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Bart's Inner Child

Homer admits that while Marge was right that getting the trampoline was a mistake, he's at least willing to go out and try new things while she's bossy, boring and just nags all the time.


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Agent Z

Trevor Simpson, Ben’s dad; a practical sort; confesses to having been a bully in his school years; relieves his boredom by listening to Elvis Presley and Rock ‘n’ Roll music in a shed at the bottom of the garden, and attends Rock ‘n’ Roll nights at the local pub.

Air Battle Force

Jeremy Magadevan of the New Straits Times described the novel as "sleep-inducing" and said that readers should "mail it to a terrorist and wait for him to die of boredom".

Assembly line

Sociological work has explored the social alienation and boredom that many workers feel because of the repetition of doing the same specialized task all day long.

Azra Sherwani

Qazi Wajid, who worked with her the most from 1970s to 2000, said she was a sincere actress and an amazing friend with whom there was not a single moment of boredom.

Clint Longley

"History says Staubach ripped Longley for mouthing off about teammates, but Gil Brandt said the tiff between Staubach and Longley began with a simple game of boredom.

Derek Boshier

The boredom of the previous few years of National Service in the Royal Air Force had been alleviated by reading the works of Marshall McLuhan.

Dil Kabaddi

The film tracks the lives of two modern-day married couples — Samit (Irrfan Khan) and Mita (Soha Ali Khan); Rishi (Rahul Bose) and Simi (Konkona Sen Sharma) — caught in web of boredom, loss of love and temptation.

Emil Cioran

William H. Gass called Cioran's work "a philosophical romance on the modern themes of alienation, absurdity, boredom, futility, decay, the tyranny of history, the vulgarities of change, awareness as agony, reason as disease".

Insult

Desmond Morris, noting that 'almost any action can operate as an Insult Signal if it is performed out of its appropriate context - at the wrong time or in the wrong place' - classes such signals in ten 'basic categories: 1. Disinterest Signals...2. Boredom Signals...3. Impatience Signals...4. Superiority Signals...5. Deformed-compliment Signals...6. Mock-discomfort Signals...7. Rejection Signals....8. Mockery Signals...9. Symbolic Insults...10. Dirt Signals'.

Juliet of the Spirits

The economist and film critic Murray Rothbard described it as "what may well be the Worst Movie of All Time, the absurdist-nihilist Fellini monstrosity, Juliet of the Spirits", saying that it reeked of "pretension and deliberate boredom".

Licking Hitler

Some critics have found this aspect of her character unrealistic, but Hare quotes poet Alan Ross to explain the spirit of the era: "The sadness and sexuality and alcohol were what everyone was wanting ... war was suddenly real and warm ... worth all the suffering and boredom and fear".

MEH

Meh, an interjection to show a complete lack of interest and/or boredom

Radnička Kontrola

The band recorded only two tracks, "Dosada" ("Boredom") and "TV u koloru" ("Colour TV"), both of which appeared on the various artist compilation Artistička radna akcija.

Runglish

A small subplot in Arthur C. Clarke's novel 2010: Odyssey Two concerned the crew of a Russo-American spaceship, who attempted to break down boredom with a Stamp Out Russlish!! campaign.

Tennis for Two

Higinbotham created Tennis for Two to cure the boredom of visitors to Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked.

The Beatles Play The Residents and The Residents Play The Beatles

The single, particularly the B-side, reflects the Residents' boredom with pop music and their tendency to perform deconstructionist covers, perhaps shown most notably on their album The Third Reich 'n Roll.

UK Channel Boredom

Recorded for £25, the song takes its title from the, as yet unsigned, band's first press release, written by Richey Edwards: ".. We are the only young kids in UK Channel Boredom to realise the future is in tight trousers, dyed hair and NOT the baggy loose attitude of scum fuck retard zerodom of Madchester".

"UK Channel Boredom" is a song by the rock band Manic Street Preachers that appeared as the second song on a 7" flexi-disc given away free with the March 1990 editions of two fanzines, Hopelessly Devoted and Goldmining. The first song on the disc was "I Wonder What the Trouble Is" by Burnley indie band The Laurens (Craig Latham, Tim Nixon, Jon Clarkson, Dan Connolly and Paul Deakin).


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