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What subjects could you talk about all day? The ones your friends are wary of mentioning? The ones that when there's a thread here you just KNOW you're going to post in more than anyone else? What bees sting your bonnet? What heats your buttons?

― Tom, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So My Bloody Valentine, then.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

So, Lush...

― Bill, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Politics. Matter of fact, I just diverted an entire thread away from its original purpose to my rantings on Election 2000.

mark s. and omar have threatened to inflict serious bodily harm on me if I post about another subject, a certain dead American musician ... who in all honesty I don't really talk about all that much except when the occasion arises.

― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My pet topics = the ones I never deliver the posts I promise (punk, porn and er nick hornby)

― mark s, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What do you mean, Tadeusz? I'm always up for more talk about Barry McGuire. He is dead, right?

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dammit mark, we want nick hornby in punk porn right now!

anything relating to music, really, as i am not shy with my opinions and have lost friendships around college age for my fascistic adherence to them.

comic books. i haven't been as obsessed with them for the last few years, but i spent the years 10-21 squirrling away obscure facts...when you know who colored Spider-Man issues from the 1960s, you have a problem...

― jess, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pokémon. Like, c:\DUH. Which reminds me, Mark S? You and I should talk.

― sarah, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mid Century American Poetry and Twentith Century Art History. In fact i could proably start on a monday at Cezanne and not be up to Ab ex by Friday.

― anthony, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, Mr Beck's diagram and other graphical representations of London's public transport. I am a sad man.

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Creative writing. And hockey. And Trent Reznor.

― bnw, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

C.S. Lewis, but I didn't talk as much as I would have on here because I was shy.

― Lyra, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Doctor Who, natch. And The Cure and Prince. To a lesser degree, the X-Men.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 3 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Radiohead. I could write several books on them.

― Melissa W, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Psychology. The human mind fascinates me to no end. If you share my obsession with serial killers, I will drop to my knees and kiss your feet.

― travis bickle, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i know allot about ham

― Mike Hanle y, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

can you tell me more about ham mike

― anthony, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Um, Mr Beck's diagram and other graphical representations of London's public transport. I am a sad man.

Richard, i have been noticing that yr answers are remarkably close to mine. this is also my specialist area, and i can add postcodes to this also.

― gareth, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone mention rave circa 91 there? Or Kate Moss? Or JG Ballard? Of course my friends know you can't mention two subjects: Real Madrid and Johan Cruijff.

― Omar, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well..........they don't mention Spiritualized because they don't know who they are, but if they did I would rave on and on about them. So in a more general sense, I have to say my friends don't mention music, at all. Sometimes someone I know quite well might say "oh I bought that new Stereophonics album" and unless I'm drunk I manage to say through gritted teeth, "Don't talk to me about music". They all understand now though and we always have a few drinks in my house before we go out therefore I get to choose the music.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'Let it come down' is a bit shite, innit? :)

― Omar, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

People tend to avoid talking about films near me, though I think I am usually rather well behaved in movie conversations and never drag the thing on too long. Add me along with Gareth and Richard on the Tube map and postcodes too. London postcodes it is (though I can tell you why Blackpool has the prefix FY if you really care).

― Pete, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No.....No........Noooooooo..........yeah. Well I wouldnt say shite, its just a little too similar to Ladies and Gents without being as good, it's still probably one of the albums of the year, but for Spiritualized, the best band of all time ever, its a big step down. Still though its the same as Daft Punk, Massive Attack (wait for it) Radiohead, when you make a critically acclaimed album thats really really top drawer no matter what you do next, it won't be considered as good. Anyway the prospect of live gigs sustains me. I'm going in about three weeks now. Though if Ryan Adams new album is a disappointment too then I might have to smash something expensive.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I am something of an expert on soaps (operas not cleansing products) to the extent that my friends call me to solve troublesome soap riddles. They are all impressed that my brain can juggle the plots and characters of so many soaps and well they might be. There is very little room for anything else in there.

― Emma, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Trans effin' formers!

