AIBU to find one-issue personalities rather tedious to be around?

Except, you probably have. You wouldn't have a clue if they didn't tell you.

For me it's people who use 'something...brigade.' It always sound so narrow and intolerant.

Oh bugger! This has made me realise that I insert the dog into most conversations.

Doing it now... (I promise to be more aware and less irritating in the future.)

A friend of a friend is obsessed by how fantastic Germany is. Everything comes round to how much better it, whatever the conversation is about, is so much better in Germany. Public transport, local government, buffets, the press, bank holidays. All much, much better in Germany. It doesn't matter what the conversation is about, he talks about Germany. Exhausting.

To be fair, looking at your list, if i were homeless i would be fixated on it as an issue.

My boss talks about her two GC’s constantly

She couldn’t tell you how many kids I have let along DGCs

I worked with someone a long time ago who only spoke about her child. Nothing else.

Looool that's all I think of whenever I see "peri" on here or SM 🤣

I knew a ‘military wife’ and all she talked about were military rankings and all of the people her husband outranked.

It was like a weird cult.

This is excellent and gives me hope.

Thanks. As a "healing C-PTSD ADHD post-menopausal woman" I'm very proud of putting myself first sometimes. I'm being kind to myself.

There was a woman my mum knew when I was young, whose entire personality seemed to be that she'd lived in the same suburb all her life.

She'd always say things like, 'I've lived here all my life and it hasn't rained like this since 1962 and the main road nearly flooded.'

Or 'I've lived here all my life and I remember when they opened the greengrocers.'

Every time we saw her she found some reason to mention she'd lived there all her life.

It was a very boring place and I always wondered why she seemed it was something to boast about.

I remember once she began a sentence with 'I've lived here all my life' my mum exclaimed, 'oh, really! I didn't know that! How amazing!'

I thought my mum was having a weird memory lapse at the time but in hindsight she had probably got fed up of this woman constantly telling her she'd lived there all her life and finally snapped and responded sarcastically.

Protein …

Professional ‘tight’ Scots /Northerners
Women on the jabs - previously Slimming World or WW

Yup
Drives me potty
that and the ‘peri’ bullshit

I agree. It's very dull.

The person you were with has a fixation with this incident from 1998 where they feel it is relevent to them, but they have not realise yet that people who don't know them will not see the relevance.

Having said this, horse riding is dangerous, and some people have been seriously injured after falls.

My BIL has a really obnoxious theatre obsession. To the point where he reduced his hours at work, so he'd have more time to go to Wednesday matinees...!

A family funeral of a much-loved uncle earlier in the summer, for some inexplicable reason, BIL wore a bright red sparkly waistcoat, and any time it was commented on, would launch into a "Oh this?! I wear it to the theatre... Let me tell you about X that I saw..." He literally worked the room, telling anyone who would listen, at great length, all about his theatre trips.
I just watched in bemusement as he trapped assorted aging cousins to talk at them, then be completely oblivious as their eyes started glazing over. It's like the world's worst TED talk.

I feel your pain! I have (or had a friend like this, currently distancing myself)
It was her entire topic of conversation, Covid was a scam apparently to inject everyone with 5G trackers etc, chem trails are poisoning us, all food is being tampered with to kill us off etc. The final straw was when she came to visit me and refused to have a drink in my house because she didn’t trust what the government were putting in the water! 😬 She hasn’t been invited back! 😂

My 8 year old autistic son would absolutely love your 8 year old autistic son 😂

Agree that one track minds and sole topics of conversation are not welcome.

Ah yes, being a Northerner.... I know that syndrome . I had never known that I was a southerner until I met a Northerner....and then another one, and then another one. Their sense of humour, their friendliness, their lack of pretension. It never stopped.

Oooh another one - "mental health". Specifically "I have mental health".

Yes love, everyone has mental health. What you mean is, you have mental health issues. Then it's used as a get out clause for everything. I cant do the vacuuming due to my mental health I'm afraid. I cant give you a lift to the class (even though you've been giving me lifts for the last 12 weeks) due to my mental heath. Sorry I didnt turn up to your birthday meal and left you waiting alone-it was my mental health.

Mental health issues (which is obv a very legit thing when its genuine) is being used an excuse to just be a total selfish arsehole by some people