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

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 19/05/2021 11:51

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.

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luciles · 19/05/2021 13:54

Crypto currency. So boring.

Covetthee · 19/05/2021 13:54

Another one for Gardening

Its bores me to tears, i have no interest in what he has planted or wants to plant or how they are growing, he wants to go through each plant growth with me on his days off and every morning he asks me if I have had a look at the herbs growing and insists on sending pics to his rents of food he has grown 🤦🏽‍♀️ Other then that i do love him lol

RaiseTheBeastie · 19/05/2021 13:54

Cars and engines.

He's a fairly decent self-taught mechanic. A mixture of tinkering with cars growing up and You Tube videos means he can do lots of repairs which is great and has saved us a fortune over the years.

But if I ever make the mistake of asking a throwaway question like 'oh you're finished, was it just the back breaks needed doing?' - I get an in depth run down of how the breaks are connected to the whatsit that's attached to the pistons - or whatever it is.

I don't care, I don't want to learn, I was just making conversation!

OohKittens · 19/05/2021 13:54

wwe mainly Jim Cornette who talks about wrestling. I do like wwe and have seen them live quite a few times but he is obsessed.

Dashel · 19/05/2021 13:55

DIY in detail, who sells the best screws, which new power tool should he get, should we get a coloured grout, which plumbing joint would be better ...... I shouldn’t moan as we are renovating at the moment but I don’t get care about which screws are the best and who has cases to keep them in and yawn. Yes it needs planning but not in so much detail and work....

If this were about the in laws the answer would be the squirrel in their garden, I think they are watching it’s every move as it keeps raiding the bird feeders

intheenddoesitreallymatter · 19/05/2021 13:56

Bitcoin and etherium too

SpindleWhorl · 19/05/2021 13:59

And then we are surprised when we have a gender pay gap and fewer females in stem subjects.

I'm perfectly aware of and happily interested in STEM subjects, thank you very much. For example, I recently developed an interest in the origins of the 1918-19 pandemic and its geopolitical context.

I simply wouldn't want to be regaled about it repeatedly by someone else with whom I am in enforced proximity in a manner that suggests either (a) that they think I require educating on the matter by them, or (b) that they are involved in a bizarre method acting experiment.

Bambooshoot · 19/05/2021 14:00

@OhRene

Fucking crypto currency.

I don't want to fucking know. I don't care who does it. I don't care that Elon Musk has one (or whatever. I dunno. I stopped listening)

I agreed for him to use £250 for it but the £3K in it he keeps telling me about and why DOESN'T BLOODY EXIST TIL ITS IN MY DAMN HAND.

THIS!! Bitcoin, the origins, the changes, the effects of Musk's decisions - I don't care, it's all dark web/proceeds of crime in my view, I'm not interested in how it is built up!! Plus it's unsustainable as there's not enough power to run the computers that would be needed so can't we just wait for it to die?
Sarahsteedman · 19/05/2021 14:01

Out of interest for those moaning about what your other half talks to you about, what do you talk to them about that they likely find equally as dull. Would you rather not talk to you at all?

My DH talks to and with me about work, the kids, the house, the news, football, food, wine, plans for the week or year, most of which we then speak about together both being adults in a fully formed relationship with understanding and give and take.

I really do wonder why many on here even bother with men as you seem to find them so annoying and dull most of the time!

SchrodingersMother · 19/05/2021 14:01

Bloody superheroes, comics, PlayStation games (past present and future) occasionally football.

Talks to me using characters from comics first names without context like I'm supposed to just know what he's talking about.

Acting shocked when I don't seem impressed or really interested in the finer details of a fictional characters like who I have zero interest in

Holothane · 19/05/2021 14:01

Music people I do not care about ever .

oiwiththepoodlesalready83 · 19/05/2021 14:03

Bitcoin!!! Every time he mentions it I feel a rage burning deep inside my soul. I don’t care about Bitcoin, I don’t care about the stock market, I don’t care about financial analysis!!

