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Started by Phillip V, April 28, 2009, 01:03:42 AM

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Phillip V

April 28, 2009, 01:03:42 AM
I am constantly amazed that I can have entertainment at the click of a button.

1000 years ago, what did people do with their boredom? I assume that hard labour took up most of their time, but there must have been instances where they could only sit and twiddle their thumbs, such as in the dead of winter. I can only think that something that everybody could play to pass the time and did not require extra equipment was masturbation and fucking. Thus, how did masturbation and fucking rates compare from then to now?

Delirium

#1
April 28, 2009, 01:16:46 AM
Nothing changed except the entertainment - boredom ratio.
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Syt

#2
April 28, 2009, 01:28:38 AM
Since all people from those days are dead I presume they died of boredom.
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Brazen

#3
April 28, 2009, 06:00:36 AM
They worked through all the hours of daylight and slept as soon as it got dark, simple as that. People would be a lot happier now if they did more of the same.

Eddie Teach

#4
April 28, 2009, 07:21:07 AM
You're pretty young still, it's possible to get weary of computer games and internet.
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Caliga

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April 28, 2009, 07:23:05 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 28, 2009, 06:00:36 AM
They worked through all the hours of daylight and slept as soon as it got dark, simple as that. People would be a lot happier now if they did more of the same.

Yes, but I always wondered what the idle plebs of the city of Rome did between gladiator bouts.
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Grey Fox

#6
April 28, 2009, 07:33:17 AM
Watch other people do nothing. Sat on their asses & smoked.

Boredom was only invented when the TV came around.
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mongers

#7
April 28, 2009, 07:57:05 AM
A wild guess, maybe they interacted more with other people than we do today ?  :blink:
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Ed Anger

#8
April 28, 2009, 07:59:09 AM
You kids would have loved the 70's.
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Brazen

#9
April 28, 2009, 08:00:30 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 28, 2009, 07:59:09 AM
You kids would have loved the 70's.
Especially the three-day weeks causing power outages for hours at a time in the evening. We used to sit round candles while our parents told us stories about the war. No, really.

Caliga

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April 28, 2009, 09:27:34 AM
Quote from: mongers on April 28, 2009, 07:57:05 AM
A wild guess, maybe they interacted more with other people than we do today ?  :blink:
Unpossible.
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saskganesh

#11
April 28, 2009, 09:33:21 AM
they drank more. full stop.
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szmik

#12
April 28, 2009, 09:37:40 AM
they were drinking and interacting, what else?  :huh:
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Pedrito

#13
April 28, 2009, 09:40:11 AM
Drinking and interacting :perv:

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Brazen

#14
April 28, 2009, 09:48:55 AM
When you die at 25, there's not much time to get bored.
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