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

I agree. It's very dull.

Yup
Drives me potty
that and the ‘peri’ bullshit

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

Protein …

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.

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.

This is excellent and gives me hope.

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.

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

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

My boss talks about her two GC’s constantly

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

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

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.

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.)

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.

I should have clarified they were former homeless as in 10 years ago

I've got a horse, I've had her for years and years but I don't go on about it - there's a woman at work who also has a horse and every single time I see her I have to listen to her tell me about their latest dressage competition, or the new saddle she's bought, or the new lorry she's bought - I seriously Could. Not. Give. A. Fuck, leave me alone.

I'm also a parent although mine are somewhat grown up now, but I hate it when some of the women talk non stop incessant drivel about their babies/young children - I get, they're wonderful, I was there once, but can we talk about ANYTHING else please!!!

I think this is the thing. I have let a couple of friendships drift because they would talk AT me and look quite perturbed when I leapt in to say something (anything!) about myself. I realised that, if they were to be interviewed about me (although that is very unlikely) they wouldn’t know what to say. Maybe they would just make it up.

One person made the conflict in Israel / Palestine the only thing she would talk about. I would change the subject and say vague things like “Oh, I’ve never visited Israel” and she would just carry on.

I once told my boss (and a load of other men) that they had to be able to talk about something other than football.

Have you ever been around them when they've had a few drinks ? Commonly known as pub bores and everyone avoids them .
Topics within my family include

Trump
American politics in general
Liverpool football
Conspiracy theories regarding migrants

We are not American or Scouse or live anywhere affected by migrants . Bore off who cares.

I used to go out with someone who was tall (maybe 6ft 4). He would shoehorn how tall he was into conversations where it didn’t belong.

Dp worked with someone like this

'Josh,josh josh,josh,josh,josh'

He steered me away from her at the Christmas party

My son’s best friend mum is like this, she drops into how her children were breastfed into every single conversation, the last time she breastfed her child was 5 years ago. I also breastfed my children but it’s not something I feel the need to drown into every conversation.

can’t wait for the time when they can socialise independently

My mother - illness, medical procedures, death of people i don't know ..it's extremely trying!