And the weather…. He’s been constantly sulking about how wet it is….. THIS IS ENGLAND!!! It’s always miserable weather.

derxa · 19/05/2021 14:08

Information risk management and currently problems with boiler pressure, problems with plumbing. I get him back by yacking endlessly about sheep and lambs so we're square.

IntermittentParps · 19/05/2021 14:10

Sarahsteedman, it's just a bit of a laugh.

ColourMeExhausted · 19/05/2021 14:13

Oh come on @sarahsteedman lighten up! I'm sure I bore my DH senseless (although he does love a good MN story!). Equally, I find him very interesting and funny most of the time. It's probably more frustrating because we are stuck together all the time with working from home and he has no colleagues to chat to (and he is chattier than me!).

SpaghettiSpoons · 19/05/2021 14:16

I've got 5 boys and a DH....

My life revolves around

Football
Rugby
F1
Boat, car, trailer engines / wheels
Jet ski parts
Star Wars
Penis's
Fortnite
Arguing who's got the biggest portion of food!

It literally never ends!!

MindtheBelleek · 19/05/2021 14:18

And then we are surprised when we have a gender pay gap and fewer females in stem subjects.

Physics and science and mathematics is essential to getting a good job and shouldn't be seen as boring. But in discussions with my female friends (not my sisters who are all engineers) It is overwhelming the females who claim it is boring or don't understand a sad part of societies conditioning (although you could argue as proven by my families situation that society doesn't force women not to care about science).

Has it occurred to you that you are boring them by your conversation, not that science and maths are inherently boring to women, as you acknowledge yourself? Hmm

Honestly, you are all very polite. DH is great to talk to, and although his field of work could not be of less interest to me in itself, he's good at being amusing about behind the scenes aspects of it that he knows I will find funny or fascinating. On the (very rare) occasions he does bore me, I just say 'My brain is glazing over here.'

Tambora · 19/05/2021 14:22

Work.

It is Dullsville with knobs on (yawn).

Jent13c · 19/05/2021 14:26

My DH has a very specific job related to projects but not actually doing the projects but organising how they are done. Its literally the most boring job in the entire world and if he ever tries to tell me some workplace drama and mentions in passing a minor process im like how can you actually have done that 40 hours a work for the past 10 years and not want to smack your head of a wall.

Also you remember when that new super league was a thing? I was treated to days of him freaking out about how this was going to change football as we know it blah blah blah.

BradleyCooperwillbemine · 19/05/2021 14:27

Work, work and more work. I am not bloody interested in concrete slabs and parapets and vapour insulation. Please just stop.

MayflowerMaisie · 19/05/2021 14:27

His motorbike, his motorbike’s engine, other people’s motorbikes, other people’s motorbike engines, how his bike compares to other people’s bikes, the conversations he has with other people about all of the above.
Regularly.
I have zero interest in any of these things.
I have the face of a person with zero interest in these things.
I tell him I’m not interested.
He forgets and tells me all over again.

NotanotherboxofFrogs · 19/05/2021 14:28

Electrical circuits, he intends to make and where they will go and how it will work .... Then the flurry of buying activity for said circuits and how it will make our life so much easier but if I question the production of said item to make life easier, I'm applying pressure on him for the task. He has part bits built from 10 years ago that are almost ready, despite me having moved house twice in between so that mechanism to make it easier doesn't work anymore

If I break something, most recently my tablet screens x 3, I gave them to his dad who is good at fixing with the words dont let (partnert) find out as he will want to try fix and they will be dismantled never to be fixed, m

I literally hear about the values of each tiny part and the solder etc, I don't care

Lweji · 19/05/2021 14:28

And then we are surprised when we have a gender pay gap and fewer females in stem subjects.

And yet many subjects listed here have nothing to do with STEM. Hmm

BTW, what DP and I have in common is a science background and job, and I once tried to cajole a particle physicist to talk about his work to no avail - bastard.

So don't assume women on these threads are not interested in science and technology in general.

MayflowerMaisie · 19/05/2021 14:28

Oh, and single sided swinging arms... again zero interest!

HarrisMcCoo · 19/05/2021 14:29

Warhammer.