Things You Just Don't Care About

any news story about somebody tweeting something is automatically in the running for the least interesting thing i will read all day

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

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.

yeah I had to mute every variation of that phrase for twitter

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

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".

Damien Green watching porn.

that milo guy

Who the fuck is Keaton

^^^

Not just Taylor Swift, but endless chin-stroking articles about what she MEANS and REPRESENTS

Catperson

right there with ya

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

New Tricks

Magic tricks. srsly.

I found it quite amusing that an ad for Fisherman's Friend kept popping up on the boat scenes in Vikings the other day.

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

That's why TV remotes have a mute button.

surprisingly enough, blur

"cat person"

It’s remarkable that a fiction piece in the New Yorker, perhaps the most-skipped department, is viral.

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.

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.

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.

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?

things that were predicted by simpsons / family guy / back to the future

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.

omarosa

anti-bird spikes being put in trees to stop them shitting on the cars

US politics. Or rather, I wish I didn't care, but I'm afraid it would make me less Canadian.

not caring is a privilege, imo you should feel fortunate to not have to care about US politics!

i'm guessing most people on earth don't care about u.s. politics even if u.s. politics affects them.

they got their own problems.

americans like to think that everyone is thinking about them all the time though.

We do spend more time thinking about them than they do about us (no matter who 'we' may be).

We probably think about them less than they think we do, though.

It's not so much that I don't care (I have friends and family who live there, quite aside from anything else) but I do kinda resent/lament just how much of your shitty dumb politics we all apparently have to know about. Obv this is amplified by the internet but like constant updates on whether an election in Alabama would be won by a paedophile or a non-paedophile, it's pretty wearying - you'd legitimately wonder if we actually did have our own problems sometimes, the inordinate attention paid to this shit over here

But in an Americanized world, on an Americanized internet, they seep into our thoughts without us realizing it. It's hard to tune out.

xp

It's not so much that I don't care (I have friends and family who live there, quite aside from anything else) but I do kinda resent/lament just how much of your shitty dumb politics we all apparently have to know about. Obv this is amplified by the internet but like constant updates on whether an election in Alabama would be won by a paedophile or a non-paedophile, it's pretty wearying - you'd legitimately wonder if we actually did have our own problems sometimes, the inordinate attention paid to this shit over here

― sonnet by a wite kid, "On Æolian Grief" (wins), Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Yeah, and it's doubly exacerbated when you live in Canada. So fucking aggravating.

xp tbf, i think much of the inordinate attention is of the 'wow, look at these assholes' variety. it's hard not to look at a car wreck, even if it's across an ocean

i would hazard to guess that most people in the USA don't like needing to babysit the president either
i barely consider the current situation "american politics" -- it's a world class shitshow

in a more rational time, at least the president could be counted on to not throw a tantrum. now we are using the word tantrum regularly to describe POTUS behavior.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi has forever ruined the series for me. that garbage story they gave Luke was shit. below might be v light spoilers (i don't reveal any specific that happens just the general treatment of the film):

i am going to stay away from dedicated Star Wars threads because i know this is by design at this point. i don't want to contribute to people spending any more time thinking about this series or "defending my opinion" against someone who doesn't like it. the story was uninteresting, the motivations unbelievable, all the characters were wasted, the new characters remained one dimensional and ill-defined, and the universe itself makes less and less sense as the cognitive dissonance of continuously achieving total victory being overturned immediately afterwards and the pointless of it all has crept in.

i admit i complained about Space Balls. in all reality it was a complaint of love and to see the alternative be a minimalist rehash of a famous OT scene combined with another famous OT scene and then conclude the sequence with a copy of maybe the most famous OT scene. it has been nauseating to read so many people talk about how they are changing things up when in reality this is the safest film because it is constantly hedging its bets. this is a kind of movie where our heroes get captured twice and escape each time in under 5 minutes. there are no stakes. it is a cartoon. it is a Disney show.

the sad thing is the first film set things up very well. JJ included so many tantalizing mysteries. it is obvious the new director did not want to follow up. he wanted to make a setpiece that is more like something out of Lady And The Tramp. we have the first black lead actor in a Star Wars series introduced as a stormtrooper and that has never been touched upon. we don't look into his past. we don't find out where he is from. we don't even know is real name. this is two movies in and we don't even know the name of one of your supposed main characters.

what happens in the next Star Wars, i just don't care about. after 36 years im done caring about these characters or what happens next in the series. make them bad. make them good. the rebels win the empire wins it doesn't matter, someone even states as much in this movie, right before it turns into an episode of Ducktales. if i want this level of content i can get it from Comic Con skits and phone/battery/Disney commercials, i can get it from Funny Or Die skits, etc. the old movies are unique and interesting and play an important role in film and cultural history. they will always be there. fuck off w this product.

h8 it when serious adult cinema gets turned into cartoon

star wars

the release of a new star wars doesn't feel like the huge cultural event that every other star wars was, including the 2015 one. i didn't see any trailers, pretty much only saw star wars superfans talking about it after it came out. i haven't seen it, probably won't get the chance, and i've never enjoyed watching any of the star wars movies at home

h8 it when serious adult cinema gets turned into cartoon

oh come on

Man, don't remind me about that The Seven Seals animated series. I feel like they missed Bergman's point entirely (although tbf there was that incongruous talking walrus in the movie so I can see how they ultimately arrived at that premise).

We do spend more time thinking about them than they do about us (no matter who 'we' may be).
We probably think about them less than they think we do, though.

OTM except I'm sure they don't spend any time thinking about us.

Unless you're Swedish. In which case the alt-right can't get its mind off you.

the release of a new star wars doesn't feel like the huge cultural event that every other star wars was, including the 2015 one. i didn't see any trailers, pretty much only saw star wars superfans talking about it after it came out.

obv there was a lot of fuss surrounding The Phantom Menace in 1999, but did the the second and third prequels get much attention when they came out? I don't remember hearing much about them at all

I know I should not do this but:

the sad thing is the first film set things up very well. JJ included so many tantalizing mysteries.

Come on, man. *Even if* I grant this -- which I don't, IDGAF who Rey's parents were or how Maz got Luke's lightsaber -- when has that dude ever followed up on "tantalizing mysteries?"

we have the first black lead actor in a Star Wars series introduced as a stormtrooper and that has never been touched upon. we don't look into his past. we don't find out where he is from.

Aren't you one of the same dudes complaining about origin story movies like the Han Solo flick?

we don't even know is real name. this is two movies in and we don't even know the name of one of your supposed main characters.

Again, WGAF? There's no on-screen or in-universe reason to disbelieve his statement in TFA, "That's the only name they ever gave me." Just like the Jedi, the First Order takes these kids in late infancy to train them. They don't have names, they have numbers, just like the Clone Troopers did.

"Where did Finn come from before he was taken as a baby by the First Order?" is literally one of the top three least interesting potential Star Wars plotlines I can imagine. It's beyond irrelevant -- it's comically stupid.