Published on 12, July, 2020
Does anyone else feel the urge to infodump when they are in social situations? For example, tonight I went to a lovely raclette evening with some people from my church and a few people were wondering where raclette cheese came from and I just felt the urge to spend 20 minutes explaining all about how it was from Switzerland and all about Swiss food and how it relates to Swiss culture.
Then someone else started talking about visiting Argentina and I felt the urge to spend 20 minutes discussing Juan and Eva Peron and the history of Argentina.
I have learned from past experience that infodumping like this does not tend to be socially acceptable so I stopped myself from doing it but just wondered if anyone else feels the need to do this sometimes, especially in social situations
I go to the village pub on a Friday evening, a group of pensioners who i know asked me a film question. It was like autistic catnip, I gave them the answer, what the answer meant and then the filming location, year of release and a potted history of the family who owned the filming location which was a castle. I got a comment afterwards that it was obviously my favourite film. My reply was “ no, I’ve never seen the film.” I spend hours researching facts, one word answers will never suffice. When I had finished, one of them had googled the film and then looked a bit shocked.