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What do you guys talk about in general life?

  • 13-11-2019 4:00pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭completedit


    INB4 this is the ‘4th worst thread on boards.ie’ comment.

    Just curious what you talk about with other half, mates, family etc.

    I just saw the thread about ‘you’ve just been kidnapped’ to me that kind of topic has always been the type you’d have online but never ever ever heard people bring up such a topic in a real life setting. If I brought up a topic like that it would be so forced and wooden, but seems like that kinda thing would be a cool conversation.

    I find all my conversations to be so dull, not that I’m bored by other people, just that I bore myself(this thread for instance)

    But I’d like to know.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,760 ✭✭✭Effects


    Not football.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    I don't talk to people in real life.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,212 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


    this is the ‘4th worst thread on boards.ie’


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,352 ✭✭✭✭endacl


    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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,136 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    Today discussed boilers, electric gates, the upcoming weather and a dead bloke!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    The usual shíte.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    NB4 this is the ‘4th worst thread on boards.ie’ comment.

    Just curious what you talk about with other half, mates, family etc.

    I just saw the thread about ‘you’ve just been kidnapped’ to me that kind of topic has always been the type you’d have online but never ever ever heard people bring up such a topic in a real life setting. If I brought up a topic like that it would be so forced and wooden, but seems like that kinda thing would be a cool conversation.

    I find all my conversations to be so dull, not that I’m bored by other people, just that I bore myself(this thread for instance)

    But I’d like to know.

    Close!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    TV, video games, board games, identifying who in a film we're watching has been in other films and what they were, our kids, who was a dick to us at work that day, food

    Stuff like that!


  • Posts: 0 CMod ✭✭✭✭ Maren Alive Rubber


    Today at coffee was black Friday /cyber monday possible deals and cities skylines


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,686 ✭✭✭✭Zubeneschamali


    Sportsball.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    With my wife I can talk about anything, though I'm more than happy to mostly listen. She's so incredibly intelligent, accomplished, and wise so it's an honour to hear her wax lyrical about almost any topic. With my son we mostly talk about running. With my daughter I try to talk to her about her diet.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    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

    Among my friends? Politics, history, cars, new tech, old tech, interesting books, flics, TV, web stuff we've seen, work, family, general stuff and yep things like you've just been kidnapped. And weirder...

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,104 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Women.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,261 ✭✭✭Baron Kurtz


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    With my wife I can talk about anything, though I'm more than happy to mostly listen. She's so incredibly intelligent, accomplished, and wise so it's an honour to hear her wax lyrical about almost any topic. With my son we mostly talk about running. With my daughter I try to talk to her about her diet.

    First half, Blergh.

    Latter half, you never fail to s!it on her :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    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

    Among my friends? Politics, history, cars, new tech, old tech, interesting books, flics, TV, web stuff we've seen, work, family, general stuff and yep things like you've just been kidnapped. And weirder...

    Board games are v popular these days! We play regularly with friends + colleagues


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    Woshy wrote: »
    Board games are v popular these days! We play regularly with friends + colleagues
    and that's how outa touch I am W. :)

    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,429 ✭✭✭Woshy


    Wibbs wrote: »
    and that's how outa touch I am W. :)

    We'll have to invite you to join us sometime :D


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


    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

    Among my friends? Politics, history, cars, new tech, old tech, interesting books, flics, TV, web stuff we've seen, work, family, general stuff and yep things like you've just been kidnapped. And weirder...

    How do those convos usually go? How are you informed enough to be able to drag out such a conversation?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    is_that_so wrote: »
    Today discussed boilers, electric gates, the upcoming weather and a dead bloke!

    Boilers! Now we're talkin'.

    latest?cb=20091223121853


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,942 ✭✭✭topper75


    Who is dead locally and suchlike.
    I work off the assumption that you good people might not be bothered.

    All the same, the LCD thing on here can be a root of many problems. Take Trump for instance. I will never meet him and could not give a monkeys about him. He can get people into a froth online. He is not what Homer composed the Iliad about really.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    topper75 wrote: »
    Who is dead locally and suchlike.

