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Title: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Queequeg on January 11, 2015, 08:05:00 PM
Saw this on twitter, inspired the topic and though it was too great not to share.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6-NBgjCAAAsTc4.jpg)
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 11, 2015, 08:36:33 PM
I have some great stories about laziness, but I'll be damned if I'm going to type them up here. :yawn:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Razgovory on January 11, 2015, 08:37:02 PM
Well we know that at least one person who served Grumbler is still alive.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Monoriu on January 11, 2015, 08:41:00 PM
I laughed for half a minute over this.  Thanks  :)
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Siege on January 13, 2015, 02:14:29 PM
Amazing story
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Zanza on January 13, 2015, 02:48:16 PM
Here is the reddit thread: http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1rgpdf/what_is_the_laziest_thing_youve_ever_done/
Some quite lazy ideas there.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
I once spent 10 years doing nothing.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: 11B4V on January 13, 2015, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
I once spent 10 years doing nothing.

Once spent?  :huh:  :P
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:57:05 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 13, 2015, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
I once spent 10 years doing nothing.

Once spent?  :huh: :P

It'll be another 7 years before I can say spent another 10 years doing nothing.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: 11B4V on January 13, 2015, 04:02:01 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:57:05 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 13, 2015, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
I once spent 10 years doing nothing.

Once spent?  :huh: :P

It'll be another 7 years before I can say spent another 10 years doing nothing.
:lol:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: garbon on January 13, 2015, 06:10:41 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:57:05 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on January 13, 2015, 03:20:27 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on January 13, 2015, 03:19:01 PM
I once spent 10 years doing nothing.

Once spent?  :huh: :P

It'll be another 7 years before I can say spent another 10 years doing nothing.

:thumbsup:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: viper37 on January 15, 2015, 10:53:32 AM
Quote from: Queequeg on January 11, 2015, 08:05:00 PM
Saw this on twitter, inspired the topic and though it was too great not to share.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6-NBgjCAAAsTc4.jpg)
it's either old or a myth, because i've seen this before a few times.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: celedhring on January 15, 2015, 11:21:46 AM
Yeah, I have seen this story a few times floating the internet.

Myself, I'm too lazy to come up with something really lazy to not do. Too much work.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: mongers on January 15, 2015, 12:39:43 PM
Meh, it's taken me 3 1/2 days to post in this thread, since first reading it.  :showoff:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: The Brain on January 15, 2015, 12:59:19 PM
God resting day 7 - ???
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Malthus on January 15, 2015, 01:01:35 PM
I've got a real one.

I had a friend who was the laziest person alive when it came to cooking and cleaning. He lived more or less by himself in a farmhouse way out in the country. When I visited, I spent an inordinate amount of time cleaning his place to make it livable, and cooking - eventually, this pissed me off so much, that I would cook for myself and clean only what I wanted to use. No way I was eating the food he prepared.

There are many stories one could tell about his laziness. The most bizzare I think was this: one of his favorite food preps was to cook a huge amount of meat (say a whole chicken), and simply leave it out on the table - when he was hungry, he would carve off some and eat it, until it was gone or went too bad to eat (he was one of those who didn't get sick).

One day, we were sitting in his living room when a strange animal came up through a hole in the floor - it looked sort of like a furry snake with legs - this thing crawled up on the table to the meat-tray, grabbed a chicken leg, and dragged it back to its hole and dissapeared (the hole led to an unfinished basement filled with firewood). I was all "what the fuck was that?!" And he said, totally indifferent, 'oh, that's the minks. We have some living in the basement'.

This guy was so lazy, he had an infestation of scavenging minks living inside his house.  Apparently, he cared not at all that they were eating his food, or that they were collecting a rotting pile of bones somewhere in the basement. Nor did having minks scavenging his meat-tray convince him to throw the meat in the tray out, or put it out of their reach. He went to it and ate the other leg.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Caliga on January 15, 2015, 01:11:19 PM
Did he happen to be a pig farmer and did he live in BC? :hmm:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Malthus on January 15, 2015, 01:17:58 PM
Quote from: Caliga on January 15, 2015, 01:11:19 PM
Did he happen to be a pig farmer and did he live in BC? :hmm:

No.  :D

The only thing he farmed was pot.

Though the place definitely had a bad 'psycho killer' vibe to it - what with being generally run-down, and containing his collection of guns, bones (he liked to draw bones and was a considerable artist), and deadly chemical apparatus (he boiled up pot to make hash oil using nasty solvents). Plus, rotting stuff and minks.

This all sort of collected gradually, seemed to get worse and worse - eventually I could take no more and stopped visiting.

It was actually very sad, he had been a best buddy of mine in high school.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Caliga on January 15, 2015, 01:20:07 PM
You have a very interesting circle of friends, brah.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Malthus on January 15, 2015, 01:26:10 PM
Quote from: Caliga on January 15, 2015, 01:20:07 PM
You have a very interesting circle of friends, brah.

More like 'had' in this case - I haven't heard from him for years and years.

One of his buddies, I learned later, went on to make a whole career out of his tolerence for horrible filth. He hired himself out, with a small crew, as an extreme cleaner - someone who is called in to clean up after crimes or accidents, or (more commonly) after a hoarder has been evicted by the landlord.  :lol:
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: OttoVonBismarck on January 15, 2015, 01:27:33 PM
My 15 years in Federal government have been quite lazy.
Title: Re: Great Stories of Laziness?
Post by: Eddie Teach on January 16, 2015, 12:03:42 AM
Quote from: The Brain on January 15, 2015, 12:59:19 PM
God resting day 7 - ???

That's not completely fair, he did make time to drown nearly everybody in the world.