How about you REVIVE A THREAD THAT DISCUSSES THE VERY SUBJECT YOU WANTED TO BRING UP.

yup, gu'bye. lock thread, etc. faggot. accomplish: 1. yay. loser. mbv. librarian. douche +1 hit points.

who is deangelo?

Wow, you figured out my full name. Good job.

Wow, you've really painted yourself into a lonely corner. Good job.

Thanks, as if I didn't know it already?

Got to stand for what you believe in, bub. Otherwise, you're just another dickweed peckerhead like Ned Faggot.

Where are the "why do you love Phish" threads. Go ahead, link 'em.

ASSHOLES

I've met Ned Raggett and he is a really nice guy. I stand up for that. I'm not sure what you're on about, but I'm not taking you very seriously right now.

I'm not going to be clicking any link from a peckerhead that spams a thread he hates (that's you, scott sewer).

Hurting, I'm a nice guy, too. So what? If I act like a dick, it doesn't cancel out the fact that I *was* a nice guy when you met me.

Get 1 perspective.

dude, i get it, you are trolling. i just wish you were funny.

i'm bored enough to be amused by a funny troll. can't you do a funny little dance?

come on, do a funny little dance. *doot doot doot - doot doot doot*

ps that david letterman show clip sucks balls it's one of the worst songs I've ever heard goodnight

i just wish you were funny.

hahaha, well I wish I could say the same, mr. comedian, because you're hilarious!!! Good job! What are you, retarded or something?!? That's so funny! I love retard jokes!

BORING. SUB-PAR.

yer lame. good night. get a new name and try harder next time. like yer mom here:

http://www.sistertragedyann.com/images/unitymomma.jpg

ps that david letterman show clip sucks balls it's one of the worst songs I've ever heard goodnight

who cares? that's 1/16 of why I like Phish. Would you care to hear the other 15 reasons? No? Surpising! It's not your taste! Does anyone give a shit? NO? Once again: so surprising. How does it feel to be essentially a completely self-absorbed retard? Cool? Do you think you're cool? Yeah, I would imagine you would, huh?

sub-aol chat room circa 1999 even.

BORING. SUB-PAR.

xpost

xpost, Yeah, proof that my mom's cooler than yers, huh?

I can do this all night.

xpost

What a bunch of babies. Holy shit. Hey faggots, when you're done, make sure to jiggle the handle.

BORING. SUB-PAR.

modestmickey??

Agreed.

But, I also shit on your existence for simply sucking useless shit, John Justen.

http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/art/boring_C.gifhttp://www.smartcaddy.com/images/HAPPY%20GOLFER%20862083-.jpg

Hi dere. Of what is it made. Also: I recently posted a thread which may be considered "controversial"... it requests Ned kill himself, but I don't really mean it very much (except I do a little).

you couldn't start a controversy if you stuck princess diana's corpse up your ass

http://jovan.ru/stuff/boring.jpghttp://www.fdic.gov/bank/analytical/regional/ro20002q/memphis/IMAGES/MEChart06.gif

Suggested retorts:

"I know you are but what am I?"
"NOT!!!"
"I'm rubber you're glue"

Psychology

Boredom has been defined by Fisher in terms of its central psychological processes: “an unpleasant, transient affective state in which the individual feels a pervasive lack of interest in and difficulty concentrating on the current activity” [1]. Leary and others define boredom similarly, and somewhat more succinctly, as “an affective experience associated with cognitive attentional processes” [2]. These definitions make it clear that boredom arises not for a lack of things to do but the inability to latch onto any specific activity. Nothing engages us, despite an often profound desire for engagement.
There appear to be three general types of boredom; all of which involve problems of engagement of attention. These include times when we are prevented from engaging in something, when we are forced to engage in some unwanted activity or when we are simply unable, for no apparent reason, to maintain engagement in any activity or spectacle[3]. oops
An important psychological construct is that of boredom proneness; a tendency to experience boredom of all types. This is typically assessed by the Boredom Proneness Scale [4]. link Consistent with the definition provided above, recent research has found that boredom proneness is clearly and consistently associated with failures of attention[5]. Boredom and boredom proneness are both theoretically and empirically linked to depression and depressive symptoms[6] [7] [8]. Nonetheless, boredom proneness has been found to be as strongly correlated with attentional lapses as with depression[9].
Although boredom is often viewed as a trivial and mild irritant, boredom, and especially boredom proneness has been linked to an amazingly diverse range of psychological, physical, educational, and social problems. oops
Philosophy

