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I don't think we are in agreement either, that's why I qualified that statement with "If that is all you are saying". You said "Pain isn't fun, that's all I'm saying" and while I could tell that was not all you were saying, I was humoring you. I can most defiantly be bored while in pain. I have determined this experimentally. Many people I have talked to have clearly stated that they have been bored and in pain at the same time. You are the first person I have seen claim that they could not be bored and in pain at the same time. If that is true for you, then you are the only outlier in my (admittedly small) data set.

Your statement "You can't be bored and be in pain at the same time" is utterly ridiculous. According to Google, bored means "feeling weary because one is unoccupied or lacks interest in one's current activity". Pain does not hold my interest so it does not prevent me from lacking interest in my current activity.

Different people respond to pain differently. You are allowed to be different and given the small sample size available to me it is even possible that people like you are common. What I find annoying is you inability or unwillingness to understand that not everyone is you. Or perhaps you just don't know what "bored" means.



I nominate the word drudgery for simultaneous pain and boredom.




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