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Have you ever sat down to do some serious work and end up fluthering your time away?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) August 31st, 2013

Have you ever had some time, maybe a couple of hours and you thought you’d do some comparative shopping, check some major retailers for a specific item, look up some facts on Wikipedia, etc, stop by Fluther and end up fluthering all your time away? You look up and the next thing you know, you are out of time.

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gailcalled's avatar

Are you equating doing “some serious work” with comparative shopping, checking some major retailers or fact-checking on Wikipedia?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

Sorry, we are all not brain surgeons, astrophysicist, bridge builders, etc. Trying to be a heads up shopper and such is not frivolous to everyone. Then again, if you answered the question instead of commenting on the question I might have had a heart attack~.

DWW25921's avatar

Yes! There are a lot of things I could be doing right now! My fluther activity seems to be somewhat of a gorge and purge relationship. I’ll beat it to death than vanish for 6 months. :)

Seaofclouds's avatar

Many, many times. For me, it is usually that I’m trying to do homework or research for work and get sucked into some Fluther questions instead. I just stay up later to get my other stuff done.

dxs's avatar

Don’t ruin my Fluthering by reminding me!

Berserker's avatar

Well yeah, it’s happened to me. I don’t blame Fluther though. If it didn’t exist, instead of doing the work I had set out to do, I probably would have found something else to procrastinate with. I mean, when I really don’t want to do something that needs to be done, and figure it can hold off, there’s bunches of other shit I eventually gravitate to.

Pachy's avatar

That’s pretty much how I spent my three-decade career in advertising (elephant wink).

augustlan's avatar

All. The. Time. Of course, Fluther is serious work for me, but that’s not always what I mean to do when I sit down at the computer.

livelaughlove21's avatar

Oh yeah. All the time.

By the way, if you’re looking for facts, I’d steer clear of Wikipedia.

Headhurts's avatar

Yes, right now. I need to change the bed, and do a general tidy up. I was also going to do a bit of online shopping, but here I am. I’ve got myself a cup of tea, and settled on the sofa. I’ve been saying ‘ten more minutes’ for an hour so far.

zenzen's avatar

Never let life interfere with flunking.

Berserker's avatar

Drunk Fluthering, I believe. of which I know a thing or two about.

Eggie's avatar

Yea, all the time

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