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That moment when you think "Time to subtley change the subject..."

Keith

10:22 / 14.08.04

There are some things in life that everyone seens to know about, have deepseated views on, even deeply held convictions about. But you... oh, you just haven't got a clue. Deep down, you feel you SHOULD know about it, but for some reason... god knows why... you just haven't got a danny.

Keith

10:23 / 14.08.04

I'll start: PJ Harvey - Never heard any of her stuff, even though I get the feeling I would probably love it.

Linus Dunce

11:14 / 14.08.04

Pretty much anything to do with football (soccer). Or Lacan.

Ganesh

11:16 / 14.08.04

Football (sport generally) and cars.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

12:16 / 14.08.04

The number of times London_Barbeloids go off on one about jam and I just sit back and smile and my eyes glaze over slightly and I let them talk about jam when it doesn't really interest me and I know nothing about it, Haus insisting damsons are best for jam while Illmatic insists on strawberries, then someone says how they prefer marmalade to jam and it's soon after that that we get banned from the pub.

Keith

16:15 / 14.08.04

oh I'm the same about football/cars. Although I don't feel I *should* know about them. I hate those times you are introduced to some new bloke and he starts the conversation "So... what are you driving?" Me:"Oh.. haha... I don't actually drive..." *SILENCE* He: "Oh... erm... right - you live in London, right?" Me:"No, I just never learned" *BIGGEST SILENCE EVER... LIKE EVEN THE AIR IS EMBARRASSED* He: "Rrrright... so, who do you fancy to win the league this year?" ... etc.

luke hugh

17:45 / 14.08.04

I guess we should all be more aware of the world at large but in such a situation just start talking about comics and see him squirm out of that conversation. It's strange about how certain topics are avoided/don't exist/never happened because of the people we are .

PS rasberry jam is numero uno in my books
(how the fuck do you spell rasberry)

Bastard Tweed

17:54 / 14.08.04

Raspberry.

Like Wednesday or worcestershire sauce

I just can't stay in a conversation after someone starts talking about the infinitely adorable thing their pet and/or child did. They always use the same tone of voice regardless of which entity their talking about and I'm tired of losing friends for throttling people and shouting, "Your cat is a fur-covered parasite! Your child is a miniature human! Learn the difference NOW!" I just ge embarassed is all.

w1rebaby

19:01 / 14.08.04

Big Brother.

Of course that's not so much of an issue for me at the moment, but it used to be terribly annoying.

Actually, most TV in general.

gingerbop

19:14 / 14.08.04

I can do Big Brother, I can do jam (raspberry every time), but I have absolutely no clue about comics.
Am I in the wrong place, perhaps?

w1rebaby

19:21 / 14.08.04

I know bog all about comics, too, in Barbelith terms anyway.

gingerbop

20:09 / 14.08.04

Damn- I thought if you knew about comics, and I knew about Big Brother, and we perhaps both know about jam (although I've never witnessed the jam conversation), that we could merge and pretend to be one person that knows about everything. Almost.
Never mind.

Ganesh

02:20 / 15.08.04

God bless strawberry jam, and all the different varieties.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

02:27 / 15.08.04

Big Brother or sport of any kind. I usually bluff it with jam.

Mazarine

02:33 / 15.08.04

The slang the youth speak these days. Confuses the hell out of me.

Multiple Man

09:29 / 15.08.04

Cricket, Football and Mark Waid comics.

40%

12:18 / 15.08.04

I guess we should all be more aware of the world at large but in such a situation just start talking about comics and see him squirm out of that conversation.

I can't see that football or cars represent 'the world at large' any better than comics do. I feel bad sometimes if I don't know what's happening in politics, but football and cars? Bollocks. I just say if I don't know about something. Why not just ask them which team they think are going to win the league or which car they drive. You know they'll be happy to talk about it. That way you've kept yourself inside a conversation.

pomegranate

17:46 / 15.08.04

world politics, foreign policy, etc. it's just embarassing. oh, and geography.

Keith

18:15 / 15.08.04

I'm usually quite adept in pretty much any conversation (I tend to know a little about a lot) but there are topics that just bore the tits off me qv. Cars/sport.

BUT the topic is stuff you wish you DID know about, but don't.

...oh, and I'm Marmalade, all the way

Bed Head

18:45 / 15.08.04

Well then, I wish I understood weirdy maths. The kind of cosmos-explaining, 26 dimensional stuff. But then, I don’t feel like I’m missing out on too many pub conversations with that one.

Um.. Card games. All card games break my head. Even if I’ve had the rules explained verrry slowly, I still have difficulty holding onto an idea of what I’m supposed to be doing: whether I'm supposed to show my hand, hide my hand, not even look at my hand, things like that. No-one else seems to have a problem with this stuff.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

08:48 / 16.08.04

gingerbop and we perhaps both know about jam (although I've never witnessed the jam conversation)

Well, it's because it's technically an offense to discuss jam with someone as young as you, if we did and someone found out then the police could arrest all of us and shut the website down. Sorry. Don't worry about it, when it's okay we'll let you know.

sleazenation

08:57 / 16.08.04

I don't think there is any shame in not knowing about football. However, being ignorant of International politics is another matter entirely and a deep sense of personal failure should be compulsory.

Ganesh

09:07 / 16.08.04

And an insufficient grounding in preservatology is unforgivable.

pointless and uncalled for

09:20 / 16.08.04

I never thought I would see the day when people were so reckless as to discuss jam-chan in an open forum.

Clearly barbelith is dying.

Keith

16:28 / 16.08.04

ooh... also films! I've never seen Dr.Zhivago, Fiddler on the Roof, On the Waterfront, Wizard of Oz, Lawrence of Arabia and others, yet I am a big time film buff.

Keith

06:17 / 17.08.04

Sleazenation is bang on. People without political viewpoints are too dull.

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