Things You Just Don't Care About

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.

it's not? oh shit no i don't care i don't care

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

True. Superhero movies, Star Wars, Game of Thrones etc.

the petty intra-squabbles of Paducah's city commission members
the Belgian Revolution of 1830
the proper way to make a scone

podcasts

read things and listen to music ffs

hard agree

podcasts

read things and listen to music ffs

this legit sounds like a lyric out of bfw

Podcasts are just, like, Radio 4 surely?

This thread has taken a turn into things you have strong opinions about.

reading and listening to music are quaint fetishes

they are, but I'm not sure what that says about us as a species

nothing

"Africa" by Toto

it’s no ‘rosanna’ right enough

Or "Hold the Line".

tru

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.'

it just seems like a meme that arrived 10 years late

I like it, it's a good song, but not that good.

it's been a lol-80s party favourite for years now

I've started really liking it after listening to EccoJams a lot earlier this year.

i like it a lot, i like "never gonna give you up" too.

it's been a lol-80s party favourite for years now

brimstead otm

its a shit song but at least its no susanna

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)

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

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)

national security

never gonna give you up was a surefire hit w/ the young gay club kids last year. it grew on me.

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.

other people's opinions about whether or not i do, in fact, care about something or not

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

Whatever any celebrity has to say that gets woke claps from the audience. Try harder. Fucking weak

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

Sorry flappy. You’re off the money here

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

shit tune? lol ok man ;)

its dna is in tornado wallace/dawn richard "86" - if it was so shit it wouldn't have had another life, but i don't want to have this fight - just laugh tbh

football probably would be less shit tbf for ya

One minute silences. (I'm certain it's been said on this thread before).

while we are having one for the fallen of The Great War might as well make it two minutes for those poor souls that went down with the Titanic and then another for the Lusitania .. and then Rod Hull ... and then RIP Gazza ... etc..

We're almost having one a week where I work.

I didn't realise you were a football steward, Tom.

I remember where I used to work, they had a kind of social club and I was in there one evening and a DJ was playing records and he stopped the music at one point and announced we were to have a one minute silence for Damilola Taylor (it was in the year 2000, in case you're wondering). He then started the music again after about 20 seconds and carried on. Then he stopped it again and said, "I've been told that one minute silence wasn't a minute so we're going to do it again." This time he started the music after 30 seconds. I made my excuses and left.

tbf the silence was still probably playing while the dj brought the next song into the mix

must have really spoiled The Birdy Song, that

I used to take a lot of pleasure in pissing off po-faced minute's silence wankers at football matches, helped by having a loud disabled kid with me who genuinely doesn't gaf about "the rules" . And I used to feel like high-fiving any other ppl nonchalantly sat back and not giving much of a fuck about it - usually surly teenagers with attitude types!