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How interesting, or boring do you think you are?

On a scale of 1-5, how boring/interesting are you?

  • I never have anything to say except for the usual everyday chit-chat, and don't even want to try

  • I want to be interesting, but am a bit scared to try

  • I can be interesting when i try, i should push myself more

  • i am mostly interesting, but can get lazy and be boring sometimes

  • i always try to say something new something that will engage my own and others imaginations


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Spider-Fan: Yes, don't be a 'spotlight hogging jerk', but, sometimes the crowd *wants* a certain person to take the spotlight, they are on a roll or whatever, that can be immensely enjoyable when a friend of yours is being soooo funny, and everyone is lapping it up.
I was lucky enough to have a couple of friends who were very funny guys, we all took our turns at hogging the spotlight, and we all enjoyed each other's patter, as did many of the random people we would meet at parties and whatnot. You do have to find that balance, of course when you get real plastered drunk, you can push it too far and lose your mojo, but that happens to the best of us.

I agree with that 100%. That's why I am saying you don't have to hog the spotlight all the time, but you should also never let yourself fade into the background and let people forget you're there.
 
I'm more interesting than people can handle.
 
Oddly the most boring people are those that feel they need to let me know how 'funny' and 'mad' they are.

'I'm so funny, i'm mad i am'

No, your actually very plain and boring.
 
I'm more interesting than people can handle.

I think it is good to have a quiet side to you, it can be beneficial to your psychological make-up if you have had that personality for part of your life, it is always there, the chilled out relaxed you, you can tap into that anytime.
But, of course, life can be hectic sometimes, you can be under attack constantly from all angles in cruel and unusual ways, but, if you are strong enough you will come through all of those experiences intact, even stronger , more learned and more powerful as a result, and if the people around you who truly love you are understanding people, they will recognise the real you underneath all the controversy and rigmaroll.

I have always just wanted the quiet life, ok, yeah, I am drawn to adventure naturally, but at heart I am a simple person, who wants the good healthy things in life that make people happy. Life has crazy patches, you just have to get through them and make sure they do not drive you crazy.
 
I have a quiet side. It makes people think there's something wrong.
 
Oddly the most boring people are those that feel they need to let me know how 'funny' and 'mad' they are.

'I'm so funny, i'm mad i am'

No, your actually very plain and boring.

yeah, I already addressed this in a post, you should read it, you might learn something. Not everything is as cut and dried as that is it really? lol, life would be very boring if it was just as you said there, no room for the imagination to mess around with such concepts, playing with the humour of egocentricity or ireverence.
 
I wish you had said something else apart from that though, to give us an idea of who you are.

I wasn't completely serious either :cwink: But really, I have heard people talk about art and all they did was come off as pretentious. Interesting people to me formulate own thoughts and opinions and try to broaden their horizon and they don't do it out of self-importance but because they want to get more out of life than what is at the surface. At the same time, people who are unpredictable are interesting to me - people who have a strange variety of hobbies or something, things that make you wonder what makes them tick.

For me, it's not about being at the center of attention because a lot of the time those people need the attention to distract from their lack of substance. Still waters run deep. Of course, if you never voice your opinion or are part of the action, no one will ever know you and thus will never know whether you're an interesting person or not.

People who don't say anything aren't boring to me. More like frustrating because they make me curious about what they're thinking. People who don't have anything to say bore me. Sometimes the two correlate.

As for me, I don't think that I'm terribly interesting company. I'm not shy but the quiet type nevertheless, at least in large groups. If I don't feel like I can contribute anything to a conversation, I don't. If I feel like I can, I do. But often someone else has my opinion covered and I find myself observing the others more which might also be because I'm a writer. But I can be very social and animate, talking a lot, depending on my mood and if I can be bothered. Yeah, I'm a bit lazy in that regard.

As far as personal interests go... well, I'm studying the Latin philology of the Middle Ages amongst other things and I'm sure that a lot of people don't find that interesting at all. When I tell them, they always look at me like I grew a second head. But I also love to talk about popculture (videogames, movies etc.) or even girly stuff (don't worry, I am a girl :woot:). And I have quite a few hobbies aside from reading books so I think I'm not too bad. But I'm sure that there are people I don't share any interests with and to whom I would be as boring as they are to me.

/tl;dr
 
yeah, I already addressed this in a post, you should read it, you might learn something. Not everything is as cut and dried as that is it really? lol, life would be very boring if it was just as you said there, no room for the imagination to mess around with such concepts, playing with the humour of egocentricity or ireverence.

Oh dear, just, oh dear.

With each post you make recently you seem to get more and more egotistical and annoying.
 
I find people who tell the truth, interesting... because they're so rare.
 
How interesting, or boring do I think I am?

Moderately, I guess. I've lived a pretty interesting life thus far.
 
I find people who tell the truth, interesting... because they're so rare.

:up:

As well as people who don't try too hard to fit in.

Thankyou, but there are plenty of people in the world that find me boring as hell. BECAUSE i try and talk about the world. Because I try to engage in conversations that have a point... If I am sat a work in my office, and try to bring up something 'interesting' between discussions of women's bowel movements, I am given this look... like 'oh god, here she goes again'. I am a bore, a pain.

