# Everybody has a topic they can bore people to death talking about...

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882>\
**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")\
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**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 7, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/161 "2013-08-07T16:20:50Z")

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LARPing  
History and Religions (I can go on and on about Pope Alexander VI and the Borgia family)  
D&D  
Video games

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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/162 "2013-08-07T20:44:15Z")

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Piezo electric quartz crystal devices

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**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2013, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/163 "2013-08-07T21:46:26Z")

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> [@LouisB](#):
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> Piezo electric quartz crystal devices

Aren’t those how most wristwatches work?

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**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/everybody-has-a-topic-they-can-bore-people-to-death-talking-about/630882/164 "2013-08-08T01:04:53Z")

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> [@Raguleader](#):
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> Aren’t those how most wristwatches work?

Yes although that is changing; I understand that some watches are using a capacitive timing circuit but that has developed after I left the industry.

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