[Closed] Most frivolous activity?

washing cars.

Council weedkilling verges, so that our surroundings 'look nice'. Give it a bloody rest, and leave them be.

Racing Cyclocross 😀

Drive all over the place, 40 minute races or 10/15/30 for the kids, shit loads of kit to wash, 5 bikes to wash / repair before the next race, standing around in various urban parks / farm fields in the depths of winter etc etc etc

Still fun though

I think frivolous implies 'fun' or 'light-hearted' and leaf blowing and car-washing are joyless toil for old men to endure stoically for whatever reason it is that compels them to do it.

Forum-based pedantry, however, is both pointless and quite fun

Washing bikes. Opening a door for a cat.

This has been me at work the last couple of days tidying up after Arwen

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(I wish I didn’t have to blow, or use weed killers, but the complaints I’d get! There needs to be huge change in peoples* mindsets

*People over 45 who thin the outdoors should be spotless and weed free)

Christmas jumper wearing is frivolous

Looking at porn - is that frivolous?

Only if wearing a Christmas jumper.

Racing Cross Country (running) - 2 hour drive to thrash yourself round a bang average course for 40 minutes, finish mid-pack at best and perhaps have a vomit at the end.

Visiting city centre Christmas markets - Spend £8 on bang average beer under freezing cold wooden stand whilst being jostled by others. But still every year I go, as it's tradition.

Opening a door for a cat.

With four cats there is a lot of that in our household. Even with a cat flap one just goes close enough to trigger the relay (so we can hear the click) then waits for someone to open the back door for him to come through.

Worrying about Dyeing.
What will be will be.
Maybe purple denim will come back in to fashion.

Worrying about Dyeing.
What will be will be.
Maybe purple denim will come back in to fashion.

What colour was the denim before you dyed it?

Leaf blowing

Surely leaf vacuuming would be marginally more productive?

Although, I hear these things literally grow on trees.

This has been me at work the last couple of days tidying up after Arwen

Awesome, do you have a jetpack as well?

Leaf blowing. Is there a more pointless activity (clearly there’s many) than blowing the leaves that have been accumulated on your driveway into a neat pile 1ft away so they can do it the next day?

I thought the point was to blow them off the drive/lawn/garden into a heap so that they could be disposed of in some way, not just allow them to be blown back into the garden. Otherwise it is a completely futile and totally illogical activity. You are literally wasting your life.

Opening a door for a cat

Opening a window for a fly.

Not frivolous but pointless...

I hate gardening... I have quite a large garden with a load of tree at the bottom on my/Thames Water/Railway land that dump the most monumental piles of leaves in my back garden. We are talking waist high in places. Not much choice as I can see. I blow them into the TW culvert (now dry) and Railway land.

When we bought the house I asked Mrs BFW "you need to help me in this garden right?", 12 years, not once...

Luckily I now have a backpack 2-stroke blower that can blow most items as well as leaves, eg dog pooh, half bricks etc. Not thought about using two though.

I dont mind cutting lawns, but that is it... Reminds me I need to ask if anyone has a good design for a really good garden cabin?

Pretty much all of my "Are you Bored enough..." videos

That is both making them and watching them

Forum-based pedantry, however, is both pointless and quite fun

You missed the full stop.
Your welcome (yes, that's deliberate)!

Also missed was the word between 'quite' and 'fun'.

Leaf blowing. Is there a more pointless activity (clearly there’s many) than blowing the leaves that have been accumulated on your driveway into a neat pile 1ft away so they can do it the next day? Noisy, time consuming, wasteful and utterly pointless.

It serves an important service to humanity, it gives my Dad something to do, trust me on this, he's a lovely guy, but everyday he's "in the garden cocking about with that bloody thing" ((c) My Mum) is a day off for the rest of us.

I'm sure he's not unique either.

Opening a window for a fly.

Not frivolous at all. Fly lives but is no longer in your house. It can continue to be part of nature and you don't have to clear it's smeared innards off your window.
Seems like a win win win situation to me.

It serves an important service to humanity, it gives my Dad something to do, trust me on this, he’s a lovely guy, but everyday he’s “in the garden cocking about with that bloody thing” ((c) My Mum) is a day off for the rest of us.

😀

I have always wondered at my grandmother's generation scrubbing their front steps every few days. Mine doesn't appear to ever need scrubbing.

Council weedkilling verges, so that our surroundings ‘look nice’. Give it a bloody rest, and leave them be.

I have yet to have a council able to show their risk assessment for liberal dousing of public parks, pavements, school and nursery environment with (nasty to human and other living things) weed killer. It just should be banned other than extreme invasive species.

Most Frivolous Activity = flying?

Leaf blowing is pretty satisfying tbh, it's a bit like powerwashing a driveway, except with lovely crinkly leaves blowing about and your feet don't get wet.

out of my office window, i once watched a groundsman operating a leafblower that was lofting the leaves up in the air which were then being blown behind him by the wind. other than the immediate area around him as he moved, you couldn't tell where he'd been.

i'm not sure who wasted more time, him doing it or me watching him...

Getting dressed up to go to the pub.

I bought a 1000 jigsaw at the weekend and spent a good percentage of Sunday putting that together. Once it's completed I shall take it apart again, re-box it and the box will go under my bed with the rest of my jigsaw collection. A totally pointless use of time but I love it. It's this one if anyone else is sad enough to care -

https://www.johnlewis.com/gibsons-motoring-memorabilia-jigsaw-puzzle-1000-pieces/p5091088

Nowt wrong with blowing leaves into a pile (ish) then flicking the lever & sucking them up.

Golf.

Frivolity - If it feels good,do it!

Jez:
Look Mark, I'm a musician, in case you'd forgotten. Yeah? I answer to a higher law. The law of "if it feels good, do it".

Mark:
Oh, that's a great law isn't it? What's that, Gaddafi's law?

Jez:
It's the musician's law. Colonel Gaddafi could not lay down a bass hook, Mark. That should be clear even to you!

Long hot showers powered by gas .

I'm I bit yin and yang with leaf blowing- I look after several gardens and blow leaves in most , I then bag them up and use it for mulch the next year.

Opening a window for a fly.

Not frivolous at all. Fly lives but is no longer in your house...

That's the point, it's still in your house.

Dog walking. But having recently acquired a dog it’s now a fantastic excuse to head to the beach for a wander.

Edit:

Frivolity – If it feels good,do it!

This.

The definition of frivolous is something that has little value or importance or is silly or trivial. An example of frivolous is purchasing something you don't need

Jigsaw… A totally pointless use of time

Not if you value future cognition. I give you the PACE study
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnagi.2018.00299/full

Personally, shaving. A weekly No3 is a better use of my time and enhances my limited looks.

Planting vast hillsides with dense, wildlife choking forests, that are then of no value to harvest - according to FLS.

Then us lot spending public money on building trails in said forests, one night of wind and it's all ****ed.