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Most conferences tend to be boring, although not intentionally so. But there is one event that is deliberately dedicated to all things dull and tedious – the 'Boring Conference' hosted every year at London. Believe it or not, it's a sell-out event where attendees are treated to talks on all sorts of boring things like paper bags, toilet roll quality control, lamp posts, and bricks. 大多数会议往往都很无聊，尽管这并不是组织者的本意。但是有人故意组织一场会议，说的都是全然无趣又乏味的事物，那就是每年在伦敦举办的“无聊大会”。信不信由你，这个活动非常卖座，与会者能听到的就是关于各种各样无聊事情的讲话，比如纸袋、卷筒卫生纸的质量控制、灯柱，和砖块。 How did such a thing as a Boring Conference come to exist, you ask? Well, it all started in 2010, when the man in charge of organizing an event called the Interesting Conference canceled the whole thing, saying that he was too busy. James Ward, an English book author and marketer, replied to the announcement, saying that he liked boring things and that they should be celebrated too. His social media post got a lot of people interested in a possible event about boring things and he started getting questions about where to buy tickets for it. That year, Ward organized the world's first Boring Conference. 你要问了，像“无聊会议”这样的活动是怎么发展起来的呢？是这样的，它起步于2010年，当时负责组织一个叫做“趣味大会”的人说他太忙了，就取消了那次活动。詹姆斯•沃德是一位英文图书作者兼营销人员，他在社交媒体上发帖回应这一声明说，他喜欢无聊的事，无聊的事也应该庆祝。他的帖子引发了许多人对这个可能会存在的关于无聊事情的活动的兴趣，于是人们开始问他在哪里能买到这种活动的票。那一年，沃德组织了世界上第一场“无聊大会”。 | 
