"Boring" topics you wish more people would geek out about with you

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Anonymous wrote:“Homeland” & “The Americans”

I have had so many long convos about these!

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Anonymous wrote:What are some "boring" topics you wish you could geek out about more without turning people off?

Preferably, something NOT related to your day job - because presumably, you can "geek out" about it plenty at work.

For me, it's meteorology. I'm a huge Capitol Weather Gang fan, and whenever the weather is doing weird things, I always like to follow them and find out why. Like when they explain how wedges of cool air get stuck against the mountains in West Virginia and ruin a forecasted sunny weekend, or other explanations that go way in-depth about weather patterns. I could blather on and on about the factors going into whether we're having a sunny or rainy weekend while most people just check their phone app and plan accordingly.

You should call my dad. He loves that stuff.

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Any real things like feelings or emotions. I'm tired of surface stuff like weather, tv shows, books, fake topics that every one sticks to. Let's really talk about what's going on in both our lives and how we feel.

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Anonymous wrote:Linguistics

Geography

Like what about Geography?

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Overpopulation.

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WWII

I've read lots of books and seen TV shows and movies but it's rare to find anyone who actually wants to talk about it.

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Publishing industry trends and gossip (I do not work in publishing, lol)
History of furniture
Air fryer techniques
maritime shipping, supply chain logistics
My sports teams

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Anonymous wrote:Raising chickens and ducks
Foraging for mushrooms
Growing food forrests
Book binding
Wooden spoon carving

These are all interesting to me. So are multiverses.

I love to geek out over ethnomusicology, bats, and jumping exercises for horses.

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Romance books, fantasy books, and their TV or movie adaptations.

How unrelated movies with the same actor could be set in the same timeline.

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analytics. and how to display them best so that what they are meant to convey is what is what the user is thinking about instead of something else unrelated to it.

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Simulation hypothesis

Magna Grecia

Sourdough, figs, coffee, extra wide noodles

Medium-strategy board games

Europe’s involvement in the U.S. Civil War

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Anonymous wrote:analytics. and how to display them best so that what they are meant to convey is what is what the user is thinking about instead of something else unrelated to it.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe you can geek out about it at work? One of my employees is a meteorology nerd and loves things like that. Every week he has "Tom's Tidbits" (not his real name, the real phrase he uses is funnier) and he tells us something that's going on for about a minute. Everyone on my team likes it, so we use it like an icebreaker for our small staff meeting. He's talked about things like why it's called a Blue Moon, meteor showers, months and days that are named after phases of the moon.

Sounds like he’s into astronomy, not meteorology.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you can geek out about it at work? One of my employees is a meteorology nerd and loves things like that. Every week he has "Tom's Tidbits" (not his real name, the real phrase he uses is funnier) and he tells us something that's going on for about a minute. Everyone on my team likes it, so we use it like an icebreaker for our small staff meeting. He's talked about things like why it's called a Blue Moon, meteor showers, months and days that are named after phases of the moon.

Sounds like he’s into astronomy, not meteorology.

🤷🏻‍♀️ they’re related somewhat, especially the moon (pull and tides) and solar flares.

I love programs like Science Friday. It’s great to have digestible, macro-level science content for laypeople, that’s high level and smart enough to keep you intellectually engaged but not SO deep in the arithmetic.

I like the idea of letting people take turns to geek out about their interesting topic. People love to learn, and also love to go on about whatever it is they’re obsessed with and have it be socially acceptable. Unlike Sheldon and his Fun with Flags vexillology class 🤣

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Anonymous wrote:WWII

I've read lots of books and seen TV shows and movies but it's rare to find anyone who actually wants to talk about it.

Ha - this was definitely one of my fascinations. I’ve pretty much grilled all of my relatives who were in WWII about their experiences.