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Well, we could be brutally honest here and admit that any topic other than the one WE bring up might be considered boring. We all know how fascinating our own topics are to us, including but not limited to:
Your personal health problem du jour.
Your personal vacation story.
Your personal sports achievement.
Your personal pet.
Your personal children.
Your personal financial genius.
Your personal workplace drama.
You get the drift...
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I much prefer talking about concepts, theories, ideas than people, places and things but as long as there's a relatively reasonable measure of give and take in a conversation most anything can be tolerable if not entertaining.
My most hated topic of conversation hasn't been mentioned yet. It's when a person starts telling you in detail about a dream they had. See...they were in an airplane and they were sitting there...or, wait, they were looking out the window...and, oh, I almost forgot...we were late getting to the airport and then we were in the wrong seats.
But then I was looking out the window and I saw this...well, let's see. I can't quite remember but I think maybe it was a cloud. Yeh, a cloud in the shape of a...of, well, hmmmm. Oh, now I remember! A cloud in the shape of a cat! It reminded me of a cat I used to have. Do you think this means anything? (Now they want to to analyze their stupid dream, as if it's of any interest to anyone!)
I had a terrible time going in to work for awhile a couple of years back when a large group of of my co-workers were watching that God-awful Duck Dynasty stupid show. I had no interest in it, didn't care, didn't want to know about it, but that's all they talked about every day. One of my co-workers actually had the audacity to bring in the first season for me on DVD so I could "catch up".
I used to work with a woman that always talked about her daughter playing high school softball. After a few days I mentioned my niece made All County and is getting some good college offers. She never mentioned her daughter again. I don't have a niece.
Another one is idle gossip about what is going on in the community. I find it boring to listen to discussion about who is marrying who, remarks about how someone is probably cheating on their spouse, and so on.
Ah yes, this reminded me - the small town gossip... please spare me, I don't care to walk through the re-constructed history of who's who, or which Smith kid was in the same class, and that they lived in the yellow house on the corner and then he married the Jones girl... ugh.
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Originally Posted by Phillyguy19102
I'm really not interested in people droning on about their cats and dogs.
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Originally Posted by rummage
People talking about drinking. How drunk they got, how drunk they will get, and what their favorite bar is. Don't even realize they have a problem. I know this couple, they have a drink with every meal except breakfast. It's totally gross.
Thank you, I had forgotten about pets and drinking. Add those to my list. On a side note, I can also do without tales of stupid stunts or pranks people did in their younger days (yes, I'm a stick in the mud).
I have to admit, I'm genuinely surprised at the number of times sports has been mentioned. I need all you folks in my life instead of all the ones around me the drone on endlessly about the latest game.
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Originally Posted by Coney
I can listen to anyone about anything in moderation, but please know your audience/listener. If they don't have a similar experience/frame of reference/background, don't ramble on endlessly. If they have never met the person that you are talking about, keep it short. For some people it seems more important that they get out the words rather than to actually communicate something. Please, summarize and stick to the main points, as if you were taking a test and had to pick the best choice for the main idea of the above paragraph.
^^^^^ This. It is phenomenal how many people either cannot or choose not to read the facial expressions and body language of their audience to see if they should adjust the speed and/or content of their stories.
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