What really boring crap does your dh try to talk to you about?

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Yesterday DH tried to talk to me about stationary gas engines. He seemed suprised when l wasn’t interested.

My friend’s bf used to talk to her about overhead haulage systems.

Fucking football!!!

Amplifiers & Speakers

Various electrical projects.

Machinery he has known over the years, it's running and repair details.

Sometimes physics and science related stuff.

Model aeroplanes, 3d printing and minecraft - husband and sons I get it from all sides 24/7

I love my DH with all my heart and he does have interesting things to say about his job or the latest series he's decided to watch without me.
But. He can make all of those things sound so very dull and mentions things that are totally irrelevant.
His art of conversation wouldn't have scraped a GCSE sadly.

Work shite! I am an expert in looking like I’m really interested and hanging on to his every word, and being completely zoned out.

The traffic and the state of the roads when he arrives home from work (I zone out for 10 minutes), then his colleagues and how they wind him up (another 10 minutes zoned out), then his parents and their latest dramas/demands (another 10 mins). Thankfully then we can get on with our evening.

Social media stuff. He doesn't seem to be satisfied with doing his various creative hobbies, he wants to get them onto platforms like twitter or spotify or whatever and then gets all into how many people saw his stuff, views, likes, impressions, getting himself higher up search functions, SEO. I feel bad that I just don't care - isn't it enough that he does the lovely creative thing, without obsessing how many likes and shares he's getting? I keep reminding him that his creative hobbies are supposed to be about relaxing away from his stressful job - not adding more stress!!

Masonry bees (his current obsession is the bees that have managed to get into our air vents)

Warhammer, ugh. That’s what his best friend is for, the two of them can geek out together again, thank fuck, that’s been the worst bit of lockdown tbh!

Eyes opened last Saturday and dh comes in and starts talking about aborigines and some men who.. Oh can't remember... Sure they are indeed a lovely bunch but not before a cuppa!!

The mechanisms of the oil rig he works on and 3D rendering. He cannot pick up on cues that someone is bored shitless when he speaks about such things, so just rambles on and on. It is tedious. Have started telling him I don’t want to hear, it’s selfish to expect someone to listen to tripe their clearly not interested in.

Irritatingly, he won’t ever let me finish a sentence without interrupting and speaking over me

They’re* ffs

Tanks and bloody Warhammer 40k!

Football and DIY- in great detail. I nod and smile for a while and then draw it to a close.

I sort of find it a bit insulting really that we’ve been together for 23 years and he is yet to twig that I find these monologues really boring. I’m probably too polite.

I don’t think I do the same in reverse. I do occasionally talk about stuff which I suspect he isn’t wildly interested in but I think I am more attentive to his non-verbal cues and pay attention to see if/when he is getting bored.

Well, dh more me about private v state schools. Told him to shut up as I work in a school all day and find the subject rather boring.
He’s tried to bore me before about cricket. Even the word make me 😴

Chickens.
Water filters.
The grill.

Shut up and go and talk to your friends you twat, it’s 6:30 in the morning and I don’t want to hear about any of this shit.

I said the above in my head this morning!! I do love him but he’s always been a morning person and I always dislike people most in the morning. Including him

Mobile phones, wi-fi and broadband. It means nothing to me.

*Motorbikes - makes, model, gear, riding routes etc
*Work (the boring bits about the reports he writes not the interesting office gossip)
*The latest new business he's creating which will make millions so he can retire at 50 (we are currently on business number 5 since 2013!)
*what other people have said in in a social media group we are BOTH part of - I get to read myself and then hear about it from him!

How much he hates his adult daughter's boyfriend. To be fair, he's horrible, but there's not a lot I can do about it.

He texts me about it as well.

Paint drying. He's a painter decorator so I suppose it is fairly important to him but by fuck is it boring.

Beer brewing

Driverless cars!! Every time there is an example of bad driving he tells me that when we’re all in driverless cars that could never happen.....yawn

Oh and robots taking over everything is not far away.

I never ever look interested but he still insists on banging on about it 🙄

People I've never met
Places I've never been
Programs I've never watched
Conspiracy theories, Sport, Cars.

Stories (usually made up) that he's told me many times, that become increasingly exaggerated.

He tried talking to me about lego to the other day; I zoned out within two seconds of the conversation.