The Captivating Truth of the Dull Men’s Club
If the boring and mundane fascinate you, then you will love the Dull Men’s Club.
Have you heard about the Dull Men’s Club? It’s been around for a while, and it. is. fascinating.
Welcome to our group. Our motto is "Celebrating the Ordinary". Has been that for many years.
The club was founded in New York in the early 1980s as an inside joke. But today, the Dull Men’s Club unites almost two million Facebook followers. Members proudly trade stories about humdrum hobbies like ranking windshield-wiper speeds, photographing mailboxes, and debating coat-hanger designs.
The Exciting Start to the Dull Men's Club
One day, in the early 1980s, Grover Click was enjoying a drink with his mates in a bar in New York when they realized how boring their lives were. Looking at a magazine that highlighted some other New Yorkers and the exciting things they do, they considered that there is nothing wrong with being dull, so why not celebrate that? That’s when Click suggested a page in the magazine highlighting the mundane details of their lives. The editor of the magazine thought it was a great idea, and the Dull Men’s Club was born.
We post and comment on the joy we find in mundane, common, everyday things, things others often think are dull but for us they provide excitement, safe excitement.
While you won't find the club in many magazines today, you will find it on Facebook. The posts vary from photos of knolling (the art of arranging objects in the shape of a square) to stories of getting extra fries at McDonald's. And I have to admit, I must be horribly dull because I just went down this rabbit hole for about 20 minutes before I pulled myself away. I find the dull stories fascinating!
Founder Grover Click is now 85 and insists posts in the Dull Men's Club must stay resolutely boring. So, if you use bitmojis or exclamation points, you risk deletion. (And wouldn’t that be a kick in the pants)
We are a place for people who want to avoid glitz and glam, are not constantly moving on to the next big thing, are not suffering from moreitus (a word we coined for constantly wanting more, more, more).
The Benefits of Being Dull
But here’s something really sweet about the Dull Men’s Club. One of the members is a 58-year-old named Andrew. Andrew started posting after he suffered a heart attack and was forced to change his lifestyle to a more, well, boring one. If Andrew skips a post, the other members notice and someone checks in to make sure he’s okay.
Even the dull go above and beyond.
