What makes a person 'boring'? (husband, gossip, divorced, sister)
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I really don't refer to anyone as "boring". I most likely will think of myself as being "bored" when doing something I don't care to be doing. The finger points at myself. It is not up to others to keep me interested. It's up to me. If I am with someone and we don't have much in common then I can choose not to be around them at all or to limit the time I am with them.
A friend who I have had for many years is so boring that I spend little time with her. Loud and complaining, tells the same storys over and over about the pain her family members are, and I barely know them. Any increase in payment for anything throws her into a tizzy. Have gotton to where I just dont take her calls as just not worth it. Nancy739 said it best, they arent the least bit interested in what you have to say.
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Boring people have no communication skills. They aren't good listeners. A person who is interesting is interested. They don't need to be talking all the time; some of my best friends have been almost silent on fishing or camping trips, but we could both understand what we were working on, and were both cooperating. I have a 94-year-old neighbor who loves gardening and landscaping. We like to spend time in each others' yards, just looking at what's growing. We often say very little, but we are both actively engaged in observation, and pointing out what needs some more work.
Boring people are just plain not interested in you. They often talk too much about themselves.
Talks non-stop about themselves, their kids, grandkids (that I don't know) pets (and I love animals but too much is too much) or telling stories in minute detail that don't matter to the overall point of the story. Any litany of complaints that go on too long and that become predictable about people, the job, health, politics (OMG, I hate politics) really anything can be worn too thin, these people are tiresome.
Like someone else mentioned, people that do nothing. We only get free TV where we live. We don't have much that we watch so someone that works through the entire cable playlist talking about shows that I have never seen or heard of can get to be boring if that is their only interest.
I'm sure there is more but that's what comes to immediate mind.
There are many ways to be boring. Here are some examples:
Talk too much in general
Talk too much about oneself
Say almost nothing and don't try to have a conversation (annoying and boring)
Talk about medical issues all the time
Talk about children or grandchildren all the time
Don't know how to get beyond small talk
Have a non-inquiring mind
Constantly complain
Have a vocabulary that hasn't improved since the sixth grade
Never take an interest in anyone else
Never empathize or give credit to anyone else
I am sure there are other ways to bore your listeners and friends. These are what I can think of now.
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Originally Posted by JrzDefector
People with no curiosity about the world around them. If you have interests in anything and can speak about it enthusiastically, I will likely find you interesting, as long as you don't repeat yourself too much. Even if you're going on about your love of, I dunno, yam hybrids.
That's a good quality I have. I find most men to be boring, if anything other than sports is discussed I can see their eyes glazing over and everything switching off. Which is irritating because I find myself having to pretend to have an interest in sports in order to have any sort of conversation with a man.
It's nice to see someone having respect for the opinions of others. I haven't really met anybody like that.
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Originally Posted by Nor'Eastah
Boring people have no communication skills. They aren't good listeners. A person who is interesting is interested. They don't need to be talking all the time; some of my best friends have been almost silent on fishing or camping trips, but we could both understand what we were working on, and were both cooperating. I have a 94-year-old neighbor who loves gardening and landscaping. We like to spend time in each others' yards, just looking at what's growing. We often say very little, but we are both actively engaged in observation, and pointing out what needs some more work.
Boring people are just plain not interested in you. They often talk too much about themselves.
My father does that. He doesn't even pretend to listen, just cuts right over me and starts talking about something else.
Kind of rude.
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