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border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>…it's just that the new monotony is so intensely sustained that you can't get bored…</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—Lester Bangs on the Stooge's Fun House album<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table><div style="clear:both"></div> <center> <p><b>Random factoid</b>: Did you know… that David Letterman once said he would <a href="/wiki/Wind_turbine_syndrome" title="Wind turbine syndrome">rather see windmills than choking clouds of coal smoke?</a> </p><p><small><b><span class="plainlinks" id="purgelink"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Bored&action=purge">Click for another factoid!</a></span></b></small> </p> </center> <p><br /> </p> <center> <p><a href="/wiki/Special:VandalBin" title="Special:VandalBin">Vandals</a> on here take a risk,<br /> This sysop might give them a frisk!<br /> He unbuckles his belt,<br /> And the damage is dealt,<br /> "You WILL stare at my fucking disc!"<br /> —<a href="/wiki/User:Reverend_Black_Percy" title="User:Reverend Black Percy">User:Reverend Black Percy</a> </p><p><br /> <small><b><span class="plainlinks" id="purgelink"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Bored&action=purge">Click for another limerick!</a></span></b></small> </p> </center> <p><b>Bored</b>? 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This is a list of links that people have created for articles that don't exist yet.</li> <li>Visit the <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Contents" title="RationalWiki:Contents">RationalWiki:Contents</a> portal for a quick look at the wide variety of high quality RationalWiki articles, all arranged topic-wise for navigational ease.</li> <li>Have a look through the <a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_for_deletion" title="Category:Articles for deletion">articles nominated for deletion</a> or <a href="/wiki/Category:Articles_that_might_not_further_the_RW_mission" title="Category:Articles that might not further the RW mission">non-mission articles</a> and comment on their talk page or improve them if you can.</li> <li>Read a few of our articles (some of them are actually interesting), and improve/expand/correct/copyedit them if you find they need it.</li> <li>Update your user page, or build some new <a href="/wiki/Userboxes" class="mw-redirect" title="Userboxes">userboxes</a>.</li> <li>Click <a href="/wiki/Special:Random" title="Special:Random">here</a> (or the "Random page" button to the left) and see where it takes you.</li> <li>Start at a <a href="/wiki/Random" class="mw-redirect" title="Random">random</a> point on <a href="/wiki/Special:AllPages" title="Special:AllPages">Special:Allpages</a> and read (and improve) as many articles as you can be bothered.</li></ul> <p>Other ways of reducing boredom: </p> <div class="div-col columns column-count column-count-2" style="-moz-column-count: 2; -webkit-column-count: 2; column-count: 2;"> <ul><li>go down the pub or the local <b><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Saloon_bar" title="RationalWiki:Saloon bar">Saloon</a></b></li> <li>play some <a href="/wiki/Category:Bingo" title="Category:Bingo">Bingo</a> at your local retirement home</li> <li>write an <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Essay" class="mw-redirect" title="RationalWiki:Essay">Essay</a></li> <li>visit a <a href="/wiki/Webshite" class="mw-redirect" title="Webshite">Webshite</a> and <a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Debates" class="mw-redirect" title="RationalWiki:Debates">Debate</a></li> <li>join <a href="/wiki/Conservapedia" title="Conservapedia">Conservapedia</a> & argue (it only lasts seconds but it's fun)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/RationalWiki:Fun" title="RationalWiki:Fun">laugh</a></li> <li>put on a (<a href="/wiki/Pornography" title="Pornography">porno</a>?) 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