The Lazy Weekend

[Scheherazade]

Monday being a holiday (both in the UK and the US, I believe), this weekend begs to be dedicated to the laziness.

Share your own lazy episodes, habits and dreams with us here.

Since reading A Confederacy of Dunces, the way I view laziness has changed.

[LitNetIsGreat]

Great idea. A must in the lazy genre is the book by Tom Hodgkinson How to be Idle, it's practically the idle manifesto.

I intend to bike out to a dam or reservoir today, with a flask of tea and a couple of books and laze for a couple of hours....

[prendrelemick]

Walling :(:(:(:(:( while listening to the cricket:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[cafolini]

Great idea. A must in the lazy genre is the book by Tom Hodgkinson How to be Idle, it's practically the idle manifesto.

I intend to bike out to a dam or reservoir today, with a flask of tea and a couple of books and laze for a couple of hours....

You are tight, Neely. Come on, man, give it at least four. LOL

[LitNetIsGreat]

I'm not sure what you mean. Though I am tight because I am from Yorkshire and it is in the water 'how much?' is the local motto...

Yes I went out today and lazed around as I try to do as much as possible. I fished for about an hour in the dam, drinking tea though mostly and then packed up because it was too much effort. I then laid on my towel and cushion in the sun with a chess book. I did look up to watch the boats sail by occasionally, but that was the most of my labours...

There's no point in just reading about laziness; you have to go out and live it! Work at it man! And in terms of laziness I make it is my personal ambition. Make laziness not for a weekend, but for a lifetime, that's the thing. Leave the hurrying around for ants and other insects. Such activity is not meant for thinking beings.

Now go fetch me another Cumberland!

[Emil Miller]

I may have posted this anecdote before in connection with a similar thread but it's so apposite it will stand repeating.

A cub reporter was given the task of interviewing Dean Martin on the entertainer's retirement:

Cub Reporter: How are you enjoying retirement Mr Martin?

Dean Martin: Well son, after 46 years in show business I've now got enough money to do what I've always wanted to do.

Cub Reporter: What's that Mr Martin?

Dean Martin : Nothing son, absolutely nothing.

[cacian]

idle is another word that comes to mind when laziness strikes a sound.
I by nature not lazy but I did do find the word idle rather sidle as if to take laziness out of its real context. not all lazy is bad it could come to mean just chilling and oh and there is a coffee brand called lazy sunday you would think coffee kicks rather then laze but there you go, go figure.
so I would say lazy is nice as oppose to idle which is forced I like to think that all words with a negative have a tamed side to them and are not all as they seem.
I say the less nasty words in a language the nicer the people in general because language has a direct bearing on people's mentalities and does reflect society as a whole.
oh and this is the first time I hear of the word DUNCE. I am thinking what on earth is that in real life?

[papayahed]

I'd love to be at a beach with a book right now. (Instead I'm in my living room with a big pile of laundry to fold)

[Delta40]

Hmmph! Well no long weekend in Oz but there is one next Monday so I'll look forward to that and maybe the weather will still be better than it is in the UK!

[tonywalt]

"Don't try" Charles Bukowski

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[Scheherazade]

Just realised I still had my "lazy avatar" on... That is saying something!