What phrases or topics immediately shut down your interest in a conversation?

[DudeistBelieve]

"I'm Not Racist But" or "I'm Not Homophobic But" or "I'm not [Negative Stereotype Here] but [Argument that supports lampshaded attribute.]"

At the end of the day it's just... really? If you're going to say something like that, chances are you are the very thing you are denying.

That's the very thing I find annoying, because it's still that persons ego trying to paint themselves as justifiable in representing a negative stereotype. Like really, you're not humble enough to acknowledge your own short comings? Why not just say "Maybe this is racist but I feel...." or the like? Is it that hard to really challenge the fact your perception of reality may not be accurate?

Like really? Theres no shame in admitting that maybe you're harboring those kinds of beliefs so long as you can acknowledge those feelings are coming from a negative place. That's the point of being human, to acknowledge your flaws and short comings and try to learn and better yourself.

 

[DudeistBelieve]

Oh and anyone that speaks from a far right political view point who's name isn't Sean Hannity.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

I'm up for anything, I rarely lose interest in an actual topic. Banal everyday things like "How was your day" or especially "How was school" (don't get that one anymore) are annoying, talking about girlfriends is simply not my comfort zone, but...

...no actually, I've thought of something. Conspiracy theories. Those actually do often bore me. I know corporations control everything and that a very small portion of people have a very large portion of the power, that banks have people in government and that insider trading is rampant and that bribery happens all the time, I know all this. Ok, enough. Unless you have a plan I don't care.

Then there are the other kind, like the ones where the US never landed on the Moon and that the US government holds aliens at Area 51 (a complex where new experimental aircraft are tested). I'd think that I'd be fairly passionately opposed, but no, I have no interest in them. Even mystics and psychics I enjoy mocking, but for some reason, conspiracy theories are just dull.

Most of the things other people have mentioned, especially "as an X", I just mock. "I'm not racist but..." I just ignore. I don't use it myself, I just say whatever and let them decide if I'm racist. Doesn't turn me off a conversation entirely.

And religion, I think I should note, I'm up for debating anytime. I don't force my views on people randomly, but if there's a conversation or someone tries to force their views on me I'm right in there.

 

[someonehairy-ish]

Hang on, what? As far as I know, it works like this:
American English vs British English
Football = American Football
Soccer = Football
Rugby = Rugby

Unless... is it a thing to call American football rugby now? I have literally never heard of anybody refer to either kind of football as rugby, or vice-versa.

I live in Australia, so it might be different to where you are, but here Australia's version of rugby is called Australian Football, American Football is called Rugby, Rugby is called Football, soccer is called Football, footsal is called soccer, color is called colour, cookies are called biscuits, and immigrants are called boat people.

:|

Ok, never getting on the topic of sports in Australia.
Although color is called colour. Ain't nothin' wrong with that.

 

[Sehnsucht Engel]

People who has to talk about what someone else did, because they are so insanely fucking boring that they've got nothing else going for them, than gossiping about others. I try to avoid these people in most cases.

 

[malestrithe]

"This story written by Alan Moore..."

When I see that phrase, I get put off because it tells me that A) This person knows nothing else about the property and B) He or she is a superfan of Alan Moore.

What typically happens is that these people don't like hearing about the misfires that he's had in the 30 years, which he's had several btw. You mention that Violator vs Badrock sucked, the default answer is "Well, Watchmen is in the top 10 novels of all time." When I ask, "what does that have to do with Violator vs Badrock?" the response is "Well, because Watchmen is great, everything else is great."

Of course the next question is have you read it? I have and it sucks.

Then the conversation ends because I get called a dirty hipster for not liking things just because they are popular.

 

[Vault101]

I live in Australia, so it might be different to where you are, but here Australia's version of rugby is called Australian Football, American Football is called Rugby, Rugby is called Football, soccer is called Football, footsal is called soccer, color is called colour, cookies are called biscuits, and immigrants are called boat people.

actually Rigby is Rubgy and American football is Gridiron

 

[Souplex]

I live in Australia, so it might be different to where you are, but here Australia's version of rugby is called Australian Football, American Football is called Rugby, Rugby is called Football, soccer is called Football, footsal is called soccer, color is called colour, cookies are called biscuits, and immigrants are called boat people.

actually Rigby is Rubgy and American football is Gridiron

Gridiron is actually a good name for it.
When obsessive fanboys get talking about how great their fan obsession is compared to everything else, I lose all interest.