― jel, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

its fylde

― gareth, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gender roles.

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

politics, football, northern ireland, europe 1917-1939, the dutch.

― stevo, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Is that just a fancy way of saying you know about interwar N.Ireland v. Holland football matches?

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, caught out again.

― stevo, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Some topics I'm boring and rambly about turned out to be godsends that completely changed my life by ranting about them, such as the Manics. However, I've yet to figure out how Judd Nelson rants are going to help me out. Me and my friends can all talk about Robert Downey Jr. all day though.

― Ally, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

post-sexuality/identity theories

― Geoff, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Food things. How to get stuff cheap or for free. Spotting where you live in London by your telephone number. Arguing and the yeah-buttal. Trivia. The media. Bits of fash-world private info/skeletons in closets they'd rather I didn't repeat but do anyway. Fashion design since 1920. The life of Peter O'Toole. The life of Morrissey. Riot Grrrl. Astrology. Film 1930-1970. People on telly. Blah, blah, blah...

― suzy, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Spotting where you live in London by your telephone number

ohno! i'm quite good at this one too!

― gareth, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I knew it was Fylde even before I saw Gareth's post!

Also dialling codes, but nationally, not just London (i.e. I know which town the code 01963 is for), and UK politics, especially marginal seats.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Inequality in funding between schools, higher education and further education. Having worked in FE for 6 years and generally for people who had worked in FE for donkeys years i can happily talk (rant) about this all night... postcodes and dialling codes also ;)

also new one for sad obsessives, THE NEW CAR REGISTRATION PLATES, which are much easier to tie to their location than the old ones, and you can laugh at the scousers who have to have M (for manchester) on their cars as L has been nicked by london.

― carsmilesteve, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And Liverpool fans having to have "MU", which is amusing.

― Captain Swing aka King Penda, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder what Bill Drummond would have to say about that?

― suzy, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think "It's Grim Up North" was sneering or superior to Northern people *in any way whatsoever*. Unlike ... well, I don't want to name names ...

*line goes dead*

*meaning obvious*

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Eh?

― Richard Tunnicliffe, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Typographical, not topographical.

― Greg, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or that Suzy, like Auberon Waugh before her, strikes me as the sort who thinks that the North is so backward that fridges eat each other up there.

― Robin Carmody, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Architecture / urban planning.

― Kerry, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a lot of Manc, Scouse, Leeds and Sheffield friends who might be prepared to argue against that statement on my behalf, Robin.

― suzy, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Do not get me talking about:
The Smiths
Plague
The Battle Of Britain
Computer games
Murder
US History (though I've forgotten a lot of it)
Ilford County High School For Boys and my attendance 1992-97
Blade Runner.
If you do, don't say I didn't warn you.

― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And...ROBIN! STOP BEING MEAN TO SUZY!

― DG, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

my friends all stare into their drinks once someone brings up country music because they know i'm about to drop some seriously boring science on them. i think it's mainly because i try and draw connections between country and their own failings.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sticks and stones, etc., DG. Robin just doesn't know a good KLF joke when he sees one.

― suzy, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually my friends never bring up country either because the only context they ever would talk about it in is if they were saying how shit it was. Of course then I have to say you haven't heard any real country music etc etc etc

― Ronan, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh I recognised the joke alright, Suzy, just thought it was a bit dodgy in the context of some of your earlier statements. And, yes, citing Auberon Waugh was the most blatant means of winding you up I could have thought of, and I'll hold my hands up and say I'm sorry :).

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin, your twuntish compulsion to wind me up backfires worse each time you attempt it. Yes, attempt. Now cut it out, Miss Thing, you're rumbled.

I may live in London, but what got me on the plane over in the first place? Manchester, Liverpool, Sheffield, Glasgow. Possibly in that order. Part of the charm of provincial cities are the scenes created in places such as these. *Slaps forehead* Doh!

― suzy, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

OK, says the South-of-Londoner. All is forgiven.

― Robin Carmody, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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