Do you folks follow current trivial facts?

Like:

Sports, actors, actresses, singers, news items, waeather forcasts. etc.

I have ahard time staying current, because most of these things are unimportant to me.

So at the coffee machine or in groups, I can never get into conversations with people.

I am perfectly fine discussing a specific topic that I know about, but not trivial things.

So, I was just curious if this is common.

I tend to have enough problems keeping important things current in my mind so most trivial things pass me by.

I like music and can often think of the title of a song (because it is in the lyrics) but when asked the singer or band i have no clue. Then i have trouble with peoples names anyway.
The news is rarely good and any violence in it sends my six year old off into copy-cat violence.
If i want to know the weather i go outside.

I like to watch films. My thoughts on film stars is basically that i wouldnt follow the fictional charactor in a book in real life, so why all the interest in film stars.

I like to watch Rugby purely for the game, who plays is insignificant if it is a good game.

Result- i cant do small talk for peanuts.

I'm just getting old. Keeping current with the kid phenoms is a chore, especially since I'm married to an "old %art" who never "got" popular culture in the first place, and have no offspring . . . that I know of.

I like following baseball, basketball, gymnastics, dance, and skating. I used to be physically active, and hiked and bicycled and stuff, so maybe that's why.

I like modern jazz. (Now there's a dying art that ~very~ few follow any more!)

I have little memory for names. But I try to keep up with the directors and actors/actresses and so forth of movies I really like but other than that I don't. I try top keep up with figure skating too, but more often I just recognize the skaters and need to bne reminded of their names. I don't really keep up with popular music either (jazz is hanging in there!), just with what I like. And I often forget the names of my favorite musicians and albums.

my husband tells me i'm a fount of useless information... we do well as a team on games like trivial pursuit. So, I guess that means I do keep abreast of current trivia, and the not-so trivial.

Pembroke----we should play you. We can't find anyone who is even a challenge. No one will play with us anymore:( He does history, politics etc. and I do what he calls the "esoteric s**t", your arts, your literature etc. I won't team up with anyone else.

I think the kids keep me up to date on music. I have really gotten reacquainted with MTV lately. My skull is full of cotton candy.


I did rather enjoy,(and excel at) Sony's now defucnt (whats the opposite of defunct?) online interactive Jeopardy! website. You can play it now but you have to buy it and it seem to repeat questions (or should I say answers?) more often.

i am a music collector (more of an abosession than a collection....I always have music on and it varies from classic jazz to hardcore punk to whatever I feel like listening to at the mo....I follow weather like a madman as I have a phobia of lightning....eeeek!)...anyway....I used to buy a lot of music....I dont download much, except when I cant find what I am looking for in stores....things that are no longer being released....once I get a real job I will likely begin my madness that is collecting music again!

flakeygirl -- hmmmm. we were in texas this past summer - in dallas; have relatives there.... that could've been fun.

I don't even think I have watched TV in a month.. the only reason I did then is cause my roomie was watchin... Movies Sports News (esp Politics ugh) all just fly by me.. I have to much else to remember :)

I am a big sports fan. I like movies and music but don't keep up. I watch the new all the time. Same with weather. It distracts me from my own unexciting life.

I don't follow sports as I find the boring and I have a problem with my team losing (eek-not a pretty sight). Music I cannot live without; it's alway's on or in my head (sometims it's the same song over and over and over lol). I'm pretty big on current events; but, alot of that has to do with my kids--I'm trying to teach them that you have to know your pasts mistakes to not repeat them (and there I go not making sense again). But, now if you want a bunch of completly usless facts I'm your girl lol.

i don't follow anything in "popular" culture (unless its hubby's turn to pick the movie). he hated taking me to see Lord of the Rings, i couldn't keep the characters straight to save my life!

i like to read and watch "artsy" movies. so, every once in awhile i'll have something interesting to add to a conversation, but, not very often.

i'm terrible at my book group. i *swear* i just got done reading the book, but, i still forget the names of the main characters. or, i'll think of a book that someone might like, but, i can't recall the author or the name of the book. (if i describe it a bit, usually someone else saves me by coming up with the pertinent information).

weirdly, i am also pretty good at trivial pursuit. i can't remember where i left my keys, but, i can tell you which of the bronte sisters wrote jane eyre (charlotte). and idiot-savant level good at guessing pictionary drawings (no need to worry about saying the first thing that pops into your mind, unless you are playing with your in-laws :*).

i dont' really follow anything that much, but I do know the names of some songs and bands... (a few) and a FEW movie titles... but never the actors or anything.

Part of that's because i'm in college though so i sort of exclude everything else for school, but more I think i just don't have the capacity to remember all the junk that's out there. I dont' really CARE about most of it... so yeah sometimes i do find it hard to participate in conversations that aren't really talking about anything

Well...

This was interesting because I've always been very enthusiastic about all sorts of trivia. In the formal poll on this thread, I checked each box that preceded the words "I follow".

