Born to be mild: celebrating banality with the Dull Men’s Club
Robin Eveleigh
created: Sept. 23, 2025, 7 a.m. | updated: Oct. 8, 2025, 9:36 a.m.
From bins to benches, banality is a source of joy for members of the Dull Men’s Club.
“I literally said out loud: ‘That is a decent bin!’” Clark recalls.
Sign upYet for all the media fanfare, nothing quite matches the honour that came his way a couple of years ago via one of the internet’s more peculiar corners: The Dull Men’s Club (DMC).
Why don’t we start a fictional dull men’s club and write about the silly stuff we do?’,” explains Carson, who is now 85.
They’re finding joy in little things, in those small moments In some ways, the DMC is a contradiction in terms.
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