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

[Treeinthewoods]

This may already be on the other nine pages, but I personally stop caring or listening to anyone's point the second they refer to a group of people who enjoy something they don't enjoy as sheep.

Oh yeah, you are superior because you don't like Halo/CoD/whatever else. You are superior because you feel the price for something is too high and anyone who has enough disposable income to not care about it must be a stupid flock animal. Hurr hurr durr.

 

[Eggsnham]

"I'm not racist but..." - Is usually followed by an incredibly racist statement and I usually stop listening at that point.

When people speak like they assume that the entire world follows their method of thinking and then say something that only a tiny percentage of people would actually agree with.

"I blame [insert politician/celebrity/group of people] for [insert complex problem which couldn't possibly be caused by one single person or group of people]."

Actually, I typically lose interest in any given conversation if it involves people being offensive and narrow minded about politics, religion, or social issues.

Though I imagine that's a pretty normal reaction.

 

[gideonkain]

"Straw man argument"

Pretty much anyone I've ever heard use that phrase thinks every perspective that isn't there's is a straw man argument

 

[De Bureau]

"I've never heard of it, it must not be important/relevant/interesting."

Look I don't care if you've never heard of Cancer/Kronenbourg/the Taj Mahal, your ignorance does not make something irrelevant. I didn't exit the womb as Baby Socrates either, but pretending things I don't know aren't worth knowing is a poor way of fixing this. Without a doubt my number one.

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

"I'm not a racist, but..."

Nothing ever good ever comes after that statement.

"I'm not a racist, but I know many racists, and have been fortunate enough to help many of them see the error of their prejudiced ways"

heeheehee

 

[Filiecs]

Usually anything involving random pointless drama, sports, support for violence, or too much pessimism.

 

[Angie7F]

I thought about an example, but then I realized that I actually am not interested in any kind of topic. I just want to hear myself talk. LOL

But the worst of all if when people start talking about kids. I am sooo not interested in kids.

 

[SantoUno]

As soon as someone starts to mention some grand conspiracy (i.e. why our votes truly don't matter because _______is secretly running the show), "theories" about what people in government are trying to do to control or manipulate us, and how this and that event has transpired into an entire sequence of events that is secretly going underway under the radar of the American public, I do the same as the OP and go "yah, uhuh, ok" while thinking in my mind "Ok when the fuck can I stop listening to this loon?"

Seriously, I'm not saying that people don't have the right to try and educate themselves about a certain subject that the majority of people might not even know exists, but when it seriously involves crap like what I listed above that is supposedly being kept secret from the masses and only a select few are truly "opening their eyes", it really makes me wonder why some people don't just shut off the part of their brain that makes them paranoid panickers and get a grip on reality already.