Things you should be interested in but aren't

[SuperGinger]

Climate change and the environment, I literally find them the most boring subjects in the world. I'm not a climate change denier, I'll do what I can but I'm just nor interested.

Cars 🥱

How much people paid for things, my in laws are all obsessed. It's so tedious.

Pets. I love animals but pet owners can be another level of boring.

We live in a rugby city and everyone we know seems to love it. Dh and I could not give a shit about it.

I am a car convert used to not be bothered but for first time in my life we have a nice car so I’m coming round to that.

Oh yes, this. I’m dreading Trump getting re-elected because my family will revert to endless rehashing of his latest exploits. I get it, he’s a twat, but there’s absolutely nothing anyone in the UK can do about it, and the self-congratulatory competitive horror about it bores me to death.

Well with a PR system in Holyrood rather than FPTP, we got nearer to what we voted for than with the Westminster system. So happy to disagree on this one

Oh yes this is me too. I'm too old and uninterested to even attempt slotting new genders into my life. In my mind there's simply men, women and Other. And if you fall into my Other camp then I really couldn't be less interested in your pro nouns.

@Purplecatshopaholic

Hardly. The result is exactly the same. The majority don't get the government they vote for.

Yes this too. When did women's football become a thing? It's just a much slower, clumsier version of men's football which is already tedious in the extreme. And what's with the female football pundits everywhere? I don't see male pundits commenting on the womens' games? I know I should support the sistahood and everything, but women playing football is so dull.

The election
Any politics
The royal family
Wars
Football

Oh yes! Even youngish people now regale all their illnesses.

Fashion
Wine
Food

Celebrities - why is anyone interested?
Fashion
Reality TV - should be banned
Football
Dogs
F1
Taylor Swift

I am interested in politics and current affairs, though extremely frustrated with the current level of debate. Can take or leave gardening, cooking. Love travel, drinking and science!

American politics
All women's sport

Stately homes - love the gardens but inside is so boring
Anxiety, ADHD, Autism - you might as well assume everyone has all three as most people I encounter at work claim to have at least one as an excuse for being off/late/not finishing a task etc etc.

Definitely sport - sky keeps trying to give me sky sports for free and is astonished when I say I'll never watch it so don't bother!

Running - have colleagues that do go on about it a lot.

Putin's never-ending spiel of threats. I'll be interested when he's dead. Until then, he sounds like a pathetic drunk gobbing off down the local pub. There's naff all I can do about it.

My colleagues' dogs. Someone recently had a month off work because her dog died. My internal eye roll nearly dislocated my brain.

I say this as a cat owner, but I have no interest in other people’s pets .

Anything when it is 're-examined through a race-critical / non-heteronormative / non-patriarchal / intersectional / queer lens'.

Yes I feel I genuinely ought to be interested, but it's so worthy, dull, humourless, and I know it just means a hatchet job on the past history of whatever thing it's applied to.

This really made me laugh!

I'm so relieved to discover that I'm not the only one, who isn't really interested in the Ukraine or Gaza. I thought I was being heartless.

I just had a bit of a scroll through this thread to see what others thought and realised, aside from history and illnesses - I bloody love history and can spend all day talking illnesses, whether I've had them or not - I pretty much agree with everything said.

Has anyone mentioned foreign travel? If not, that's my shameful contribution.

I love talking about travel, though I’m unlikely to be interested in your delayed train or your nightmare experience at the airport.

My three favourite things!

Umm, over a few years okay not much changes. Over a longer period of re-elections, such as the last fourteen years I have seen a hell of a lot of changes and none for the better.

This!! Life in the UK has gotten worse by pretty much every objective measure in the last decade

wrong thread there