 

[Dangit2019]

Abortion. I have never seen a reasonable relaxed debate about it, so I avoid any casual conversation leaning toward it as it may soon turn into a bloodbath.

 

[Strazdas]

basically anything about sports (with exception of formula 1, which i know something about)
"Back in soviet russian...." when peopl are generalyl complaining that "Back then it was better" (yes i live in post soviet country). this does not apply to the "in russia, cumputer plays you" jokes.
Polish people and their art of self offence. Ive never seen a nationality that is so bent on making themself hated universaly. why do they do it? why?

racism ssexism and other isms. were all racists and were all sexists. get over it.

the whole argument that "hitler did it too". hitler took ALL of its ideas from somone else. startign with swastica ending with eugenics. anyone can take an idea and misuse it, that does not make idea invalid. thats like saying religion is evil because there was a terrorist. oh wait....

cars. cars are there to get you from point A to point B for a very large amount wasted on fuel. when you start talking about how much HP you have and how mcuh there is whatever on your tyres your just maknig yourself sound silly.

 

[A.A.K]

Well, there's a list here.....

In the news:
> Talk of Politics
- I don't give a shit. So long as I can eat, drink, train and sleep in a half decent hole - I really don't care.
> Talk of religious opinion.
- Most muslims are like most buddhists and taoists, they want to be left alone to do and practice their own faith. Most of them are good people. Most of them are honest people.
If you don't like them because you believe what you hear about the retards who rioted over that stupid net video or "9/11" or whatever, you're a fool. That's about as valid as the monks who decided to take up AK's in Tibet. Notice people don't call buddhists terrorists?
- I don't care for christendom. If you're christian - great. Don't tell me about it.
- The validity/superiority of atheism and/or your verificationist/anti-theist/rationalist ways. If you're the person that believes faith has no place in humanity and science is the be-all-end-all, I refuse to associate with you.
> 'But the news said'
- The news is akin to a legend or a rumour. Probably based in some sort of fact, now long gone. Twisted and rewritten for better purposes.

In the world:
> Police Officers are super heroes! They can't be stopped, they always find you, and they will defeat the evil!
- You're a 'tard. I don't want anything to do with your existence.
> Soldiers are the greatest people because they fight for our country! and they only kill people who have a weapon!
- So if some guy pulls a 2 inch knife on me because he's starving and I cut his head off...that's justified?
- They're the greatest because they're patriotic? Get the fuck out of here.
> My [insert latest device] is the greatest!
- You're a fool and half my friends would stab you for that toy you're brandishing just so they could fence it.
> You NEED University Education to make it somewhere in this world.
- You're a wage slave and an idiot. Think about the factory workers, dock workers, tradesmen, craftsmen, labourers and so forth who can provide for a family. Nothing wrong with making the money that you need and not much else.

In gaming:
> I bought x game within the week of it's release and finished it. Have you got it yet?
- -.-
> I hated the Mass Effect ending.
- -.-
> Bought Skyrim yet?
- Nope.
>> You should. I made x, and slaughtered y, got z skill so high! I maxed it out.
- -.-
> I only play *these games* because they're better.
- -.-

In martial arts:
> So where's your black belt?
- -.-
> If you don't have a black belt, you couldn't have survived *this event*.
- -.-
> If you don't have a style name, how can you teach?
- -.-
> You know MMA is the best right?
- -.-
> Could you beat *this guy*?
- -.-
> You know all street fights (or most street fights) end up on the ground right? How can you have little ground work?
- -.-
> What would you do if I pulled a knife on you right now?
- -.-

..... I could continue, but it'd just put me in a bad mood.
Needless to say, I don't get along well with people.

 

[The White Hunter]

As a mother...

Yes.

Congratulations, you can perform a biological imperative that 99% of the female creatures on the planet can fulfil, it doesn't make your opinion more valid.

I swear, some people would think taking a shit would make them more important if some people were unable to ¬_¬

How about "as a proud christian"?

That shuts me off in a heartbeat. Especially in anything to do with politics or socioeconomic problems.

Or anything to do with evolution being wrong.

