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

I haven't got the concentration patience at all for 8/.

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

Yeah but to be fair, he was hanging out with JKR Tolkien at the Eagle & Child in Oxford. Different league. (Lucky sods, both of them.)

Ooh I'm odd. I like hearing about dreams.

Brexit. I never want to hear the bloody B word ever.

Someone's endless opinions of the spouse they divorced over 30 years ago.

Dreams

Schools and kid achievement in after school stuff like sports. I know I should care more but I just don’t. Yes I am a parent, and I feel so many parents are overly invested in making sure their kid is perfectly educated and achieving great things in their karate class, and not wating sugar, and not watching too much tv. I am of the opinion that most schools are good enough and it’s fine if my kid likes to play or do (insert activity), but isn’t a star. I am fine with her eating cake and sweets. I am fine with her screen time I am more interested in her being exposed to a variety of experiences and hobbies so she knows what she likes and doesn’t. I wasn’t ‘allowed’ to do so many things or to study what I wanted. Of course I do make sure she is making decent grades and does her homework. I am
not overly permissive. But the obsession with perfect parenting and discussing of kid stuff just drives me bonkers. I would rather talk about ANYTHING else. Maybe I just hang around too many pointy-elbowed middle classers.

Health and safety
Accounts

My manager at work used to talk about her adult children ALL the time, and it used to bore me to tears about how brilliant they were. It was a running joke that literally any subject would get turned around and be about how her son and daughter were bigger and better at everything.

She was one of these City career types that used to brag about going straight back to work after having said children, and I used to have to bite my lip daily to stop myself saying well what a shame then you have missed out on seeing them growing up and experiencing their brilliance.

Not once in the 8 months she worked there did she ever ask a question about MY personal life and MY kids.

Diets and gym routines. The most boring subjects in the fucking world.

I quite like to hear about dreams, so long as it doesn't involve woo about foretelling the future.

And I like to hear about people's kids and pets.

And am probably one of those politics bores myself!

I get bored with:

Detailed discussions of people's exercise routines.

Love Island, and similar reality shows.

Celebrity gossip.

Fashion.

Can all of us who like to hear about people's work form a little club?

People bragging about their "genius" kids/grandkids 🙄
Brexit
Covid
Other peoples dreams and their meaning

Other peoples medical problems. I REALLY dont need to know about your bowels or that you get up twice a night to wee.

What would be a good subject of conversation then?

Their children
Dreams
Politics

What they do/don't, can/can't eat

You'd have loved the dream I had the other night - if only I could remember any of it. DH tells me that as I was waking up yesterday morning I said:

"Well you could always chip bits off it with a chisel."

Vegan recipes

Some remote skiing/ summer alps holiday

How very Germanic / Swiss / aryan their heritage really is (utterly boring)

How many languages they speak (even though their English is dubious at the best of times)

Any siblings that they have living in Asia as expats

Get the toothpicks and let me jab myself in the eyes

Oh this. Posters start threads about this all the time. You can't remember how many people you've had sex with, but at least 100.?Are we meant to be impressed? I just keep thinking, thank God you're not my daughter. I would be so disappointed.

Football
random strangers that are sick or dead (looking at you mum)
horoscopes/reading of cards/anything woo
diets, dieting
what they are watching on Netflix/any reference to reality TV

Skin care routines and treatments like Botox or fillers. For some reason these seem to be regular topics of conversation at my work and my eyes just glaze over

Their cat or dog.

Sports
Cars
Holidays
Social media, influencers, etc
TV
Slebs and gossip
Diets
Schools
Banter
Telling jokes

I don't mind hearing about dreams, woo, politics, religion,
property, etc, as long as it's not too much.

Maybe not the purpose of the thread but one topic that gives me the rage: when you ask someone how is life with them (usually female 60+) and their reply is about what their adult kids are up to.