What bores you the most?

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Snooker

Prime minister questions.

Social media - and seeing unpleasant sides of people you thought you knew on it. Covers everything from shallow selfie types to unpleasant political opinions. Ditched mine years ago because of it.

Baking wankery. Ha ha, soggy bottoms, etc. Especially passive aggressive competitive baking, the bringing in treats before lockdown and waiting eagle eyed to see who will sample first and shower with praise to the high heavens. Eyes are usually on fat me and similarly sized people but I always refuse (even if I'd love a chocolate brownie or whatever is on offer )

CAMRA types. My OH displays some of the traits. As I'm not a beer drinker I don't need to know every ingredient of some niche beer and how some other similar beer doesn't live up to their standards.

Reality TV.

Cricket.

People who go on and on about doggos and puppers.

People who seem to revel in being perceived as thick - there was a story on the Daily Heil recently about someone who didn't know where candle wax went when it burned. Oopsie, silly me! And they're not even embarrassed.

Mrs Hinch
Stacey Solomon

At the moment, people banging on and on and on about how shit Boris/the whole government/handling of the virus has been.
Yes, we know, now FGS shut up!

Ditto not so long ago re Brexit.

Virtually all sport

Celebrities, both them and all gossip about them, not that it actually has a chance to bore me since I don’t read or listen to it.

People who spend ages (usually at the pub) quoting from shitty 'vintage' comedy like Monty Python, and sharing lame jokes from Terry Pratchett books. Utter geekery. Can't be doing with it.

Likewise anyone who obsesses over Dr Who, Sherlock, Star Wars, etc.

oh god yes people lately going on about Normal People as if its the bloody odyssey. Young people shagging, I dont give a fuck.

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Sex scenes on TV and in films. Can't stand them - and they're so unnecessary to the story.

People who drone on and on about how much they hate fast food. How they’d never even dare walk past a McDonald’s and how everything they eat is organically grown by the gods themselves.

People who force me to watch ‘funny’ Facebook videos.

Children. And people who tell me about their children or show me pictures of them.

When someone goes on holiday and I have to scroll through their phone looking at the 300+ pictures they took (which are mainly identical), whilst getting a live narration.

And whenever my mum tells a story, she won’t just tell the story, each person mentioned gets a long introduction, even though I know who they are.
Her: “it all kicked off at work today because Lisa. You know Lisa don’t you? The one with the pet snake-“
Me: “Yes I know who Lisa is”
Her: “Yes her. She’s the one who got in trouble for smoking in the toilets.”
Me: “Yes I know, you told me last week”
Her: “She’s the one whose son is in the army”
And no matter how many times I tell her I know who Lisa is, she’ll keep going. It takes forever to even get to the story and then she’ll mention someone else and they get a mighty long introduction. I despair.

People who repeat themselves, not because they are losing it or forgetful, but because they have set stories they trot out at a certain signal in conversations - it's usually something a bit bullshitty and unbelievable about their nephew's mate at work who knows someone who whatever...or it's something they once said to someone about 20 years ago and it was really witty of them and they've never come up with anything as funny since so they trot out the well worn story again of when they said something witty many years ago. It's always some unstoppable long explanation and because I'm not listening properly I forget to say 'ah yes, you've told me this story' until it's too late and I have to listen to the whole boring shitty story that wasnt that good 20 years ago. So I'm not only really bored, but also kicking myself and I'm going to have to laugh at the end again. This is what people don't realise about Good Listeners - we are bored for a lot of the time, but too polite to shut you up.

A relative will tell the same old ( boring ) stories as if it's the first time I've heard it.
I could tell them the story , I 've heard it millions of times.
People who go ' now, was it Thursday or Friday that .. blah blah blah.,
It's NOT relevant to the narrative. I don't really care which day they had their top lip waxed , but I nod and smile.
People whose lives are way more important than mine tend to do this sort of thing I've found. A good listener is hard to find!

Fucking 3 hour long (it feels like) tv programs about oil tankers and trains and bridges and aircraft carrier ships.

I refer to them as 'Big Boring Boats and the Men Who Love Them' programs.

So so so so so dull.

Sport. People who bore on about sport.
Brexit.
Coronavirus. People who bore on about it.
Cooking. People who bore on about cooking, food etc
Drunk people. Alcohol generally.
Strictly, Bake Off, Love Island etc
People with no self awareness
People who witter and flap
Guitar music
Fashion, beauty 'trends'
I'm a grumpy old bag and have no tolerance these days.

Other people's children/grandchildren.
Peoples dreams - have you no self awareness at all? Nobody is Fkn interested.

People who moan about partners constant bad behaviour yet don’t attempt to leave them.
Facebook users who post endless selfies, who post pics of their kids in hospital with breathing apparatus’ on (reminds me of DeeDee Blanchard who seriously messed up her daughters life by pretending to everyone she was unwell).
Facebook - people who BS and tell people they are ‘stunning’ under their pics when they’re anything but! (Maybe folks are trying to make folks feel better but some pics don’t look posey enough for the poster of pic to be looking for compliments (fake or otherwise).
Anyone over age 30 that posts posey pictures up for likes, love yourself somewhere else!
People that walk in front of me very slowly on the middle of a very narrow pavement.
People that are right in front of you on pavement again and you have to shout excuse me because they haven’t heard your normal voice level.
People that talk on their mobiles on public transport loudly.
People that hawk spit in the street.
People that throw rubbish away on the street.
Groups of men leering at you as you walk past, they make it obvious as hell too to the point of intimidation.
Women in groups who you just know are bitching abt you as you walk past - they keep looking at you whilst giggling, smirking and if you look good then it’s even worse.
Men and women that check people out when it’s obvious as hell the person they are walking down the road with, is their SO.
People that choose to stand downstairs on the bus when there are seats upstairs, and equally bus drivers who don’t tell people to either go upstairs to sit or get off (I am excluding people with obvious disabilities who cannot walk up the stairs).
People that come up to you and outright ask you for money and pretend it’s for bus fares to see their kids, and their kids always seem to live in Perth (this is from Edinburgh).
Beggars that ask for change when you walk past -I am aware that you are there and you want cash, you don’t have to ask me, it only embarrasses me.
Men that try to chat you up at bus stops, on the bus, at the train station.
People (men mainly when it comes to lone women) that sit next to you on bus/train when there are plenty spare seats next to nobody.
Nosey taxi drivers, and esp male ones towards money.
Men that say “what is a nice looking girl (I’m 38) like you doing without a husband...boils my blood

Shit, forgot that it was a boredom thread and not a what annoys you thread, apologies.

People reading their 'poetry' on Nationwide adverts.
Yawn.

A hell of a lot of sports bore me rigid. Darts,snooker,cricket,formula one all the things that my exP loved.
Also,people who are heavily into politics. I don't mean the ones who have a basic awareness of what's going on,I mean the ones who analyse everything to the nth degree and go on and on about it.

@ALongHardWinter yes to the politics and MN is the fucking worst for over analysation and posting stats and other shit, isn’t there a political site that you can —bore— post on

Plus lots trying to show off abt their ‘intelligence’ of politics and my god, send me to fucking sleep and don’t even get me started on the Brits that bore on abt the US politics.

Another here who is a good listener but feels trapped and resentful.

Most TV since it has been dumbed-down. Apart from BBC4 and BBC Parliament.

All this talk about Covid.
I’m done with it now.

People talking about running.

Diet talk
Other people's holiday photos

Also, and I'm sorry to say this, but opera, classical musical, most museums and art. Now give me a garden or a fell and I'm happy.

Cars.
Football.
Quite a lot of men.