    "You'll never guess who's after dying"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,547 ✭✭✭✭El_Duderino 09


    Was chatting with a colleague over lunch. His in laws were down so we chatted a bit about inlaws - I'm very lucky with my inlaws as they're lovely people and he has the opposite luck. His MIL sounds like a bit of a wagon so he needed a bit of a vent about that.

    I'm organising a trip to an event, bite to eat and a few pints for work mates on Friday evening after work. So we chatted about that. Normal stuff.

    We also chatted about mince pies and the time he got a double decker which was only a single decker. So he wrote to Cadburys and got a voucher from them.

    Just the usual shyte talk.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,180 ✭✭✭✭jimgoose


    topper75 wrote: »
    ...He is not what Homer composed the Iliad about really.

    I have lived in important places, times
    When great events were decided; who owned
    That half a rood of rock, a no-man’s land
    Surrounded by our pitchfork-armed claims.
    I heard the Duffys shouting ‘Damn your soul!’
    And old McCabe stripped to the waist, seen
    Step the plot defying blue cast-steel –
    ‘Here is the march along these iron stones’
    That was the year of the Munich bother. Which
    Was more important? I inclined
    To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin
    Till Homer’s ghost came whispering to my mind.
    He said: I made the Iliad from such
    A local row. Gods make their own importance.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Chicks, football, horse racing - all the usual stuff lads talk about.


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,304 ✭✭✭munster87


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    With my wife I can talk about anything, though I'm more than happy to mostly listen. She's so incredibly intelligent, accomplished, and wise so it's an honour to hear her wax lyrical about almost any topic. With my son we mostly talk about running. With my daughter I try to talk to her about her diet.

    I think your wife has hijacked your account!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    Woke Hogan wrote: »
    With my daughter I try to talk to her about her diet.

    Your daughter must really hate you. She should anyway.


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


    Chicks, football, horse racing - all the usual stuff lads talk about.

    What you talk about with birds


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,539 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Football , women .relations. who has died or got sick. Any gossip re riding and the like


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,344 ✭✭✭Thoie


    INB4 this is the ‘4th worst thread on boards.ie’ comment.

    Just curious what you talk about with other half, mates, family etc.

    I just saw the thread about ‘you’ve just been kidnapped’ to me that kind of topic has always been the type you’d have online but never ever ever heard people bring up such a topic in a real life setting. If I brought up a topic like that it would be so forced and wooden, but seems like that kinda thing would be a cool conversation.

    I find all my conversations to be so dull, not that I’m bored by other people, just that I bore myself(this thread for instance)

    But I’d like to know.

    Those are exactly the kinds of conversations I have with my family and friends. But they're intermingled with "did anything exciting happen today? Oh, the neighbour's dog came to visit, and then left again?" and "In case of a zombie attack, would you head for the attic and try wait them out, or take off across the fields?".

    I think it depends on whether your friends and family are happy to go with the flow. 80% of our conversations are normal "boring" stuff. What we did today, what we need to get done tomorrow. The other 20% are random flights of fancy that people go with the flow with. My father is less inclined to follow along with the madness, preferring more factual conversations, but most other people I hang out with are happy to discuss what material would they like their pirate peg leg to be made from.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,627 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Your daughter must really hate you. She should anyway.
    Of course she doesn't. Showing concern for her weight gain is no reason to be hated.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,935 ✭✭✭✭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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,539 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


    Kids. People feel under pressure to ask and reciprocate


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,170 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    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.



  • Registered Users Posts: 748 ✭✭✭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.


  • 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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,368 ✭✭✭bladespin


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

    MasteryDarts Ireland - Master your game!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,016 ✭✭✭✭EmmetSpiceland


    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.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,547 ✭✭✭✭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.


  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,645 Mod ✭✭✭✭igCorcaigh


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,952 ✭✭✭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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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,935 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    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.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,538 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


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

    The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the LORD your God.

    Leviticus 19:34



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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”


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 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.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 80 ✭✭Simmer down


    Sh¡te


  • 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.


  • 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...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,707 ✭✭✭Bobblehats


    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.


  • 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.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,609 ✭✭✭stoneill


    Voyager eleven?
    Making up sh1te now.


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