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Whether you've got a whole afternoon stretching in front of you or five minutes to spare you'll not get bored with our list of 50 things to do…


'Holly's party piece'

1. Write a letter up-dating pen-pals of your latest antics
2. Borrow a dog and go for a marathon walk
3. See how many marshmallows you can stuff into your mouth in one go (see pic above!)
4. Clear out your wardrobe and colour co-ordinate it
5. List all the films you've ever seen
6. Start a journal
7. Phone a chatline at 1am and take the piss out of people
8. Make muffins
9. Learn salsa dancing
10. Get mates together and play kid's games. Try hide and seek, dead lions or tag
11. Have a bubble bath complete with candles and a big glass of wine
12. Make paper chain people
13. Ponder the meaning of life
14. Invent a cocktail
15. Make the cocktail
16. Drink the cocktail
17. Learn a cheesy strip-o-gram routine and perform it for your partner
18. Host a poker night
19. Book a Brazilian
20. Sing Madonna songs at top volume using a hairbrush for a microphone
21. Write and host your own murder-mystery party
22. Learn how to make the perfect soufflé
23. Get a body piercing
24. Pick a random phone number out of the phone book, call it, when they answer say: "you are the weakest link, goodbye." Then hang up
25. Tie your mate's shoelaces together when they're not looking
26. Go buy a 20p mix-up from the sweet shop
27. Buy a Rubik cube, try and solve it, get frustrated and pull all the stickers off, rearrange them then show all your mates how clever you are
28. Talk backwards to everyone who talks to you
29. Watch Blue Peter and make the toy they build
30. Program a cheesy TV theme on your phone. Try Crossroads or Dynasty
31. Better still program your mate's phone while they're asleep for a 'surprise'
32. Build a den in your lounge with the clothes horse and bed linen
33. Perfect your signature for when you're rich and famous
34. Design your own tattoo
35. Read Steven Hawkin's 'A brief History of Time'
36. Begin your dissertation research
37. Masturbate
38. Eat chocolate straight from the fridge
39. Plan your round the world trip
40. Practice how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness
41. Pick a flower and play 'S/he loves me, s/he loves me not'
42. Dress up as convincingly as you can as a member of the opposite sex, go to the pub and chat up a wo/man
43. Recite all the words to an obscure 90s song
44. Make your own grotesque supermodel by cutting out body parts from magazines
45. Surf the net for useless information
46. Read Degrees North
47. Learn how to count to ten in a foreign language
48. Write a poem
49. Look down the sides of chairs and settee for change. Collect it 'till you've got enough for a piss-up in Manor Quay
50. If all else fails, take a nap!


'See what you can do when you put in the effort!'

 

 
Sunderland University 2001