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.

  • spittingimage@lemmy.world
    29·
    2 years ago

    Their health. I’ve reached the age where most of my friends have something to say about their health. It becomes a sort of one-upmanship game, where everyone has to top the person who spoke last with their afflictions. What is this, the misery olympics?

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Medical topics become more and more important as we age. You never know when you might learn something helpful. “That happens to you too? And did the fix work?”

      Hell, you might learn about something that doesn’t affect you, but you can pass it on. For example; Dad didn’t have hairy legsm but a guy in bootcamp showed him how to put on socks if you do. :)

      One upmanship is boorish not matter the topic.

    • sock@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      ive recently gotten really into diet and fitness and i admittedly talk about my health stuff alot but not negative stuff. i just spew new stuff i read about or watched/actually applied to my life.

      “wow i sleep all day. gee i just woke up and its 4pm i guess i definitely have a disorder or smth, therefore its out of my control so im not gonna do anything about it except leverage it for pity”

      a lot of my friends and peers do this shit. like im the weird one for eating like i do, yet im shredded and sleeping ok while yall out here struggling and tired.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      I don’t really mind, but don’t need the intimate details. People talking about it is better than having it be secret and shameful, and is something going on in the person’s life, but say what you need to and move on!

  • protokaiser@lemmy.world
    302·
    2 years ago

    Weed/drugs. You do you, but shut the fuck up about it. I don’t need to know why you think it needs to be legalized and all of the “health” benefits it offers. Just smoke your weed and be happy about it.

    • vettnerk@lemmy.ml
      14·
      2 years ago

      I don’t mind drugs. I just find people who make it their personality annoying.

    • sock@lemmy.world
      11·
      2 years ago

      yeah i think any problem anyone has with the law should just be ignored

      shit i thought when only white heterosexual men could vote was a good thing. turns out non white heterosexual people disagreed. god thats annoying that they talk about wanting rights and stuff.

      just live under threat of prosecution and be happy dumbass.

  • Blue and Orange@lemm.ee
    17·
    2 years ago

    People talking about what alcohol they like. I don’t drink so it’s just boring to me and I can’t relate whatsoever.

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • SSTF@lemmy.world
    13·
    2 years ago

    The dose makes the poison.

    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.

  • psion1369@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • blueamigafan@lemm.ee
    12·
    2 years ago

    Ninja air fryers, at my work there are loads of people who own them, and it’s on the verge of becoming a cult.

  • Call me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Technically I can relate to the dreams thing but for completely different reasons. Dreams on their own are fine to talk about IMO (most famously as a conversation starter and I even help host a group set up for them), but once in a while you’ll find literal dream preachers (my first BF was one of these, coming to the meal table was a chore), and I might ask something like “will this be on the test”. It’s not some kryptonite, it’s just dull-ish for a lack of a better word, though I’m not singling it out either.

    • churrundo@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 years ago

      Yeah, I studied psychology and I like to play Jung a bit when people feel the need to tell me about a dream they had, which in theory is by definition something their unconscious needs them to be aware of. So I ask what they think about it, what they felt at different points, etc. Usually the dream is either absolutely illegible, or unsurprisingly obvious. No in-between.

  • bakachu@sh.itjust.works
    61·
    2 years ago

    Usually it’s culture that’s not their own, from a position of expertise. Theres a fairly good chance of putting out some really bad info and it can also come off as racially or culturally insensitive - which I want no part of. Extra cringe when it’s your own culture that they’re talking about and you’re put in that awkward position of having to do an ackchyually…