What's the most BORING subject people can bring up?

[NewYorkFirstTimer]

Inspired by another thread. Of all the subjects someone can bring up in conversation what's the one that makes you want to roll your eyes so far back you can see behind your brain?

Light-hearted of course

Yep. Weight and diet as mentioned and dreams as mentioned too. Also recounting a film or series plot 🥱

Sports (all of them)
Cars (all of them)
"Banter" of any kind
Fitness regimes
Beauty regimes
Diets

Cars
houses and diy
sports especially running

I have had to ban DH from saying anything about
-Elon Musk

• Jacob Collier

He also turns everything into numbers/statistics, even something that starts out innocuous like "I bumped into X today" can become a load of bollocks about how far their house is from ours in metres or feet or possibly both , or at their age they've got X years/days to do Y. You get the picture. Also any opportunity to make all topics become about technology. I also hate dreams and horoscope type topics but luckily he doesn't talk about these

I love hearing about dreams! And I often share mine with friends if they feature in the dream!

I loathe hearing about people's corporate / management jobs. So much pointless paper shuffling.

Their diet.

Fuck my old boots, tears of tedium just gush.

I’m middle aged & so are a lot of my acquaintances. Explains but never excuses the bore.

Harry Potter when it’s an adult.
Plots of the books
Plots of the films
Why the books are better/ worse than the films
Which book / film is their favourite
Which character is their favourite
What Harry Potter merchandise they have

i want to scream it’s for children!

Children
Cars
What they can't/don't eat

Holiday fucking pics.

Their job.

Sport. Yawn.

Cars.

Happy to hear about people’s dreams though! (Actual dreams and their hopes/goals for the future)

Royal Family

Dogs

Spa days

Do people ever talks about their dreams? As in actual dreams in their sleep?

I love talking about politics and work. I find it sound if people dont like talking about their work, most of our life is spent doing it.

I think most things are boring because of the way they are being told. But horoscopes and reality tv is pretty universally dull - except when one of my mates talks about it cos she was actually involved in the making of reality tv shows and some of the gossip and behind the scenes stuff is crazy.

Why is make-believe and magic only for children?

"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.

To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development.

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

C.S. Lewis

1. Anyone reading a book I'm not interested in (fantasy, Game of Thrones style etc) and proceeds to tell you the entire plot

1. People with competitive illnesses and you can't have a headache as they've suddenly got stomach ache and feel so much worse than you

1. People who talk about medical problems for hours

1. Their children, and every after school activities that child does in detail, and how obviously amazing they are at everything

1. Competitive annual leave "well I only used 4 days this whole year, I've got too many to use..."

1. How super super young they look, and how they get IDed at 45 when buying a lottery ticket.

1. Sports

1. Long stories that evolve into other stories. So when someone's trying to tell you about their holiday, then apparently the taxi driver knew their mums neighbour 20 years ago, then the neighbour way called Ann, then Ann worked at the chippy, the chippy has been taken over by a green grocers, then "oops sorry, as I was saying, we got into the taxi..." 😫

Their new electric bike

Class.

Dreams.

Air fryers and why I should get one.

Vegan lifestyle

Ageism, Yes. but,.. Health is the predominate
topic and at 81 I cannot be bothered with other people's problems

Their own dream

@Merapi don't forget where the satnav wants to take you and why it's wrong, or possibly right, and the ridiculous diversion routes for roadworks, and how long it takes to sit in various queues 😴

Schools. I don’t care about the Ofsted rating of your precious offspring’s school. I don’t want to discuss with you why I chose X school for my DC instead of the superior (in your opinion) Y school. And as for the 11+, I have more interesting subjects to talk about.

Historic illnesses/ailments. If someone (or someone's child/OH/parent etc) is currently unwell or injured I can sympathise and understand why they want to talk about it. But I think every workplace/family etc has at least one person who is just looking for an excuse for a monologue on the subject of 'Skin Rashes I Have had'/'My Hospital Stays (1985-96)'/'Operations and Digestive Problems'. And they always seem to corner me.

Sport of any kind,but in particular football,golf or cricket. Politics. What they've eaten that day. Brexit.

Other people's complicated love life's!