Things You Just Don't Care About

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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)

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


I know but the whole Weezer thing is a step above

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)

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)


the latter is the sense I get. also I like Never Gonna Give You Up

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

sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 07:44 (seven years ago)

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)

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

sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:41 (seven years ago)

football probably would be less shit tbf for ya

sunburst N snowblind (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 08:42 (seven years ago)

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

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:12 (seven years ago)

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..

calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:20 (seven years ago)

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

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:22 (seven years ago)

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

calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:26 (seven years ago)

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.

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:29 (seven years ago)

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

I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:45 (seven years ago)

must have really spoiled The Birdy Song, that

Neil S, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:47 (seven years ago)

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!

calzino, Tuesday, 19 June 2018 09:49 (seven years ago)

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

― We can be herpes (Tom D.)

i feel like there's a continuum from one minute silences -> flag at half-mast -> "thoughts and prayers". but that's probably just me.

Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 13:31 (seven years ago)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/DepecheModeEnjoyTheSilence.jpg

too gashly (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:21 (seven years ago)

XXXTentacion

morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:25 (seven years ago)

Children.

There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:30 (seven years ago)

Not forever. Just right now I'm over them.

There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:31 (seven years ago)

It's June 19 and I need this school year to be over.

There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:31 (seven years ago)

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


a kind of scot steward if u will

CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 14:35 (seven years ago)

dmac - just want to apologize for the other day if it was brash - i'm glad you post here

ya done (Ross), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:01 (seven years ago)

a vulnerable account of Tillman’s period of self-imposed exile in a NYC hotel

Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:35 (seven years ago)

Children.

― There's more Italy than necessary. (in orbit), Tuesday, June 19, 2018 4:30 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:02 (seven years ago)

Trump administration...otm?

U. K. Le Garage (wins), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:07 (seven years ago)

bitter lol

We can be herpes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 19 June 2018 16:08 (seven years ago)


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