# Everybody has a topic they can bore people to death talking about... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2012, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882 "2012-08-08T17:32:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/61 "2012-08-09T03:17:13Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > Parking lot criminals. Boy, you ain’t just whistling Dixie. ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/62 "2012-08-09T03:18:42Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Boy, you ain’t just whistling Dixie. A joke, dude. A joke. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/63 "2012-08-09T03:29:17Z")
> [@Ambivalid](#): > > A joke, dude. A joke. I got the joke alright. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/64 "2012-08-09T03:45:42Z")
Not me! I just pretty much keep my mouth shut, saying little or nothing, keeping my mostly vacuous thoughts to myself, and bore people to death that way. Works for me – and with so much less effort! ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/65 "2012-08-09T03:58:01Z")
Genealogy Vintage sewing machines and cabinets The class structure in terms of the movie “Steel Magnolias” yeah, i’m lame. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/66 "2012-08-09T03:59:48Z")
> [@Bumbershoot](#): > > Skydiving- although I don’t bring it up much after seeing :rolleyes: so many times. You can talk to me about it next week. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/67 "2012-08-09T04:10:17Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > My sailing trip > Relationship woes Au contraire, that sailing trip is immensely awesome. I’m waiting for the book to come out, however, as the interrogation method was starting to make me feel icky. 😉 I can’t speak to the relationship woes, but I suspect there are some good stories in that as well. There usually are! ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/68 "2012-08-09T04:41:05Z")
Vaccines The anti-vax movement Conspiracy theory thought process Mental illness Psychology in general ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/69 "2012-08-09T04:45:37Z")
> [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#): > > Au contraire, that sailing trip is immensely awesome. I’m waiting for the book to come out, however, as the interrogation method was starting to make me feel icky. 😉 No cause for that at all, truly. > [@](#): > > I can’t speak to the relationship woes, but I suspect there are some good stories in that as well. There usually are! Well, yes, but everybody here has already heard them. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/70 "2012-08-09T05:34:54Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > No cause for that at all, truly.Well, yes, but everybody here has already heard them. Not _every_body. 'Tis my first summer on the migratory route. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/71 "2012-08-09T05:35:10Z")
Wait for it…wait…wait… [Oh yes, you bet](http://happyrhodes.org/). Though really, as much as some people on the Dope either run screaming from me or snark at me about her, I don’t talk about her a _fraction_ as much as I could. Not even a teeny tiny fraction of a fraction. Believe me, I could talk for hours and hours about her music, her voice, her history, my 23-year fandom and friendship, and so on and so forth, and only scratch the surface. I generally don’t talk much about her though, except to other fans. What I do do is post links because as much as it annoys some, it’s the only way anybody, if they’re even slightly interested, will hear her. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/72 "2012-08-09T06:11:50Z")
> [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#): > > Not _every_body. 'Tis my first summer on the migratory route. [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=563145&postcount=16) may have been the first time I told it. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/73 "2012-08-09T06:51:32Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > [This](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=563145&postcount=16) may have been the first time I told it. Wow. When did that happen? What did you do? That was horrible. I feel like I should offer you a hug or somethin’… ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/74 "2012-08-09T07:01:41Z")
Poetry, especially poetic wordplay and aural effects. Health insurance. I think even my husband just cringed. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/75 "2012-08-09T07:29:35Z")
> [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#): > > Wow. If I’m gonna be boring, I figure I should at least be entertaining about it. > [@](#): > > When did that happen? February of '97. > [@](#): > > What did you do? I don’t remember the exact details. She didn’t bring a date, (can’t remember if I tried to get another ticket or not) but it hardly mattered by that point. The play was good. And she and I are still friends; we chat once every few months on Facebook. ---
**Author:** ![Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Curiosity_Kills_Her)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/76 "2012-08-09T07:38:39Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > If I’m gonna be boring, I figure I should at least be entertaining about it.February of '97.I don’t remember the exact details. She didn’t bring a date, (can’t remember if I tried to get another ticket or not) but it hardly mattered by that point. The play was good. And she and I are still friends; we chat once every few months on Facebook. She ever seem to have any self-reflection about that event? Ever seem to realize that _perhaps_ that was a, uh… an _unenlightened_ thing she did? And what was the play, so that I may avoid it? Heh. It may be cursed. ---
**Author:** ![kmshrader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b782af/32.png) [@kmshrader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kmshrader)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 8:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/77 "2012-08-09T08:05:47Z")
German grammar 20th century genocides Philosophy in Golden Age science fiction I’m great at parties. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/78 "2012-08-09T08:14:48Z")
> [@Curiosity\_Kills\_Her](#): > > She ever seem to have any self-reflection about that event? Ever seem to realize that _perhaps_ that was a, uh… an _unenlightened_ thing she did? And what was the play, so that I may avoid it? Heh. It may be cursed. I asked her about it a year or so later. She barely remembered it had happened. I think the play was _Confessions of an Illusionist_, a one-man show by Dan Kamin. Everybody bored yet? ---
**Author:** ![the\_diego](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@the\_diego](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_diego)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/79 "2012-08-09T09:30:18Z")
Pocket knives. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/80 "2012-08-09T12:53:17Z")
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