Favourite wastes of time

OK, how about a thread for sharing those interesting pieces of the web that stimulate the mind things that provide a nice distraction from doing any actual work.

I'm currently addicted to Desktop Tower Defence which is pleasingly infuriating.

3 years on and I'm still playing Urban Dead. Browser-based zombie-killing - there's nothing quite like it.

Here. Right. Here. This. Forum. Where. I. Am. Now.

Single best waste of time in the multiverse.

I work, and believe me nothing wastes time quite like it.

Dave Webb wrote:I work, and believe me nothing wastes time quite like it.

"Work"..what is this strange concept of which you speak?

Sid Seadevil wrote:

Dave Webb wrote:I work, and believe me nothing wastes time quite like it.

"Work"..what is this strange concept of which you speak?

You're too young to be told, Sidney, so put it far from your mind and return to your loafing. I'm sure you can stand my envy. I wish I had the lifestyle of yourself and Squire Hicks. Alas, I am only an humble peasant, a toil in the fields of the nice Mr. Capitalism.

Dave Webb wrote:You're too young to be told, Sidney, so put it far from your mind and return to your loafing. I'm sure you can stand my envy. I wish I had the lifestyle of yourself and Squire Hicks. Alas, I am only an humble peasant, a toil in the fields of the nice Mr. Capitalism.

Nice Mr. Capitalism has fields? I thought he only made those amusing little silent films where he plays a slightly bittersweet clown.

Dave Webb wrote:

Sid Seadevil wrote:

Dave Webb wrote:I work, and believe me nothing wastes time quite like it.

"Work"..what is this strange concept of which you speak?

You're too young to be told, Sidney, so put it far from your mind and return to your loafing. I'm sure you can stand my envy. I wish I had the lifestyle of yourself and Squire Hicks. Alas, I am only an humble peasant, a toil in the fields of the nice Mr. Capitalism.

You think this level of work avoidance is easy?

Doc Filth wrote:You think this level of work avoidance is easy?

I know. These wageslave toilers appear to think we're leading the life of Reilly - they had no idea just how hard voiding what they have to do is.

Bugger! I've just finished the utterly wonderful and superb The Writer's Tale - and now find myself in direly urgent need of a new excuse to do nothing.

It doesn't have to be a valid excuse - any old tat will do. I have a gift for making any old tat sound like a perfectly reasonable excuse. Well, as long as you don't scrutinise it too closely...

Read the complete works of Shakespeare. That'll fill up the time nicely.

Lucy McGough wrote:Read the complete works of Shakespeare. That'll fill up the time nicely.

Did that years ago. His plots are too familiar - verging on the secondhand.

Owen Paul

I feel old

millerqueen wrote:Owen Paul

I feel old

I remembered him immediately. I suddenly feel even older.

Sid Seadevil wrote:Here. Right. Here. This. Forum. Where. I. Am. Now.

Single best waste of time in the multiverse.

Agreed.

I rather like wandering around the TV Tropes website from time to time as well.

Kongregate, a games website with many amusing and infuriating games for you to play. Some of them are fiendish, some are awful.

Zoltar wrote:
I rather like wandering around the TV Tropes website from time to time as well.

Ooh, yes! Great fun

If you have ever read or been a member of a volatile forum, this site might be amusing to pass the time and might even get a chuckle or two:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/

TOMSPY77 wrote:If you have ever read or been a member of a volatile forum, this site might be amusing to pass the time and might even get a chuckle or two:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/

Oh, I so recognise so many real life manifestations of those definitions.

TOMSPY77 wrote:If you have ever read or been a member of a volatile forum, this site might be amusing to pass the time and might even get a chuckle or two:
http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/

I think "Tireless Rebutter" is my fave, and I have certainly seen quite a few in action on certain forums.

Zoltar wrote:I think "Tireless Rebutter" is my fave, and I have certainly seen quite a few in action on certain forums.

Haven't all we? Kate and I spent an enjoyable half hour the other evening gleefully assigning usernames to those definitions.

Half of the usual suspects from OG/DWF ended up being name-checked.

Tell me about it, I got emailed that link when I was on the Sci-FI Doctor Who forums in the rough and tumble days, when a man named Bluebox wanted to slap any American fan silly and the board was an unmoderated mess of closed threads and deleted posts.

BTW, The ultimate site for this threads title:
http://www.bored.com/

Discovered this place last night after someone in PT linked it.

The Hero Factory.

You can build your own hero. Like this fine fellow, The Sporked Spatula! Midnight Fridge Raider of Justice!


And the inevitable female spin-off character, Sporkette.


And the Pre-Crisis 70s version of Sporky that's no longer in continuity...

Zoltar wrote:Discovered this place last night after someone in PT linked it.

The Hero Factory.

You can build your own hero. Like this fine fellow, The Sporked Spatula! Midnight Fridge Raider of Justice!


And the inevitable female spin-off character, Sporkette.


And the Pre-Crisis 70s version of Sporky that's no longer in continuity...

I say, were did you get those pictures of Kate and I? I thought we'd long since bought up and burned them all.

Zoltar knows... too much.