What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with absolutely no preparation?

Bitches Be Trypsin

Definitely makeup

danmanw8

sugarman wrote: »

Why Reddit is better than Boards

You could fit that into 40 mins?

RobbingBandit

How to unsuccessfully talk to girls at parties, oh lordy lord I is an experienced man at this field.

NollagShona

Ciaran_B wrote: »

Arsenal under Arsene Wenger
Dublin GAA in the 90's
Any aspect of Taylor Swifts career
The works of Grant Morrison

Mastermind or Presentation

WOB or AKB?

pq0n1ct4ve8zf5

Some tv shows, like Game of Thrones or Dan Harmons work. Horror films.

More realistically though, People I Have Disliked: The Ways In Which They're ****, Why I Was Right, And Oh My God This Thing They Said That Time, They're So Stupid.

Hector Bellend

jiltloop wrote: »

If this was your Tinder profile you'd be riding rings around yourself!

Awesome. Tinder it is so.

Let the riding commence

NollagShona

My specialist subjects:
Arsene Wenger: Why he knows best
Dog whistling by rascists and how to easily identify it
Why wealth is never a measure of how hard a person works
How to work better to help everyone in a global economy
Trickle down economics- the failures

kylith

Discworld
How badly we've fcked up dog breeds

Beasty

US Tax Reform


:P

Flibble

Dog behaviour & history of their evolution
Eastern philosophy particularly daoism
Chinese medicine
Certain aspects of human behaviour
Postcolonialist literature

Although, to be fair, I'm not sure I could give a presentation on anything for more than 5 minutes to a group of people I am not comfortable with.

For people I know and am comfortable with, I would probably shift it into a discussion & then I could talk for hours!

Tell me how

Sketchup (3d modelling software)
Being single
IASIP

The first two are probably related

Ulysses Gaze

1. The History of Heavy Metal from 1970 to 2000

2. The Crusades

3. Italian Football from the 1990's

4. Zombie Movies and Literature

Beasty

I'll add another:

"The slow death of forums"

:pac:

Beasty

Flibble wrote: »

Postcolonialist literature

Although, to be fair, I'm not sure I could give a presentation on anything for more than 5 minutes to a group of people I am not comfortable with.

Not sure I'd be comfortable with that one...

annascott

Pet care
Skin care
Basic cookery
Volunteering

ambro25

Intellectual Property law and practice (any aspect, in whatever depth: 40 minutes is just about enough for the most basic of "what is a patent, what is a trademark <etc.>" IP 101 primer, likewise just about enough to cover the genesis and current status of the Unified Patent Court Agreement in the simplest of lay terms)

Brexit (living it daily, in more ways than most)

Alsace-Moselle through the ages (as little known and understood by French people themselves, as outside of France :pac:)

diomed

How to analyse Thoroughbred horse pedigrees.
Select the best sire for a mare.
The features in good pedigrees, and their rarity.
Use computer programming to speed selection, forty horses a second.

I would only be getting started in 40 minutes.

Harry Palmr

practical organic horticulture maybe, and that's only because it's fresh in the memory/fingers.

annascott

NollagShona wrote: »

My specialist subjects:
Arsene Wenger: Why he knows best
Dog whistling by rascists and how to easily identify it
Why wealth is never a measure of how hard a person works
How to work better to help everyone in a global economy
Trickle down economics- the failures

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cml387

British Railway diesel and electric locomotive classes 1948 to 2010.

sparksfly

Comparing and contrasting the Latent Energy Profiles of aerobic and anaerobic organisms during subdivision.

PirateShampoo

I've a 3 year old daughter, so my speech would be on Peppa Pig and why she is a C**t.

cml387

I rather suspect you could get away with ten minutes or less on these subjects as the audience would have fallen into a catatonic state.

WoollyRedHat

I reckon I could talk about unusual and interesting meterological happenings after spending many a detention copying out articles by the late Brendan McWilliams as a young wean.

diomed

NollagShona wrote: »

Anything- I can bullshyte for Ireland!
When I started in a new dept in my my new job I delivered a pres to accounting/tech heads. No problem to me but they wouldn’t enjoy it. Got huge praise
When the CEO visited they asked me to ask him the Question

Got huge raise would be better.

kopite386

Friends - the TV show - I'm too sad to have any real life friends
Music from the 60's,70's and 80's
Liverpool FC in the 21st Century
WW2 History
Russian Revolution 1917 (both the February & October revolution) and whether or not the October revolution was a revolution or a couple d'etat

Foxhound38

Political processes. Also probably recruitment strategies.

That and skyrim, actually.

NollagShona

PirateShampoo wrote: »

I've a 3 year old daughter, so my speech would be on Peppa Pig and why she is a C**t.

Ok...

Oldtree

Trees obviously. Got a box of interesting samples to illustrate particular points, collected over the years, in a box ready to go. But someone would need to be there with a whistle for the 40 minute mark.

bnt

I could easily talk for an hour on topics related to music synthesis: from early electronic music, the first analog modular synthesisers, the rise of digital technologies, and the current revival in analog techniques (real and virtual). You can basically analyse 1980s music by the availabilties of various synthesisers, what they cost and how easy they were to use. For example, the Yamaha DX7 was revolutionary, offering some excellent preset sounds at a great price (for the times), but woe betide anyone who tried to actually programme their own sounds on the damn thing. :pac:

A few times I've lost half an hour or more by going down the Game of Thrones rabbit hole, asking myself how would I explain the plot to someone who hasn't seen the show at all.

Esel

Extemporising.

ambro25

cml387 wrote: »

I rather suspect you could get away with ten minutes or less on these subjects as the audience would have fallen into a catatonic state.

What the presentation is about doesn't matter: don't just stand there and talk, involve and challenge the audience and get members to participate (coerce them if you have to)

Although I can probably manage 40 minutes about the legitimacy of extramarital affairs being a birthright for French people and which, I'll grant you, is bound to be more attention-grabbing for the audience than intellectual property topics :pac:

byhookorbycrook

Special educational needs, horses, places to visit it Ireland, long term illness.

Greyfox

Game of thrones is the only thing I would feel confident doing. I reckon I could also do one on Nintendo and the Resident Evil game series

Permabear

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readyletsgo

History of video games. I BORE the life outta friends about that topic. First time they are interested 😂

gmisk

Blackburn rovers or the naked gun film series

Tell me how

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Without preparing for it?

endacl

I could give a reasonably competent demonstration of counting slowly to 40 in intervals of 60 seconds.

Permabear

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4068ac1elhodqr

A rough guide on how not to do a presentation.

padohaodha

Uncontacted tribes in the world...or Ulster hurling of the last century!!

Avatar MIA

padohaodha wrote: »

Uncontacted tribes in the world...or Ulster hurling of the last century!!

Do any of those actually exist

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Avatar MIA wrote:

Do any of those actually exist

Antrim put it up to Tipperary in 89 for about 4 seconds.

Would take 40 minutes to explain the hiding they got.

smokingman

Lean methodologies, application performance monitoring and statistical analysis....

...and then maybe something on Daoist Zen.

Sounds boring but I've kept a crowd of 1600 people awake and attentive with "the way I said it".

Tell me how

Tell me how wrote: »

Sketchup (3d modelling software)
Being single
IASIP

The first two are probably related

Sketchup. I like that word

What is IASIP?

OldMrBrennan83

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wfdrun

African n Asian population growth, Trump n Brexit permanence, Fearing the feel n doing it anyway

SimonTemplar

Software development.

Corruptedmorals

The six wives of Henry VIII
HSE waiting lists
Women's artistic gymnastics