Excluding the obvious ones such as politics, what topics can't you stand listening to people talk about?
For me it’s detailed describtions about people’s dreams.
Not only doesn’t your story make any sense, but you’re also telling me about something that didn’t even happen. It’s kind of like telling about an event, and then ending the story by saying you just made it all up, except with dreams you begin by telling it’s all made up. I’m already not interested before you even started.
Health related bullshit like a “cleanse” and other woowoo health shit, especially when people talk authoritatively about it. Look, Jenny, you obviously don’t know shit about what you are talking about because you wouldn’t be talking about it if you did.
If you need a cleanse, your fucking kidneys and liver are broken. Seek help.
Nutrition. I spent years reading about nutrition to the point of being afraid to eat basically anything, I went to a “nutritionist” school with a strong anti animal product bent.
I don’t want to hear your nutrition “facts.” If it works for you, good for you! If you want my advice about what works for me, I’ll freely give it when asked. But literally every research based bit of nutrition advice can be contradicted with another bit of research based nutrition advice and most people are working with a model of nutrition science from about 1995.
I swear if I have to listen to one more emotional to the point of tears monologue about the perils of soy/dairy/meat/gluten/carbs/cholesterol/saturated fat/vegetables/“modern fruits”/grains/unfermented foods/bioaccumulated whatevers/etc WHILE I’M TRYING TO EAT, I may take advantage of my pointy food weapons.
Eat what makes you feel vibrant and leave everyone else alone.
any vent or rant that comes out of nowhere… if ppl ask me if i’m in a good headspace to listen before saying anything, ofc that’s cool! but ppl who just walk up and start talking about their bullshit i don’t care about are super annoying imo
I think there are two types of people who describe dreams: 1) Those who are essentially saying, “Listen to this absurdity, isn’t it hilarious/weird?” and 2) those who are trying to pick up insights and think their dreams mean something. It’s the difference between reading a fantasy novel that is all about characters, world building, and a cool story, and a fantasy novel where the author is trying to make some point about the real world and how something should or should not be.
I definitely fall in line with OP’s sentiments about that second category.
Weed, alcohol, other drugs and Bar stories. I do not partake, but due to it being common amung my peers it is hard to avoid. To them that thing they experienced at that one bar 4 weeks ago is the funniest thing, but I cannot relate at all and its kinda frustrating because I do not intend to partake in such activities just to keep up socially. Same with smoke breaks.
I seem to get the version on how wasted they got and sick they were afterwards. It’s like they unlock new achievement badges each weekend by how much they throw up the next day.
I’m left thinking you’re getting into your late 30s or 40s now. This isn’t your teens and early 20s anymore.
I’ve enjoyed when seeing some of these hard partiers mature and nope out now after a few years. But honestly being a alcoholic seems to the baseline starting place for many when it comes to socializing.
I know I’m a drag for them when I’m at a nice hotel and I’m not joining in with a cooler bag full of beers or hard stuff to get the party started before going to dinner. The gf is younger and a little frustrated I’m just not interested in that anymore or was I ever really.
She’s coming to terms with her inability to not be sick after a night of drinking as she gets older now too. Being health conscious she’s coming to the realization that alcohol consumption is perhaps not the best thing for her long term either based on the health of her long term friends still trying to keep up with being wasted every weekend.
For me, excessive self aggrandizing stories are unbearable. Everybody has a story about themselves where they are the hero, or did the amazing thing. That’s perfectly fine, and in reasonable doses is interesting to listen to.
However that guy who turns every and any conversion into a story about themselves strains both believability and interest beyond my breaking point.
The gf’s father is like this. Every visit is a story of some famous or rich person/people he spent the day with as a buddy not an employee of, or the more common one of his outage and how he one upped someone or put a group of people in their place, at least in his story.
Then he wonders why his son doesn’t want to deal with him, while I see his adult son being a outrage clone of him in a way with stories of injustices against him. His rage is simmering as he tells the stories about every employer, coworker, supervisor, or government agency that is wrong or out to get him. Lately it’s been how the school teachers are plain wrong when it comes to how much of a pain his son is becoming and how his lectures of these elementary teachers is going.
In relation miss my late father’s stories of how much the little town I grew up had changed since my last visit which was often the same stories or my other family members do nothing stories that never change either. The energy level of that is pretty low looking back now…
When people talk about content like they talk about drugs. The whole "we need to get more people to lemmy. I am doing my part because i post daily into empty communitiys and you should to. ".
I physically cringe reading it. Fake activism to frame a addiction.
Repeated discussions about problems that have no solution other than drop someone out of your life. If you aren’t going to ditch the person you are complaining about, then I really don’t want to hear any more about them.
Oohh I get this one. Me to a friend the other day: “As long as you’re still getting a divorce, I LOVE YOU!” If she doesn’t go through with this divorce, we’re not friends anymore…
That sort of talk disappears when you get older. People might briefly chat about their favorite whiskey or whatever, but they’re not having whole-ass conversations on the topic.
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