What makes a person boring?

ummmmmmmm talking about themselves all the time, lack of interest in the other person, lack of fun spirit...complaining about their problems all the time?

I think this. The two most boring people I know either talk about themselves all the time or talk about other people's business. You can't get a word in edge ways.

not having any opinions/ideas/thoughts of their own and seeing things in a very one dimensional narrow-minded way whilst lacking any imagination.

i also find 'normal' people quite boring, y'know the type who have the stereotypical 'normal' upbringing/family/friends/life etc. but that's just a personal thing because i find it really hard to connect with them.

Everyone's been describing me.

what was your upbringing like?

my point was that i find it difficult to connect with people who have never experienced anything other than complete and utter pleasant normality, because they're often very narrow-minded and i find that boring.

Talk about themselves only.
No common interest = awkward (sometimes).
Sheep - always agreeing.
No initiative.

Someone I know decided to have a twenty minute conversation with me about sell by dates and how amazing it was that they were considering getting rid of them ...

I think what makes someone boring, or at least appear so, is lack of common ground. If say, I were to talk about rowing to you for ages and ages and the technical ins and outs (which I could quite easily do), you'd find it incredibly boring, unless you were as into rowing as me then in which case you'd think it was really interesting (in the same way school/lectures are sometimes boring). I think what makes a person boring is someone whos not able to understand in certain situations, certain conversations are not socially appropriate as the other person will have no interest in them. I think an extension of this hypothesis would be to suggest autistic people are more likely to come across as boring, than people without autism. I dont know if this is true, but it would be of interest if anyone knows of a study. Ok, thats enough of that...

well i wouldn't consider it to be amazingly 'out of the ordinary' but at the same time it certainly wasn't stereotypically normal, so yeah.

my point was that i find it difficult to connect with people who have never experienced anything other than complete and utter pleasant normality, because they're often very narrow-minded and i find that boring. but as i said, that's just personal opinion, and on reading it back it does make me sound like a bit of a.. well.

i know what i meant though.