What's your least favourite topic of conversation?

lahalane

What subject gives you brain pain when somebody brings it up in a conversation?

I really hate talking about the recession because I care very little about it and can't bring anything to the table but that's only second.

Because I'm friends with a lot of teachers I have to endure a lot of conversations about teaching and it bores me to death. I respect teachers, I wouldn't be able to do their job but no other professional talks about their job as much in my experience. My own fault for my choice of friends I guess.

YbFocus

Politics!

frag420

Periods

iDave

Work

MurdyWurdy

Also the recession or when people start talking about what a ****hole Ireland is and how they hate it. I just switch off, it's always people that have never lived anywhere else as well.

Mince Pie

Children, child birth, nappies. anything little darling related.
People talking about their dreams. Would put a glass eye to sleep.
Teeth and dentists. My phobia. Freaks me out.

MadsL

Z list Celebrities. Come to think of it, A, B, C....etc list Celebraties.

Celebrities being the theme of this post.

Celebrities.

MickFleetwood

Anything to do with religion.

krudler

That local sports team

Corvo

Australia

SEPT 23 1989

Death

GreenWolfe

Sports, especially football. I couldn't think of anything more boring, I tune out if people start talking about it.

Meangadh

[quote="lahalane;86273080"

Because I'm friends with a lot of teachers I have to endure a lot of conversations about teaching and it bores me to death. I respect teachers, I wouldn't be able to do their job but no other professional talks about their job as much in my experience. My own fault for my choice of friends I guess.[/quote]

I'm a teacher and I actually totally agree with you. I try to be very conscious of it if non-teachers are with us, must be both boring and irritating.

The topic I hate when people bring it up is religion. Serious buzz kill.

I also hate when people go on about their gym sessions and classes they took. I go to the gym and go swimming but I don't feel the need to mention it all that much.

Cody Pomeray

music.

Let me listen to it, fine. Give me tips on music you like, great. But stop endlessly talking about the jaysus "dissonance" or "signature cadence". :mad:

MadsL

Corvo wrote: »

Australia

Quite. Never understood the fascination. Almost exactly like America but further away than America, more expensive than America, not nearly as interesting as America, not as friendly as America and is had little of the history or culture of America, except the crap stuff they imported from America.

Baffles me why people rave about it.

lahalane

MadsL wrote: »

Quite. Never understood the fascination. Almost exactly like America but further away than America, more expensive than America, not nearly as interesting as America, not as friendly as America and is had little of the history or culture of America, except the crap stuff they imported from America.

Baffles me why people rave about it.

And if you pull someone up on it, they claim that you're just jealous?? I was in Australia for 8 months. The reason I am home is because I didn't like it so I am certainly NOT jealous.

Corvo

MadsL wrote: »

Quite. Never understood the fascination. Almost exactly like America but further away than America, more expensive than America, not nearly as interesting as America, not as friendly as America and is had little of the history or culture of America, except the crap stuff they imported from America.

Baffles me why people rave about it.

I know. I totally zone out.

"Oh I can't wait to...you know...just get back to Perth. It's just like heaven and you earn so much money and the weather and the weed and the..."

And I'm thinking "Will you just ever feck off back there and take your kind with you"

I am pie

Illness.

Chattastrophe!

The weather.

I'm not sure I'm really Irish!

starlit

Morbid things

Work

Listening to people getting the latest car suppose doesnt bother me as much since having a car of your own you take less interest in something if you little interest or not much to do with it.

Ailments

Or things that bore me to tears or hearing if they got the latest gizmo.

B0jangles

Haemorrhoids.


Dammit Dad

Lisha

Diets

Driveby Dogboy

MadsL wrote: »

Quite. Never understood the fascination. Almost exactly like America but further away than America, more expensive than America, not nearly as interesting as America, not as friendly as America and is had little of the history or culture of America, except the crap stuff they imported from America.

Baffles me why people rave about it.

or America...

Pensivepuca

"when you getting married" or "when you getting a fella". At the birth of my nephew my cousin, in all seriousness asked when was I gonna have my own child.

PhlegmyMoses

Anything from the other person, tbh. I'm just waiting for my chance to talk, like everyone else.

pappyodaniel

I hate 'celeb' fucks up' topics a la Miley Cyrus this week. I just have no interest especially an American teen who I've never seen in a movie or t.v and I've never heard a song of hers.

All I know about her was she swam out of Billy Ray Cyrus' balls.

JoeA3

pappyodaniel wrote: »

All I know about her was she swam out of Billy Ray Cyrus' balls.

Riddle101

Sports. I'm not really into sports but my mates are, so when they're having a conversation about football or something, i'm like the invisible man.

I suppose politics is a least liked topic of mine too.

B0jangles

PhlegmyMoses wrote: »

Anything from the other person, tbh. I'm just waiting for my chance to talk, like everyone else.

Fran Lebowitz wrote:

The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.

Shenshen

Celebrities. And soaps and reality TV. Or "talent" shows.

I makes my brain hurt with utter, undescribeable boredom.

BuilderPlumber

Politics
Cancer/heart disease/strokes/other serious illness
People bragging about money
Negative talk about the recession/corruption/Iraq war

MadsL

Driveby Dogboy wrote: »

or America...

Fair enough, I just never understood why people would travel twice as far to see the same stuff.

Wacker The Attacker

Marriage

Wacker The Attacker

BuilderPlumber wrote: »

Politics
Cancer/heart disease/strokes/other serious illness
People bragging about money
Negative talk about the recession/corruption/Iraq war

Is there such a thing as positive talk about any of these subjects?

PhlegmyMoses

B0jangles wrote: »

Frank Lebowitz doesn't post here. You've lied to me B0jangles! That's your one.

Driveby Dogboy

doovdela wrote: »

S...e...x

yeah, same here.

probably because im not getting much, or any at all, recently

Talib Fiasco

I hate when people start talking about bad things that have happened to people recently....you know like bullsh*t gossip.

'oh jees I heard they're scrapped for cash. Sure didn't he divorce her there. You don't see him walking his dog anymore anyway. And sure look at him he stopped dieing the hair as well. Jees ya know things are bad when that fella stops dieing his hair. He's badly off. Sure the daughter's in college. Sure they must have loads of money. Anyway the washing is out and the spuds are boiling.'

I hate a few things about Irish people, but that's the definitely the big one. Bad mouthing gossip.

KyussBishop

Ya gossip/drama of any kind - not just a disliked topic, probably make me dislike the person too.

MissD93

religion .. i hate talking about it because its so vast and i don't want to come off like a d!ck head, also i don't like hearing peoples views on religion as they seem a bit biased and makes me like them a little bit less.

castletownman

The over-hype and over-analysis of blow-in fans of rugby.

Second only to the pedestrianisation of Norwich City in terms of tedious conversation