"It was interesting for a new style of game like The Bunker, first of its kind out there in this form, to see how long people would get on it for – whether they get bored, whether they disappear, or whether they lose themselves.
In their empirical analysis, the measure of studenteffort is based on (a factor analysis of) general attitude variables such as whetherstudents like school, whether they think homework is boring and whether they want toleave school.
Compare and contrast with the joyless world of the Westminster soap opera, which appeals only to a dwindling band of die-hard enthusiasts: it's in danger of turning into one of those awful pre-smut periods in The Archers where we had to listen for simply years to some whinger called Tom boring on about whether he was getting enough support for his sausage business.
I'm not including any photos, because rope is rope, and rope is boring, regardless of whether it's made for sex or not.
As endurance runner Dean Karnazes, author of 50/50, puts it, "Moderation bores me". Whether endurance athletes are attempting the Ford Ironman World Championship or 50 marathons in 50 days, their events are just series of steps, strokes or rotations.
As the years roll on and I've found myself increasingly jaded about my mid-level media career, I start to wonder whether the "boring" route might have been the better one.
Especially over whether it's "boring" or not.
Chelsea, better than any other side in England, could close down a game when they needed to and so the question began to be asked whether they were boring.
There were several heated but good-natured exchanges as Savage and Shearer discussed diving, the Europa League and whether Chelsea are boring.
Talking through a large mustache that looks strAIGht out of his native land, circa 1950, El-Erian digresses in fluent but grammatically quirky English, pauses to ask whether he's boring his listener and digresses some more.
