Internet is such a bad invention.
I bet in the 1950s and the like there wasn't a whiff of procrastination because there wasn't any internet so therefore no easy distraction. It's bloody annoying, every day I say to myself 'Right come on let's get this homework done now rather than leave it to 2am the night before it's due'. Every time I wait until the last minute and I don't even get a super power-up boost of smartness (is that even a word), the essays and general homework are still shit.

My brain will tell me 'Come on it's only 300 words you can write that in your sleep' and then I realise I probably could so I can spend the time that I'm awake checking on various silly websites like this. I think I should hit my brain a bit to teach it a lesson, what do you think?
(I Am Plague @Mistication92, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 0:12, 4 replies)

I think
they had model trains and toy soldiers instead.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 2:24, closed)

Perhaps
Consider staring out of the window? As a procrastination tool I mean...
Also people actually spent ages talking to each other, and (According to my Dad) they actually went to work, and had proper lunch breaks, of an hour and 15 minutes. You could spend the whole time sitting and watching the girls in the summer, or sitting indoors playing cards with your colleages in the canteen in the winter. Rather than the (Hilariously named) "Micropauses" they have in offices and call centres now. No one procrastinated because a certain amount was built in anyway, because no one was in this much of a hurry..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 10:42, closed)

Hahahahahaahahahahah!
Everyone procrastinated before the internet - it's normal behaviour, the web has just given us another way to do it.

Before we all used to smoke pipes.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 12:46, closed)

Just take a look...
...at that episode of 'The Young Ones' where the telly finishes. In reply to 'are you going to bed?' Vivian says: 'No, I'm going to stare at the little white dot a bit longer.'

Nearly as boring as watching Big Brother Live through the night.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Tue 18 Nov 2008, 13:25, closed)