riffing literature the collector of worlds a must read novel about the real life adventure and richard francis but you learn from your writings and you can trust us because in the money as a box we begin with a visit to the fascinating world of the monday night in the humdrum the drab and the dull the annual boring conference that took place in the british capital recently my colleague a drink chemist kennedy was there and discovered subjects that normally might appear trivial and tedious can be given a new lease of life it will be here to explain how drudgery can get you excited in a couple of minutes but 1st let's get boring. conway hole is a famous home of radical free thinkers in the heart of the mystery the boring conference is taking place here for the 9th time. founder james ward is master of ceremonies and a veritable titan of tedium. and my name is james ward and i'm me found

of the pouring conference a one day celebration of the mundane people wouldn't marry a p.s. and there phillips the theme is boring but the content should be focused incorporate for example right sure weili is fascinated by the greenwich time signal . mike bates has a passion for postcards of nearby battersea park. joyce smith explains how she started collecting books certificates. the conference is sold out so who are these people and why are they wasting their weekend here. what's the big attraction here. being bored of listening to people talking about things that they care way way to the play about i mean there's i enjoy science i enjoy competing and things like that trivial the

monday is one of my straight the most boring thing is the lunch break that's quite which is thankfully over james tittering term likes to walk in straight lines for his film underfoot he paused once a minute to take a 5 2nd shot off the ground i think beginning to take her child i. lizzie austin's paper on the smell of laundry is accompanied by a video of a washing machine cycle. and live and dump a bit of audience participation in homes how intense is it does it remind you james wood has generously allowed me to take to the stage myself to bestow a boring prize most boring. at the boring conference.

goes to joyce smith. for her pioneering work on book certificates. at the end of the day i've gathered a lot of fun facts kind of person that made the logs for a. thing i could be boring i think given enough practice because you could get back to you a boring person can they be boring. it's all. everybody has to tear him away from his stamp collection a drug habit is adrian was the conference boring enough for you while there were moments of genuine boredom but much of it was surprisingly interesting i learnt a lot about the strength tests for these boxes for example the early tests measure the resistance of the box to bursting but was late so replaced by the edge crush

test because boxes were increasingly being stacked and it was important to know whether the books of the boat some of the stack could withstand all that weighing. really let's move swiftly on i think you've been affected by that comforts you've also identified a boring trend well i think the success of the conference and the rise of or import costs is testimony to a hunger for tedium the podcasts sleep with me is downloaded free 1000000 times a months in fashion there is a trend for the color beige so well done robin boring long surely is a big thing and norm call which began as a bit of a joke is now gone mainstream norm core of course says rejects collectivity you can wear something boring you don't have to wear something exciting so that's

a very important trend young people also rejecting venture holidays in favor of offline holidays where you can't do anything where you have no 5 reception surely in reality boredom should be avoided at all costs and no boredom me actually a good thing a recent study showed that people who are given a boring task sorting red and green beans into separate piles did much better on creativity tests that followed also the beneficial effects of boredom a borne out by many famous examples for example. in. the famously took a year off high school and just wandered off a loafing around aimlessly he likes to say that creativity is the residue of time wasted steve jobs apple found was also a pioneer of norm core as we say and he said boredom announced want to indulge in

curiosity and out of curiosity comes everything kerry says briefly if people want to embrace the boring a few tips well good start. to go offline a default activity for people trying to avoid boredom is playing with the phones but washing up without a dishwasher drying up using an old fashioned tea towel ironing shirts there are many many ways to get bored most of them are cheap and environmentally friendly genome fred you haven't been born again thank you anyway. now a car race like that while the media combines beautiful italian countryside and stunning traditional architecture with painstakingly restored vintage cars it's an enjoyment of a 4 days and to take your car has to have been produced before 957 we joined 2 professional racing drivers in

a classic mercedes sports car with go indoors. leave it to italy to make car racing look this good to me is nothing if not stylish in the 1957 mercedes 300 s l l in the work and zefi a flourish from germany to professional race car drivers together for 4 days through the heart of belloc the top. of the real challenge for both of us an 18 year old driving a $2000000.00 euro colony that's a formidable it's not bad right. eleanor is one of europe's most successful female racecar drivers. there's a few flourish as a rising star a year ago she was lucky to survive a major crash in macau but that didn't stop her dream of piloting a formula one race and she won't be stopped today given.

that exams are the i asked her if she wanted me to try she said i don't i'm 18 years old and i get to try this com what do you think so i said all right i'm stuck in the passenger seat but i remember i used to be the same way. i could do it. it's the co-pilot's job to find the correct route and to make sure the old car makes it over the finish line safely. don't forget it was built in 1970 so for me to switch to. one stage of the race can take up to 14 hours and a moment of carelessness is all it takes to get lost. and it's got all we got to right mean that all these cars behind us we took a wrong turn and they followed we all had to turn around on the main road it was funny but we came 1st. in italy the mealie meal is

a huge party effect children get the day off from school to go wave at the cars. it all started in 1027 back then it was just men behind the wheel female teams have only recently joined. up all women a much better drivers than men by way behind the wheel we go heavy on the gas we want to feel the vibrations and the power of the engine. driving through the regions of emilio manya and tuscany is an experience for all the sounds eleanor is participating in the mean a media for the 4th time but her younger colleague is still way ahead of her in one area. if you told me that it's completely possible to drive with total focus and still keep up with several 1000000 instagram tunnels because that. is if you have fresh hopes her posts will inspire more women to get into motor sports so that

more female teams will take part in the mill a media in the years to come. richard from was one of the world's great adventure as in the 19th century it was also a soldier a diplomat's an archaeologist a poet and was said to speak at least 2 dozen languages in the novel the collectors of worlds trying off turns buttons unbelievable life into believe a bull fiction resident but david leavitt's has more on our continuing series 100 german must reads hey did you book the hotel yet because of the one with the roof top are actually you know i really need a new profile pic what about the one with the infinity pool. and. what was travel like before their world like in the 19th century travel wasn't fun it was dangerous and time consuming back then to

richard francis burton was the ultimate traveler or as author earlier train of calls him the collector of worlds when burton travels to india as a british officer he dives into the kama sutra he learns new languages he even tries to speak to monkeys as a european burton isn't allowed to join the pilgrimage to mecca but that's no skin off his nose actually to pass as a muslim the skin has to come out somewhere else. you can disguise yourself as much as you want but you'll never learn what it's like to be one of us and you can take off your disguise at any time but we are imprisoned in our skin fasting is not the same as starving. the collector of world is about adventure spiritual sexual and intellectual and it's about privilege like the richard burton iliad torreon of his made hindu and muslim pilgrimages he's lived in europe and east africa he's one collector of worlds paying tribute to another.

mol on all these topics on the website that v.w. don't call them slash culture by the way it's the 10th anniversary of the boring called france next year so it should be especially tedious but now if you want to be with the in crowd and don't forget the comma is page by for the.

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