Today I don't feel like doing anything, don't feel like picking , up my phone, so leave
a message at the tone, coz today I don't feel like doing anything.
Is that your song too? Are you feeling lazy and bored? Then my dear, congratulations coz
you have clicked on just the perfect video. In this video we are going to learn different
expressions to talk about boredom, so that you can finally talk about it and get over
it. Yes, please stay with me, I'm Michelle, let's start.
The first phrase, it does nothing for me, the word nothing here, means that nothing
at all, it signifies boredom, so obviously this phrase is talking about being extremely
bored. Let me share a situation with you. Once with my friend Mary we were having a
conversation and she had recently, read a book and she was telling about it, that Oh!
this book was so great , it really moved me, brought me to tears. I was like ok, which
book is it? When she told me the name, I had also just recently read that book. However,
that book did nothing for me. So, it left absolutely without any emotions. I did not
feel like crying, it did not move me, so probably it did not have the same impact on both of
us. When something does not impact you in a strong way and makes you feel emotionless,
then you can use this phrase. It did nothing for me or it does nothing for me. Does can
be used for the present form and did can be used for the past form. I'll write it for
you here. Emotionless. Not only books, you could also talk about movies, that the movie
left me emotionless or that movie does nothing for me, would mean the same thing or the movie
left me cold.
With this let's move on to the second phrase, to watch paint dry. Who likes to watch paint
dry, do you? I don't. Did anyone of you really raise your hand? If you did, do you see rainbows
when the paint is drying? I'm sure not. It's absolutely boring, so very boring. So what
do you say when you feel so bored, like you are watching paint dry. Let me give you a
situation. So, when you are watching TV and there are really long commercials, how does
it feel? Isn't it as boring as watching paint dry? That's where you can use this phrase.
This phrase is also called a simile because you start with an "as" sometimes. As boring
as watching paint dry. Doing a particular activity like maybe watching golf is as boring
as watching paint dry. Comparing the two things, you are bringing them together. That's what
a simile means. Extremely boring isn't it? happens sometimes.
Ok, let's move to the third one. I' m afraid I don't share your enthusiasm. How does that
look? I'm afraid, see I'm afraid is generally used when you are in a situation which is
slightly formal and not so personal. Also, it can be that if you are just trying to be
polite. Even if it is your friend and you are just trying not to hurt their feelings,
not to offend them, then probably this will be a good phrase that you can use. Formal
or polite. Do you want to know an example, so it so happens that I don't really like
politics. However, I do have friends who really enjoy talking about politics and for me, I
just don't enjoy it. So, when we are talking about it, I just don't want to offend them.
I don't want to tell them that kindly don't talk about it. that is very rude so what do
I tell them? I tell them I'm afraid but I don't share your enthusiasm on this topic.
Let's talk about something else. That is one way of not hurting them and moving to another
topic, right?
Let's move to the next phrase with that. I can't say that I find it interesting. This
is also the same thing, you don't find politics interesting, you find it very boring or may
be you don't feel football or soccer is interesting. You could just say that I can't find it interesting.
If your friends are planning to go out and they say that ok let's go for a football match
and you are like ok, 'Wow why a football match?" So, you must be thinking how should I tell
them that I don't want to watch a football match. You can simply say, "I can't say that
I find football interesting.That is one way of not offending somebody. Right.
Here we are to the next phrase.I can't see what all the fuss is about. Fuss? Fuss is
something where everyone is talking about one thing and that becomes so popular and
so liked by everyone. For me star wars, it really doesn't excite me. I think it's like
uh I don't understand it, I don't enjoy it but everyone around me is talking about it.
So sometimes I end up saying to them I can't see what all the fuss is about for star wars.
If there is anything like that for you which everyone around you likes and you do not,
then please free to say this but say it to the people who are your friends, coz this
cannot be used with your boss, because if you do, then that is extremely rude to your
boss but fine with your friends.
Here we are to the next phrase. It bores me to tears.What can bore you to tears? What
this means is that you are so bored that you almost want to cry. Are you feeling like that?
please don't, I'm here. If your cell phone breaks and you don't have access to the internet,
your laptop has crashed , how will you feel? You will be bored to tears because you will
have noting to do. So that is what it means height of frustration, you are so bored. Height
of frustration for you.
The next one what a bore! This also means that something has bored you too much. If
you are going out with your friends again and they say that ok let's go to Rigrocks
cafe and you don't like that place because you don't find it interesting and there is
nothing to do for you there. I also know one such cafe where I don't wanna do anything
and really just don't enjoy it. So I can say that the place is a bore or What a bore that
place is! Any which ways you can use the phrase you may not even include it a sentence. You
may just use it as a comment. What a bore! that will be enough.
With this we come to the last phrase of the day. How tedious or dull. What do we mean
by tedious. Tedious means something that goes on continuously doesn't stop and requires
a lot of effort. Can you relate to it? What about all those assignments that you have
from school or college? May be you have some work from your work place as well which is
very tedious where you need to put in a lot of effort and it's just never ending and also
on top of that it doesn't interest you. It is dull means not exciting, then you can use
this or you can just say or comment, How tedious or dull this work is. You can say that to
yourself , you can say that to your friends or anybody. The last three phrases are best
used with your friends because if you say it to your boss or an acquaintance, it might
become very rude and slightly offensive. As I already told you these two phrases are very
formal and they are also very polite so can use them with anybody. This phrase here can
also be used with your friends as it is written towards the end of the phrase. They can also
be sued with your friends better if you don't use with a acquaintance and the first one
here means emotionless and the second one means something which is extremely boring.
Here we are done with all the phrases. If you have still not got over your boredom then
please keep watching my videos. Go ahead see all of them and I'm sure you will learn a
lot and also you will get over your boredom. I'm very sure. Thank you so much for being
with me, this was so much fun. I hope it was fun for you also take care bye see you soon.