1) The war on Christmas 2) The war on the war on Christmas
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Friday, 24 November 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
black Friday
― beard papa, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
p!nk
― clouds, Friday, 24 November 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
portugal. the man
― maura, Friday, 24 November 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link
making my home smarter
― scott seward, Friday, 24 November 2017 22:33 (six years ago) link
in related news -- having my television understand me when I talk to it
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 24 November 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
How much you've always hated the work of a public figure who's just been outed as a creep.
― Ripped Taylor (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
Especially when contrasted with sadness about public figures whose work you like being outed
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
aw I love caring about hate!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
I hate caring about love *launches into grouchy but besotted Bacharach number*
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:42 (six years ago) link
this new trend of ppl dying must stop
― Mordy, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
Bowie and Prince tho
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 19:43 (six years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
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
― flamboyant goon tie included, Wednesday, 29 November 2017 20:18 (six years ago) link
the beatles
― In a slipshod style (Ross), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:07 (six years ago) link
Oof
― moyesery loves kompany (darraghmac), Wednesday, 29 November 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 November 2017 03:20 (six years ago) link
any news story about somebody tweeting something is automatically in the running for the least interesting thing i will read all day
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 30 November 2017 03:21 (six years ago) link
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
― scott seward, Thursday, 30 November 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
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.
― Jeff, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:15 (six years ago) link
yeah I had to mute every variation of that phrase for twitter
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 December 2017 18:17 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Friday, 1 December 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
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".
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 1 December 2017 18:20 (six years ago) link
Damien Green watching porn.
― Action of Boyle Man Prompts Visitor to Stay (Tom D.), Saturday, 2 December 2017 08:27 (six years ago) link
that milo guy
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 2 December 2017 08:32 (six years ago) link
Who the fuck is Keaton
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 01:40 (six years ago) link
^^^
Not just Taylor Swift, but endless chin-stroking articles about what she MEANS and REPRESENTS
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:53 (six years ago) link
Catperson
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:54 (six years ago) link
right there with ya
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 09:56 (six years ago) link
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
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
New Tricks
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:26 (six years ago) link
Magic tricks. srsly.
― Susan Stranglehands (jed_), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:29 (six years ago) link
I found it quite amusing that an ad for Fisherman's Friend kept popping up on the boat scenes in Vikings the other day.
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
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
― The Dearth of Stollen (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 11:57 (six years ago) link
That's why TV remotes have a mute button.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 12 December 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link
surprisingly enough, blur
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Tuesday, 12 December 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
"cat person"
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 02:10 (six years ago) link
It’s remarkable that a fiction piece in the New Yorker, perhaps the most-skipped department, is viral.
― .oO (silby), Friday, 15 December 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Friday, 15 December 2017 02:30 (six years ago) link
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.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Friday, 15 December 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link
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.
― Oiled Launch (Old Lunch), Friday, 15 December 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
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?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Friday, 15 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link
things that were predicted by simpsons / family guy / back to the future
― Einstein, Bazinga, Sitar (abanana), Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:28 (six years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Saturday, 16 December 2017 17:48 (six years ago) link
omarosa
― marcos, Saturday, 16 December 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
anti-bird spikes being put in trees to stop them shitting on the cars
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:52 (six years ago) link
US politics. Or rather, I wish I didn't care, but I'm afraid it would make me less Canadian.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
not caring is a privilege, imo you should feel fortunate to not have to care about US politics!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:13 (six years ago) link
i'm guessing most people on earth don't care about u.s. politics even if u.s. politics affects them.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link