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

[ArseInTheCoOpWindow]

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.

Bitcoin and other weird online currencies. I don't understand it even after listening to a series of podcasts about them, although that was about a scam one so I think the majority are scams. As someone on the podcast said, "if you can't spent it in Tesco then what's the point?" I agree and it's dull.

I think one of the problems @Sarahsteedman is that women tend to be better at self- censorship when they realise they are boring someone, as well as a belief on the part of many men that some subjects should interest everyone. Whether it’s football or nuclear physics, the speaker needs to learn to either make his subject interesting or drop it.
Having said that, I probably don’t talk enough, and sometimes DH would probably prefer boring talk to none at all.

@ADragonCalledKeith

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.

My DH does also has an incredible ability to make any topic of conversation boring. I'm sure he didn't do this when he was younger. He seems to have become incapable of having a conversation without it becoming a monologue of everything he knows or can make up about that subject.

Hiking mountain trials and the various gear for it - ie hiking boots / bags / coats

Gold mining and the various programmes about it that he watches

Camper-vans / vans being converted into camper-vans

Work

Whatever building project he is working on. I do try and look like I am listening for a while. Whether he should buy a new van. Yes. Yes. Just buy one so that we don't have to talk about whether you should buy one ever again.

Teslas. I really couldn't care less how clever they are

Everything to do with cycling - the bikes, the routes, the (horror) Lycra kit, the GPS, inconsiderate drivers ...... the blissful peace of the time he is out riding is always ruined by the overexcited and long commentary when he gets back.

Telling other drivers what they are doing wrong. They can't hear you!!

The sinking feeling I get when he starts to recount a story to someone "I've already bored Razzle with this but ..." It's not a good way to sell an anecdote

Woodworking, and his latest bike build project. Don't get me wrong, I like bicycles, but it's the thinking out loud/discussing the pros and cons over this groupset or that handlebar tape that really sends me to sleep. I know he's really just using it as a way to work through the options in his own mind, but it's really not very interesting.

@WingingIt101

The fucking electric meter.

To be fair he is being very sensible but my god does it make me Fantasise about being hit by a bus.
We recently moved to a much bigger house which is fully electric (heating and everything, no gas pipes to the village and no oil set up either).
He is right it is costly and he wanted to understand where we were using more and what charges we were paying.

So every fucking day for a month he went to the meter at the same time to take a reading and then do all these calculations before presenting the daily figures and a brief comparison when necessary.
I should be grateful as it was about saving us money but my god I’d have paid every last penny of my salary not to listen.

He’s normally a very sociable and interesting man. I have no idea what happened during that hideous month.

OMG 😆

I laughed way too hard at this! You poor thing.

I had this vision of your spouse preparing the data to present you a PowerPoint presentation.

I’ll add to my earlier post that he can turn literally ANY topic into a rant about the government. Full on monologues. It bores and infuriates the hell out of me in equal measure.

The minutiae of office politics that means nothing to anyone who doesn’t work there.
And it’s a massive company so there’s a cast of thousands I’ve never met and/or heard of.
All I need to know about the new expenses system is when you’ll get paid. I can live without hearing what Dave from the third floor thinks about it.

Rods and roping :s Pipes and cables and concrete

He would say my online shopping purchases . I see his eyes physically roll when I try to show him yet another nice outfit for the kids

@dementedma

Fucking football!!!

Here too!

Model aeroplanes, drones, electric cars..constantly! The moon, stars etc, work, that futuristic guy (forgotten his name) who’s always banging on about the future and electric vehicles and so on. Oh and 3D printing quite recently 😩I honestly am not interested in one bit of it, even football I could perhaps get on board with, but he’s not a fan.

If he’s driving, it’s wagons he knows and loves (from his Hgv days) Motorways are a bloody snorefest! Forever pointing out different makes of wagons, different transport firms, and the gazillion different ways from A to B...
If we’re sat chatting or watching tv, it’s ‘if I win the lottery’ OMG, so sick of this one (wouldn’t mind if he actually did the damn lottery!!) Same story every time.
Love him to bits, but sometimes...🔪

Most of the above. Followed by telling me how to use tools in my hobby that he's never used. Lectures on gardening, lawn mowing (while I trying to mow, he's standing in front of me telling me how to!) What's wrong with the world. Then tales oft-repeated and much embellished over the years until I could recite it in my sleep.

I swear my eyes dry out sometimes. Wine helps.

The Sky Q planner
Yep, really
He is actually obsessed by it- how much space is left, why did someone record this in 2020 and never watch it, why did the planner automatically record the new series of X but not the new series of Y, why can’t people delete things after they watch it, why has someone scheduled Z to record (erm because they want to fucking WATCH it?)

He also spends a good 20 minutes once a week “clearing” it and wants to tell me how much space each programme he deleted took up and how much space we now have on the planner

Photography.

Do you like the light in this one? Which filter is better, this one or that one? both look identical

Which is better, the cropped one or the uncropped one?

Do you think this looks like a kodak something or other...blah blah blah
Lenses, ISOs etc. Yawnfest.

AND we all have to pose for him multiple times a day, the kids HATE it. I mostly oblige because he really does take lovely photos.

I bore him with gardening talk and ranting about whatever is annoying me at that particular moment.

@TantrumsAndBalloons Sky Q Planner, sounds like my dad!

Cars - all the different models down to engine details, trim difference etc.
Electric/gas meter/consumption
DIY in depth

Sometime back when I was looking exceptionally bored he got irritated and asked if I was listening.

Well duh.. NO, I am not listening!!

So then he asks ... "well what am I talking for then??"

How would I know dh??!! why are you talking?

How many steps he's walked today, steps total for the week, average number of steps. Routes he's walked. How he should really have got more steps for foing that activity zzzzxxx

Football. In great detail. I don't care. I have said I don't care. Still get told. I have given up and been channeling The IT Crowd... The trouble with (insert name) is they always try to walk it in etc. Works wonders, we have full conversations now

Paint drying. He's a painter decorator so I suppose it is fairly important to him but by fuck is it boring.
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Ahhhh some of these are too funny (and some of you need to lighten up @Sarahsteedman)

I'm sure I can bore my husband to death but the difference is he literally switches off until I test him with something he DOES actually need to pay attention to at which point his eyes unglaze or I have to repeat myself.

Specialist subjects in our house are:-

Work colleagues who are twats
Other drivers who are twats
The government (also twats)
Formula 1
Strava and how many miles he's run and how quick (and woe betide Strava fails halfway round a run because then the world actually ends)

Amateur radio 🥱