Turns Out You Actually Can Be Bored To Death 128
A study conducted by researchers at University College London shows that boredom can kill you. The researchers found that people who reported feeling a great deal of boredom were 37 per cent more likely to have died by the end of the study. Martin Shipley, who co-wrote the report said, "The findings on heart disease show there was sufficient evidence to say there is a link with boredom."
NEWS for nerds (Score:1, Funny)
Is this really the kind of news that we need on the front page? NEWS for nerds, anyone?
I've been exclusively reading Slashdot news all day, and not even one is remotely interesting enough to *hurk* *ack* *ug.*
this explains all the low slashdot numbers (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ummm (Score:1, Funny)
maybe because by doing nothing and being bored, you are likely to not be as healthy...
It's in TFA.
Maybe dying causes you to be bored.
If boredome can kill... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:this explains all the low slashdot numbers (Score:5, Funny)
We're not dead, we're just pining for the fjords.
Except for Roland, of course...
Re:NEWS for nerds (Score:2, Funny)
Re:ummm (Score:4, Funny)
Ha! Take that, Master Takahara! (Score:5, Funny)
He laughed at me when I said my ultimate technique was the Long Winded Anecdote With No Point (Napping Crane Style). But now I'm 37% more likely to have the last laugh!
This explains... (Score:5, Funny)
This explains the corpse in the back of that lecture hall in the math building.
Re:NEWS for nerds (Score:3, Funny)
I've been exclusively reading Slashdot news all day, and not even one is remotely interesting enough to *hurk* *ack* *ug.*
Perhaps he was dictating?
Re:NEWS for nerds (Score:4, Funny)
I don't know about you. But I am board listening to the same old Rant. STOP SHORTENING MY LIFE SPAN!!
In other news... (Score:5, Funny)
correlation != causation? (Score:2, Funny)
correlation is found to not be causation.
I see that comment so often it bores me.
Ow...ow, chest pain...numb left arm...aaaaghgghgh!!!!
Re:Correllation != Causation (Score:4, Funny)
Yes! Exactly! Correlation != causation!
If only researchers would read slashdot. Then they could benefit from our superior knowledge, and we would never have to say "correlation != causation" again.
*sigh*
Re:Ha! Take that, Master Takahara! (Score:3, Funny)
In Soviet Russia, dead horse beats you.
The Long Winded Anecdote With No Point (Napping Crane Style) is no match for the Everending Rehashment Of Stale Joke (Slashdottian Ape Style):
Now, I'm not sure that the ISR joke above is actually funny -- not sure that people will understand that the reason to stop beating a dead horse is because it's boring. I think it is funny, slightly -- but the great thing is, I'm not concerned. Because anyone who finds it not funny will be bored by it, and therefore will be nudged slightly closer to a premature death. And anyone who has read this far into my post is surely even more bored by now. Mwuah-ha-ha-ha.
Re:I feel smell... (Score:4, Funny)
God, why do you synaesthesiacs always have sound so fucking indigo?
Re:I don't believe it.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:How long was this study?! (Score:3, Funny)
Participants were placed in identical, undecorated jail cells with gray walls and ceilings. Each cell was bare except for a 1kg bar of metallic sodium and a 1gal cardboard milk carton containing gasoline. And a box of wooden matches. And some razor blades.
Good News! (Score:3, Funny)