Incredibly dull things your husband gets excited about

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Please tell me I'm not the only one?

We live in a village and have a bit of a drive to the nearest "proper" shops. Hence the excitement over the new Eurospar that has been built over the last few months, opening today.

DH has provided a running commentary on the development of this project, his approval of how they've blended the new construction nicely in with the facade of the listed building involved, his disgust at the choice of electricians used (he spotted their van) his excitement when he peered in the window and realised it's actually going to be a sort of split level effect...

Today I woke up in darkness to DH's head sort of floating above me in the morning gloom, and a hiss of "it's half six. The new Eurospar opens at seven"

I had to tell him that, according to Facebook, it opens at 12,and he will have to wait until tomorrow so we can visit it as a family. He was absolutely crestfallen, but I'm going to suprise him with an emergency need for chocolate later tonight. He will then be able to visit this new Mecca, and come back all puffed up like a pigeon, to report on its wonders. I imagine that once the excitement fades, he'll go back to his previous fixation, "what sort of shed shall we get next summer"

Mine also seems to have a weird fixation with Screwfix. I really don't get it.

He also rabbits on about how many steps he had walked today or this week according to his Garmin watch.

Any new development in our area is riveting to him.

I didn't know Screwfix sold Valentine's cards.

I won't be telling DH that or I might end up with one.

Brexit.

I definitely win!

Aquariums, especially saltwater. Herpetology. Oh, and he gets so worried about plants dying... even ones that are supposed to die back every year.

Tanks. World War 1 and 2 planes. I think its endearing but sometimes when he starts going on about them I do zone out. I expect he's the same when I start about alternative education!

The first night we met he took my on a romantic walk to see the scaffolding he had erected nearby ! We have to stop and look at every bit of scaffold we see.The tool station book is like his bible. Dont get me started on the motorbikes, cars, trains and tractors that he can talk about for hours. But he is lovely

Stock car racing videos on YouTube from years ago.
Driving routes, in detail.
Land Rovers, especially old military ones.

DH bought a steam cleaner last week. He’s waxing lyrical about it to anybody who will listen. His review was so enthusiastic the company contacted him to thank him😀.

My DF stayed with us for a few months after he broke his hip. His passion turned out to be watching YouTube videos of canalboats -live action of cruising at 3mph up the Mon & Brec, narrated by a man with the most deadly dull nasal voice you can imagine. "So this bridge is a rack and pinion of the obverse type, pretty rare actually, constructed in 1867 or was it 1869? No, 1867, the year I met my wife. Anyway..." DF is quite deaf, so they were played at volume 11. I would pass through from my office to the kitchen to make a cuppa every hour or so, saying, in increasingly shrill tones, "Wow, this is a long one, isn't it?" "Oh, is this still on?" "Does he really do the whole canal?" "How long??"

He also likes YouTube videos of access routes into campsites.

Political minutiae. Who won in X constituency in X year, with a swing of X% from X Party, who regained the seat in the by-election of X year, against a poll prediction of X. You get the picture

Such a funny thread

The indie bands / Coldplay post made me lol

Just told dp about the screw fix obsessions , thinking he would say me too
But he said indignantly I’m not obsessed with screw fix ( hmmm I think I will be the judge of that )

Also the temp in the car vs the temp outside .. why ? Who cares ? But I just smile and nod

Love him really

Mine is obsessed with the British History podcast and is forever trying to engage me in conversations about the lifestyle of the Anglo Saxons

At the moment my husband is watching 2 old men sitting on a riverbank fishing .... boring! What is interesting about watching men fish?

The different various travel options when going to watch his football team playing away. I really just need to know what time he's leaving and returning not the method, train time who he's meeting when.........

Also Under 11s rugby training plans !

I do love him though

This thread explains a lot. I often joke that my job is meeting nerdy men for a chat about boring things, which it is, because I'm a safety consultant for a certain hazard and most of our clients are in industries like aerospace, telecommunications or niche manufacturing and I meet a lot of engineers, Health and Safety managers or similar. Some of them are probably the DHs on here.

Obviously I have to be nice to them and humour their small talk, and to a man they always want to know about which route I took, what the traffic was like, what car I'm driving that sort of stuff. But sometimes I lose patience when they start telling me about what project they're working on, like the time someone spent about 40 minutes telling me about the coating process on the components they made, literally down to a sub atomic level.

We have to stop and look at every bit of scaffolding we see. DP does that - he does various things in the entertainment industry and if we see a stage, he'll start looking at what sort of things they've used. He was in his element when we went on holiday and there was a stage in the park next to where we were staying - no concerts on at the time, but it was there for a series of events over the summer - meant he got to go have a good nosy at it.

Formula 1

Bunch of overpaid lads driving round in circles.

At least it isn't the football. I already feel sorry for ds's future partner, and he's only 17!

DH: Oh look, we must be going uphill because the fuel efficiency has dropped.

I have an electric car. Dh is obsessed with the battery performance of my car and how much the weather affects it's Effie I envy and range, etc. It's made a whole extra layer to fuel efficiency here 🙄

Ahh don't be hard on him. Get ready and go with him. Why have you got to wait until tomorrow

I am sure there are loads of women who wished that was there husbands only fixation.
Don't be mean making him wait.

I think you are being very mean and seems to like to be in charge

Football, tennis, motor racing and golf.

When he worked in branch banking it was like a forensically focused never ending game of I-Spy wherever we went

Snooker and cricket

@HandbagCrazy You aren’t alone with the Gold Rush obsession. I have DH and now the 2 teenage DS loving that and Gold Divers. We have a USA trip planned for a few years’ time and He wondered if we were anywhere near a real goldmine. By “near” he meant 100s of Miles away. Close enough to do a detour in his opinion.

At least he seems to have stopped his obsession with Finding Bigfoot which is another of those programmes which is the same one on repeat. DH LOVED to pretend to take the piss out of that: “Look, DW, it’s pathetic, they jump on every little sign that they might be onto something”, “listen to this noise! It’s so fake ha ha!” He honestly reminded me of watching the kids the first year they visited somewhere at Christmas with a grotto or Father Christmas arriving etc and skitting how fake he looked etc. BuI knew that inside they were desperate for him to be real and doing it to mask their disappointment.

I don’t get Man VS Food either. The excitement the 3 of them have for that. In fact the whole thing makes me quite cross. There is something inherently wrong with a grown man purposely overeating and wasting huge amounts of food for the entertainment of others, when such a large number of people in the world are starving or malnourished.

Cycling and building his imaginary Tour De France ultimate racing bike. He’s always going on about ‘group sets’ and ‘Ultegra Di 2’ and wireless brakes... unfortunately when we started going out I faked an initial interest, so now he happily chats away to me about this or that latest bike, and I haven’t the heart to tell him I don’t have a clue what he’s on about!

pokemon go
doctor who (collects stuff, our dd really did have a monster in her wardrobe as a child)
football
the price of petrol
the tedious reports he has to write for work (i get a blow by blow account, including averages and how he made it look 'interesting' )
boris johnson and twatty things he says
vic and bob jokes
once over sunday lunch I just couldnt take anymore and said 'please can we talk about something else, i really think we have exhusted the subjct of the boiler'

he is the best man in the world and I love him