My husband talking about something he’s passionate about and makes him happy. It doesn’t matter what, I love how excited he gets when he’s explaining something that matters to him.
I’d pick J.R.R. Tolkien and Middle-earth, no hesitation
Food. I love cooking and baking and recipe planning and eating and thinking about food and talking about food
Privacy
richard stallman
I’m going to metagame this one and say “current events”.
‘history’ maybe even more apt as even or estimations of the future are based on it
I’d listen to the Verizon commercial guy explain how if he can hear me now, that it’s good. A simple subject, a search for truth. Is it good to always be able to hear someone? I don’t know, yet. This is the kind of Hell I can get behind, just me and that sorry son of a bitch. Decades, millennia—CAn yOu HeaR Me nOW?
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Good
Carl Sagan or Richard Feynman talking about physics or astronomy.
Feynman. No question.
Philosophy.
Don’t you put that evil on me. That sounds like a decent approximation of hell.
Yeah, I’d rather be deaf.
One subject I could manage (psychology/AI if it has to be nonfiction or mysteries if fiction counts), but not one voice.
The roman empire.
Clearly.
The only correct answer. As much of the discussion should also be in Latin.
Now you lost me.
Unless trebuchet is Latin…
Music
The science of how color is reproduced via display technology, including colorimetry, photometry, and signal processing
“When we reached SuperTwist monochrome passive matrix LCD’s we thought we’d reached the peak for universal display technology; great contrast, cheap to manufacture, and low power.”
Peak universal display tech and monochrome?? Who said this?
Food
They didn’t say you could eat it. You just have to listen to endless speeches about it. Is “food” your final answer?
I love talking about food, so yes. Listening to it would be pleasant.
Trains.
My kid is a train kid, I’m already listening to it non-stop, I won’t make things worse for me or him.
Hello fellow parent. I feel your anguish. I have star wars and dinosaurs. Tbh I’m not even mad, most of the times… I’d just need some more time in the morning before the uninterrupted stream of words!
Exactly. He’s turning into a Lego kid, but uh, did you know that Lego has trains? (They recently put out a gorgeous Oriental Express train that even I want now.). My biggest gripe about trains is they take up so so so much space.
I am excited for his teenage years for when he wants to sleep in and I get to wake him up.
But today is Christmas, and if you celebrate, Merry Christmas. (Mine is waking now, and it’s 430 am, time to stall him for 2 hours, as my daily gift to momma)
Honestly, nothing. No matter how strong my interest is in something, it will eventually shift dramatically and I’ll have trouble listening to any other thing.
