Things You Just Don't Care About

117. visual art

thats a better answer

doctor who

tomorrow, next week, next year

it's getting harder and harder to hold back

― example (crüt), Monday, August 25, 2014 5:28 PM (4 hours ago)

^tantalizingly cryptic thread bump

salsa, reggaeton, cumbia, bachata

the u.s. indie rock canon

Sport. Got stuck at one of 2 tables people sat at from my course on Monday night and the rest of the table proceeded to talk about hurling.
I sat there thinking it was rude to leave, for several minutes, then got up and moved to other table and instantly found conversation interesting.

― Stevolende, Thursday, 4 October 2012 12:46 (1 year ago)

this is reasonable enough and if you have no interest in sport, visual art etc etc, its preferable that it be expressed negatively, in terms of just completely not caring, rather than pejoratively

even so, from the person who wrote these posts it raises questions about how much people should be expected to be interested in what other people are caught up in

Yippee-IA, Motherf***ers! IRRATIONALLY ANGRY PT. 2: Irrationally Angrier

The LLWS or that there was a local team in it.

Understanding that post

Les Claypool

famed instrumentalists in famous bands

anything an athlete says

Here's an easy one: The ice bucket challenge.

1990s nostalgia

elle macpherson's abs.

miranda kerr and james packer on a yacht.

Contemporary Nerd Culture

bears

what kind? any kind. i do not care about bears.

what famous people do or say

all kinds of cultural nostalgia mostly

people's material aspirations

what kinds of cultural products inarticulate people enjoy

open letters from minor or former celebrities to major current celebrities, neither the content nor the ensuing tweets and articles.

y'know, people really seem shocked when i tell them about my thing with bears. i get it all the time, when i'm out at dinner, when i'm walking down the street: people always asking me, "how can you possibly not care about bears? what's wrong with you?" and i just tell them "you know what? i just don't. i don't care about bears. to be totally honest, i don't get why YOU'RE all so obsessed with them. they're just mammals. you know what? i don't care what you people say. i don't care about that OR bears. because you're all just the same to me. materialistic, easily manipulated sheep. you're just cogs in the bear machine. i'm choosing to do something just a little bit different. a little bit out there. not the same thing everyone else is doing. and you can never seem to appreciate that. any of you. i'm just over here, specifically not caring about bears, and i think that's important work. so get over it."

Here's an easy one: The ice bucket challenge.

― ed.b, Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:28 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i had assumed this is why crut revived the thread.

what i dislike most about the ice bucket challenge is that i feel like a terrible human being for not caring. at the same time i don't want to be cajoled into caring. someone nominated me the other day and every other post on FB is someone doing the IBC and nominating their friends and I just want it to blow over so i don't feel like a complete shit for not getting involved, but honestly...

it goes without saying that there's nothing wrong with people doing sponsored events to raise awareness for charity; it's a good cause and i'm not criticising anyone who takes part. But it's the 'chain letterness' and the organised fun-ness of the challenge - the idea that if you're nominated you HAVE to do it or else you're a heartless cowardly fun-hater. fuck it, i'll prob donate something all the same, if only to feel better about not dumping ice water on my head and uploading the film for everyone to see. and then what? all I'll have done is bought myself off. i haven't 'cared', i've simply bought a 'get out of guilt free' card for my conscience. meanwhile, if everyone on FB is donating to ALS doesn't that mean a lot of contributions that would otherwise go to other charities during this period get reallocated?

also i've never cared for flowers, how they look and especially how they smell. they all smell of grass to me, barring a few which smell like a sneeze against a mirror.

Which kid gets to press the elevator button.

what i dislike most about the ice bucket challenge

this thread is for not caring about things, not disliking them

feels so good not to be trolled by white people hazing themselves

politics, increasingly.

city center parking difficulties

awards

Astronomy

That's a shame.

estela notm

Also, fine dining.

(I like discussing star signs over falafels)

That "Why do I hate that artist thing...Facebook...why am I such a jerk?" thread

xp otm.

i do not care at all about haute cuisine or fine dining or any such bullshit. seems so wasteful and extravagant. pretty much all of my favorite meals either been cooked at home by family, friends, or me, or have been in inexpensive ethnic restaurants

expensive wines

expensive cars

american football

american football

saying that you don't care about something always means you don't think it's worth very much, right. which is basically defensive posturing, like you feel a need to distance yourself from that which you just don't care about, which really means you aren't actually very far away from it, so you do care about it, as something that makes you uncomfortable enough you feel release by saying you don't. this question and thread invites us to lie. what a sad dad game. i hate this thread.

still don't care about les claypool however

i've never met him and likely never will. i care about leses in the abstract though.

there are things I don't care about, I'm sure, but I'm hard-pressed to say what they are, since, not caring about them, they don't occupy any space in my head

(despite posting twice in this thread pre-revive)

whether or not this guy Kimble really killed his – fuck! did he really jump off from there?

silby otm

american football

― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, August 26, 2014 4:29 PM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha, me too, i just didn't care enough about it to even mention it