Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

craft beer

bob dylan and the nobel prize

oh there is an archivist i follow(ed) on twitter who started a tweet thread yesterday about what to do with empty file folders / directories when processing born-digital stuff, leave or delete. i replied with "literally no one but the archivist gives a shit, make a decision and move on" and he was like "how thoughtful" but i mean come on, it's a really good thing to actively not give a shit about some things imo, even in your special snowflake professional identity, it can make you so much more connected and productive, i mean just my pov.

I can't stand the fucker tbh. So it seems appropriate him getting a discredited honour that usually goes to bullshit merchants or f/t genociders.

The continued funniness/non-funniness of Saturday Night Live. "SNL isn't funny anymore" is among the most clichéd things to say.

Almost everyone agrees that it isn't funny anymore; I know this people have been saying this my entire adult life. And yet it remains on the air somehow. 50somethings often think it was better in the 70s. 40somethings often think it was better in the 80s. 30somethings often think it was better in the 90s.

I'll bet if you were to ask a 2-year-old, she'd say it was funnier last season. Heck, at this point a 2-week-old baby would probably say "last week was so much better. Time to retire this lame unfunny show, which has so clearly jumped the shark."

It's rare to hear the viewpoint that as a live show with an ensemble cast, it is uneven by its nature. Some things will work and some things won't. Like other shows, it has good bits and bad bits; no need to get all pastopian about it.

The best way to avoid that whole tedious debate is to just concede that SCTV was and remains funnier than SNL ever was.

I've always considered that stance to be challopian I could be wrong

it's spelled "canadian"

self-driving cars

Artistic statements about what it means to be human or what it means to be British (or wherever you're from).

uranus

Things sold as "an exploration of what it means to be human" unless they really are prepared to think about human life in any possible way it could exist.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 18 June 2016 12:38

Artistic statements about what it means to be human or what it means to be British (or wherever you're from).

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 20 October 2016 19:23

I thought I might be repeating myself. I actually don't know if anyone describes their work this way anymore. I must have heard it so many times in BBC arts coverage and anything approaching middlebrow arts coverage. Maybe it was critics more than creators.
There's nothing inherently wrong with explorations of these things, but I think most people just want to be seen making an important statement. Also when a terrible major event happens and loads of artists are scrambling to make some definitive statement about it.

Can any of you guys think of brilliant explorations of what it means to be human? Could you make a list? I can't think of anything.

Sometimes someone will say every artwork is about the human condition. But why would you describe your work that way if that's what everyone does automatically?

Similar thing: writers saying "my fantasies are metaphors for really fucking relevant stuff that goes on in the real world" but then saying fantasy is always a metaphor for the real world.

Noodle Vague made me feel insecure so I wanted to clarify. Hoho.

I shd stop being mean. it's a weird peev tho? ignoring a certain kind of art-speak I get but the field is too vast to single out tabloid banalities imo.

I mean, I don't take the notion of what any piece of art is "about" very seriously, but that kind of meta-commentary is just part and parcel of a business game that isn't really played out for the public's benefit. both that and the "everything is a metaphor" line are intentional fallacies. everything is a metaphor because metaphorical jouissance doesn't reside in the author

Can any of you guys think of brilliant explorations of what it means to be human?

My list would start with Pasolini's Saló, but I'm not too high on humanity these days.