Ceremonies and a veritable titan of tedium. And my name is james ward and i need found boring conference a one Day Celebration of the mundane people would marry the o. P. s and their philip its the same exploring the content should be focused incorporate for example rachel really is fascinated by the greenwich time signal. Might bates has a passion for postcards of nearby battersea park. Joyce smith explains how she started collecting books certificates. Thats one of. The conferences sold out so who are these people and why are they wasting their weekend here. Whats the big attraction here. Being bored of listening to people talking about things that they care way way too deeply about a minute i enjoy science i enjoy competing and things like that trivial the monday my straight the most boring thing is to lunch break thats quite a which is thankfully over james to cherington likes to walk in Straight Lines for his film underfoot he paused once a minute to take a 5 2nd shots off the ground i think beginning to take the child i. Lizzie or storms paper on the smell of laundry is accompanied by a video of a washing machine cycle. And live and dump a bit of audience participation in homes how intense is it does it remind you james wood has generously allowed me to take to the stage myself to bestow oring prize most boring. At the boring conference. Goes to joyce smith. For her pioneering work on book certificates. At the end of the day ive gathered a lot of fun facts kind of person that made the loans books for a. Thing i could be boring i think given enough practice because you cant buy you a boring person can they be boring. At school. Weve managed to tear him away from his stamp collection a drug habit is here adrian was the conference boring enough for you while there were moments of genuine boredom but much of it was surprisingly interesting i learnt a lot about the strength tests for these boxes for example the early tests measure the resistance of the box to bursting but was late so replaced by the edge crush test because boxes were increasingly being stacked and it was important to know whether the books of the boat some of the stack could withstand all that weighing. Really lets move swiftly on i think youve been affected by that comforts youve also identified a boring trend well i think the success of the conference and the rise of or import costs is testimony to a hunger for t. V. And the podcasts sleep with me is downloaded free 1000000 times a months in fashion there is a trend for the color beige so well done robin boring lawn sure a is a big thing and norm call which began as a bit of a joke is now gone mainstream norm core of course says rejects collectivity you can wear something boring you dont have to wear something exciting so thats a very important trend young people also rejecting venture holidays in favor of offline holidays where you cant do anything where you have no 5 reception surely in reality boredom should be avoided at all costs and no boredom me that actually a good thing a recent study showed that people who are given a boring task sorting red and green beans into separate piles did much better on creativity tests that followed also the beneficial effects of boredom a borne out by many famous examples for example. Famously took a year off high school and just wandered off a loafing around aimlessly he likes to say that creativity is the residue of time wasted steve jobs apple found was also a pioneer of norm core as we say and he said boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything kerry says briefly if people want to embrace the boring a few tips well the good stuff. Its to go offline a default activity people trying to avoid boredom is playing with our phones but washing up without a dishwasher drying up using an Old Fashioned tea towel ironing shirts there are many many ways to get bored most of them are cheap and environmentally friendly genome afraid you havent been born again thank you anyway. Now a car race like that while the media combines beautiful italian countryside and stunning traditional architecture with painstakingly restored vintage cars its an injury its raised over 4 days and to take your car has to have been produced before 957 we joined 2 professional racing drivers in a classic mercedes sports car with growing dawe. Leave it to italy to make car racing look this good the mealie meal is nothing if not stylish in the 1957 mercedes 300 s. L. Elling lord and zefi a flourish from germany to professional race car drivers together for 4 days through the heart of the bell at the top. Its a real challenge for both of us an 18 year old driving is a 2000000 year old college called the surface not bad right. Eleanor is one of europes most successful female racecar drivers. Is a few throws theres a rising star a year ago she was lucky to survive a major crash in macau but that didnt stop her dream of piloting a formula one racer and she wont be stopped today either. Exams or the i asked her if she wanted me to try she said and im 18 years old and i get to try this calm what do you think so i said all right im stuck in the passenger seat but i remember i used to be the same way. I could do it. Its the copilots job to find the correct route and to make sure the old car makes it over the finish line safely. Dont forget it was built in 1970 so afraid to switch to a. One stage of the race can take up to 14 hours and a moment of carelessness is all it takes to get lost. And if we got to rome and there were all these cars behind us we took a wrong turn and they followed we all had to turn around on the main road it was funny but we came 1st. In italy the meal is a huge party exactly children get the day off from school to go wave at the cars. It all started in 1027 back then it was just men behind the wheel female teams have only recently joined. The number up for women on much better drivers than men when were behind the wheel we go heavy on the gas we want to feel the vibrations and the power of the engine. Driving through the regions of Emilio Romagna in tuscany is an experience for all the senses. Eleanor is participating in the 1000000 media for the 4th time but her younger colleague is still way ahead of her in one area. Of the field if you told me that its completely possible to drive with total focus and still keep up with several 1000000 instagram channels because it. Is a few of her hopes her posts will inspire more women to get into motor sports so that more female teams will take part in the meeting media in the years to come. Bridge should from was one of the worlds great adventure as in the 19th century he was also a soldier a diplomat an archaeologist a poet and was said to speak at least 2 dozen languages in the novel the collectors of willow. Troy and off tons buttons unbelievable life into believable fiction resident but David Leavitts has more on our continuing series 100 job and must reads hated to put the hotel yet isnt the one with the roof top are actually you know they really need to. Your profile pic what about the one with the infinity pool. What was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasnt fun it was dangerous and time consuming back to Richard Francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isnt allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but thats no skin off his nose was actually passed as a muslim the skin has to come off somewhere else. You can disguise yourself as much as you want but youll never learn what its like to be one of us you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our skin fasting is not the same and starving. The collector of world is about adventure spiritual. And intellectual and its about privilege like sir Richard Burton enough has made hindu and muslim pilgrimages hes lived in europe and east africa hes one collector of worlds paying tribute to another. Mall on all these topics on the web site. By the way its the 10th anniversary of the boring. So it should be especially. If you want to be with the crowd and dont forget the comma is the bank. After. Thailands dream holiday destinations offer paradise on earth. But the reality is somewhat different. Beaches clastic waist line call reef all inclusive thailand is paying the price for the mass invasion of tourists just coming. Along with a paradise endangered. Eco india the poisonous business of time another. 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