Now this is stuff you need to know about..

Online and bored and nails

Your fingernails — composed of laminated layers of a protein called keratin — grow from the area at the base of the nail under your cuticle. Healthy fingernails are smooth, without pits or grooves. They’re uniform in color and consistency and free of spots or discoloration.

A gem from the mayoclinic website

This is important stuff, people. Now i’m not having a pot-shot here at people who may be short a digit or two (all you engineers out there), i’m simply highlighting the vast repository of intellectual and artistic pursuit that exists at the end of those ten digits most of us have dangling at the end of our arms or hands or whatever else is connected to the knuckle bones.

Kim Kardashian’s Nails!

That’s just a cheap shot at increasing Google hits. If you’re going to be into Kim Kardashian’s nails then that assumes a level of interest and effort and activity that simply has no place on this website. Those nails are impressive, and even the thought of trying to replicate perfection is tiring.

Fingernail care and maintenance

Now the more enthusiastic folk out there may spend quite a bit of time manicuring, pedicuring, powdering, scrubbing and otherwise maintaining their splendid visage to parade before the Great Unwashed, as they saunter and parade from one amazing engagement to another. We of the Online and Bored however, are wont to pay scant attention to the niceties of society, as we work on avoiding general maintenance owing to its worrying display of an inappropriate work ethic.

However, even a beloved rickety cottage fence eventually needs a fresh coat of paint or prop, so here’s some incredibly useful and minimal information on fingernail maintenance.  Just the thing to fill in a couple of minutes before rushing off to avoid some other duty.

From the helpful people at Global Post…

So there you have it, a good bit of stuff about stuff that sits in front of you when you are Online and Bored.

Just remember not to share this post, as such action could trigger ongoing discussion and raise questions that are simply too boring to contemplate.

Next Post – Procrastination – It is a misunderstood character trait?

Sure the heck is!

Just don’t wait up for it…

 

 

 

 

IF you are online and bored THEN perhaps you should consider the possibility that YOU are the problem? Clever, huh? Bet you neva’ thought about that!

Well duh! If you are the problem then the answer is so ridiculously simple. Stoopid. Just don’t get too hung up on the idea, ’cause that just leads you down the path to the Dark Side.

 

Pretend to be someone else!

Hey yeh! Pretend to be someone famous or clever or rich or powerful or well-dressed or beautiful – actually, best not to focus too much on beautiful, ’cause there’s a statistically high probability that you ain’t, and the effort involved in changing your appearance sufficiently to be happy with the results is, well… it’s just an effort, really. On the other hand, if you are already beautiful then we of the online and bored community must ask you just why you are here in the first place? But we digress…

So…

If you’re not gonna be y’all then who ya gonna be? It’s a tricky question. We can’t all be as level-headed and brilliantly successful as Taylor Swift,

 

…so perhaps aim a bit lower? Certainly we should not aim too high, ’cause then we can be accused of positivity, and that’s just yuck.

mmm… who to be? Or NOT to be! That, is the question.

Well, we certainly don’t want to be Hamlet, so that cuts the list down a little.

Nah. It’s all too hard, and it’s gone on too long. We’re leaving that line of thinking, and going back to blissful online boredom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

So you are online and bored. How about reading the news? Or should it be.. How about reading the news! ?

Online and bored – read the news!

That highlighted text is called a title. It’s there to emphasise the point. About news that is. The point being that for one who is bored, the thirst for continuous, inane yet stimulating fluff is an unquenchable one. When groping through the virtual world for sustenance, what better salve can we find than the modern news feed? It’s a tidal wave of pointless statements and confronting imagery, designed to pack your screen with the most stimulating entertainment punch possible, without breaking laws or drawing lawsuits.

Google has selflessly provided us with an online version of the continuous 24 hour news feed. The more control-oriented amongst us can make use of Google’s largesse to narrow our news story intake to those things which most interest us – whether that be a country, a topic, a human being or even a movie personality. Or two.

Online and bored – read to me!

Or you could have someone read the news too you. Does that mean we are too stupid to read the news ourselves? Does it mean we need some debonair, knowledgeable, competent and authoritative figure to help direct us from one news item to another?

Not that we are picking on news folk. It ain’t an easy job.

Here’s some more proof.

Of course we then encounter the issue of just who we want to read that news to us. Are we looking for intelligence, good looks, authority or leadership?

Keeping in mind Confucius and his suggestion that we do not look for all qualities in the one individual, what quality do you think these folk were hired for? Intelligence, lucidity or an extraordinary grasp of international affairs?

If you have not yet quite had enough of news from Melissa Theuriau then perhaps waste more more online minutes at a webpage devoted to this newsreading lady.

This guy’s name just has to be Earnest.

To perk you out of your  lethargic online trawling – how about a newsreader battle?

You are the people we feel most sorry for. For most of us here in the Online and Bored Bunker, boredom is something overcome through any number of sloppily thought out, poorly executed and randomly selected techniques. Yet the anal retentives of the world don’t have it that easy. For them, boredom is not all that different to work. There’s lots to be done before boredom can be adequately categorised and compartmentalised as a task done and one done to the most exacting specifications.

Boredom? Let’s get specific.

Boredom is not just one category of inactivity, is it? No, far from it. The word “boredom” encompasses a wide range of situations and conditions. This could be a topic to explore further next time we are bored. For the moment, let’s just say that lot’s of writing gets boring.

 

But then again, finding a picture that’s clever, insightful and deeply meaningful can take an awfully long time. Far better, and easier, to simply go “blaghh”.