Dull Men's Club
An unofficial chapter of the popular Dull Men's Club.
1. Relevant commentary on your own dull life. Posts should be about your own dull, lived experience. This is our most important rule. Direct questions, random thoughts, comment baiting, advice seeking, many uses of "discuss" rarely comply with this rule.
2. Original, Fresh, Meaningful Content.
3. Avoid repetitive topics.
4. This is not a search engine
Use a search engine, a tradesperson, Reddit, friends, a specialist Facebook group, apps, Wikipedia, an AI chat, a reverse image search etc. to answer simple questions or identify objects. Also see rule 1, “comment baiting”.
There are a number of content specific communities with subject matter experts who can help you.
Some other communities to consider before posting:
5. Keep it dull. If it puts us to sleep, it’s on the right track. Examples of likely not dull: jokes, gross stuff (including toes), politics, religion, royalty, illness or injury, killing things for fun, or promotional content. Feel free to post these elsewhere.
6. No hate speech, sexism, or bullying No sexism, hate speech, degrading or excessively foul language, or other harmful language. No othering or dehumanizing of anyone or negativity towards any gender identity.
7. Proofread before posting. Use good grammar and punctuation. Avoid useless phrases. Some examples: - starting a post with "So" - starting a post with pointless phrases, like "I hope this is allowed" or “this is my first post” Only share good quality, cropped images. Do not share screenshots of images; share the original image.
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I've done that about three or four times over the past 20 years. Sitting down to perform a big major archival move of thousands of emails and sorting through them and trying to preserve them in some kind of way.
Now I manage it by only keeping an active archive of about two years worth of email at time on my account. Once the New Year rolls around, I go into my email account and remove a year's worth of email from the system. For instance this January, I went into my archive and kept in 2026 (current year), 2025 (last year), 2024 (year before that) and then removed 2023. The removed year is just archived in .eml format and kept mostly as text files so they will be easy to search later.
I haven't had a real need to use those archives in all that time. But once in a while, especially if I am searching for an event, a person or a time when something happened, I'll dive into the archives to search for clues that I could follow and they have been helpful a few times. Otherwise, it's just nice to keep it all because once in a while, I just look through them like reading a journal of past events.