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Just wondering some good ways to battle boredom round these parts _________________ "Right, I'm being cynical. People can care because they care, not because they cheated. Theoretically true, but gonorrhea fits better." |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine  Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place    votes: 6 View user's profile |
Go to Halifax. |
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You can get into a lot of buildings on campus really late on weekend nights. It's good because the computer labs are almost always totally empty. I figure if I'm sitting up alone all night, I may as well do it in a change of scenary. |
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Jimmy Big Ears
X-talk mobster  Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University  votes: 38 View user's profile |
Get a couple of friends and go to a new restaurant - or an old one if you've been to them all. Go to the Pub when they have great musicians on Jazz nights. Join a society and learn something new - for fun this time. Do some work that you don't want to deal with later (sorry about this one but it's good advice I know the price of ignoring). Call someone you haven't talked to in a while. Get a movie or something off your 'to watch' list. Antigonish doesn't have shopping, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to do. _________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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Jimmy your post reads like one of those dumb posters from high school, detailing what to do other than take drugs and have sex. Which happen to be the two most solid boredom busters at St. FX. |
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Jimmy Big Ears
X-talk mobster Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University votes: 38 View user's profile |
Kind of like you always sound like an angsty high-school kid? No one here seems to need someone telling them to do drugs and have sex. Actually, no one anywhere does. If you are still bored after your first year then you are doing something wrong. Either you're not working enough or you could use some social help; counseling services are pretty good for that. _________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place votes: 6 View user's profile |
Jimmy Big Ears wrote: If you are still bored after your first year then you are doing something wrong. Either you're not working enough or you could use some social help; counseling services are pretty good for that. |
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Jimmy I don't think it's fair to say that anyone who choses to avoid people on weekends is needs social help. I personally want a break from the mindless bafoons in this school, and sometimes the weekend is the only time to do that. |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place votes: 6 View user's profile |
Fake person, you do need social help if you think everyone at the school is a mindless buffoon. |
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Jimmy Big Ears
X-talk mobster Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University votes: 38 View user's profile |
Funny how I never mentioned anyone who avoids people on weekends. Asj, please don't reply to stuff I never wrote. Lock wrote: Jimmy Big Ears wrote: If you are still bored after your first year then you are doing something wrong. Either you're not working enough or you could use some social help; counseling services are pretty good for that. Or the things you're interested in doing aren't possible here, which I'm sure is the case for many dissatisfied students._________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place votes: 6 View user's profile |
I like seeing live bands and not the ones that play in Antigonish. I like to be able to window shop. I like trying new restaurants. I like a lot of other things that are not possible to do here. Your options in Antigonish are hang out at your house, hang out at a friend's house, go to a bar, or go to one of the six or seven restaurants in town. We're all able to find things to keep ourselves busy, or else most of us would have killed ourselves by now. It's ridiculous to imply that the fault is with the person instead of the town if they find Antigonish boring. |
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If yer still bored come to Ruby Jean and the Thoughtful Bees tomorrow night at 37 St. Mary's, 8$?? Crazy assed dance party. |
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Jimmy Big Ears
X-talk mobster Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Posts: 3256 Location: St. Francis Xavier University votes: 38 View user's profile |
It's not necessarily anyone's fault but it is ridiculous to say 'Oh, it's the town, the town's boring, that's why I'm bored.' Some things - eating with friends, meeting for a movie, etc. - never get old. One can just keep reciting any number of activities to do, things to learn, exercises to try (they have programs at the gym, for example). This attitude, 'oh this is boring', 'That's boring', 'I've already done that' is just angstiness. It's a case of 'What's the point, everything sucks' and it is usually the product of neuroses/angst or depression, or something. If you come from Montreal or something and you miss the cultural scene that's understandable but that's different. If you're just bored with stuff here that's an attitude problem. I'm off to try some new stuff at the gym today. Enjoy living healthy; that's a great way to keep from being bored - just feeling good. _________________ "Ah, sleek vigilant puma. Principal of the mountains." -Seymour Skinner. |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place votes: 6 View user's profile |
I grew up moving back and forth between Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. So, yes, I miss culture. I think it's perfectly permissible to find the town boring, because the things you're suggesting should be things we're all doing as a matter of course, no matter where we live. I miss being able to go out and do things, and you don't need to be from Toronto to realize how that isn't an option here. Saying the only possible source of dissatisfaction is angst is insulting. For the OP, if you're the outdoorsy type you could take up hiking. If there's one thing this place has a lot of is hills and forests. |
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Lock wrote: I grew up moving back and forth between Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. So, yes, I miss culture.
Sigh. Because only places with millions of people have 'culture', right? Right you guys? |
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Lock
Russia's greatest love machine Joined: 09 Jul 2009 Posts: 752 Location: The wrong place votes: 6 View user's profile |
Vancouver has less than a million. But yeah, it takes a certain amount of people to have any kind of culture worth noticing. |
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are you talking about diversity of cultures? or just cultures themselves? |
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