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“What Excites Most People, But Bores You To Tears?”: 39 Honest Answers
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Some things excite almost everyone—sports, trending TV shows, viral memes—but not everyone feels the same way. Sometimes what has people talking for hours can leave others completely uninterested, yawning through the hype. It’s funny how what thrills one person can totally bore someone else.
We asked the Bored Panda community to share the things that get most people excited but leave them utterly unimpressed. From everyday trends to pop culture crazes, these stories show that everyone’s “boring” button is a little different—and some of the answers might surprise you.
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#1
'Slebs.' I don’t care what they eat, what they wear, or where they go. Why is everyone so obsessed with them?
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#2
Mega-cruises. Too many people who just want to party, get wasted, and act out. Mediocre food and entertainment. Expensive drinks. Excursions in a crowd, surrounded by people trying to sell you junk. It’s not the way to see the world.
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#3
Watching golf. Friends and family have told me it’s a mental game and extremely difficult to master; however, the slow pace has me yawning and bored to tears…
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#4
Concerts: expensive. Noisy. Smelly. Overstimulating. And honestly, the album was better.
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#5
The beach. I can lie in the hot sun somewhere without seagulls, sand, or a bunch of other people.
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#6
Cities. I can handle visiting one for a few days—too many people, too much noise.
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#8
Professional sports. If I want to watch a bunch of guys try to score, I’ll go to a nightclub—which I also find abhorrent: too loud to talk, too crowded to relax, too competitive.
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#13
The launch event for a new iPhone or sneakers—or whatever. Yaaaaaaawn…
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#15
Reality shows. They don’t bore me—I find them gross.
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Peter Connolly 3 months ago
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#16
Going drinking at a club—everyone wants to get drunk and dance, and that's just not my thing.
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#18
Camping. Why haul a bunch of stuff just to sit in the woods with bugs? I can sit around a campfire at home, with a fully functioning, bug-free bathroom just steps away. Why pay money to live like a homeless person for a few nights?
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#19
Christmas. And New Year. Yay! Let’s all spend our time pretending to have fun with people we avoid the rest of the year.
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#21
Amusement theme parks—where the idea of fun is paying a small fortune to stand in endless lines while being jostled by strangers who think 'personal space' is a myth.
The rides are basically overpriced torture devices designed to fling you around until you either vomit or achieve a fleeting sense of 'adrenaline' that everyone else seems to worship. Personally, I’d rather skip the whiplash.
The food? The worst cafeteria meal of your life, three times the normal price, served lukewarm on a plastic tray.
And the atmosphere? Oh, simply magical. Nothing says 'family fun' like being crammed into a sweaty crowd of people who look like they lost the will to live somewhere between the roller coaster queue and the fried-dough stand.
Overall: unnecessary stress, overpriced misery, and a soundtrack of distant screaming. Amusement parks truly are the Disneyland of bad decisions.
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#22
Babies. New mothers bring their babies to the break room at work to show them off, and everyone drops everything to coo at the tiny, human-shaped pukey-poop machines.
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#23
'Action' movies. Action scenes in a thriller, suspense, or adventure movie are fine. But the particular genre called 'action movie'—which includes all sorts of sub-genres like superhero, sci-fi, crime, etc.—bores me to tears. They are completely formulaic: chase scenes, a final showdown between the hero and the villain (or nuking baddies in outer space), ending with the hero(s) triumphant. What’s prominently missing is any kind of real plot. Please, spare me.
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#24
Harry Potter. It’s childish and stupid. Likewise with superhero movies. Seriously—I stopped getting into that stuff when I became a teenager.
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#26
Gambling. It’s not challenging, it’s not exciting, and the house always wins in the end.
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#27
Sermons—I could get a full night’s sleep and STILL nod off while the minister is preaching…
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#28
American football. It’s ugly and clunky, and I just can’t understand the hype around a bunch of dudes sniffing each other’s butts, then ramming into each other, then someone remembering there’s an awkward egg to throw and catch, only to run up the field and slam the egg on the ground.
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#30
I’m gonna get a lot of heat for this, but… Lord of the Rings (both books and movies). I know Tolkien and Peter Jackson are masters of their craft, I know the story is great, and I’m aware of the insane amount of hard work that went into it. I’ve just never managed to finish it—the pacing is an utter nightmare for my untreated ADHD (and I’m not exactly a TikTok brain).
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#32
I can’t speak for everyone, but in my family, it’s watching variety shows. Any time my wife sits down to watch one, I decide to fold laundry or wash dishes.
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#34
My problem is the opposite. I get excited by things most people find boring: history, science, math, engineering. I’ll watch YouTube explainers on how an incremental change to an internal combustion engine creates a 3% improvement in fuel efficiency—and be totally fascinated for an hour. I excitedly watch people solve math problems (even really simple algebra). My friends and kids think my enthusiasm is nuts.
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#36
Sports, Social Media, Music.
In New Zealand, we’re supposed to all be into rugby. No—rugby, soccer, whatever. I find watching sports boring. I’ve played a few, which can be fun, but not watching.
Social media—with all the 'look at me,' 'like me,' and fake portrayals of people’s lives? No, it’s unhealthy, in my opinion.
Music? I don’t mind it, I just don’t care, especially. Not a musical person.
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#39
Professional or college football. I belong to a large extended family, and most of them are rabid fans of one particular college team. George Will said it best: 'Football combines two of the worst aspects of American life: violence and committee meetings.' (George is a baseball guy all the way—baseball is the only big-time sport I enjoy watching.)
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#40
Dogs. No, I don’t care about what your dog did or how cute it is. Please do not show me pictures of your dog.
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