When you find yourself with a spare few hours

[TyphooToffee]

Read a book, do a crossword, try to think up one-liners and plots for a novel.


Not all that same time mind

 

[blue61]

I come on here and waste every precious minute.

 

[anjelikaferrett]

I sit on the coach, tea and chocky biscuits, watching the history channel, or Netflix.

Can't believe I used to jump up and down watching the Damned in Eric's club.

We could have been in the same place together and never known! lol

 

[Methuselah]

I sit on the coach, tea and chocky biscuits, watching the history channel, or Netflix.

Don't you lose the picture when the coach goes under a bridge?lol

 

[anjelikaferrett]

Read, watch trashy television. Sometimes I write - definitely a frustrated author. I've just signed up to do some outreach work on a Sunday morning with a homeless charity in Newcastle. Looking forward to that, I've got a nice life and I like to try and give something back. That should fill a couple of hours of spare time.

Crisps and digestive biscuits also feature heavily in the "doing nothing" scenario

 

[Billysgingham.]

..not like you.

lollol

 

[Billysgingham.]

Balls deep in yer mar

lollollollol

 

[Tubey]

I design RPGs based on GOT, as well as a Top Trumps card game based on GOT, or I sing about Ashtonian's need for new shoes.

 

[Tree13]

Skin care routine .... He/she is justifying this in the name of hygiene. if male, then it would be a quick wash or shower during which soap will remove any dirt and largely harmless bacteria that are engrained within the skin's natural oils.

If female then it will be a wash and scrub with scourers (environmentally bad mcrobeads) in a frantic attempt to remove as many loose layers of skin as possible and in the process remove too much natural oil, leaving the skin dry. Next you slather on a moisturiser product (basically a hugely overpriced mayonnaise that smells sweet because they don't a drop of scent rather than vinegar in it) which returns the oils you've just unnecessarily removed.

If you worry about wrinkles, you apply an enormously overpriced irritant, tested on rabbits* (until its harmful effects can't be recorded), which seeps through to the living layers and makes the skin swell and temporarily take up the wrinkling. How the body processes these chemicals once they've entered the living layers in anyone's guess.

*or if you're against this idea, you just reverse engineer a product that has been tested on animals by somebody else and copy it without your own testing, so you can claim to be ethical.

Basically, outside of the women"s magazines the reality is that the outer skin is dead and there's little care needed other than a quick rinse with soap. Wrinkles come as collagen wears down with age, which is due to oxidants in your body, (eg the results of smoking or simply breathing in air) or UV light. Of course there's no end to the ad-hype you'll get in mags telling you that their scrubs and mayonnaise and mild irritants will "care for and reduce" the effects of ageing (in return for colossal amounts of cash of course) but they're all total pseudoscience bubbles designed to con the readers and believers into believing they'll have an effect other than 'feeling pampered'.

It's bizarre how stuff that's good for the skin is always a miracle component of strawberries or papaya or coconut, and such miracle chemicals are never found in cow turd or the rotting carcass of badgers. Advertising.