A very sophisticated way of showing disinterest towards someone confiding something personal to you, and a deliberately poor attempt at relating, by being vague about similarities you can't or won't get into.
It's a direct quote from the character Walter
White from Breaking Bad:
Hank has a drink with Walt and goes on a monologue about his
old job of tagging trees to be cut down.
Hank says, “Tagging trees is a lot better than chasing monsters”. After a long pause Walt replies, “I used to love to go
camping”.
Should only be used on e.g toxic people who traumadump on you, or people who've seen Breaking Bad way too much and
will partly be in on the "joke".
Annoying person: So long story short, he kept
cheating on me for
5 more years, and after all this mess I'm completely through with dating.
You:
Yeah, I used to love to go camping.