I love pro sports, music, movies, current events etc. so I'm always cramming my mind with a boatload of this type of information. To me, I cannot take pride as an authority on the topic unless I know all this stuff. Add to the fact that I work at a job that requires I know a great deal of trivial information, and my head is absolutely swimming with this stuff.

Given the fact I have ADD, I think this complicates matters for me. How am I supposed to properly invest in something like a meaningful relationship when I have ADD and I can tell you off the top of my head that the Baltimore Orioles were the last Major League baseball team to have four 20-game winners (Jim Palmer, Mike Cuellar, Dave McNally and Pat Dobson) in 1970, that Sergei Fedorov is the first Russian-born player to score 1,000 career points in the NHL, that guitarist Joe Walsh made a cameo appearance in the closing scene of the movie "The Blues Brothers", that Wayne Gretzky's rookie card is #18 from the 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee/Topps hockey card set, that Elizabeth Montgomery (the star of Bewitched) died on the very same day that my daughter was born, and that the word stewardesses is the longest word in the English language that you type entirely with your left hand (provided you type by the rules).

All of this serves as a constant distraction to whatever tasks I have at hand. There's no way I can listen to music when I'm trying to work. It's too distracting.

I used to take pride in my knowledge of trivia. Now I'm beginning to understand how it can clutter my life and make me very inefficient at other life skills.

I'm going to pour myself a glass of Coke and try not to think about the fact that if no food colouring was used to make it, it would be green.

I tend to follow things kind of sporadically and it may be just one particular sports team, football because it's not a long season. I may also follow just one or two bands for a short time and actually know a few of the singers. It's kind of bits and pieces of everything for me because I just can't focus on too many things at once or the important things start to suffer. I do follow current news and weather simply because I feel I need to know what is going on in the world and my local area and I can take part to make a difference if need be, as in voting. As for the weather, a total necessity when you have not only yourself to dress but a child. I would say out of everything the two things I follow most are current news and weather. Am I boring or what? Oh well, it's what I can handle. :) Dee

I never followed anything. I occassionally look at articles and read magazines when waiting somewhere. I find it interesting mostly from a phycological aspect.
I get involved politically when I need to, which is when it is crammed down my throat, and I know it's the right thing to do.
I will go to jail for something I believe in, and have many times.

Well, I'm beginning to follow politics. Only because I am becoming increasingly aware of who our representative government is representing. They're bought and paid for and effectively not only acknowledge it daily in their actions, but they also evince a complete contempt for the intelligence of the American people shown by their flagrant and public pandering to moneyed and influential special interests at the expense of their constituents. Democrats, and Republicans alike. I am sure that even some of the few independents on the hill are getting in on the gravy train too. Why not, corruption seems to be the in thing these days.

If this sounds paranoid it really isn't. Please tell me why battered women, the mentally ill, the elderly, and every other disenchfranchised group in this country that should not have to ask for protection (Common sense, protect the innocent right?) have to beg Congress and the senate to enforce their rights and protect their interests and congress and the Senate almost never respond until high profile stories of people getting horrifically and brutally screwed get into the press. Even then it is mostly lip service until they find a way to respond they can get the most benefit from personally.

Yes, I'm bitter about this. I've witnessed the "Throw it to a committee behavior many times" To the press and the general public, this is congress and our government taking an issue serious enough to examine it. To anyone who knows anything about government, this is stalling effectively for as long as they like before they take action of any kind on the issue. If they are really lucky it will die out of the press and they can quiety disband the committee. Yeah, I'm a cynic all right, but this really happens. Makes me want to vomit.

Other than politics I mostly just follow my interests and read or pursue anything that catches my fancy for the moment. So, I've got a collosal collection of useless facts in my head. Like dolphins urinate roughly every ten minutes or so. Weird huh? So, if you ever swim with the dolphins, your swimming in dolphin piddle.

I almost felt strange until I saw the results,I clicked on no on all items. I used to keep up with the latest music -except hiphop, I was a great punk fan, I always valued being different. I have a friend who loved Trivial Pursuit and I still can't comprehehend why a normie would keep his head filled with useles s**t like that. I always watch Extreme Machines, Monster Garage, Ultimate Machines, Computer shows,indusrial history, anything technical that relates to the real world.
I couldn't comprehend the purpose of algebra in Gr 11 and threw my books at the teacher and walked away from school, They say I am very intelligent but if it doesn't relate it gets no space

I also hold a bunch of useless trivia in my head....you just never know somebody will ask "What's an aglet?" I keep up with baseball and golf, I'm a music fan and i try to stay current. I keep up with current events, I get my fair and balanced news from the daily show:D I like weather and i'm ok with that:)

an aglet is the little plastic end part of a show string...hehehe I learned that somewhere in Highschool.....I gots all kinds of useless triviadoots too heh

an aglet is the little plastic end part of a show string...hehehe I learned that somewhere in Highschool.....I gots all kinds of useless triviadoots too heh
May be a new poll? I'm not starting one again...

I follow trivial information, but its a lot more trivial than the categories listed here :D