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What do you guys talk about in general life?

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  • #32
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Last 5 conversations with other guys

    How to decide which winter boot to buy, do you focus on price, brand, longevity, style (surprisingly interesting conversation with stranger in shoe shop).
    Challenges of maintaining relationships with siblings.
    How to manage your time better at work while still trying to succeed.
    How well Liverpool are doing and being magnanimous about Utd's difficulties (while nearly enjoying it as much as Liverpool's success)
    Politics: Brexit/Trump/Ireland before the Brits


  • #33
    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,329 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Kids. People feel under pressure to ask and reciprocate


  • #34
    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,065 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    completedit wrote: »
    How do those convos usually go? How are you informed enough to be able to drag out such a conversation?
    They go easy C and we're a well informed bunch of people TBH. I suppose birds of a feather is going on. I do know that I would defo edit my range of subject matter with most people, until I got a gauge for their background knowledge. TBH I have found most people wouldn't have that much of a range, so I'd stay within that, though I have found that most people would have a lot of knowledge in one area or other, so I'd bounce of that and learn stuff.

    Blindspots would be sports. Would be very slim pickings there. None of us would have a single clue about football for example. A couple would be into motorsports and most of the rest of us could hang in with conversations like that. We wouldn't really discuss things like literature. Certainly not sitting around like pseuds debating the finer points of Nabokov.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • #35
    Vita nova
    Registered Users Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Vita nova


    TV programmes and films quite a bit. Travel and places we've been, which can often lead into a conversation on history or politics if it's a particular historic or notable place. The others talk about sport frequently during which I tune out or try to change the topic.


  • #36
    IAMAMORON
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,078 ✭✭✭IAMAMORON


    New and more interesting places to hide the bodies. And pussy.

    Any other conversation I have ever had I usually just nod my head and say things like " yeh " , " yeh " , " yeh " , " wow, how cool , sounds interesting " , " yeh " , " yeh " , small fake laugh or giggle , " your a gas man altogether " , " you'd tear the hind legs off a bolleex so ya would , ya mad hoooooer ya "

    I also wink a lot and nod. That sort of thing.


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  • #37
    bladespin
    Registered Users Posts: 7,332 ✭✭✭bladespin


    Motorbikes, motor bike racing, motogp, stunts, bit of football.


  • #38
    EmmetSpiceland
    Registered Users Posts: 10,521 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    Tell me how wrote: »
    How well Liverpool are doing and being magnanimous about Utd's difficulties (while nearly enjoying it as much as Liverpool's success)

    Out of curiosity, have you found many United fans to be magnanimous with?

    I’ve noticed, as have others I know, that in work and outside all of the United fans suddenly don’t seem to “follow” English premier league football anymore.

    They all seem to support Rovers or Bohs and bang on about the “purity” of “live football” and how there’s more of a connection.

    As someone who supports a team that are currently in the championship but once topped the first division I find it all incredibly disingenuous.

    You’d have to fear for the surge in League of Ireland attendances if United get their house in order in about ten years time, seven if they spend big.

    The tide is turning…



  • #39
    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,906 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    I'm tolerant of most topics but work is a no-no. I'll let someone rant for a minute or 2 if they need to get something off their chest, particularly if they've come straight from work on a Friday evening, but that's it. I often meet up with friends from work at the weekend and my threshold for shop talk is near zero.

    If it's a really interesting anecdote or interesting information, fine. But anyone looking to talk about their job can do one.


  • #40
    igCorcaigh
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,057 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


    News items, international and national and local.
    No sports. Food...


  • #41
    Conall Cernach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,924 ✭✭✭Conall Cernach


    Wibbs wrote: »
    Board games? I don't think I had that discussion since the 80's, and that was to slag off dungeons and dragons types. :D
    Hey! My 4th level Ranger would kick your ass if he heard that and wasn't imaginary.


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  • #42
    Tell me how
    Registered Users Posts: 21,517 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    EmmetSpiceland wrote: »
    Out of curiosity, have you found many United fans to be magnanimous with?

    I’ve noticed, as have others I know, that in work and outside all of the United fans suddenly don’t seem to “follow” English premier league football anymore.

    They all seem to support Rovers or Bohs and bang on about the “purity” of “live football” and how there’s more of a connection.

    As someone who supports a team that are currently in the championship but once topped the first division I find it all incredibly disingenuous.

    You’d have to fear for the surge in League of Ireland attendances if United get their house in order in about ten years time, seven if they spend big.

    Lad I talk to about this is very realistic in fairness. That's why he's good to talk to. He calls out their shoddiness in a meaningful way when he sees it.

    No interest in talking sports to real 'fans' who see no evil, hear no evil, I'm not that passionate about it myself.


