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⌈ Secret Post #2193 ⌋

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[GunnerKrigg Court]

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[The Avengers]

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[French & Saunders]

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[X-Men/Marvel Universe]

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[Tron: Uprising]

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[Kagaku Ninjatai Gatchaman]

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[How I Met Your Mother]

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[The X-Files/Fox Mulder]

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[Homestuck]

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[True Grit]

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[Saya no Uta]

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[The Silmarillion]

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[Homestuck]

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[Supernatural]

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Anyone know someone who has one (or a few) topics that they REALLY love to talk about, to the point that they manage to change EVERY conversation to one of those?

I know someone like this, and it's annoying. I feel like I have to be super-careful about what I say around him so he won't go off on a rant about one of his pet topics AGAIN. And I usually fail, because he'll find a way to hijack any conversation if he really wants to. And then everyone is expected to shut up - even if he interrupted you mid-sentence - and listen to his lecture. And he gets annoyed if you don't have the right reaction (like *shock* when he wants to be shocking, even if what he's saying isn't, and he's said it fifty times before).

This just annoys the crap out of me.

I've met a few people whose favourite subject is themselves. One, in particular, derailed every single conversation towards her health and she proceeded to list all of her more or less real ailments, which were always worse than anything you or your relatives and friends had experienced. In detail.

Ooooh I know a few of those as well. I had a friend once who expected me to be her agony aunt. After I basically 'aha mhm you poor thing'ed her, showing no real interest in what she was saying, we're no longer in touch. What a curious happenstance coincidence.

AYRT

Curious indeed! I naively, at first, listened to her and believed her, tried to be comforting. After a while, I realised that some/most? of what she told me was probably a lie and just made noises at the right times while trying to get away whenever she tried to launch one of her (sometime hour-long) diatribes during which she would hear no reason, let alone listen to what other people might have to say. After a year of us sharing the same class, she got pregnant from her long-time boyfriend, put university on hold and she moved away. I don't see her anymore.

ayrt

Good riddance! People like those are better when they're far, far away from you.

I hear you about the hour-long diatribes. This girl I mentioned? Had a thing for hours-long telephone calls. Nope, you're not interrupting my life in any way whatsoever. I was dying to listen to your sob stories, most of which are a direct product of you being an idiot. Sure I want to hear about people I've never met, and an excruciatingly detailed description of how their lives intersect with yours, only to fuck it up and make it *so* hard. My problems are unimportant/nonexistent, of course I want in on yours. Oh, you dismiss a comment on one of my problems and go back to yours? Thanks for lending me your ear for half a second there! I should be grateful.

RAAAAGH Two years and she still manages to make me mad. I'll stop know, lest I turn into her and talk your ears off (type your eyes out?).

*hug made of sympathy and shared pain*

*and also cookies*

*becaus what is a hug without cookies*

*munches on the cookies*

*hugs back*

*shares the cookies*

I know someone who manages to just hijack the conversation no matter what we're talking about and I've taken to only seeing her in groups now so I don't feel bad.

My mother has a whole damn list of these. It's taken me twenty years to figure out how to navigate a conversation with her in such a way to avoid key phrases and ideas that spur her into hijacking our conversation into any of those topics, because I've only in the last couple of years (since leaving home for college) been able to finally crack the code to the pattern that indicates the warning signs that Concept X has been added to her secondary list of Concepts Standing By For Hijacking into Topic Y At A Moment's Notice.

I love her, but damn.

I know a guy who broke up with his girlfriend recently and keeps bringing everything back to him being OMG BETRAYED (she broke it off because she couldn't handle doing it long distance) (also he's kind of a clingy ass). It's bad enough that nobody really wants to talk to him.

More personally, I had a friend who I used to talk about my silly dragon stories with. Which was great until he decide he definitely really was one of my shapeshifters and started spending every second moment of the day blabbing on about how he had ~bloodlust~ (not a thing my dragons had) and trying to imply that I was in fact the dragon princess and urrghh it was so dumb. It got so bad that he would break into my conversations with other people to try and embarrass me into talking to him (so that they wouldn't learn our ~secret~).

I think he's an otherkin now. Haven't seen him in five years.

Edited 2013-01-04 00:24 (UTC)

*bows* your masjesty! *plays metal*

Edited 2013-01-04 05:52 (UTC)

Anyone know someone who has one (or a few) topics that they REALLY love to talk about, to the point that they manage to change EVERY conversation to one of those?

yes, me.

da

lmao, I was going to say this

I've gotten better, but damn, so much embarrassment at past!me. so much

Haha, same.

You have my sympathy. I've known a few people like this, but not for very long, fortunately. It's the worst when they like talking about politics. /shudder

This is my brother. Everything is a damn video game to him. I love it, but I hate it. I mean, it's who he is, but come on. Gimme some variety little bro

Yes, and she's 11 and her mother doesn't allow anybody to tell her to shut up because she's being annoying.

My boyfriend's mom has a few pet topics - ones that upset my boyfriend, no less - that she keeps going back to every single time he talks to her, and she claims, "I just want to say this one thing!" and goes on for about 20 minutes. What's worse is that no matter what we're talking about, she hijacks every conversation to the point you can hardly get a word in edgewise, even to explain something to her that she's misunderstanding.

Tell her anyway and you won't be invited around after long.

I... try not to do this with the subject of rabbits. Unless it's a handful of people I know who are the same way and can talk about them all day.

But I admit I sometimes fail at not changing the subject to rabbits. -_-

There's nothing wrong with it. Stop being annoyed.

I'm going to tell you what I tell those people.

It doesn't matter if do or don't have something wrong with you. I DON'T CARE. SHUT UP ABOUT IT. Oh you can't. Then you are an idiot and we apparently have nothing to talk about.

This is why so few like you.

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