Actually it doesn't seem to matter which friends I talk with.. it always comes back to sex, in fact even at work it comes back to sex or at least organs.. although it usually starts off with talk about pregnancy (there hasn't been a time at work where someone hasn't been pregnant, apparently its my turn next and I told them if that happened we should call the pope and inform him of the second coming).

Most people know I'm not chatty.. if I don't have something of meaning to say I'll just sit there and say nothing, this either really annoys people or they really like it.

It depends on where we are too.. if we're out we might talk about food, places to eat food, get food, recipies, secrets, the food channel, wine, cocktails, going out.. which eventually leads to reminiscing about picking up men and of course sex..

I think conversation topics between the sexes are pretty similar, caught up with a mate on sunday and we talked her relationship, friends who have returned from overseas and books, as well as some really dodgy webvideo thing she'd watched.

Same or similar things as I'd talk about with my male friends I guess. I suppose I don't know many women who'd sit around talking about sewing though to be honest, nor is it something I've much of an interest in myself. I was interested to see in the Thugby stakes how the Wallaby's lost to Scotland...

I had the most weird experience on Saturday night with the exact same thing. Being my best friend's birthday so I decided to have a bbq. Several guests of both sex were invited. As what happens with the usual party the boys end up in a group together chatting and the girls chatting somewhere else. All was perfect the sausages were burnt, the steak was delicious etc; the night was balmy, there was a cool breeze - it was perfect. Well, nearly perfect until I took my fellow girlfriends into the shed to look at the newly purchased bbq and to discuss the new lighting I had hung that afternoon. As we discussed this we looked out the shed door to see a group of blokes (7 of them) all gathered around trying out a bright pink hoola-hoop! It just seemed really backwards, the girls in the shed talking bbqs and lighting and the boys in the backyard taking turns at hoola-hoop and discussing hip techniques!

He he!! Raving shirley....

Oi! You edited out the bit where I called you a shirley. That's censorship of the worst kind, Nichols!!! :-P

As I have little ones, topic is usually about discipline, sleep (or lack thereof) husbands and diaper changes. Used to be more about sex, but once baby boy arrived earlier this year, my mojo has flown away with my nightly 9 hours of sleep. Thank goodness for breastfeeding and the subsequent mammory growth so my hubby can have something to keep him interested. Have a couple of girl friends who are contemplating leaving their hubbys and kids. Those conversations are alot less interesting as one sided as I have nothing to contribute, I mean what do you say (sorry your hubby is a dork, I married the most wonderful man in the world sucks to be you?) At Uni, I was just one of the guys, so I got to be a fly on the wall during alot of guy conversations, I must say they are lot more interesting than girl talk. Women tend to be too serious for my liking. People used to think I was into chicks because I hung out with guys all the time, but I was just a chick who dug guys ALOT, so I spent 98% of my time with them and left the women to whinge amongst themselves. Suckers!

We talk about our men, and the fact that they probably never talk about us. Then we talk about hot male celebs and how they undoubtedly are pining for us at this very moment.

Work, technology, people we know, whose buying the next round.

Who's the plumber in the photo?

Since we're talking on a polite blog here I'm only owning up to discussing computers, computer games, TV shows, movies, and pretty much anything else with a sci-fi element. There are other topics which come up after we've exhausted the geeky ones, but I'm sure I don't need to go into any sordid details about those ones.