Anna O Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social

We live in interesting times. I like boring. Boring is very underrated.

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Kirk Murphy @kirkmurphy.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:04 UTC

Same. "I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" I'd rather be in Bag End while the Gaffer tended the potatoes.

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 18:18 UTC

Boring (August 1974-January 1998) RIP.

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Ric Steinberger @ricst.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

Remember Orson Welles' story in The Third Man about how boring Switzerland was in the Middle Ages (as compared to the intrigues of Venice and the Borgias)

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about://bro-ken @bro-ken.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

It is underrated.

It’s also just a short drive from Portland: maps.app.goo.gl/xU5dusaSPTFK...

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Wendell Albright @wendella.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:26 UTC

I would prefer to be bored to being terrified.

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Mike Rodriquez @allthepages.org [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 21:48 UTC

Sorry. I think it was 40 years ago, at a get acquainted lunch for me, the new guy, that I got the cursed Chinese fortune cookie. "May you live in interesting times." OK, I started w/JFK, Nixon, Vietnam, the Wall, Bush2, Trump1 and a lot I'm forgetting. My fortune overfloweth!

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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 03, 2024 at 19:17 UTC

I remember boring. I could stand a bit of it again.

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