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What do you guys talk about in general life?

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


    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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    #2
    Effects
    Registered Users Posts: 9,761 ✭✭✭Effects


    Not football.


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    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I don't talk to people in real life.


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    ELM327
    Registered Users Posts: 21,358 ✭✭✭✭ELM327


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


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    endacl
    Registered Users Posts: 22,231 ✭✭✭✭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.


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


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


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    Bob Harris
    Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    The usual shíte.


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


    completedit wrote: »
    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!


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    Woshy
    Registered Users 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!


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


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


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


    Sportsball.


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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭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.


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,071 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.



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    Trigger Happy
    Registered Users Posts: 6,067 ✭✭✭Trigger Happy


    Women.


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    Baron Kurtz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,262 ✭✭✭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 :)


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    Woshy
    Registered Users 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


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    Wibbs
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,071 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.



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    Woshy
    Registered Users 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


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    completedit
    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?


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    Better Than Christ
    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


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    topper75
    Registered Users 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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    Better Than Christ
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,135 ✭✭✭Better Than Christ


    topper75 wrote: »
    Who is dead locally and suchlike.

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


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    El_Duderino 09
    Registered Users Posts: 19,933 ✭✭✭✭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.


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    jimgoose
    Registered Users Posts: 20,174 ✭✭✭✭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.


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


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


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    munster87
    Registered Users Posts: 4,230 ✭✭✭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!


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    Better Than Christ
    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.


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


    JohnnyFlash wrote: »
    Chicks, football, horse racing - all the usual stuff lads talk about.

    What you talk about with birds


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    cj maxx
    Registered Users Posts: 13,354 ✭✭✭✭cj maxx


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


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


    completedit wrote: »
    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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    Woke Hogan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,630 ✭✭✭Woke Hogan


    Better Than Christ wrote: »
    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.


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