Bored of the rings: trendy couples are exchanging wedding hats instead.   Words from: Investi-gative journalist Martin Lucas-Tooth wakes up stiff as a bored every morning, and a little confused.

A quick history of boredom, so you don't get too.

Skate BORED

In 2001 worldwide sales of the fish skate plummeted. Skate, which has always been in the top five of popular fishes (along with perch, pike, pilchard and pancake) has been disappointing the restaurant eating public of late.

New farmed skates have been found to have an inherent flavourlessness and “too many wheels on them” for the posh-knobbing chompers to chew on. Recent complaints that the funny-looking flat fish tasted of wet dog and bad water have been rife and many said they wish they had ordered a tuna instead

Circuit BORED

The excitement of electricity is diminishing after 100 years at the tip of our top ten energy sources. After its invention in 1876 electricity really took off, and worldwide sales of the stuff rocketed. Light bulbs, radios and typewriters would be nowhere now if it weren’t for electricities then.

By the middle of last century electricity was being used to plug sockets, heat baths and even drive cars. But with more interesting types of energy coming on to the market, it looks like electricity has fallen out of favour with the power buying public. Windmills, which make wind, once just a tourist attraction in Dutchland are fast becoming the most popular energy maker of the now.

BORED of the rings

Wedding couples everywhere are sick and tired of exchanging rings with their marriage vows and aren’t putting them on each other’s fingers anymore. The new fashion in American churches and registry offices everywhere is the exchange of hats to signify a life-long commitment to each other.

The nuptual hat fad first made itself known in Hollywood where richly famous stars gave up putting gold circles on fingers for hats on heads last year. New wedding hat businesses are booming, with the US baseball cap becoming the most popular hat to say “Like, I so do” in.

BOREDinary World

We’re now well into the 21st Century and it seems that people are bored of just about everything, including eighties band Duran Duran. As we look to the future, we see that it is bleak, with people already showing symptoms of being cheese bored, sandwich bored, chopping bored, and in the world of classical musics, Chopin bored. Even high-trousered ageing ballet-boy Michael Flatley has announced that he is Bored of the Dance.