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Re: And you thought blockstacking was hard...
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Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:33:19 GMT
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In lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto, Iain Hendry writes:
> "Angelo Castellano" <statsone@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:002a01c26115$42788f80$6401a8c0@9rt100b...
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> > > http://www.speedstacks.com/videos/emily.htm
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> > Way too much free time.
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> 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!"
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> 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 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 to spend that free time on a hugely diverse set of
possible activities (including this one, sitting in front of a PC and
posting to a discussion group for our friends to read) is a sign of a highly
successful society. At least in my book.
You can never have too much free time.
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| "Angelo Castellano" <statsone@sympatico.ca> wrote in message news:002a01c26115$42...9rt100b... (...) 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" (...) (24 years ago, 21-Sep-02, to lugnet.org.ca.rtltoronto)
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