Things You Just Don't Care About

my favourite capybara was executed due to politics so i hate and avoid politics

politics only doesn't affect you if you're in a subset of americans living a safe middle class lifestyle, e.g. my little brother w/ a chronic disease only was able to get insurance because 'politics' so yeah it does matter to follow it more than game of thrones for a lot of people. finding politics boring is a luxury.

― iatee

paradoxically politicians, the political press, and the main consumers of political journalism are in the main living a safe middle class lifestyle

i'm pretty sure that politics effects the middle class too. and that all kinds of people don't care about politics. not just the luxurious middle class.

a certain subset of the middle class probably the only people who have the time and money to care about anything anymore. the rich are too busy counting their money and the poor to busy being poor.

in America all the successful politicians are stinkin' rich, jim

politics only doesn't affect you if you're in a subset of americans living a safe middle class lifestyle, e.g. my little brother w/ a chronic disease only was able to get insurance because 'politics' so yeah it does matter to follow it more than game of thrones for a lot of people. finding politics boring is a luxury.

― iatee, Friday, January 29, 2016 8:24 PM (11 minutes ago)

this is sort of aggrandized since implicit in the original is that the safe middle class psychologist is not interested in politics, because not implicated by politics

so to be interested or not interested is sort of arbitrary, non-existential decision, parlour game like tv shit vs newspaper (according to mordy)

the person whose life depends on political decisions that they cannot help but notice, is not really 'interested in politics' in that sense either

or as the pundit Paul Simon wrote "Any way you look at it you lose"

i do thank mitt romney for the not terrible heathcare i enjoy...cheers to the rich dude!

Don't care about the hazards of drinking this coffee that's been sitting in the carafe for 24 hours.

does coffee go bad?

We're supposed to be wary of liquids sitting around at room temperature I guess

I follow politics plenty (although focus on local), I just don't care about democratic primaries. I don't care who wins. I'll select either over any republican candidate so I'm not going to care that much until then.

there are so many things i don't care about i wouldn't know where to begin.

^^ Pet Shop Boys title

jewelry! that's just off the top of my head. i only think about it when i see an ad for a jewelry store. i never notice when people are wearing it. or what they are wearing. sometimes i'll see nice pictures of vintage/art deco fancy jewelry and admire them, i guess. in an art/craft way. i just don't care about it.

but that's just the tip of the iceberg...

does coffee go bad?

it does contain oils that can go rancid

more timely though (oh, watches too. don't care. again, old vintage stuff that looks cool, fine, but otherwise...) phones! you know, iphones and the like. have zero interest. maria just got some new insanely expensive thing...no interest. my kids have those things that are like phones but are not phones. ipods or whatever. i kinda want to throw them away when they aren't looking. never want to own a cell phone. have no interest in your apps.

am i the only ilxor without a cell phone?

because i know a lot of you people are complete freaks about things like that....

I'm not much into electronic gadgets, but I do have a cell phone. I was a relatively late adopter in my circle.

TIJDCA: video games

yeah, i was just looking up home phone plans on at&t. 35$ vs 75$!

i've never had one, scott

the sound quality on a land line is worth it

i never go anywhere though. so, that's one reason i don't have one. i'm either home or at work or with maria. who, as it has been stated, has a fancy new phone.

morbz, i knew i could count on you!

I was talking (on my house line) to a friend on Wed night about why I still pay almost $30 for a house line. Apart from never getting interference, it's good to keep one in Florida when hurricanes knock the power out.

I'm still fascinated by lingering ananchronicisms like hotel phones. Who uses them except to call downstairs? Someone must!

maria's new phone is actually called a phablet. it's huge.

replacing my phone with my SO sounds like a good exchange

Neither of my two closest friends in Glasgow have mobile phones. It drives me NUTS.

I don't have a cellphone or a home phone. My wife's got a cell, but I'm a little SOL when she's not around.

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What do you non-cell phone people do when you have to wait in lines for an extended amount of time? Read books or something??

I mean, I'm not totally in the woods. I've got a deactivated 3GS that I play Drop 7 on.

xp We bitch about people who are so busy staring at their phone they don't notice the line is finally moving.

hah!

but, yeah, i bring a book with me everywhere.

but, again, i am not usually waiting in a line. yesterday was the first time i left town since new years eve. i went to amherst to buy books and records. then i came home.

my impulse buy yesterday. the intersystems vinyl boxed set. so much cooler than a phone.

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smartphones have extinguished cruising in gay bars

but really i went to get the ferrante books. which are lovely objects to hold. i imagine people feel the same about their phone.

there must be pretty cool cruising apps.

Out of curiosity, do your wives have to make/receive all family/logistical phone calls?

What do you non-cell phone people do when you have to wait in lines for an extended amount of time? Read books or something??

― Jeff, Friday, January 29, 2016 2:26 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think about stuff? what else did people do when they had to wait in lines?

sneaker culture

that's fine because most sneakers are spectacularly ugly

They all just look like this:

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"Out of curiosity, do your wives have to make/receive all family/logistical phone calls?"

we have a landline at home. and i have one at the store.

That makes sense. It's a lot of work always being the point person. My mom made all arrangements when I was a kid (without mobile phones) and I think she hated it. That's why I asked. Carry on, dgaf thread!

yeah, even though i still have my phone, when waiting in line i just stare into empty space and think or i observe things around me probably too intently. i'm sure some think it's a little strange, but it's alright, they are too

wait, so serious question. what's this i read about marketers phoning landlines nonstop in the land of the free? does this really happen?