Ha, I got that one too. No idea why.
― jmm, Monday, 11 June 2018 15:25 (seven years ago)
what is it? are they youtubers?
― Evan, Monday, 11 June 2018 15:26 (seven years ago)
Yeah. Apparently he has 7.3 million subscribers.I do have a habit of clicking on pointless nonsense, so the algorithm's probably just throwing everything at the wall.
― jmm, Monday, 11 June 2018 15:38 (seven years ago)
Can you guess? Trump and Fatboy in Singapore.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 11:37 (seven years ago)
they are no Cannon and Ball, that's for sure!
― calzino, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 12:03 (seven years ago)
that squirrel up that building in america
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 14 June 2018 09:29 (seven years ago)
Yes, the world is stupid.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 June 2018 09:32 (seven years ago)
Between the World Cup and Love Island, I have to keep a very good check on my DNGAF quotient
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:43 (seven years ago)
noted, and couldn't gaf about DL DNGAF levels for the former, agree with the latter.
― calzino, Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:53 (seven years ago)
i may or may not be married to the HR officer for the film production company of one of the above events
it may or may not be the one id prefer
― tired culché (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:56 (seven years ago)
It was only after I watched Frankie Boyle's TV show the other week (I know, I know) that I discovered Love Island isn't actually an island.
― Ward Fowler, Thursday, 14 June 2018 10:58 (seven years ago)
it's not? oh shit no i don't care i don't care
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Thursday, 14 June 2018 11:14 (seven years ago)
i liked watching Love Island with my daughter last week cos it's really designed to sit and joke about it with somebody else
obv i feel the pain of non-football fans subjected to World Cup fever for a month but tbh we all have to live surrounded by bullshit fever for some shitty cultural thing that we don't care about 99 percent of the time so i think people shd really be able to manage just fine and suffer in silence
― VAR VAR Rasputin (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 14 June 2018 11:50 (seven years ago)
True. Superhero movies, Star Wars, Game of Thrones etc.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 June 2018 12:02 (seven years ago)
the petty intra-squabbles of Paducah's city commission membersthe Belgian Revolution of 1830the proper way to make a scone
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 14 June 2018 19:34 (seven years ago)
podcasts
read things and listen to music ffs
― mookieproof, Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:28 (seven years ago)
hard agree
― you bet, nancy (map), Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:30 (seven years ago)
podcastsread things and listen to music ffsthis legit sounds like a lyric out of bfw
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:12 (seven years ago)
Podcasts are just, like, Radio 4 surely?
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:25 (seven years ago)
This thread has taken a turn into things you have strong opinions about.
― Alba, Saturday, 16 June 2018 07:41 (seven years ago)
reading and listening to music are quaint fetishes
― tired culché (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:00 (seven years ago)
they are, but I'm not sure what that says about us as a species
― cheeky Nandez (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 16 June 2018 09:55 (seven years ago)
nothing
― tired culché (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 June 2018 10:24 (seven years ago)
"Africa" by Toto
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 18:11 (seven years ago)
it’s no ‘rosanna’ right enough
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:14 (seven years ago)
Or "Hold the Line".
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:15 (seven years ago)
tru
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:15 (seven years ago)
I never liked the song but I never really hated it. as far as I can remember it was always a joke, like 'Never Gonna Give You Up' even pre-Rickroll. I don't understand the sudden surge in ironic/or is it? talk of Toto's 'Africa.'
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 18:17 (seven years ago)
it just seems like a meme that arrived 10 years late
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 18:18 (seven years ago)
I like it, it's a good song, but not that good.
― We can be herpes (Tom D.), Monday, 18 June 2018 18:19 (seven years ago)
it's been a lol-80s party favourite for years now
― My name is the Pope and in the 90s I smoked a lot of dope (dog latin), Monday, 18 June 2018 19:43 (seven years ago)
I've started really liking it after listening to EccoJams a lot earlier this year.
― Frederik B, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:01 (seven years ago)
i like it a lot, i like "never gonna give you up" too.
― brimstead, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:16 (seven years ago)
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 20:18 (seven years ago)
brimstead otm
― Leaghaidh am brón an t-anam bochd (dowd), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:08 (seven years ago)
its a shit song but at least its no susanna
― tired culché (darraghmac), Monday, 18 June 2018 22:51 (seven years ago)
Africa by Toto was in GTA: Vice City making it a favourite lol 80s song of a whole generation. But that predated current social media, and perhaps the subsequent generation is catching on to it now? (feel like maybe this isn't the case and it's all 30 year olds creating the Africa content)
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 June 2018 23:03 (seven years ago)
i really like never gonna give you up and have done it at karaoke a few times. it goes down absolutely terribly and I'm never doing it again
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 18 June 2018 23:05 (seven years ago)
― flappy bird, Monday, 18 June 2018 23:13 (seven years ago)
national security
― nashwan, Monday, 18 June 2018 23:17 (seven years ago)
never gonna give you up was a surefire hit w/ the young gay club kids last year. it grew on me.
― you bet, nancy (map), Monday, 18 June 2018 23:27 (seven years ago)
The Africa by Toto thread already went over - in excruciating detail - the issues of whether the song was always awesome (and fortuitously rescued from obscurity by memedom), always in the culture (which was exactly where it belonged), always a joke and only referenced for camp/"ironic" reasons, and every permutation in between.
I understand some ilx0rz may be late to this particular party, but the "I don't care" thread seems an odd place to open those buckets of worms. If you truly don't care, then move on with your life.
If you are interested in discussing the nuances of how/why this song is being perceived and discussed in the year of our lord 2018, then it stands to reason that you do, in fact, actively care.
― too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 02:45 (seven years ago)
other people's opinions about whether or not i do, in fact, care about something or not
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 03:04 (seven years ago)
i mean people usually explicate why they don't care about something itt. usually between 1-4 posts... toto has always been in the culture but i've just sensed an uptick in the last six months or so. whatever. Good song
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 04:18 (seven years ago)
Whatever any celebrity has to say that gets woke claps from the audience. Try harder. Fucking weak
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:44 (seven years ago)
Are you kidding me about Africa? The songs great. Wtf
Y’all need to ditch yer irony and just enjoy music for what it is. Christ. You think too much
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:46 (seven years ago)
Sorry flappy. You’re off the money here
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:47 (seven years ago)
shit tune
the scanning of that serengeti alone fails it on basic "practice yr trade" requirements
rusho otm re pontificating on the 'dont care' thread sorry ymp yelliw card
― tired culché (darraghmac), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:08 (seven years ago)
shit tune? lol ok man ;)
― sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:40 (seven years ago)