intricate cross-stitch. Some weird people even read books!
Painting radiators might not be fun in the "you bring a bottle of wine and I'll get the party hats" sort of sense, but I can see how it might be fun in so far as it's a chilled way to spend a lazy Sunday afternoon if you were so inclined.
Maybe.
Eavesdropping on couples in DIY stores...
Road riding if the looks on the roadies faces round these parts is anything to go by ! A cheery morning is nearly always greeted by the look that days " Can't talk this is a sufferfest doncha know" 🙄🙄🙄😁😁😁😁
Judging by how quiet the room with the England match on the tv in the office is, football 😃
Let’s but the quick drying paint, that way we can do all of the bedrooms too. It will be fun!”
Going out on a limb here,
1 she's never done any DIY
2 she won't be doing these particular bits of diy, either
Going out on a limb here,
1 she’s never done any DIY
2 she won’t be doing these particular bits of diy, either
😀
2 she won’t be doing these particular bits of diy, either
I wasn't brave enough to say that in my original post but it was writ large in my mind
Company I worked for we made radiator cabinets, and to blend the white radiator into the stained oak the boss had the bright idea of 'graining' the radiator in a sort of brown.
In all honesty it looked not dissimilar to a dirty protest in the Maze prison.
'Fun run' is an oxymoron anyway. In fact no running is fun, especially if there's a ball involved.
Keeping pets.
Keeping pets.
You just gotta get the right pets.
