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Re: And you thought blockstacking was hard...
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Sat, 21 Sep 2002 03:28:53 GMT
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"Angelo Castellano" <statsone@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> > http://www.speedstacks.com/videos/emily.htm
> Way too much free time.
I hate to do this, but I just finished a rant on rec.roller-coaster about
that phrase. What exactly does "way too much free time on their hands"
mean? I've heard this so much as a derigotary remark used by people who
don't understand something and just want to bash them down and build
themselves up or something. Like when someone on the Westcoaster message
boards posted a link to someone who'd built some LEGO rides, everyone
replied saying "WHOAH!!!!! SOMEONES GOT WAY TOO MUCH FREE TIME ON THEIR
HANDS!"
But what does that mean?! Everybody's got different interests and hobbies.
Like I'm siting here, half an hour to midnight, looking up video clips of
CNC Turning Centres. I could be out clubbing but instead I'm siting here
like a dork. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, I just don't understand
the term "way too much free time". It just doesn't make sense when I put
the words together. Free time would be any time you're not doing what,
working? school? friends? So how can you have too much of that? Is that to
say it makes you a better human being if you don't have any free time to
yourself?
I keep to myself as much as possible. But I already know what I am.
Sigh.
Iain (pronounced "Loser")
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| (...) I agree with your rant. When we all were hunter-gatherers, we had no free time, every waking moment was needed to keep ourselves fed and sheltered. Large amounts of free time are a sign of an at least moderately successful society. Being able (...) (22 years ago, 22-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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| -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 From: "Iain Hendry" snip (...) snip : : : "The only person sure of himself is the man who wishes to : leave things as they are, and he dreams of an impossibility" : -- George M. Wrong. : : Angelo (...) (22 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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