 

[A.A.K]

There are plenty of phrases that make me immediately lose interest in a conversation (or alternatively enrage me). Rather than list them, because quite frankly I can't be bothered to think of any, I'll simply say that there are one of two things common to most: condescension or willful ignorance. The whole 'if you were a X you'd understand' is a prime example. You are basically saying the other person is incapable of empathizing or understanding your opinion because they don't share that particular trait. You know what? Fuck you too then. If you want to consider my opinion completely invalidated because I haven't given birth or I haven't fought in a war or I happen to have a y chromosome then I'm not even going to bother with you, because in my eyes you've just told me I'm less than human.

Phew. That got heated awfully fast.

In my opinion...some of the time that's valid.
On the topic of appropriate/preferable methods of child birth or abortion - unless you're a woman, your opinion doesn't really mean shit... Because you're not a woman who has to actually do something with that kid.
On the topic of war, ethics of combat, methodology, so on so forth, unless you're a soldier who's had to fight in a war ground - or have had extensive experience first hand with violence, your opinion means fuck all.

Even when people say "look, unless you have a little bit of faith, you're never going to understand", that has merit.
The world should not be looked at objectively all the time; I don't believe you should have a 'science first' filter over every opinion you hold.
So if someone says "look I believe in the world being completely balanced or equalled out because of 'x'" or "I believe in the existence of a god, just out of faith. I believe it exists", you throwing a fit because you lack a particular experience or trait is unjustified.

 

[MammothBlade]

Nice guy, alpha male, friend zone, etc. I don't like hearing any of it.

Talking about celebrities. I don't care at all. Similarly with most sport. So dull.

Also, the vox pops segment which will inevitably occur in every news broadcast. I don't want to listen to some random punter on the street, it's clear that when it reaches that stage it's time to turn the TV off and do something else. Best not to take the mainstream news too literally anyway, they take liberties in interpreting the "truth" through their own lens even when they claim to be impartial.

 

[KoudelkaMorgan]

Some phrases that turn me off of any particular topic:

Anyone that quote's someone else and changes that person's statement to reflect their own personal bias and then says "fixed that for you. " and adds NOTHING else to the disscussion. That shit should be bannable, and anyone that does it needs to be punched in the tit. You aren't clever, or even a decent troll, so just post your opinion. Or can you only do that after you get off on invalidating another human being's thoughts?

Calling someone in a competitive game, especially one that is primarily pay to win, a "nonfactor" whether they PVP or not. Also the term "carebear" is pretty nice, but people like to make it an insult.

Referring to a "metagame" whether or not one exists or not, just because you think there HAS to be one in EVERY game just to justify why you are so obsessed with it.

Cellphones. I did customer service for 3 years, and even before that I couldn't give a rat's ass about your phones or what you can do with them. I'll tell you what you can do with them. It involves graphic nudity and lots of fire.
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Topics that I will not listen to:

Smoking, AT ALL. I would decapitate every last one of you assholes without remorse.

I have infinite more respect for heroine addicts and crack whores than I do for ANY smoker, because they are only killing themselves and not everyone around them.

To everyone that actually has the intelligence to take that shit outside and away from your children, kudos. You have at least one brain cell remaining. To all you morons that smoke in the car with your kids please die sooner. I recommend jumping into the tiger cage at your nearest zoo immediately.

FYI with the window down, and your kids in the backseat, your ashes end up right in their eyes ALONG with all the smoke you god damned moron.

The same goes for all you pot smokers. I don't want to hear another fucking word about it. If its medicinal, fine, I'll pretend that poisoning yourself is a valid form of medication because that argument is long since lost. But it should be in fucking pill form, or at the very least brownie form. All you want is to get high right? All you need are the mind altering chemicals right? SO WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERYWHERE WITHIN 50 FEET OF YOU SMELLS LIKE SWAMP ASS?

Luckily most of them tend to stay indoors or at least more or less out of sight, except in 2 states now. Nope in those states your right to breathable air is out of your control in public places now.

"But, its legal now, and it makes everyone feel good. Its medicinal!"

The same may be true of Viagra, but if people were SMOKING that shit on the street and outside EVERY FUCKING CLUB in town and it smelled like a dirty cum rag you would probably not appreciate all the second hand hard-ons/other side effects you get with no choice in the matter but to become a god damned hermit.
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Back on topic, if anything comes out of your mouth about religion, and its NOT a funny joke, I stop listening.

If you are from the South or the North and have a thick accent, and I have an option to ignore you, I will.

