Would you do NOTHING if it were socially acceptable?

[short bus president]

I know at least some of you bastards are as shiftless and scavery as I am. Admit it - given the option, you'd do absolutely nothing as often as you possibly could, except sometimes you could also do whatever when you got bored with nothing. But the point is that your mandatory "to do" list would consist of naught but flarn and jack happy dammit.

You know you would. Just fess up. C'mon...

[david_vincent]

1. Bertrand Russell's "In Praise of Idleness"

is one of my favorite essays.

[coloradodem2005]

2. I thought it was socially acceptable.

Look at the so-called President. ;)

[short bus president]

4. That doesn't count.

Even fucking up requires some sort of effort. Also, doing evil is still doing something.

[tedoll78]

3. I SO would.

And you don't need to drag such a confession outta me.

I don't like work. I hate work. I'd stay at home, watch TV, and play video games all day long if I could afford it. And I'd drink, and smoke-up, and do other things as well if I could. And who knows.. maybe once in a while I'd travel and see the world?

There. I said it. :D

That having been said, I know that I still need to work. So I will - I'll just save so that I can afford to retire someday (in theory). I'll work like a dog towards this goal.

[shingashong]

5. Why lie?

I would...but it would get boring fast...

[short bus president]

7. Yes.

That's why you'd need the drugs.

;-)

[shingashong]

10. Valium sounds good to me! n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. I ALREADY do nothing as often as I possibly can

it's great. And I don't care if it's socially acceptable or not.

And for all you lurking freeptards, I HAVE a full-time job I work quite hard at. So fuck off. Go cheney yourselves.

Hee hee.

[ikojo]

8. Absotively posilutely!

A good weekend day for me is spent doing as little as possible.

The way I think about work is this: if it was fun then why would they have to pay us to report for duty every day?

All hail SLOTH!

[dolo amber]

9. You mean it's not?!

D'oh! x(

[skygazer]

11. Define 'nothing'

I've been out of work on a disability leave since January and I LOVE it. I wish I could figure out how to get paid for doing this because it's great. I don't do 'nothing' but I do whatever I want. I go for a walk in the woods every day, I write, I waste time on the DU message board, I read, I curse GW Bush, I harass freepers. I love it. I would do it full time if I could.

[short bus president]

14. I would,

really, I would. But that'd be doing something. ;-)

[Lady Effingbroke]

12. I have a very high threshold of boredom.

I could spend the rest of my life wallowing blissfully in the downy loam of sloth, indolence, and idleness. Hell, I pretty much do already!

[short bus president]

19. Belated welcome to DU, BTW

:hi:

and EXCELLENT name. I think we may be not-so-distant relatives. I've always wanted to be an Earl...

[Lady Effingbroke]

22. Thanks for the welcome!

short bus president, Earl of Effingbroke! (It's a rather large family these days - indeed, you may well be a relative!) :hi:

[Ellen Forradalom]

13. I AM doing nothing

beyond taking my kid to school and picking him up, doing laundry and a few other chores.

[DerekG]

15. Yes, but my paradise is coming to an end

I am 22 and incredibly low maintenance. Up until now, I didn't have to have a job; I took the bus to school, and all of my entertainment consisted of reading every book I could get my hands on at the campus and public libraries. Seriously, I go out with friends about 7 times a *year*, and I live on a diet of cheap soda and noodles.

Sloth is the only deadly sin I engage in--and I bloody revel in it.

But I have to get a job now, and I'm petrified.

[SOteric]

16. I keep telling myself I'd love a chance to do nothing.

I sometimes daydream about a kind of ST:NG society where one could just have all their needs met, money is irrelevant and whatever we want to do is completely acceptable.

In the real world, however, I note that I tend to get antsy without a plate full of activity. I'm only lazy when I'm in love and I want to lay around the house with a guy all day.

[short bus president]

21. OK, then

doing nothing, doing whatever, and doing it. Not to mention having all my needs met. Yep - sounds about right. I knew you and I were on the same wavelength when you began coveting my furry jiggling ass back in the day...

;-)

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

17. Nothing wrong with nothing. I excel at it IMHO.

[IronLionZion]

18. Fuck no!

Sure it's nice once in a while and we should all find time to do nothing. But you can't do nothing forever, that would be so bloody boring!

[EstimatedProphet]

20. It is socially acceptable.

We vote for people like that. We CHOOSE them because they do nothing. And we read their news sources (Scaife, Murdoch, etc.)- people who have done nothing in their entire lives but buy things and think they have the authority to tell people that work harder in 5 minutes than these creeps work in a year how to live and that they are lazy.