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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The best thing since wrestling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Infesting in your kids' ears and nesting!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (5 children)

To take away from the joke and be serious for a second...

EVERYONE is interesting.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

To know that you'd have to know everyone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Or, most people don't give themselves credit.

I'm more than willing to talk to someone who thinks they are not interesting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'm sure many people who think of themselves as not interesting will be interesting to someone.

But there are also at least a few boring people out there I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Nah, just a reasonable sample.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I too find it interesting how uninteresting some people are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

They're almost 100% interesting, but they don't like talking about themselves or hide secrets, etc., which are interesting traits, if not difficult to crack open.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been acquainted with a good few extremely uninteresting people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I feel like it would be better to phrase that as you found them uninteresting.

Or did you mean they are un-interesting in a way most of society would say someone is uninteresting. Like they aren't interesting because they don't follow sports or TV shows? Or they only talk about work or kids? Those people can still be interesting, just to different types of people.

They may not be interested in being interesting for other people?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's very tough to describe people who aren't interesting in order to tell you why they're not interesting, now I've set about doing it. It's like describing a colour.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because being uninteresting (or the perception of it) is in of itself...interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Well, in the real world where normal people live, no, but philosophically, fine yeah. But then if you want to be philosophical I'd go further and call that equivocation between "interesting: piquing my curiosity in a way I like" and "interesting: some remark can be made", and I don't find the latter interesting to think about anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

And I think a lot of people don’t realise they’re interesting. We’re just not interesting to everyone we meet and that’s ok.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough, but who would explicitly say "I'm interesting"?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Anyone could. There's nothing wrong with thinking that you're an interesting person. Or saying it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

In some cases it might sound weird and/or immodest. IMO it's something that primarily the others should judge.