The one that drives me batty is people standing around discussing the price of gasoline. I question where I went wrong in life that I’m even near people for which that is an animating topic of conversation. Sort of like looking around and coming to the horrific realization you’re in a checkout line at a Walmart. Surely someone kidnapped you, drugged you, and just as the heavy dosage of Thorazine was wearing off pushed you through the front doors of the store.
WTF am I doing here?!?!?!
I asked the bartender at an airport to change the channel from Fox News one time. She said she wasn’t supposed to, I said how about sports? She literally looked around and over her shoulder and switched to ESPN. Competitive bowling had never been more interesting.
I believe it referred to the all -consuming topic of the plumbing and its breakdowns in one’s domicile. Therefore, not as dull as cricket, but not quite comme il faut as dinner conversation. Effectively, he was squashing the lady.
For me, it’s parties where people talk about the routes they took to get there, or to their vacation destinations…
SNL had a hilarious skit about SoCal people vapidly doing that in a soap opera
I did pick up on that. 
We do this occasionally with a decent success rate.
At the local university hospital they have avoided this type of controversy by turning all the TVs in the waiting areas to home improvement channels.
Reading is for fancy-pants elitists.
Fan of the #FakePresident says what?
Exactly what I had in mind.
Further proof, if you needed any, that Hegseth is simply too inane and ignorant to read a book.
“Fuzzy Bunny’s Guide to You-Know-What” is a particular favorite of mine 
From what I have read One America Network (Onanistic?) is even to the right of Fox. Apparently they take the fringe looniest stories like Pizza gate and turn them into what appears to their audience mainstream fare.
Sort of like what Morning Joe did for Trump.
This idiot could have just kept his head up his ass and been happy and content in a warm echo chamber.
I am a bit surprised that Pete Hegseth escaped his deployment without being fragged by those forced to be under his command.
I wouldn’t mind that. Sadly, I’ve reached the age where social conversation includes exchanging the names of good medical specialists.
let’s all remember that it was no more deep than back in college where it was 'how wasted did you get last night?"
I had hoped someday to attend a TPM comment board conference at a hotel ballroom. I would love to make a table
“classic movie lovers table” because I know quite a few members of the hive are film buffs, and then we could all talk about films while we tucked into the chicken or pasta.