  • #43
    ancapailldorcha
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 37,065 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Cats, Brexit and the merits and failures of various English monarchs.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



  • #44
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    Not a whole lot it always feels like I’m forever waiting for somebody to come and take me off mute. Also I prefer to talk “off the grid”


  • #45
    Cee-Jay-Cee
    Registered Users Posts: 12,235 ✭✭✭✭Cee-Jay-Cee


    I work in an office with 5 others. Topics of conversation range from

    The **** in the other offices.
    Our kids and Shiite they get up to/say.
    How we're all too old to go socialising or drinking anymore.
    Anyone know what's causing this ache/pain?
    Do you remember when we first started in This job...
    Anyone else's computer playing up today/we have third world servers/IT maintenance/why won't they just pay the money and buy the full licenced product instead of the yellow pack basic version!
    The **** in the other offices.


  • #46
    Simmer down
    Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Simmer down


    Sh¡te


  • #47
    Gynoid
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,524 ✭✭✭Gynoid


    Today started early,
    Long talk about God or not, plus vastness of cosmos, health issues Im having making me exceedingly misanthropic, cursing, dont talk to me, the fcuking traffic on approach to Galway, where did we know that person from, phone codes, the lads employment and travel plans, girlfriend troubles guilt, apologies, ribbing and mocking, suits, going to sea, where the fcuk are we, winter weather, what time will it be dark at next month, hotel bookings, parties, netflix recommendations, forestry plantations, what to buy in the shop, stories about mutual friends, their kids, our kids, car issues, and waaaaaay more. Christ, its endless.


  • #48
    mr_fegelien
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭mr_fegelien


    I don't have any friend but when I was in school, I talked about castration, 9/11 conspiracies, suicidal thoughts, racist jokes, attractive girls, ****e teachers, etc...


  • #49
    Bobblehats
    Registered Users Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    mr_fegelien wrote: »
    I don't have any friend but when I was in school, I talked about castration, 9/11 conspiracies, suicidal thoughts, racist jokes, attractive girls, ****e teachers, etc...

    That’s like shooting fish in a barrel Mr F. Keep chipping away and eventually all those raw subjects that prove evasive will be easier for people to grasp.


  • #50
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    So last night I was out with a girl, and we got to the topic of time capsules and the voyager 11....as you do. All is good, not some Love Island level type convo but I dunno, maybe I need to talk within my level. I have curiosity and interest and an open mind, but I’m just not very verbally fluent. Maybe I just need to talk about this sort of stuff like I would about football, rather than trying to sound like I’m making a NPR podcast.


  • #51
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Voyager eleven?
    Making up sh1te now.


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  • #52
    Purple Mountain
    Registered Users Posts: 12,990 ✭✭✭✭Purple Mountain


    ELM327 wrote: »
    this is the ‘4th worst thread on boards.ie’

    No, it's the worst.

    To thine own self be true



  • #53
    completedit
    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    Always thought it was voyager 11 for some reason haha


  • #54
    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    completedit wrote: »
    Always thought it was voyager 11 for some reason haha

    Nope, Voyager II. But it was Apollo 11. Oi, NASA - pick one, or t'other!! :mad:


  • #55
    Arghus
    Registered Users Posts: 14,320 ✭✭✭✭Arghus


    It depends on who I'm talking too.


  • #56
    Lewis_Benson
    Registered Users Posts: 1,872 ✭✭✭Lewis_Benson


    Boobies


  • #57
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    Sport
    Drinking
    Destroying each others character
    Miscellaneous comparisons
    What ladies we would like to take on long romantic walks along the beach


  • #58
    quokula
    Registered Users Posts: 3,570 ✭✭✭quokula


    Cats mostly


  • #59
    LirW
    Registered Users Posts: 4,825 ✭✭✭LirW


    A lot of really random philosophical stuff.
    "Hey do you think this guy in that show represents really well how this generation was drilled subconsciously that X is an important value and it basically messed everything up?" Constantly. I love to debate for the sake of it, I just love hearing opinions. Yes, I'm probably pretty damn annoying. Can't help it, it stimulates my brain.

    Also food. I could talk about food all day.


  • #60
    Ash.J.Williams
    Registered Users Posts: 20,929 ✭✭✭✭Ash.J.Williams


    endacl wrote: »
    I was in the Generalife in June with the other half. Despite the spectacular surroundings, what we spoke about, iirc, was changing electricity supplier.

    Didn’t go to the Alhambra. Too crowded.

    that's hilarious! i'm off to prague tomorrow and i know bin service provider is going to be high on our agenda!


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  • #61
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Regardless of what the starting point it always ends up about tits or football.

    Actually i've just had a brainwave. Topless womens football is the game of the future.....you heard it here first people.


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