Things You Just Don't Care About

decided the other day I don't care when my neighbors put the trash out and then are out of town for the weekend (garbage collection day is friday)

like, the city ordinance is that you are supposed to remove the trash bin from the curb within X hours but they're not that much of an eyesore and who cares

will sign off on this and expand to not caring how much you "don't care about sports" in general

― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Monday, February 5, 2018 7:32 PM (forty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cross reference "sportsball" to the hated idioms + phrases thread

― Mordy, Monday, February 5, 2018 7:38 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes

― Entrepreneurial Jism Unshackler (Hadrian VIII), Monday, February 5, 2018 7:40 PM (thirty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that cant be reiterated enough. also making sure other people know you don't care about sports. like making really sure, im not talking one post in this thread (i dont care about sports), im saying the overcompensating / condescending pose people will take irl and online, which is what "sportsball" represents and im glad its died an ugly death

― flappy bird, Monday, February 5, 2018 7:41 PM (thirty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This all sounds like jock talk to me.

whatever nerd

I care a lot about sports, in that I want many of the organizations that govern and profit off them to cease to exist because of their deleterious effect on our society, so I’d never call it “sportsball”, one must name the enemy

The flu is overrated this year

I hear that about 50,000 people die of flu in an average year. So, what's with the big deal over an extra 20,000 corpses, give or take?

depends on how you define "extra" tbh

plenty more where those came from

chicken feet as a delicacy

Colberts Donald trump cartoon series

just donald trump generally

the backlash to the backlash to Justin Timberlake

Backlashes

The evangelistic streak that America never broke from regardless of flitting from one belief to the next

evangelistic streak

^ more of a thing I don't care for, than a thing I don't care about

ice dancing

(i include all winter sports in this term, incl hockey)

fp'd

co-sign, morbs

all Olympics actually

apathy, it's a road to nowhere

fuck the olympics, i don't care how much olympiads fuck, just go away!!!

I feel like most of this thread boils down to 'things I wish I didn't care about so much'.

powerful

i'm sure i'm not the first person to note this but how come all the winter olympics are specifically "winter" sports and all the summer olympics are all the other sports? it makes the winter olympics feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing. why don't they move some of the summer olympics sports (fencing? weightlifting? no reason these *need* to be summer sports) so that it doesn't feel like a totally bullshit endeavor?

for sure, it should be "the olympics" and "the olympics: winter games" as a naming scheme

because one is things that only work in the winter, and the other is every other competition

because the (summer) olympics came first and the winter ones weren't introduced until 1924

Not that I personally care but the winter olympics certainly don't "feel like some bullshit rich kid ancillary thing' in Canada.

yeah I don't really get that vibe from them at all, but... upper midwest

you know what I really don't give a shit about? summer olympics. at least the winter one has people doing crazy shit to music and x-games style snowboarding that is fun to watch

yeah it's like oh michael phelps can swim really fast for 25 feet, here's a gold medal. how about 50 feet, here's another. how about doing it while making a silly face? sure, that's gold

idk what the situation is like in canada but most winter sports (all???) require expensive equipment and, depending on where you live, the luxury to travel to resorts to practice etc. there's def a class aspect.

Summer better because track and field.

needs an xc event where you shoot a gun tbh

it could be swimming, track & field, etc have too many of the same competitions but ultimately "swimming" "running" "jumping" "lifting heavy things" these are core practices of humanity. "skiing" "snowboarding" "figure skating"...

broomball should be in the winter olympics

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

whom amongst northern europeans does not own a pair of skis

Itt ppl who hates sports discuss sports

Again.

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

lol come now you know it's a big world out there

Most of which is not best suited for winter sports.

Don't worry - before long, there won't be anyplace with enough snowfall to host a Winter Olympics.

what i don't care about with immense feroious rage and passion is the fact that so-called biathlon only means getting to shoot stuff while skiing

there should be an entire so-called "biathlon" olympics, like a combination summer and winter olympics except every sport also includes gunplay

that's what i don't care about at all extremely angrily

Skeet surfing, coming in 2024

you know, the ski/shoot bit always reminds me of james bond, but whatever/shooting sounds very american

Outwith the Anglosphere (or the USA and the UK, tbh) there's nothing class based about winter sports.

lol come now you know it's a big world out there

― Mordy, Tuesday, February 13, 2018 9:48 AM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this isn't true. in south america going skiing in the andes is the preserve of the bourgeoisie with more serious skiers doing south american winter skiing in the andes and then going to the alps or rockies in european winter

is hockey bougie

yes. all the gear and rink time is $$$.

i never got the feeling that the winter olympics was exclusively for the rich in canada either

for something like figure skating, you need skates, some clothes when training and performing. these don't sound like expensive gear (same with something like curling). just reading about it in canada, it seemed like all types of people have access to it, but i don't know how much the training programmes are. i remember during the vancouver olympics, they interviewed some local olympians and some of them had jobs and just seemed like normal people. i mean we can talk about the middle class, as well, but that's different per country. i'm sure the scandinavians have a better system

in terms of hockey, in vancouver, if you you couldn't afford to play minor hockey or didn't want to, you'd play pick up hockey/street hockey and/or soccer

hockey gear is definitely more expensive now, because it's now bigger and better (with more padding), but if you really wanted to play, people would get used gear

anyway, i don't understand where this interest to include non-winter sports in the winter olympics is coming from, because surely non-winter sports are better suited to be played in spring or summer, in or outside. if it were in a venue, it would probably be more cost effective to do it when it's warmer in an open air stadium or something, to use less energy

yeah this isn't true. in south america going skiing in the andes is the preserve of the bourgeoisie with more serious skiers doing south american winter skiing in the andes and then going to the alps or rockies in european winter

I was thinking of nations that routinely compete in the Winter Olympics, i.e. Norway rather than Brazil.

insert jamaican bobsled team reference