I totally understand what you mean. I have often looked on people's conversations and thought 'OMG why won't you just SHUT UP!'... in fact in the car on the way to work I have started listening to my ipod just to block out the boring string of sentances that people use to fill the silence.

I feel the same way and it sucks at times. People consider you boring because you would rather have a lengthy discussion on a specific topic rather than talking out of your ass or babbling some bs.

It seems like I don't have many friends anymore because I'm "boring". It doesn't really bother me because a number of those friends are the ones that just sit around and talk out of their ass, joking around like gradeschoolers. I just need to get out more and try to meet new people that might have similar interests. The problem with that is that my gf and I are both homebodies.
 
I wasn't completely serious either :cwink: But really, I have heard people talk about art and all they did was come off as pretentious. Interesting people to me formulate own thoughts and opinions and try to broaden their horizon and they don't do it out of self-importance but because they want to get more out of life than what is at the surface.

Exactly, talking about art shouldn't even really be thought about as something that elevates you to some kind of intellectual social kudos, it should just be treated as something that you engage in as it interests you.
I mean, I will not force it if I am not feeling the notion to write up posts on films or comics, sometimes i am just not feeling that inspired or am sick or tired, and if you force it it can come off as wonky or pretentious. It should always be done with much love for the subject, not caring what others think of your opinion, and doing it out of a desire to share ideas and notions on how art could be improved for our benefit, whether for just simple entertainment , or philosophical, intellectual nourishment.

edit: sure, we all have our egos, and we like to have the respect of our peers, and people we also respect, that is natural and healthy, it just should not become some running battle of the egos between people.


At the same time, people who are unpredictable are interesting to me - people who have a strange variety of hobbies or something, things that make you wonder what makes them tick.


Yeah, there was this tv series called 'Outsider Art' that Jarvis cocker of the band Pulp hosted on the UK's channel 4 back in the 90s. He interviewed lots of eccentric artists who did very interesting works, there was this guy who did amazing big multi-coloured sculputures in the midle of the desert and stuff. I mean, I used to tape and watch tv shows on artists back then, and i mean old Renassiance , impressionist guys, but this show was far more interesting to me, these artists were following no traditions but their own fevered imaginations.

For me, it's not about being at the center of attention because a lot of the time those people need the attention to distract from their lack of substance. Still waters run deep. Of course, if you never voice your opinion or are part of the action, no one will ever know you and thus will never know whether you're an interesting person or not.

People who don't say anything aren't boring to me. More like frustrating because they make me curious about what they're thinking. People who don't have anything to say bore me. Sometimes the two correlate.

Yeah, there are no set rules to these things, it is a case by case basis.


As for me, I don't think that I'm terribly interesting company. I'm not shy but the quiet type nevertheless, at least in large groups. If I don't feel like I can contribute anything to a conversation, I don't. If I feel like I can, I do. But often someone else has my opinion covered and I find myself observing the others more which might also be because I'm a writer. But I can be very social and animate, talking a lot, depending on my mood and if I can be bothered. Yeah, I'm a bit lazy in that regard.

As far as personal interests go... well, I'm studying the Latin philology of the Middle Ages amongst other things and I'm sure that a lot of people don't find that interesting at all. When I tell them, they always look at me like I grew a second head. But I also love to talk about popculture (videogames, movies etc.) or even girly stuff (don't worry, I am a girl :woot:). And I have quite a few hobbies aside from reading books so I think I'm not too bad. But I'm sure that there are people I don't share any interests with and to whom I would be as boring as they are to me.

/tl;dr

Well, you just sound like a healthy well adjusted person to me, keep up the good interpersonal work, and good luck with all that Latin stuff, I don't know what that is all about, but I respect that you find all that old Knights of the Round table/Jesus stuff interesting enough to dedicate a sizable amount of time to. edit; even if it is something I would not be into myself, that doesn't mean i would think it was boring, ie a waste of time.
 
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I find ukuleles and anything having to do with female thought processes incredibly interesting, that doesn't make everything else boring.
 
I am:


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^So, that is not a pic of Anubis then, that is you? Well, I don't know much about you post wise man, but I imagine Anubis would have good stories to tell over a couple of beers.

i think this thread just got boring, lol. so, it will be inetersting to see if it gets interesting again.
 
Mostly interesting.

Dude i did not see your post when i said this thread just got boring, but yeah, there is not much left to say on this subject I imagine, folk have covered all the pros and cons of interpersonal things they recognise and whatnot.
 
I'm quiet. I'll talk when I want to but I'm usually not the first one to start a conversation. I actually enjoy silence.
 
For someone who is quiet, I actually talk a lot once the ice is broken.
 
I am purposely boring to keep people away but once I like them I make more of an effort.
 
I'm a pretty quiet person, always have been. The only time I'd purposely engage in a conversation is if it's about something I like, which most of the people I know aren't interested in.
 
I'm quiet. I wish I was funny and witty... and sometimes I can be. I'm just surrounded by people who I have nothing in common with.
 
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