To hate which topics you hate being bought up in mixed company and why?

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Intended to be light hearted! Some are obvious like politics - what other things secretly make you roll your eyes when they're bought up at say, a dinner party? I hate hearing detailed descriptions of people's holidays lol. I like to hear if somewhere is nice but not a whole two week itinerary! I think my friends husband wants to tell me shut up already when I talk about pilates lol, what are yours?

And obviously we have poo bins, signs, volunteers, flower bed helpers, I'm talking about the complaints from those who don't help.

One last week at school gates, you should petition the council for free poo bags,
Me, I already provide the,, eight locations, across the village, the council have no money.

Yes but if you started a petition people would be more likely to use council bags

Harry and Meghan. I really couldn't care less.

Cars, sport and phones.

Just no interest whatsoever!

Discussion of any soap opera.

This, I remember a group of us going out after work and this woman kept banging on about her children and said “sorry boring mum talk” (no one else there was a parent). Like if you know it’s boring then stfu.

Mine is maybe quite niche. People talking about their dogs. I have a group of 3 friends + me and they all have dogs and whenever we meet up we have the same conversation. “How’s Rover?”, “Oh how’s Toby?” Etc. I’ve heard the same story about one dog having hydrotherapy three thousand times. The worst was when the dog question was asked and one friend was late, late friend turned up and asked the dog question and I had to hear it the stories all over again.

People bragging about their expensive holidays.

True crime. I have anxiety about personal safety and avoid watching or listening to anything about grisly crimes. I sat through an entire dinner party where the topic of conversation was true crimes. All night. Including some that I had never heard about before so I got some new nightmare fuel. Thanks folks.

It used to be team sports but people have diversified recently so now I’m bored about their cycling, running etc. Trouble is that they are solitary sports so they join a club and bang on about that as well. Couldn’t care less about your personal best, your ranking or your sport induced injuries.

As long as the person talking has the self awareness to stop when people look bored I don’t mind any topic of discussion but I wander off when sport is mentioned

About their dog. I just don’t care.

I love a conspiracy theory!

Go on crazy man, tell me how aliens built the pyramids as a spaceship to get to their home planet but the bigfoots killed them before they could blow up Mars!

I took cannot stand any talk of conspiracy. That probably is my most hated topic actually

Yes to dog talk. It bores me to tears. I really couldn’t care less about the minutiae of your dog’s personality or routine, or that Rex had worms last month.

I have DC and I try not to talk about them too much, especially to people who are childfree, as I totally get that it’s boring for them and they aren’t interested. It’s a shame the dog contingent don’t offer me the same courtesy…

Just reading that annoyed me! 🤣🤣

At work a few days ago someone had passed their driving test. Cue every one else in the office telling a long story about their driving test, the route they took, how many minors they got, how many times it took to pass. Lost the will to live.

And my dad telling me which car belongs to which house in the street, when it last moved and he’s also checked if it’s got tax and MOT on the dvla.

My SIL talks about yoga EVERY time I see her!
“I'm just coming from yoga class....
I'm so relaxed from my yoga.....
I'm doing this yoga course....
I love doing yoga in the garden in this mild weather...
I've bought this contraption for yoga inversions...

I mean, I do yoga but I manage not to mention it in conversation 🤣🤣 cos I know nobody gives a toss 🤣

Marvel & DC films. I audibly groan.

People who are into “alternative medicines” and paranormal stuff like gemstones and give unwanted advise about it.

I love talk about holidays, dogs and kids. I just can’t process anything that is so unlogical and unscientific.

Their expensive house extensions...they always tell you every sodding detail except the one you really want to know...how the fuck did you afford a 150k extension?!

When people take a really long tike to tell you something so basic.

Lol, me too.

My pet hate is people talking about their careers, doesn't actually apply to all jobs. But finance, desk bound stuff. Promotions, movers and shakers, office politics, money, money. Mind numbing.

Illness. I turned 60 this year and it is as if some bad fairy waved a magic wand trapping everyone's mind in a loop on health trivia. When I meet friends, the first thing any of them talk about for at leat 20 minutes is hospital appointments, whether that tickle in their chest last week was Covid etc etc. I want to scream.

Their relationship
Money
Gossip
Houses
Children

Mountains- my brother goes on incessantly about his mountain holidays. Yawn!