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What bores you the most?

411 replies

TazzyDrunk · 07/01/2020 20:16

Snooker

Prime minister questions.

OP posts:
Mrsjayy · 07/01/2020 21:19

I agree about 10 week Tv series gives me a decent 3 parter cuts out the guffage

dayswithaY · 07/01/2020 21:22

Other people's children.
Other people's children's progress at school.
The compliments people have been given about their children.
The hilarious comments that other people's children have made.
People who have no self awareness.

WonderWomanBra · 07/01/2020 21:23

Football
Snooker

Doyouavocado · 07/01/2020 21:23

Anything about other people’s children.

I.dont.give.a.fuck.

sippingcoffee · 07/01/2020 21:23

Celebrities
Reality tv
Soaps
People talking about people you don't know
Most fashion
Most music
Most tv ( except for good dramas / politics / news/ some documentary's )
Radio
Hair and beauty
snooker darts pool
Endless small talk at gatherings
Cars
Shopping

Actually easier to list what I do find interesting

AgeLikeWine · 07/01/2020 21:24

People (usually women) whose only topic of conversation is their children. They drone on endlessly about every dull, predictable thing the little darlings do. Get a life, you sad bastards.

JonnyPocketRocket · 07/01/2020 21:25

Breastfeeding

WoollyMummoth · 07/01/2020 21:27

Sipping coffee are you me!! That is my list exactly. I would add anybody who talks at you without taking a breath and refuses to let you reply. I switch off instantly.

sippingcoffee · 07/01/2020 21:28

People droning on about their kids
/ babies
Children showing off

Clevererthanyou · 07/01/2020 21:28

People talking about fashion. Particularly all the hoorah about who is wearing who at this summer/spring/autumn catwalk and models who interview for magazines as if any of it means anything. Just flay me now!

SapphireSeptember · 07/01/2020 21:34

People who only talk about their kids. FFS, do you not have anything else to talk about? I work with people like this, drives me bananas, (they're also the variety of people constantly asking me when I'm having kids. The answer to that is 'never', and then they don't accept that as an answer!)

Ditto people who go on about people I've never met and know nothing about.

Reality TV and people who talk about that. (Also people I work with. )

Computer games, whether the silly things people play on their phones or the more in-depth ones. Ditto PRGs of any kind (I have friends who want me to play D&D, no thank you.)

Manga and anime, etc. The art style is amazing, I'll give them that, it just doesn't interest me.

Clevererthanyou · 07/01/2020 21:42

Am I allowed 2? Sod it. People who add really really unnecessary detail to a story they’re telling you ie, Bloddwyn in work has to tell me about an email she has from Vanessa so we can decide what to do. Rather than telling me what the email says or sending it to me they start with *“So this morning I woke up and had a wee, then I had a shower and a cup of tea. No no, I had a cup of tea and THEN I had a shower. Well that was half past seven wasn’t it so by quarter to eight I was ready to leave but Enid left my wallet in the kitchen last night so it took me longer to go back and get that before I could leave for work” and then apparently I’M the wanker here because I tell them to hurry the fuck up!!!

*This conversation has literally happened. Sad and it’s day in, day out so Bloddwyn never gets any work done.

AfterSchoolWorry · 07/01/2020 21:46

Cooking, food etc, people talking about cooking and food. Drains the will to live out of me.

Love island, no interest in the rubbery lipped fools that populate it.

People talking about working out. Ugh, shut up!

BlueRabbitWasNaughty · 07/01/2020 21:50

Testing the kids on their revision.... I know I should be happy to help but goodness, it's dull!

Kingoftheroad · 07/01/2020 21:52

Child birth stories - hate them

Other people’s dreams - hate them

Cruise stories - how amazing the ship was, the fabulous shows, unlimited food etc - Why i should book one - no not interested

Other people’s children butting in to adult conversations then making totally irrelevant comments.

Children’s dance shows, choir, recitals etc sitting in an overstuffed hall watching the same favourite children perform constantly and the child I’m there to see does one set and I’ve been there for three hours

Concerts where the artists do “tracks from the new album” bore

Concerts where band members do self indulgent instrumentals - bore

Lottapianos · 07/01/2020 21:52

'Anything about other people’s children.

I.dont.give.a.fuck.'

Jesus, YES x 100000 to this. I've stopped even vaguely pretending I care when they start droning on about their little smashers at work

FlatheadScrewdriver · 07/01/2020 21:54

Cooking / what people do or don't eat
Sport
Anything steam-powered
Awards shows

But the standout winner - DD retelling the entire plot of an episode (or series, if I'm very unlucky) of My Little Pony. She neeeeeeeeeeds to grow out of this soon Grin

RainbowSlide · 07/01/2020 21:58

My dh doing any verbal audit of anything, like how many drinks he's had, the baby's night waking... it's hideously boring. Hearing people's run routes. Why would i care??

Anything about fashion or slebs.

Gogolego · 07/01/2020 22:01

Yes to people talk about the birth and lives of their dcs

squashyhat · 07/01/2020 22:02

Having to shower and get dressed every fucking morning. I need a Wallace and Gromit type invention that will get me up, clean, dressed and downstairs with a mug of coffee in my hands before I actually wake up.

Chickenwing · 07/01/2020 22:03

Dream chat!

Snowmonster · 07/01/2020 22:05

Poxy mother in law and her repeated mithering about poxy chest infections when she continues to smoke like a poxy chimney.

SomethingNastyInTheBallPool · 07/01/2020 22:05

Gender-fluidity, non-binaryness, chosen pronouns, Veganuary. I JUST DON’T CARE.

Snowmonster · 07/01/2020 22:06

Anything about my OH's boring boring boring job. zzzzzz

londonmarathonhalfwaypoint · 07/01/2020 22:07

Formula One
Helping dcs with homework
Folding washing

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