Boredom is a condition characterized by perception of one's environment as dull, tedious, and lacking in stimulation. This can result from leisure and a lack of aesthetic interests. Labor, however, and even art may be alienated and passive, or immersed in tedium (see Marxism). Furthermore, boredom must be distinguished from squalor, in which tedium, though present, is overshadowed by suffering. There is an inherent anxiety in boredom; people will expend considerable effort to prevent or remedy it, yet in many circumstances, it is accepted as suffering to be endured. Common passive ways to escape boredom are to sleep or to think creative thoughts (daydream). Typical active solutions consist in an intentional activity of some sort, often something new, as familiarity and repetition lead to the tedious.
Boredom also plays a role in existentialist thought. Heidegger wrote about boredom in two texts available in English, in the 1929/30 semester lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and again in the essay What is Metaphysics? published in the same year. In the lecture, Heidegger included about 100 pages on boredom, probably the most extensive philosophical treatment ever of the subject. He focussed on waiting at train stations in particular as a major context of boredom.[10] In Kierkegaard's remark in Either/Or, that "patience cannot be depicted" visually, there is a sense that any immediate moment of life may be fundamentally tedious.
Without stimulus or focus, the individual is confronted with nothingness, the meaninglessness of existence, and experiences existential anxiety. Heidegger states this idea nicely: "Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a remarkable indifference. This boredom reveals being as a whole."[11]
Arthur Schopenhauer used the existence of boredom in an attempt to prove the vanity of human existence, stating, "...for if life, in the desire for which our essence and existence consists, possessed in itself a positive value and real content, there would be no such thing as boredom: mere existence would fulfill and satisfy us."[12]
Erich Fromm and other similar thinkers of critical theory speak of bourgeois society in terms similar to boredom, and Fromm mentions sex and the automobile as fundamental outlets of postmodern boredom.
Paradigm Cases

Above and beyond taste and character, the universal case of boredom consists in any instance of waiting, as Heidegger noted, such as in line, for someone else to arrive or finish a task, or while one is travelling. Waiting for one's opponent to move in a chess game or similar game can be boring, but this is more often the case for spectators, hence the cliche regarding chess that for many amateurs it is like "watching paint dry."
Boredom in travel, for example, often lends itself to a portable game or a repetitive song such as 99 Bottles of Beer. It is not clear why repetitive singing would be a response to tedium, but it may be a form of mockery. Similarly a number of repetitive gestures or games may be considered imitations of the tediousness of waiting, or of the moving hands of a clock.
Driving superfluously, especially very fast, is associated with an overcoming of boredom in travel, by treating the vehicle in a particularly gratuitous, reckless and rebellious manner. Attempting this, moreover, can clearly be dangerous and illegal. Boredom, however, may also increase as travel becomes more convenient, as the vehicle may become more like the windowless monad in Leibniz's monadology. The automobile requires fast reflexes, making its operator busy and hence, perhaps for other reasons as well, making the ride more tedious despite being over sooner.
If a tedious feeling is not the result of waiting, however, it is simply the fact of existence, and many more or less intellectual activities might be explored in order to give it shape, depending on one's intellectual or spiritual refinement and one's opportunity and appetite for friendship and sex. Certain character traits influence both susceptibility and response to boredom. Boredom can therefore be subjective, and a matter of taste, and can result in either increased isolation or social interaction.
In contexts where one is confined spatially or not, boredom may be met with various religious activities, not because religion would want to associate itself with tedium, but rather, partly because boredom may be taken as the essential human condition, to which God, wisdom, or morality are the ultimate answers. Boredom is in fact taken in this sense by virtually all existentialist philosophers as well as by Schopenhauer. Other responses to boredom, to the extent that one is free, include games, reading, socializing, physical exercise, art, an enormous array of hobbies, sciences and philosophy, or the search for further diversity. Finally, boredom is also linked to substance use, to both a mild and abusive degree.
The first record of the word boredom is in the novel, Bleak House, by Charles Dickens, written in 1852,[13] although the expression to be a bore had been used in the sense of "to be tiresome or dull" since 1768.[14] In a previously unpublished poem "Ennui" from her undergraduate years, the poet Sylvia Plath explores the literary theme of world-weariness.[2]
Time often seems to move more slowly to someone who experiences boredom. This results from the way in which the human mind measures the passage of time, combined with the infrequency of events perceived as notable. Children who continually suffer from boredom may become severely depressed and might not be able to focus on the real world and life in general.[citation needed]

Look up Boredom in
Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Causes

Boredom can be a symptom of clinical depression. Some boredom is a form of learned helplessness, a phenomenon closely related to depression. Some philosophies of parenting propose that if children are raised in an environment devoid of stimuli, and are not allowed or encouraged to interact with their environment, they will fail to develop the mental capacities to do so. These children are then bored even when placed in an environment others would find stimulating.
Most would agree that the fundamental cause of boredom is leisure, which of course implies that boredom is most problematic in a life which combines wealth with a lack of artistic talent and aesthetic values.

