# What Subject Do you Want to Talk About?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subject-do-you-want-to-talk-about/589127>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 15, 2011, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subject-do-you-want-to-talk-about/589127 "2011-07-15T14:36:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subject-do-you-want-to-talk-about/589127/41 "2011-07-19T13:24:10Z")

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> [@even\_sven](#):
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> …and the recent emergence of the female gaze in modern music vdeos.

::grabs notebook and pen::

the wha?

From my perspective, I have years of public speaking, performing in a band, and business leadership. Basically, I could talk forever about pretty much anything (for better or worse ;)). However, my main area job is facilitating a company leadership team and board through strategic discussions - getting them (or in the case of my company, us) to see the need to make a decision about a specific issue, get the decision agreed to and resources allocated. In that case, I am doing my job if I get in front of folks and get them to do the bulk of the talking.

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**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subject-do-you-want-to-talk-about/589127/42 "2011-07-19T14:05:23Z")

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> [@MattProle](#):
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> What subject do you feel exceedingly comfortable talking about? So comfortable / interested, in fact, that you could do a 2 hour lecture in front of 150 people without fear.
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> I curious.

Database administration and application development.

Martial arts in general and Taekwondo in particular.

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**Author:** ![limegreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/82dd89/32.png) [@limegreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/limegreen)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-subject-do-you-want-to-talk-about/589127/43 "2011-07-20T00:51:13Z")

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Grammar – subjects, verbs, all that stuff. You didn’t say it had to be interesting, did you?  
As a teacher, this is pretty much my life, and I also used to be a professional storyteller. I can yammer on about pretty much anything.

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