Are we THIS lazy???

[Shaz]

Yes, last night when I had just posted a script and headed to bed immediately afterwards. I lay awake wondering if anyone had commented, used it, had problems, needed help. But I wasn't getting out of bed to check. And yes, that WAS pure laziness. And sleepiness

 

[Heretic86]

Hmm, yup, we are that lazy!

Naw, it actually requires an alteration of perspective in that thinking about an idea requires a tremendous level of effort, so it isnt just the physical activity of clicking a mouse or flipping a tablet, but the ideas and concepts contained within the messages and information transmitted takes a helluva lot of effort.  The Human Brain only has about 5% of the total body mass of the average individual, but consumes 30% of the resources such as Oxygen and other body fuels to operate.  That is MASSIVE, and as a result, mental fatigue can come just as easily as physical fatigue.  The more you think about an idea, the more your brain can become mentally fatigued.  It isnt just about being "Lazy".

 

[Seacliff]

That's why I invest in desktops instead of laptops...  That, and the 500 recharge limit on rechargeable batteries...

I keep my laptop plugged in at all times, (seriously, it's hardly been unplugged in almost 2.5 years.) I don't want to know how long it lasts when I unplug it.

On topic, my answer is that whenever I want to go on the Internet, and I'm close to the computer, I do so. I don't own a smart phone of any kind so being able to use the Internet while not at home or school is a miracle.

 

[Celianna]

I'm glad my wife does the grocery shopping. I would just continue to scrape the back of the cabinets until I was eating the paint.

Well some people are a single household


I got creative with this bratwurst I had sitting frozen in my freezer. Managed to make meatballs out of them for spaghetti. Turned out pretty awesome. But I should really get some fresh food now.

 

[whitesphere]

In terms of food, I'm rather fond of easy to cook things like black bean soup in 10 minutes. 

Ingredients:  1 cup beef broth, 1 cup salsa, 2 cans of black beans, 1/2 tsp cumin.  Rinse the cans of beans well, then use an immersion blender on everything except 1 can of the beans.  Toss in the unblended can of beans, heat in a pan until boiling, and you have a tasty soup within 10 minutes.  I usually add spinach, garlic and sauteed onions to add more flavor.

Or pasta, cheeseburgers or any other food that can be quickly prepared.  But the soup is an easy to make mainstay I usually eat with a sandwich.

 

[mlogan]

I love how this is turning into a food conversation, rofl!!

Cel, those actually sound pretty good!

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I've commented before that I would fail as a human being living on my own.

I'm capable of doing BIG things, like deep cleaning the entire house every couple of months, but I'm terrible at MAINTAINING. Grocery shopping, laundry, dishes, taking out the garbage.

Part of it is that I have a hard time with time. Like, days can go by without me realizing how long its been. Its actually one of the hardest things workwise for me, I have to keep a calendar and check it daily to make sure I don't get off schedule.

The other part is that, eh, it will still be there later. I'm so lucky that my wife is awesome, otherwise I would die.

 

[Jesse - PVGames]

I am the complete opposite of Touchfuzzy - I maintain the household like nobody's business - there is never a dirty dish in the sink, I go grocery shopping regularly, take care of the trash, laundry, etc. But I tend to suck when it comes to the bigger things. I have been in my house for over a year now, with the plans to have a deck built in the back but I have yet to do anything about it. I also been meaning to get a floor jack in the basement for a beam that is sagging a little, but also have not yet done that. Sometimes I forget to mow the lawn for like a month.

 

[Ms Littlefish]

I love how this is turning into a food conversation, rofl!!

Cel, those actually sound pretty good!

I feel like every conversation can be and is about food if you try hard enough. But yeah, Celianna's bratwurst spaghetti sounds like something I want to do on purpose and not the result of emptying the freezer.

 

[Tai_MT]

I've made "poor man's spazghetto sauce" before.  I used to live in an apartment that had rent which would consume one of my entire paychecks and part of another (the people running the place suddenly inflated their rent $130 and I could no longer afford it), so I'd live on bread, butter, and whatever lunch meat I could afford.  Sometimes, I'd have enough money to afford spaghetti, but I wouldn't always have enough for the amount of sauce I'd need for the noodles I could buy cheap.

So, I started experimenting with it.  I ended up using ketchup except that I'd throw a bunch of garlic and a bit of pepper into it and then simmer it with half a cup of vegetable oil to make sauce.  It wasn't the most delicious thing ever, but it did the job of being spaghetti sauce for me!  A lot of my cooking abilities have come from the whole "I can't afford to buy groceries, what can I mix together to make something edible?".  Ever have Grilled Cheese made from Rye Bread with shredded cheese as the only source of cheese in your home?  I have!  It wasn't too bad, either!  I've also substituted bologna for other meats in some recipes.  It's pretty good in spaghetti sauce, but you can also use it quite well in quesadillas or in soups.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I've made a ramen microwave omelette before. Its surprisingly tastier than you would think.

