u/AnonPinkLady

I have a friend who is always pulling the most random unheard of references and tidbits out of his ass when absolutely no one asked and leaving them hanging until I feel forced to ask him what he’s talking about. At which point he’ll go on a completely unwanted and unnecessarily rant with lots of hemming and ha-ing and throat clearing like some arrogant professor type all over a subject he initially inserted into an irrelevant discourse. I find this tactic super annoying and I’ve stated before that he should include the context of whatever he’s talking about as needed when bringing random unknown things up to others rather than waiting for someone to ask so he can be the center of attention.

The thing is if he just slipped these details in where needed it wouldn’t interrupt the flow of conversation and derail into one of his insufferable long winded lectures but as is, he uses the question as a sort of “in” to go on and on about the most obscure things completely irrelevant to whatever else is going on. To make it even worse he has a slow sleepy mannerism of speaking that is profoundly dull and cannot hold anyone attention most of the time and involves a lot of ums and uhs. It’s just so goddamn annoying.