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Someone's bored in class?

Heres a list of what you can do when you're bored in class:

1. Draw a smiley face and talk to it. 2. Put your hand up to answer a question and if the teacher picks you say salmon or if its maths pie! 3. Throw bits of paper at people, if you dont like them it could be something harder. 4. Sit at the front of the classroom and keep sniffing then ask the teacher if he/she has been drinking. 5. Walk around class begging for spare change. 6. Chew on your arm until someone notices. 7. Change seats every time the teacher turns his/her back. 8. After the teacher explains something, laugh really loud and say "Oh, now I get it!" 9. Lick yourself clean like a cat does. 10.After the teacher has explained something, say "Quite right, old bean" in the typical old english style. 11.Sing your questions to the class. 12.When the teacher calls roll, after each name scream "THAT'S MEEEEE!!! Oh, no, sorry." 13.Page through the textbook scratching each picture and sniffing it. 14.Stare continually at the teacher's private areas. Occasionally lick your lips. 15.Address the teacher as "your honour". 16.Present the teacher with a large fruit basket. 17.Ask for an extra copy of each handout, for your invisible friend sitting next to you. 18.Claim that you wrote the class textbook. 19.Stand to ask questions. Bow deeply before taking your seat after the teacher answers. 20.Laugh loudly at everything the teacher says. Be sure to snort and make weird noises while you laugh. 21.When the teacher turns their back to the class, scream and bang desks, then when they turn around act normal and get on with your work. - Kaz 22.Get everyone in the class to start humming softly, and gradually hum louder. - Mr Magoo 23.Have a group of people in different parts of the classroom in on the hum scheme. To work it, one person hums until the teacher looks at them, whereupon someone else starts humming and the accused opens his mouth as says "I wasn't humming!". 24.Rinse and repeat until teacher loses mind. - jw 25.At a completely random time, put up your hand to ask a question. When the teacher picks you, ask a question about a different subject and pretend you thought it was that class. 26.Put your hand up, and when the teacher acknowledges you, just say "I'm pointing at the ceiling". 27.When a substitute introduces himself as a substitute, have you and your friends all yell "FRESH MEAT!!!!" at the same time. 28.Raise your hand as if to ask a question, then just say 'buh buh bah buh buh buh?' or similar nonsense. Then act like the teacher should get it. 29.Say you're invisible and when people say you're not, start crying. 30.Superglue a coin to the ground and watch people try to pick it up. 31.While the teacher is writing, hide the board rubber. When he/she goes to get somebody (like the principal), replace it in the same place & make him/her look insane. 32.Tell your teacher that you don't do homework because it's against your religion. 33.Listen to what the teacher says, and pick out a word that is said often, like "the". Each time the word is said, run a circle around your desk laughing and clapping loudly. 34.Each student say "chop!" when the teacher calls the roll, then when the last student's name is called the class yells "Timber!" and they all fall out of their desks onto the floor. 35.Whenever the teacher speaks to you, act like you're terrified of him/her and go run & hide in the corner or under your desk. 36.Go up to the teacher but face the empty space next to him/her and ask if you can go to the office to get your medicine for hallucinations. 37.As soon as the bell rings to start class, crawl under your desk and huddle with yourself and grab onto your chair and scream like you saw your grandma's butt. 38.Start clapping, but keep a steady beat. When other people start clapping, start singing opera. (cheesebaboon) 39.Raise your hand, and when the teacher calls on you, ask where babies come from in a childish voice. - Bitch 40.When a teacher explains something, raise your hand and say "I don't get it". They'll say, "What don't you get?" You look at the handout or notebook paper you have and say, "How do they make a really big tree into this thin piece of paper?"

By Olivia Smiler.

Or perhaps not

And then I come across pages that are obviously written by someone over the age of eighteen. An article about someone's band, their friend, their company, or maybe themselves. Sometimes these are poorly written, sometimes not. Sometimes they're advertisement, sometimes they're nonsense, sometimes they're just crap. Sometimes they're about a word they made up one day, or a religion they started. Maybe they woke up that day and thought: "Hey, I'm a pretty cool guy. I should have a Wikipedia page about me. After all, I'm the [founder of Delusioventualism, coiner of the word heterobogosity, maker of many YouTube videos, inventor of a novel sexual position involving countless ropes and pulleys, second cousin of Elvis's wife's manicurist, owner of a rather fine horse]."

I see these pages and I think: "Uh-oh. Somebody's bored at work."

Somebody's bored at work

These guys obviously don't have time to create hoax pages. I suggest you follow their example.

I honestly don't mind when kids create pages about themselves or their friends. All kids get bored. I'm sure that if Wikipedia had been around when I was a nine-year-old, I would have created tons of content specifically designed to annoy my little brother, littering Wikipedia with "JOEY IS A DORKUS!!!!" for admins to clean up. Childhood is a time of experimentation. Be understanding.

When you become an adult, though, it's a little different. People suddenly don't seem as forgiving. You can't make the same mistakes that you did as a child. The world, at times, seems to bear down on you. You get restless. You feel, perhaps, that you haven't accomplished enough in life. Perhaps creating a Wikipedia page about yourself is the answer. Perhaps this will add legitimacy to your accomplishments. Or perhaps you can simply take out your anger, frustration, and boredom on Wikipedia. Perhaps you can create a page about how your boss sodomizes giraffes. Perhaps you can make yourself an internet celebrity by posting an article on a meme you invented. The possibilities are endless...aren't they?

I say, my good man, you really should know better than that

Don't do it. It's not worth it. Not only will you be adding to the trials and tribulations of many fine editors and condemning yourself to the lowest reaches of Wiki-hell, you'll also suffer the crushing disappointment that comes when your page invariably gets deleted. You will think, "Why? Why am I not worthy of Wikipedia? Can't anyone create an article?" You will suffer. You will mourn. You will feel small.

It's a natural, understandable response. People whose articles get deleted obviously feel a bit of resentment, especially if they worked hard on the article and put in time and effort. If the article is about themselves, their friend, or a topic close to their heart, they may feel an emotional attachment to the content. Even if it's just a nonsense article, there's still that "Heyyyyyy...my page!" feeling.

The fact remains, though, that you're still an adult. Sadly, certain cultural norms are placed on you for a reason, and it is your obligation - nay, your duty - to shoulder them without complaint. The fact remains that you must move on, accept the burden of your adulthood, and not try to delay the cruel inevitable. If you have a shred of dignity about you, you should not waste it by flailing away against the CSD/PROD/AfD, writing belligerent messages on the talk pages of other editors, or feebly trying to recreate content that gets deleted. Sit down, have some tea, and think about what you have accomplished just by being able to afford a computer.

But this doesn't relieve you of your main responsibility as a grownup: namely, to know better!

Graymornings_(talk) understands. He is often bored at work.