Screaming Hysterical Nothingness

[Cramulus]

(well I still smoke more frequently than I probably should. but I've learned to take time off occasionally so it can become fun again.)

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

OP:

I feel like I'm in a similar position. I hate sounding like a Discordian elitist, but some of these people have no idea what fun is. Luckily, there are a few people on campus who share the sentiment that we ought to do something hysterically fun instead of just getting drunk and doing nothing.

I  think that in a lot of cases, they have a really good idea of what fun is, it's just not the kind of fun you're interested in.

And then again, some people really DO have a hard time concocting fun, which I think is a real skill and a valuable one, but fun can take a lot of different forms. Some of the most fun I've ever had, EVER, was sitting on Optimus Pinecone's porch in the summer, drinking beer and not really having anything to say. Some of the most fun I've ever had was also driving around with B and leaving bizarre thank-you notes and gifts on people's porches. Some of it was going down into the pipe with whiskey and a bunch of raucous, singing boys, and spray-painting until we were high on paint fumes.

It's good to have the instigators, the concoctors of fun like Cramulus. But fun can take a lot of different forms, and because it's a state of mind, it's hard to judge anyone else's fun. I mean, look at scrapbooking. That shit boggles my mind, but tons of people find it fun.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I eventually realized that I wasn't getting high anymore, and I was having much more fun sober than stoned.

I've gone through that. I don't know how people do that for years and years. Getting stoned everyday gets old after about 3 months. The giggles wear off, and all you are is lazy.

Wow... that must be some kind of weed you guys smoke

[hunter s.durden]

(well I still smoke more frequently than I probably should. but I've learned to take time off occasionally so it can become fun again.)

Fo' Sho'.

Once stupid shit stops being funny, or the ideas stop flowing, it's time to take a breaks. Once it becomes something you just do with no childlike joy it becomes shit.
Because of my infrequent use I rarely come to that point, but it's something to become mindful of.

[Rococo Modem Basilisk]

Fun is hard to define. It appears that as soon as you define something as being fun it stops being fun, because the fun you have doing something is not necessarily a function of what you are doing -- much of the time it's the context, and the particular context of not having done something before is occasionally enough to make it fun even if once you know how to do it it's not fun at all.

Some of the most fun I've had is taking a walk at 3am on new years eve wearing a raincoat over a tshirt and going out sleep-deprived with a friend to get an energy drink and chat about coding while we waited for dunkin donuts to open. This was fun the first several times. It ceased to be fun after a while. That kind of fun is not explicitly replicable.

Some stuff is generally pretty fun much of the time. But you can also wear it out.

[hooplala]

I eventually realized that I wasn't getting high anymore, and I was having much more fun sober than stoned.

I've gone through that. I don't know how people do that for years and years. Getting stoned everyday gets old after about 3 months. The giggles wear off, and all you are is lazy.

I politely disagree.

[hunter s.durden]

I eventually realized that I wasn't getting high anymore, and I was having much more fun sober than stoned.

I've gone through that. I don't know how people do that for years and years. Getting stoned everyday gets old after about 3 months. The giggles wear off, and all you are is lazy.

I politely disagree.

Sorry.

I've gone through that. I don't know how people do that for years and years. Getting stoned everyday gets old after about 3 months. The giggles wear off, and all I am is lazy.

[nostalgicBadger]

I haven't used weed as a source of fun in years. It was kind of fun when it was still new and exciting, but mostly for me it's just a way to relax. If you're trying to de stress, there's nothing like a soak'n'toak.

[hunter s.durden]

On the other side, I have a friend who breaks his neck to find this stuff so he'll have a good time, and inevitably things go exactly the same way. Lame.
Never learns.