I think you are very boring

I have a friend who, the drunker he gets, repeats himself over and over again.

It is not done through forgetfulness, it is deliberate. He will tell you his thoughts about something which has come up in conversation, and as soon as you have responded to the points made, he will go through the same routine at least two more times as if driving a small tack home using a sledgehammer.

After the third repeat I begin to lose patience with him and say something like, "I know. You just told me. Three times", and then he gets offended.

He tries to find reasons why it had to be repeated and the blame is deflected away from him and back onto me. He never accuses me of not listening (he couldn't because I respond the first time), it is more like I didn't understand the finer points of what was, in fact, a simple and blunt-to-the-point-of-dullness observation.

This then makes me angry and instead of finishing my drink and leaving him in the pub, I attempt to turn the whole thing back onto him, obliquely accusing him of being a bore at the same time.

Ironically, if anyone does the same thing to him he will throw his head back, cover his mouth with his hand and make theatrically loud yawning sounds to let them know they are boring him. He has done this to me when I have been telling someone else a story which I told him weeks ago. In these cases I get really angry. I become speechless with anger.

My good German friend was in the pub once, and during a moment of reflective silence, he turned to me and said, "I think you are very boring".

I looked at him incredulously. It was very unlike him to be so callously forthright.

Then I understood that it was a language problem. He meant to say 'bored'... I think...