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| Thread ID: 115326 | 2011-01-13 09:02:00 | I'm bored | Nomad (952) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1169548 | 2011-01-13 22:00:00 | Hang on, no Im wrong, he wasnt talking just about night... Theres heaps to do... |
rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 1169549 | 2011-01-13 22:09:00 | What is the attraction of malls for goodness sake - someone please enlighten an old fart like me? For me; it is not just malls, it's the crowd. It's the spotlight, the glitz. Last New Years Eve, I spent my first in a major city, Queenstown. There was so much people there, but if you travel just couple mins outside it was literally dead. When one tours around NZ, one could make a guestimate of how many people there were in cities or places where they did outdoor activities so it think it applies equally to the locals too. To me it is being in a happening place. Not just malls, they just want that modern wow factor. Food prices can be expensive here, but some places abroad eating out is a regular thing, some hardly cook due to the food prices and with that mixing with people is a regular thing while in NZ it seems to me that people spend more time in their homes. In some places you have the bright lights, the fountain; the Petrona Towers with its reflection on the water, Times Square, Merlion, the Sydney ferries, even Melbourne's Yarra River but there is activity outside. Whilst in Wellington along the waterfront, the services are pretty much dead apart from the more pricey pubs and restaurants and one street that is still alive is Courtenay Place (and Vivian St). Wellington even has a reduced hourly bus timetable at night. Take other places and they have 15min public transportations. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1169550 | 2011-01-13 23:32:00 | Korori bird sanctuary is Wellington somewhere and then there is the botanics | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1169551 | 2011-01-13 23:46:00 | Anyone that's bored only has themselves to blame in my opinion. Even if you can't get out and about you can pick up a book, use your imagination and take yourself anywhere you like. | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1169552 | 2011-01-13 23:54:00 | Which is why I do a lot of saving so I can go to the South Island and overseas a few times a year keeping a lookout for the specials. It remains thou on a daily basis it is boring here. For my photography, if you look at top of the league nature photography it is about Mt Cook and Fiordland (and MacKenzie Country for the calm lakes). NZ city photography is just not up there with the rest of the world if you want "impact" if one takes photography seriously. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 1169553 | 2011-01-14 00:08:00 | Last New Years Eve, I spent my first in a major city, Queenstown. There was so much people there, but if you travel just couple mins outside it was literally dead. Dead? Peopleless you mean. Full of more interesting life. And fun. But I guess some people want to sit around in crowds and drink or whatever. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1169554 | 2011-01-14 02:52:00 | You know, I am 65, and I cannot recall a single time in my life when I was bored. Boredom isn't the result of limitations in the place where you live - it is a product of your own inability to make the best of the place and your circumstances. Very well said. I always found it very sad when my nieces or nephews have complained of being bored when they have so much more accessible to them than we had. I also have no wish to be around people who complain of being bored. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 1169555 | 2011-01-14 03:11:00 | Around 50 years ago my wife and set off very early to walk from Torcross in the Devon South Hams along the cliff tops to the Kingsbridge estuary and then across by ferry to Salcombe, a full day trip with quaint villages, pubs and characters like Miss Pretty John at Hallsands, and a lighthouse at Start Point Shortly we reached the old fishing village of Beesands around 6 am. A car load of Londoners had just arrived after driving all night. " 'Ere ducks, ain't there no life around 'ere? Wot, ain't there no pictcha palaces then? Gawd almighty, this dead and alive 'ole must be the last place Gawd made on earth." |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1169556 | 2011-01-15 00:40:00 | Boredom is a state of mind not a place - I suggest you think about getting a life. | dvm (6543) | ||
| 1169557 | 2011-01-15 01:07:00 | Boredom is a state of mind not a place - I suggest you think about getting a life. That is an unnecessarily unpleasant post. I suggest it is you who has a problem. |
John H (8) | ||
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