Are there certain personality types (for lack of a better term) that you just can't stand to be around? Do you find it nearly impossible to be nice/pleasant to a certain personality type? There are some types of people that I just cannot tolerate, just can't stand to be around, can barely have a conversation with without gritting my teeth to bite back on what I would really like to say, and I find it excruciatingly painful to be around them on my psyche. Is it me? Is it them? I don't know. Just wondering if anyone else feels the same.
Ha! You're not alone, trust me. I know a guy at work who is very opinionated. Now, that's fine. But he bloviates as if he's the ultimate authority on any topic, and he is completely uninterested in anyone else's opinion. So now, when he starts bloviating, I just leave the room. People who blame all their problems on other people. During my career I was often the target of this one. I'd arrest someone for a crime, and they would tell me that I was ruining their life. Blah, blah, blah. I was always glad to finish my business with them and disengage. So who is driving you crazy?
Not sure if I can point out a certain personality type, but I cannot stand people who enjoy conversating about mindless stuff like partying, what you did last weekend or about some random event/memory that they think was awesome. This type of setting makes me bored very fast, I lose interest and just end up being quiet, barely listening to the others. I prefer talking about "hard" subjects like politics, abstract theories and other more "intellectual" subjects. Then I can go on for hours and hours, but the only problem is that I tend to lose my head and get way too absorbed in the discussion.
For me, that's guys who want to relive the last game on TV - any game - football, basketball, baseball - I can watch, but don't "follow" as though it's important. I certainly don't want to analyze it in detail. Who cares? Then they try to imply I'm not "macho" if I don't idolize sports stars - I just reply that it seems gay to me...
A pompous personality grates on me to no end, & I try to distance myself whenever possible from them.
What's this? Someone who doesn't worship at the altar of 'sport'? Will you marry me? The post reminds me of when I rested on one of my walks within earshot of two blokes, and for the entire half an hour they were in earnest discussion about minutiae of bloody football; they seemed to know every player in every club in the country, and the scores and highlights of various matches over recent years. Indeed, if I hadn't been so utterly bored by it, I'd have been impressed by their extensive knowledge! lol It's strange to me that anyone with an average IQ can have such an interest in something which, in the real world, is totally irrelevant. So someone kicks a ball into a wooden aperture - so effing what!! As I listened to this utter drivel I was thinking 'If I don't get away from this now my brain will explode.' Sequel: The following morning I was waiting in line for a haircut, and barber and customer were in deep discussion about what? Yep, you got it in one - effing football!! Stop the world, I wanna get off! I always smile when a stranger mentions it and I say 'Sorry, I can't stand football so know nothing about it.' They look at me as if I've just made an improper suggestion? Especially rugby - it's a bit too um, touchy-feely for me!
Because it's fun! I love American football. A lot of women like sports too. I also will watch hockey and baseball on TV, although I don't enjoy those as much as football. Not a huge fan of basketball though.
Yeah, I don't know how some people can memorize all the stats and stuff. I guess if you played Fantasy Football, you would be more familiar with stats and stuff.
People who constantly brag about themselves (when there is really not much to brag about!) also drive me crazy. And people with no sense of humor suck.
Well, I am European so I do not get alot of people talking "football" here, we have our "soccer" and I happen to like it alot. I can enjoy- and don't mind a nice tactical conversation about "last weekend's game". Analysing games in detail amuses me much more than some ret*ded conversation about some stupid tv-show.
What, nobody said Donald Trump as of yet? I can't stand arrogant people and people with "turkey" ego.
I have always found a way to be pleasant to people, or to find something about people that is worth conversing about. which is perhaps why I struggle to understand when people are not pleasant to me. I have the advantage of size, so that doesn't happen very often.
I always avoid people who say 'people' all the time. Cue for a song - 'People - people who need people'