"Oh no, here we go again, he is starting on his pet topic....."?
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August 26th, 2011
Do you have someone in your vicinity who is always and always talking about his/her pet topic, to the point that you go: “Oh jeez, here we go again….I really get sick of it”
No need to name names of course, but can you tell their topic?
I have a colleague who had a career in social housing maintenance and every damn time I work with him he starts babbling about, throwing in social housing maintenance lingo.
On top of that he is very longwinding.
You know someone like that?
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You just described all people over 50 in my family. I can’t get them to stop, either.
My mother is horrendous about this continual need to discuss work over & over & over.
Oh, haha. I thought you were talking about people who talk about their pets.
I’m sure I know someone like this, but no one springs to mind.
My oldest brother. I see his number on my caller ID and automatically get in a bad mood.
Yep, that’s me. I can see anything as relating to gender and inequality.
@rebbel Hush. You’re now talking to a newly appointed instructor of sociology. Today, it’s my day, :)
He’s a teacher so it always involves talking about his students and how much he hates teaching and how much money he has in his retirement so it will be x amount of years before he can retire and get away from the kids he hates. I’m glad he’s not my teacher.
I probably do that. Luckily, I have three or four things that are my pet issues/subjects, so I can keep it somewhat fresh.
Just about every fucker you meet in the street here in England Town, will mention the weather!!
Eeeh, fancy that, it’s bloody raining again!
My great-aunt’s live-in lover. He’s a consummate conspiracy theorist and you can’t even comment on how pretty the full moon looks without hearing an earful about false alien satellites, covered up by the GOVERMMENT.
Tedious old bastard.
I stand on the whatever amendment that says you can’t be forced to testify against your husband!
I throw in things about linguistics all the time. It’s really important; especially when a problem rests around technicalities and meanings of words :)
One of my peers talks about Harry Potter every few minutes. Going to graduate school with them is going to be… interesting to say the least.
I worked with a woman whose two pet topics were her vision problems and Mexican politics. She was very long-winded too. She held you captive, sometimes almost physically trapping you in a small space, and never paused for breath in her interminable rants.
Luckily for me, she is no longer in my vicinity.
If I ever get like that, I hope somebody tells me.
FREAKIN’ FOOTBALL!!!!! Oh no. I brokded a amendment…
I wonder why older people thing you REALLY want to hear about their most recent bowel issues and…stuff.
@rebbel To be fair… I think it has little to do with their age. It just happens to be that side of my family is older and stubborn/rigid in their thoughts
Oh yes.. someone very close to me. It just takes patience, my dear. Patience and an ability to interrupt and veer them off topic..
My partner just trained someone at work that would take any opportunity to talk about the Kennedys.
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