It's the perfect place for wasting doing almost nothing"

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Is it correct to say "It's the perfect place for wasting doing almost nothing"?
 

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What is it supposed to mean?
 

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The writer has missed out the word time.

It's the perfect place for wasting time doing nothing.

Please provide the source.
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The missing word "time" looks like the kind of typographical error an editor should have noticed and corrected.
 
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The missing word "tine" looks like the kind of typogeaphical error an editor should have noticed and corrected.

You've made a couple of typogeaphical errors there, probus. ;)
 
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