If you are talking about ANY show you watched on TLC, CMT, or MTV you are talking to yourself.

The same goes for pretty much any reality TV show that doesn't Star Gordon Ramsey or isn't on Food Network. i.e. any dating show, or "attention seeking whores trapped in a house/on an island season 20."

Also anything Microsoft/Halo/Xbox or Final Fantasy 7 related.

Anything to do with Walmart/Starbucks being evil. Everyone already knows this and accepts this as unchangeable and irrelevant.

Coffee/Alchohol. They literally make me physically ill to even smell, and I don't need to be singled out as some kind of mutant every time that fact is revealed. I don't get it often, but I have preferred ways of getting caffeine and I don't give a shit about how shitfaced you got last night.

Lastly, Magic: The gathering or Pokemon, or any CCG with or without a cartoon tie-in. Yu-Gi-Oh etc. I prefer games with a finite set of pieces that both sides have access to regardless of how much cash and luck they have. Chess, Poker, Risk, and Uno are just a few games that anyone can play right out of the damn box that don't suck.
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Lest anyone that actually read the above think I'm some kind of fun hating prude, I love porn. Sex, regardless of what you are or aren't into is pretty awesome. Also, if morphine were legal for recreational use I'd probably get messed up about once a month. I don't have an issue with getting fucked up, I have an issue with being forced to breathe that shit in every time I walk outside. I don't have a problem with booze other than 90% of the people I know that DO drink are total alcoholics. Disproportionally female of course.

I have friends that drink pretty much every day. They keep several bottles, large bottles, of various hard liquor in their room, and more in the trunk of their car. The only time they abstain from drinking for a few days, are the days leading up to the annual "drink like a fish" party in celebration of getting so shit faced everyone has to spend the night passed out in various places around the host's house with just a littttttle bit of rape. Gotta lower that tolerance or you might just stay sober enough to realize how fucking big of a lush you really are right? And what losers your friends are.

 

[Saladfork]

Pot legalization.

1) "Pot is medicinal!"
Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It doesn't matter, though, because in all likelihood, you don't need it. Let's not pretend you care at all about the health benefits; I'm fairly sure you'd get a little bit more respoect if you just admitted all you wanted was to get high.

2) "Pot isn't harmful"
Do I even need to say anything? If you seriously believe this then you're probably high already.

3) "Pot is less harmful than alcohol"
Whether true or not, that's not an argument for legalizing pot, it's an argument for banning alcohol, and if alcohol hadn't been grandfathered into legality in modern society it would probably be illegal as well.

Also,

SO WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERYWHERE WITHIN 50 FEET OF YOU SMELLS LIKE SWAMP ASS?

The smell is wretched.

 

[Rastien]

"Look i'm not racist but..."

At this point my face glazes over and i find a reason to walk away, or i don't find a reson and i just walk away anyway.

Spoiler

Some phrases that turn me off of any particular topic:

Anyone that quote's someone else and changes that person's statement to reflect their own personal bias and then says "fixed that for you. " and adds NOTHING else to the disscussion. That shit should be bannable, and anyone that does it needs to be punched in the tit. You aren't clever, or even a decent troll, so just post your opinion. Or can you only do that after you get off on invalidating another human being's thoughts?

Calling someone in a competitive game, especially one that is primarily pay to win, a "nonfactor" whether they PVP or not. Also the term "carebear" is pretty nice, but people like to make it an insult.

Referring to a "metagame" whether or not one exists or not, just because you think there HAS to be one in EVERY game just to justify why you are so obsessed with it.

Cellphones. I did customer service for 3 years, and even before that I couldn't give a rat's ass about your phones or what you can do with them. I'll tell you what you can do with them. It involves graphic nudity and lots of fire.
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Topics that I will not listen to:

Smoking, AT ALL. I would decapitate every last one of you assholes without remorse.

I have infinite more respect for heroine addicts and crack whores than I do for ANY smoker, because they are only killing themselves and not everyone around them.

To everyone that actually has the intelligence to take that shit outside and away from your children, kudos. You have at least one brain cell remaining. To all you morons that smoke in the car with your kids please die sooner. I recommend jumping into the tiger cage at your nearest zoo immediately.

FYI with the window down, and your kids in the backseat, your ashes end up right in their eyes ALONG with all the smoke you god damned moron.

