I am a bore.

[FinanceDude]

PS. I hope Alan doesn´t take offence.

He's a Brit, they are trained at birth to keep a stiff upper lip..........

 

[TromboneAl]

Thankfully for you, we are not alike: I envy your many interests, not the least among them, cycling and playing gigs with friends.....!

No, actually if someone isn't into jazz, surfing or biking, I think they'd find me pretty boring. Online, I'm less boring.

 

[MichaelB]

I hope you are right as I plan to enter the Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency Exams. I prepared for them for several months, a few years ago, but i gave it up. Too tough, academic and the didactic material was too dry, for my taste. I am too addicted to your current popular crime fiction writers and that American English doesn´t seem to count a lot to the British English examiners! They don´t know what they are missing

Cambridge? What do they know? Those folks speak “British English”, if you know what I mean, so better watch out. Our standards are just as rigorous, but in a different way.

PS. I hope Alan doesn´t take offence.

As long as you spell like that you will do well with Cambridge and probably with Alan as well.

 

[Amethyst]

Oh, what an excuse. Just read some books by Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, or other excellent British authors of crime novels. Read some Sherlock Holmes stories and you'll not only start talking like a Brit, you'll talk like a Victorian Brit

Amethyst

. I am too addicted to your current popular crime fiction writers and that American English doesn´t seem to count a lot to the British English examiners! .

 

[vicente solano]

Oh, what an excuse. Just read some books by Ruth Rendell, Elizabeth George, or other excellent British authors of crime novels. Read some Sherlock Holmes stories and you'll not only start talking like a Brit, you'll talk like a Victorian Brit

Amethyst

Amethyst: I read some of those when I started with my English almost 40 years ago. But with age I´ve become a philistine or less intellectual, and my authors run to the Pelecanos, Block, Sandford, McBain, Wambaugh, Hiaasen, Coben, Grisham, Lescroart, Parker, King, Koontz, Canell etc.
Aside from their entertaining value it provides me with what I think is current popular English, certainly less stylish.

I appreciate your advice, nonetheless

 

[Richard4444]

Sometimes boring is good. It means being content with yourself, not having to please others. Being content for a long time beats being euphoric once-in-a-while. After reading the posts, you certainly are not boring to your peers here !

Rich, LCSW

 

[Ed_The_Gypsy]

If you think you are a big bore, maybe you can have a post retirement career in the oil & gas industry

I will send you an application.

On the other hand, you might be happier driving a cab in New York City.

el Gitano

 

[HFWR]

I sometimes typo it. Or is it frequently? Who knows-nobody corrects me

Queue T-Al...

This usually responds to a little drinking. There are 3 resons for drinking.(A 4th, taste, is often suggested, but is completely bogus.) Number one is to make sex more palatable, either to yourself or to your partner. #2 is to decrease discomfort in social situations such as you describe above. #3 is to get blotto to temporarily wipe away cares and anxieties. This last one is the only one that is likely to get out of hand.

So buy a nice silver flask, and off to the party you go!

Ha

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 1862...

No, actually if someone isn't into jazz, surfing or biking, I think they'd find me pretty boring. Online, I'm less boring.

I'm what some call "a mile wide, and an inch deep"; I can converse semi-intelligently about all sorts of stuff. But I have found that my taste in music is too eclectic for nearly anyone who isn't a musician...

Sometimes boring is good. It means being content with yourself, not having to please others. Being content for a long time beats being euphoric once-in-a-while. After reading the posts, you certainly are not boring to your peers here !

Rich, LCSW

+1 Being boring isn't quite the same as being bored.