 

[Celianna]

Okay so I finally got off the computer and went shopping. I bought about 12 damn porkchops. We're having wienerschnitzels for my birthday in two weeks and I had to stock up.


Also, being creative when you've got nothing else in your house is always fun, sometimes you can make some surprisingly delicious dishes. Although I don't really want to replicate Tai_MT's suggestion for spaghetti sauce ... tomato paste is very cheap here (like €0,20), and I always have like 4 cans lying around, plus spices. As long as you have a good pantry, you can make a lot of things from scratch.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

The key to improvising is tortillas. Just fry **** and throw it in a tortilla.

Or rice. Fried rice is just a way to get rid of all the random **** you have in the kitchen.

 

[Celianna]

I'm actually planning on making a chicken wrap tonight


Although the clean-up is less fun ...

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I make pack ramen as though it was cup ramen because I don't feel like getting a pot dirty. Just heat water in a kettle and then pour it into a bowl with the pack ramen in it and cover it with a plate for 3 minutes.

 

[Heretic86]

Choosing to NOT THINK is just as much a form of Instant Gratification as the Fast Meal.  Thinking and Cooking both require effort.  Working requires effort.  Doing nothing is the only thing that doesnt require effort.

 

[Tai_MT]

Well, tomato paste here isn't too bad either...  But, when you didn't have money to buy that either, you kind of just used what you had.  I buy Ketchup and spices in bulk, so that's what I had on hand.  There are times when I've just eaten the spazghetto noodles by themselves after only cooking them.  Salt heavily and consume.  Not the best tasting meal, but when all you have to buy groceries with for a month is $28, you figure out ways to stretch what little you can afford for that entire month.  It teaches you to be creative like nobody's business!  I also gave up coca cola for that entire six month period as well.

I always hear about people complaining about how they can't afford groceries and how little they have to spend on them (even with kids) and I always wonder just what kind of waste exists in their shopping lists to not be able to afford food.  I lived on $28 a month for food, for six months, before my mom bailed me out of the apartment by spotting me the cash I'd need to move into a cheaper place.  Granted, it they weren't "pleasant" meals, but if the only rule was "be fed", those meals certainly did that!  To be honest, I think it should be mandatory for people to have to live on next to nothing for six months of their lives.  It teaches you a lot of valuable lessons about spending money, thrift shopping, prioritizing expenses, how to get more with less, and how to spot the real suffering people from those pretending to be suffering (I'm talking about the poor and the homeless in this case).  What's even better is that these aren't lessons you forget.  Currently, I live on $60 every two weeks (or less if I can get away with it) and I'm still thrift shopping and creating makeshift meals on occasion.

You'd be surprised how far a sack of potatoes can go, especially if you've got random condiments and spices just laying around.  Soft potato chunks even go amazingly well in sandwiches!

As for the topic at hand (I feel we've strayed quite a bit here... and I'm guilty of that to a fair extent)...  I don't think I've ever really been too lazy to turn my computer on or off.  Sometimes, I'm too lazy to walk the 10 feet over to my movie rack and grab a movie to watch, so I'll just watch whatever Netflix has on instead (even if it's a terrible movie).  Sometimes, I'm also too lazy to break down pizza boxes and soda boxes, so I'll just kind of toss 'em to the side until there's enough of them that it looks beyond unsightly and break 'em all down at once.  Heck, there are times when I just keep a loaf of bread at my computer desk to make sandwiches for lunch so I don't have to wander through the kitchen and make my sandwiches there.  It's easier for me to just grab my clean plate, pile all the ingredients for sandwiches on top of the plate, then haul it back to my computer desk where I set it all out and assemble the sandwich in front of my screen.  I try not to take more than I need from the fridge either...  Getting back up to put what I didn't use back is a pain (like putting the mayo or butter away...  Or the lunch meat).  Oh, I also bring the knife with me and leave it on my plate when I finish, ha ha.  I'm also too lazy to do dishes.  I have like 7 plates, but I just rewash the same one for each meal.  Likewise forks and other silverware.

 

[TurtleDan]

You can call me quite lazy.

Unless I am interrupted for one thing or another, I spend all my time from up outa bed to goin back to bed, I spend in front of my PC working on one thing or another.

 

[Misaki]

I just stare in front of my computer for about 12 hours.

Sometimes a entire hour is wasted staring at something that I screwed up but can't figure out how to fix it.

 

[Touchfuzzy]

I had this friend back about 12 years ago. Laziest man I have ever met in my life. We were hanging out in the dining room of our apartment (he was one of my roommates), and he was laying on the floor while we were talking He had pulled a slice of pizza out of a box he had but it was kind of room temp. Keep in mind we are RIGHT NEXT TO THE KITCHEN. Instead of walking to the kitchen and popping it in the microwave, he just holds it in front of a space heater that was in the room until it was sort of warm.

We used to joke that we would come home to him in an iron lung because he got too lazy to breathe.