On Saturday, 21 March 2020 18:11:21 UTC, Adrian Caspersz wrote:
Dunno about this one...

Can someone give me a list of hopefully enjoyable generic topics, I can
use to spring someone elderly into conversation, without mentioning the
current elephant in the room?

Said person is otherwise drifting to regurgitating topics relayed on
LBC, and its affecting my mental state.

It's not good

Not a list, well, there is no list in this video, but you have actually hit an excellent topic yourself!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaVhXn49xY

(For Brian, a fairly amazing, mostly drone-filmed, video of a huge Russian ice-breaker.)