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

[EvadingEvaline]

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?

Heh, especially when they stop and go 'no, that's not right, it was.....' and change a couple of details.

Definitely people's kids. On and on and then they get their phone out and show you 5 minute videos. Makes me want to run.

YES. I know someone and we once spent pretty much the entire meet up talking about her dog. It was so boring. I barely talked about my kid! And then she showed me so many photos.

I also hate when people ask you a question and as soon as you try to answer, they jump in and talk about themselves instead.

i like talking about politics religion etc. peoples sex lives and diets not so much. People farting on about benefits or how disabled people are bludgers or got their diagnosis by lying to the Dr, or how they’ve “self diagnosed” makes me glaze over.

Diets & calorie counting
having to ‘get rid’ of or rehome their pet
conspiracy theories- new world order etc
anything Andrew Tate/russell brand
anyone’s psycho ex
talk of moving a new partner in when they have kids
cheating partners but ‘they’ve never been stronger’ type conversations

Mortgages 💤

Stories of childbirth

Any form of toxic positivity/manifesting/dream boards. These people never seem to get the hint that I’ve switched off and seem desperate to convince me that just thinking about something desirable makes it happen.

I just can't stand when people gossip about others and clearly enjoy the drama.
Tell me about your kids, your holidays, your job, your friends, but don't bitch and gossip to me about others and look like you're having the time of your life.

This! So dull.

"Have you met anyone yet?"

Fuck off

"Mixed company" means both sexes - what do you all think it means?! I thought this OP was going to be about discussing periods in front of menfolk or something!

Route chat. Any conversation about traffic, public transport, road works, picking a short cut, what car people are driving (ESPECIALLY if they wang on about electric vehicles), which route people would use to get to a particular location at a lenticular time of day. All of it. Makes me want to jump out the window.

Ghosts, religion, people I don’t know, work, topics I understand very well when people think they do but don’t, cars, anything about gardening or cooking.

I had lunch with a group of about 5 every day in a previous job. There were 2 women who would constantly talk about spinning. Honestly I cannot understand how one can talk about spinning but it was constant. How was your class? Great. How was yours? They talked about levels they got to, music that was played, even the sequence.. we did 60 seconds higher and then 60 lower.. no way! We always do 30 second alternating etc etc. 3 of us would sit there like spare tools while they did this.

Thought of another one - other people's illnesses/ailments

Money. I remember meeting my exes kids the first time and one asked me my salary and how much I had in savings. Ex was pretty shocked when I told her that information was my business and only mine. Cheeky moo

When people talkabout their fooking gifted kids.

Their hobbies and interests that I know nothing about, using terminology that means nothing to me. So when they say "I bought a dirty combustion dressage pigeon yesterday, and when I'd scraped the varnish off it turned out to be an X3R2 from Venezuela" I don't know whether to make my excited happy face or my Oh mate, you were done one.

This

This is why family mealtimes and conversation is way overrated. Can't go wrong if you all just quietly watch telly together.

Crying with laughter

Oh, rather than mixed sex company? That’s what was puzzling me, as none of these topics would seem to me any more or less palatable depending on who you were discussing them with.