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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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FizzyPink · 19/05/2021 15:09

I am so glad it’s not just my DP who loves to criticise other drivers.
He honestly thinks he’s some kind of expert driver (we won’t mention the 3 crashes Hmm) and that no one else has a clue what they’re doing. He’s forever muttering away about other people’s driving ability and what they’re doing wrong.

YessicaHaircut · 19/05/2021 15:10

Craft beer, and Rubik’s cubes 😴

SpindleWhorl · 19/05/2021 15:11

Oh god yeah, 'If I win the lottery.'

Well buy a bloody ticket then you muppet.

bonbonours · 19/05/2021 15:13

His work, his favourite K-pop bands, the difference between the Schnyder cut and the original release.... (I haven't watched either FFS).

But I'm sure I bore him when I tell him stuff about my work or my friends' kids etc.

itsalltrue22 · 19/05/2021 15:13

My DH is planning to buy a motorhome at the tail end of this year and it will happen but we have been at the planning stage for over 18 months now and its a daily topic of conversation. I cannot find another way to say 'Yes I like the model we have settled on and the bed layout'!!!

isthismylifenow · 19/05/2021 15:18

I'm single now (so don't have to listen to waffle) ex dp would go on and on about their oil rig progress, what jacket was going in when and where. I would even get fucking videos of them.

Then golf. Blow by blow account of every swing. Sigh

rainbowandglitter · 19/05/2021 15:26

Fields and tractors

FabulouslyFab · 19/05/2021 15:29

Sheep
He’s now my ex
😂😂

GodolphinHorne · 19/05/2021 15:33

Mine barely ever speaks to me. I wonder which is worse?

Rebelwithverysharpclaws · 19/05/2021 15:34

Cycling, real life and on TV. Talks about the weather in the country where the race is happening. I could not give a fiddlers fart.

Kyph · 19/05/2021 15:36

I'm curious about the vexatious medics?

Computer chess. His computer chess programming. Artificial intelligence. History. Astronomy. Science. We have done a lot of walking over lockdown and he can keep up a monologue about some historical event for an hour.
I do absorb some of it and I'm grateful the DC inherited his love of science.

Twinkie01 · 19/05/2021 15:39

Cars. Big long conversations to try to justify an expensive purchase. I really don't care but want to drive it beforehand.

His work, I don't understand what he does. No amount of explaining will make me understand. It's too complex. Although I do appreciate he is v clever and important 😂

Football, especially the recent Super league stuff.

Cricket. Snoredom Hmm. We have a DS who is cricket mad. Bore him with it.

I now just tell him I'm checking out of the conversation because I'm not interested. I'd never do this before but he's been a knob recently and now I just don't have the patience to pretend I'm
Interested

hopeishere · 19/05/2021 15:42

Finance things. General wittering. Politics. TV and what we are going to watch next.

PerpendicularVincent · 19/05/2021 15:43

What people on the radio said.

Mydogisagentleman · 19/05/2021 15:43

Cryptocurrency and croquet.
I love the bones of him, but he honestly thought it was a lovely gesture to invite me to a grotty town for an overnight stay to watch him play.
Then there’s the rotating one sided conversation about whether golf or association croquet is best.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 19/05/2021 15:45

His latest eBay obsession, ethically sourced butterflies. Which apparently are going to be mounted in the specially purchased cases and.....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Trouble is he is ham fisted and I can guess who will end up doing the delicate work.
The holiday we booked with his db before we booked it.on and fucking on. Is it dog friendly, is it near things, does it look good? There you go.

EvenRosesHaveThorns · 19/05/2021 15:49

Dungeons and dragons

EvenRosesHaveThorns · 19/05/2021 15:50

Monty python references...All The Time

Alwaysablockednose · 19/05/2021 15:50

Cryptocurrency

CPsRus · 19/05/2021 16:02

I got a lecture on the circuitry of doorbells that spanned a three day period. My DP (has ASD) is very earnest and just cannot understand why I don’t want to know clog up my brain with such boring details! I try to see his grand explanations as his way of showing me he cares to share things with me.

Meirou90 · 19/05/2021 16:05

Pokemon cards

1forAll74 · 19/05/2021 16:10

My late Husband was an aircraft engineer,and used to discuss all the workings within Jumbo Jets to me, and surprisingly I used to be quite interested in all that stuff,and he was quite impressed about my knowledge of all things jet planes after a couple of years.

I never took much notice about his so called top quality tennis and badminton racquets though, !

justanotherneighinparadise · 19/05/2021 16:11

My OH just doesn’t talk. I’d be glad to have a conversation about anything!!

Snuggleworm · 19/05/2021 16:14

His audio books. FFS! If I really was interested in the type of books he is listening to or reading, I would read them myself. It's not like I ask or anything. I love discussing books but with my book club people over a glass of wine re a book that we all are reading.

Other than that his conversation is quite interesting and we have a lot in common but those stupid books. Think Sci fi and all that sort of shite.
I adore him though and would never hurt his feelings by saying I am not interested. I just seethe inwardly and make appropriate " oh really" or "right I see" every now and then.

ForkedIt · 19/05/2021 16:15

Im definitely the one that bores him with my waffling Blush

He’s more the type to talk for a reason, I talk to talk.

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