Boredom is often associated with adolescence, especially in suburbs, small towns, and other isolated areas. A typical teenager's complaint is that there is "nothing to do." This statement can have a number of economic and social causes. Others disagree, arguing that few environments are inherently boring, and that boredom reflects a lack of imagination, initiative and creativity.
Practical effects

The Unsmiling Tsarevna (Nesmeyana), by Viktor Vasnetsov
Far from being a minor annoyance, boredom can have major negative impacts on people. Perhaps more importantly, boredom is often a symptom of deeper problems, such as depression, ineffective classroom teaching, or ineffective management in the workplace. This can also be due to the fact that some people just communicate poorly.
Boredom in the workplace does more than just waste time. Studies in behavioral finance have shown that stock traders can enter into "overtrading" (buying or selling even without any objective reason to do so) because they feel bored when they have nothing "productive" to do.[citation needed] Boredom in the workplace also hurts people's sense of self-worth, which can cause them to work less effectively or even to not work at all.
On the other hand boredom may be beneficial in some ways. Boredom is a natural feeling that comes about when the person feels as though there is nothing new or nothing to inspire their thought in that situation. To relieve boredom then that person may take up a new hobby or come up with an interesting idea by thinking creatively.
See also

Amotivational syndrome
Anomie
Apathy
Dysthymia
Entertainment
Motivation
Yawn
Reactive inhibition
References

^ Fisher, C. D. (1993). Boredom at work: A neglected concept. Human Relations, 46, 395–417, p. 396.
^ Leary, M. R., Rogers, P. A., Canfield, R. W., & Coe, C. (1986). Boredom in interpersonal encounters: Antecedents and social implications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51, 968–975, p. 968.
^ Cheyne, J. A., Carriere, J. S. A., & Smilek, D. (2006). Absent-mindedness: Lapses in conscious awareness and everyday cognitive failures. Consciousness and Cognition, 15, 578-592.
^ Farmer, R. & Sundberg, N. D. (1986). Boredom proneness: The development and correlates of a new scale. Journal of Personality Assessment, 50, 4–17.
^ Fisher, C. D. (1993). Boredom at work: A neglected concept. ‘’Human Relations, 46’’, 395–417
^ Carriere, J. S. A., Cheyne, J. A., & Smilek, D. (in press). Everyday Attention Lapses and Memory Failures: The Affective Consequences of Mindlessness. Consciousness and Cognition.
^ Sawin, D. A. & Scerbo, M. W. (1995). Effects of instruction type and boredom proneness in vigilance: Implications for boredom and workload. Human Factors, 37, 752–765.
^ Vodanovich, S. J., Verner, K. M., & Gilbride, T. V. (1991). Boredom proneness: Its relationship to positive and negative affect. Psychological Reports, 69, 1139–1146.
^ Carriere, J. S. A., Cheyne, J. A., & Smilek, D. (in press). Everyday Attention Lapses and Memory Failures: The Affective Consequences of Mindlessness. Consciousness and Cognition.
^ Martin Heidegger. The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, pp. 78-164.
^ Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (1929)
^ Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms, Penguin Classics, ISBN0140442278 (2004), p53 Full text available online: [1]
^ Oxford Old English Dictionary
^ Online Etymology Dictionary

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lock

haha, this would all be funny (for you) if it was BACKWARDS.

You stupid assholes.

http://www.sattlers.org/mickey/site/archive/2005/07/images/battlefield-earth.jpg

gonna smoke a fatty and enjoy some PHISH now...

-- dean ge, Thursday, August 2, 2007 11:04 PM

way to quote, dickweed

Phish dude isn't funny, but the response to his douchbaggery is pretty funny.

ILM needs more aliens in cod-pieces.

.RAP-BUS .GNIROB

Oh please, boring motherfuckers, like any anti-Phish troll is in the least bit interesting?

˙ɹɐd-qns ˙ƃuıɹoq

wowee, so interesting how that's backwards AND upside-down.... did you go to douchebag school to learn how to do that?

ƃdɾ˙sʍɐɹʇs ɹoɟ ƃuıdsɐɹƃ

the top link has some bigguns
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LULZ it would be funny (for you) if I didn't ALREADY WIN, FAGGOTZ.

I thought I'd actually moved this to the ITR already!

I just wanted to get this here and unlocked so that I could finally come to terms with the fact that eventually the itr constituency would become aware that i had not, in fact, completed my studies at douchebag school.

I did the best i could, but i failed to excel, and eventually, the provosts asked me if i really felt that douchebag school was right for me. in my heart, i knew that i just wasn't ready to fully commit to douchebaggery. so now i stand before you, naked in my admission of mere assholery, knowing that many of you may have assumed that i had climbed that shining douchebag peak, as dean ge did. dear friends, i am tired of living a lie. i know that this may hurt you, perhaps to the core. please understand that i just thought that full disclosure was the best path forward. i hope to return to douchebag school, perhaps to finally earn my degree in douchebaggery, but mostly just to know that i can.

pray for me. perhaps, someday, as my douchebaggery takes flight, we can join hands and pray together.