Things You Just Don't Care About

i didn't read dunham's book but the excerpt strikes me as being more like a shared gross joke among siblings looking back on their childhood than it does a literal portrayal of what their childhood was really like. i have a hard time imagining a 7-year-old being self-aware enough to have the conscious motives dunham attributes to herself ("i took a perverse pleasure in delivering bad news to her"). i don't find the excerpt funny or anything, but it seems like a real stretch to interpret something in a jokey bs memoir so literally. plus there are plenty of solid other reasons to be annoyed or disgusted by lena dunham.

she was trying to talk about her emotional dependency on her sister in an "edgy" way and she fucked up and produced a piece of text that was tasteless and disturbing because she isn't that good of a writer

^^^

i don't think people should be hanged for what they did when they were seven years old but i've clearly lived a different life than larry appleton

Wasn't she as old as 17 when she did some of the stuff though?

Larry otm. edgy shitty shit needs to die.

everyone patting themselves on the back for being self-righteously not self-righteous - good work!

I think Shakey and Tree are probably OTM. She did some weird stuff with her sister that was probably not tantamount to child molestation, and then wrote about it in hyperbolic and, to be sure, tasteless and insufficiently self-aware terms in a failed attempt to be funny and cool. It does seem gross, but it's not the equivalent of confessing to molestation. Similarly, with the Odell Beckham thing, I really don't think she was "oversexualizing black men" or whatever people are drawing from this, I think she was just making a failed joke and being narcissistic. And, as always, she was being narcissistic in that aware but not aware enough way, and it was kind of annoying, but god fucking damnit the whole point of this was supposed to be not caring!

to repeat, I have no idea what she did to her sister and neither does anyone else because the only evidence of the events in question is a narrative from a notoriously unreliable narrator, whose goal was not to divulge the truth of what happened, but to write a "funny" story that would get people's attention. and guess what mission accomplished, congratulations everybody!

congratulations

fabric closing

people on the internet talking about lena dunham.

So wait what didn't you guys care about?

the GDP of Moldavia

i don't care about this thread. what a waste of time.

headphone jacks

more like headphone jackoff amirite

music releases by ageing goths

I'm very interested in what they're doing now, provided I liked their music from the 80s and 90s.

I care quite a lot about headphone jacks.

I'd Rather Mac, Than Headphone Jack

checks back to see when this thread turned into "defending stuff other people don't care about", realises I was the first offender with an impassioned defence of giraffes

Aging goths: Just found out last night that comics writer Steve Niles married Monica Richards from Faith And The Muse, he even plays on her newer stuff (he used to be in punk bands)

(xp) There are disgusting savages who don't care about giraffes?

c'mon, what do they actually bring to Flamingoland?

joking obv.

I heard about a furore in Denmark concerning a giraffe but it hasn't affected my level of caring about them, which remains medium.

But why do I suddenly keep noticing people caring about giraffes?

And on this thread, of all places?

Giraffes are in the news right now due to some species classification arcana

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/science/a-quadruple-take-on-the-giraffe-its-four-species-not-one.html?_r=0

giraffes are disgusting savages.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsrFDvz6ftw

German giraffes

#notallgiraffes

You're making it worse.

I just don't care about it tbh

Major giraffe gaffe, dude.

Is the Danish giraffe farrago another autopsy or another feeding to the lions?

(I might mean furore rather than farrago)

torn between caring about everything and thinking nothing matters

don't care about achieving precise electric blues vibrati

Just the same lion feeding, koogs, I hadn't heard about it until last week.

cats and dogs

your pets

i work in a profession in which it is totally acceptable to talk about goddman cats all the time, like if you are a librarian and you don't like cats you a weirdo

yeah i feel that.

cats don't like librarians though

i see this shit poster everywhere, did you guys know this show is based on the life of Dr Phil? it apparently stars this guy who was on NCIS who's a fan favorite and yet i've never heard of him before?

http://seriestv.biz/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Bull-season-1-tv-CBS-poster.jpg

Keith Richards

oh yeah bbc4, lets schedule a whole evening for some old worthless self indulgent narcissist cunt who stinks of piss, again.

Who's that?

idk, I don't care about them

Not an evening, a weekend.

I like a lot of his choices but I caught 2 minutes of the rambling autobiographical thing and just thought of the mumbling bloke from the Fast Show.