The same goes for all you pot smokers. I don't want to hear another fucking word about it. If its medicinal, fine, I'll pretend that poisoning yourself is a valid form of medication because that argument is long since lost. But it should be in fucking pill form, or at the very least brownie form. All you want is to get high right? All you need are the mind altering chemicals right? SO WHY DO YOU FEEL THE NEED TO MAKE SURE EVERYWHERE WITHIN 50 FEET OF YOU SMELLS LIKE SWAMP ASS?

Luckily most of them tend to stay indoors or at least more or less out of sight, except in 2 states now. Nope in those states your right to breathable air is out of your control in public places now.

"But, its legal now, and it makes everyone feel good. Its medicinal!"

The same may be true of Viagra, but if people were SMOKING that shit on the street and outside EVERY FUCKING CLUB in town and it smelled like a dirty cum rag you would probably not appreciate all the second hand hard-ons/other side effects you get with no choice in the matter but to become a god damned hermit.
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Back on topic, if anything comes out of your mouth about religion, and its NOT a funny joke, I stop listening.

If you are from the South or the North and have a thick accent, and I have an option to ignore you, I will.

If you are talking about ANY show you watched on TLC, CMT, or MTV you are talking to yourself.

The same goes for pretty much any reality TV show that doesn't Star Gordon Ramsey or isn't on Food Network. i.e. any dating show, or "attention seeking whores trapped in a house/on an island season 20."

Also anything Microsoft/Halo/Xbox or Final Fantasy 7 related.

Anything to do with Walmart/Starbucks being evil. Everyone already knows this and accepts this as unchangeable and irrelevant.

Coffee/Alchohol. They literally make me physically ill to even smell, and I don't need to be singled out as some kind of mutant every time that fact is revealed. I don't get it often, but I have preferred ways of getting caffeine and I don't give a shit about how shitfaced you got last night.

Lastly, Magic: The gathering or Pokemon, or any CCG with or without a cartoon tie-in. Yu-Gi-Oh etc. I prefer games with a finite set of pieces that both sides have access to regardless of how much cash and luck they have. Chess, Poker, Risk, and Uno are just a few games that anyone can play right out of the damn box that don't suck.
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Lest anyone that actually read the above think I'm some kind of fun hating prude, I love porn. Sex, regardless of what you are or aren't into is pretty awesome. Also, if morphine were legal for recreational use I'd probably get messed up about once a month. I don't have an issue with getting fucked up, I have an issue with being forced to breathe that shit in every time I walk outside. I don't have a problem with booze other than 90% of the people I know that DO drink are total alcoholics. Disproportionally female of course.

I have friends that drink pretty much every day. They keep several bottles, large bottles, of various hard liquor in their room, and more in the trunk of their car. The only time they abstain from drinking for a few days, are the days leading up to the annual "drink like a fish" party in celebration of getting so shit faced everyone has to spend the night passed out in various places around the host's house with just a littttttle bit of rape. Gotta lower that tolerance or you might just stay sober enough to realize how fucking big of a lush you really are right? And what losers your friends are.

Holy moly i read all of that and damn... seems so angry :/, generally i get pissed off at people but everyone has a right to live how they see fit, i guess i find it abit harsh that you rag on people for their choices in life, i'm guessing you would hate it if someone did this to yourself?

I guess what i'm curious about is the reasons you have stated would you instantly dismiss and not get to know someone based off of their personal life choices?

 

[IamQ]

Luckily no one does it anymore, but I hated the topic of the U.S Presidential election. Mostly because I'm Swedish, so I don't find it relevant to me, and don't understand how it's relevant to them either. It's also annoying because what people say are the same thing that I've heard again and again, so it's not like I gain a new perspective on the election or anything.

 

[Legion]

I remembered a new one: People complaining about the weather in England. I switch off and stop caring the moment they do this. Especially as all weather types are apparently worth complaining about by pretty much everybody.

Oh, and people who try and justify pirating games under reasons such as "I download them and if I like it, I buy them" or "I can't afford to buy them" or "It's their fault for not releasing demo's."

 

[DugMachine]

Pretty much any topic with my Uncle. It's one of those ultra conservatives and while I love him very much I just cannot get into any sort of discussion with him without it turning into a argument.

Like yesterday he was saying that the legalization of marijuana was the wrong direction for the country and that we'd see so many deaths and overdoses (yes he said that) as a result. It was just so stupid that I just said fuck it and walked away.