Things You Just Don't Care About

ted talks

1) The war on Christmas
2) The war on the war on Christmas

black Friday

p!nk

portugal. the man

making my home smarter

in related news -- having my television understand me when I talk to it

How much you've always hated the work of a public figure who's just been outed as a creep.

Especially when contrasted with sadness about public figures whose work you like being outed

aw I love caring about hate!

I hate caring about love *launches into grouchy but besotted Bacharach number*

i think the internet has made me not care about people dying. in general. i am rarely gutted. i don't even flinch anymore. and all the mass shootings...its all a blur now. which is kinda sad. but maybe that's just a part of getting old and bitter. it's so endless. which it always has been. but its such a daily internet ritual. the daily death.

this new trend of ppl dying must stop

Bowie and Prince tho

well i guess pre-internet i just wasn't deluged by public grief and memories of fave performers and all that. and now i am and as a result i kinda don't care anymore.

i have this HUGE book at the store of princess diana poems written by the common people and its kinda touching. i remember where i was when her and dodo bit the dust. i was in north carolina. visiting my sister. and it was the last time i ever saw my sister. that's my touching story.

don't care about bowie and prince anymore. they had to die sooner or later.

Aw damn

The feeling I feel when a Bowie or a Prince dies is complicated, more of a response to the pageantry and cash-ins and public wailing than it is to the actual passing-on of a person

The only death-of-a-public-figure that actually put me into a state of mourning was John Fahey. I had a ticket to his show and he cancelled. I didn't hear or know he'd died-- too obscure I guess to make a headline. Only found out six months later when I was leafing through a MOJO magazine, came upon that twelve-page combination "obit + tour diary + document of his latter-day shattered life", read it in the record store with tears flowing openly

the beatles

Oof

think the internet has made me not care about people dying. in general. i am rarely gutted

having faced real death and medical emergencies in the family this year i have had the opposite reaction, i give far less of a shit about the internet than my real life, which is actually finite and precious.

any news story about somebody tweeting something is automatically in the running for the least interesting thing i will read all day

i don't care about what other people don't want to hear about. in my opinion, not writing about something that you don't want to read about is the way to go.

https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/i-dont-want-to-hear-another-fucking-word-about-john-mcc-1792493680

Net neutrality. I mean, I care about it, and I want a bunch of people that aren’t me to do something about it. But in a way where it doesn’t flood every social network I’m on and all the algorithms think that is the most import thing in the world to me.

yeah I had to mute every variation of that phrase for twitter

im just annoyed that we have to go through this panic about net neutrality every six months or so. i thought we figured this shit out with SOPA in early 2012

my coworker sent me link to discussion about it on our intra-company discussion board and I was so mad at him for getting me sucked into reading these half-baked "FREE MARKET!! INNOVATION!! CONSUMER CHOICE!!!" arguments from guys (they were all male) whose profile pics screamed "libertarian jackass".

Damien Green watching porn.

that milo guy

Who the fuck is Keaton

^^^

Not just Taylor Swift, but endless chin-stroking articles about what she MEANS and REPRESENTS

Catperson

right there with ya

I just don't care about whatever Christmas shit your shop is trying to sell while I'm in the middle of watching New Tricks

New Tricks

Magic tricks. srsly.

I found it quite amusing that an ad for Fisherman's Friend kept popping up on the boat scenes in Vikings the other day.

it's sad really, just as I'm settling into my dotage and becoming a TV guy I realise that every advert drives me fully mental with rage

That's why TV remotes have a mute button.

surprisingly enough, blur

"cat person"

It’s remarkable that a fiction piece in the New Yorker, perhaps the most-skipped department, is viral.

yeah that was my thought. i haven't read it yet but i'm pretty sure that's the first time a short story has gone viral. i mean it happened on the same day as keaton and by the time i read about it it was already thru tertiary sources, ppl making fun of it, criticizing it, etc. and i had NO idea wtf anyone was talking about.

Keaton Jones, Michael Keaton, Diane Keaton, Keaton from Fire Emblem?

I'm often surprised at the outpouring of grief at a celebrity death, I've never felt more than quite disturbed at the circumstances of a few deaths and sometimes I've started to think something was wrong with me that it never upsets me much but I don't recall seeing anyone I know in real life genuinely upset about these things.
Not that I'm faulting anyone who cries every time.

I had to google Keaton and cat person to even know wtf you guys were talking about. It's kinda nice to be pretty much completely out of the social media loop, I have to say.

this is the only keaton i know

http://zelda.wikia.com/wiki/Keaton_Mask

i heard he's very popular recently

i accidentally read three pages of "cat person" before realizing i truly and honestly didn't care about either of the main characters. i suppose if i read the rest of it i could have An Opinion on it, but why should I go out of my way (or even allow myself through sheer inertia) to become something I hate?

things that were predicted by simpsons / family guy / back to the future

i read that cat people story it's a real cringe comedy story! both the characters are duds if you ask me. plus 20 is the new 15 you should never date a 20 year old unless you are 20 it would be like dating a baby. the real jaw dropper for me though was the part where someone who works in a movie theater was so surprised that someone would order popcorn and licorice before a movie! that's a pretty normal thing to do. the guy was obviously the bigger dud though. he did everything wrong that you could do wrong. he was like a psa for wrong.

omarosa

anti-bird spikes being put in trees to stop them shitting on the cars

US politics. Or rather, I wish I didn't care, but I'm afraid it would make me less Canadian.

not caring is a privilege, imo you should feel fortunate to not have to care about US politics!