What did people talk about before 'what series are you watching?'

BabyE · 04-10-2016 09:50PM #1

Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

Tsipras · 04-10-2016 09:54PM

People have always talked about tv, I remember people obsessing over Friends,X-Files,Simpsons ect. from when I was kid, Before that what was on the radio I guess??

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 04-10-2016 09:54PM

Perhaps in your circle, not mine nor my kids' circle of friends either, as they are here and I asked them.

me_irl · 04-10-2016 09:55PM

It's fierce mild!

jackwigan · 04-10-2016 09:58PM

What's the deal with airplane peanuts?

Estrellita · 04-10-2016 10:13PM

BabyE wrote: »

Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

I don't know what this Netflix thing is you are talking about. But I heard Mikey Flannigans boy Eddie has been courtin' Frank Dennings daughter Annie. She has a few acres coming to her too.

suicide_circus · 04-10-2016 10:15PM

The refuge of the terminally bland.

Archeron · 04-10-2016 10:17PM

The weather. I don't watch any TV so I still talk about the weather
It's fierce mild out tonight.

groucho marx · 04-10-2016 10:18PM

The price of turnips and insulating hot water tanks

maudgonner · 04-10-2016 10:19PM

Tsipras wrote: »

People have always talked about tv, I remember people obsessing over Friends,X-Files,Simpsons ect. from when I was kid, Before that what was on the radio I guess??

Ah, the good old days of Harbour Hotel...

endacl · 04-10-2016 10:19PM

BabyE wrote: »

Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

Have you though about finding more interesting people to converse with?

Shenshen · 05-10-2016 08:23AM

BabyE wrote: »

Seems to be all everyone ever talks about is things, rather than personal situations, what happened to good old fashioned observational conversations? People just live vicariously through whatever the latest big Netflix show is.

There's a "What book are you reading atm" thread right here in this forum

Badly Drunk Boy · 05-10-2016 08:53AM

Estrellita wrote: »

I don't know what this Netflix thing is you are talking about. But I heard Mikey Flannigans boy Eddie has been courtin' Frank Dennings daughter Annie. She has a few acres coming to her too.

So long as it's nothing to do with unfunny English comedian Micky Flanagan. He probably doesn't even have a stand-up show on Netflix!

(Maybe he does...)

Estrellita · 05-10-2016 09:03AM

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

So long as it's nothing to do with unfunny English comedian Micky Flanagan. He probably doesn't even have a stand-up show on Netflix!

(Maybe he does...)

No, you are thinking of Derek and Josie's boy. I heard he's a bit, yano... Well he never married anyway. Terrible shame. I heard Derek's brother Dessies son is in line for the farm. Mickey Flannigan is off up to Dublin, no interest in the land. Josie doesn't know where she got him from, beside herself she is!

_Brian · 05-10-2016 09:11AM

I remember working in a place where football both homegrown and foreign was talked about at every break every day.
It was like having the dentist slowly describe root canal without anaesthesia day after day

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 05-10-2016 09:42AM

It's not something I'd talk with my friends as none of my close friends would be into series on Netflix. We talk about other stuff. Judging other people, new clothes, ordering online vs buying in shops, makeup brushes, other people's Facebook statuses, etc etc. I could spend the day with them talking nonsense and can't think of much of what we talk about now that I think about it

Boom_Bap · 05-10-2016 09:48AM

What did you listen to on the wireless yesterday?

5rtytry56 · 05-10-2016 09:51AM

maudgonner wrote: »

Ah, the good old days of Harbour Hotel...

Boring series, although I heard it when I was a kid it was too boring .....to remember any episode at all.
Now occupied by Ronan Collins slot.

biko · 05-10-2016 10:51AM

Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-10-2016 04:58PM

biko wrote: »

Great minds discuss ideas
Average minds discuss events
Small minds discuss people.

Very good!

And mindless discuss series?

Capt'n Midnight · 06-10-2016 09:24PM

groucho marx wrote: »

The price of turnips and insulating hot water tanks

Weddings, christenings and funerals, especially if there was a big turn up.

holy guacamole · 06-10-2016 09:39PM

They didn't talk about anything.

They just lit the fire, made the tay and sighed contentedly to themselves.

team_actimel · 07-10-2016 09:33AM

I'd rather hear people discuss interesting TV series instead of the usual rigmarole of football (soccer) which consists of the same in depth analysis of overpaid players kicking an inflated bit of leather year in year out.

osarusan · 07-10-2016 09:37AM

We talked about 'Home and Away' because there were only a handful of channels and everybody watched that.

What did people talk about before 'what series are you watching?'

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