Heh, I threw in the towel recently and started watching a few shows but yeah.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 7 February 2022 15:28 (two years ago) link
I love television, I just find the sheer volume of streaming content available overwhelming to the point of being a non-starter.
Like I can't decide what to watch, and half the things I choose I abandon midway through.
I also don't like to watch for more than a few hours per day, so bingeing is out of the question.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:20 (two years ago) link
tv shows and movies are tiring for me to watch. i literally don't watch anything because i don't actually enjoy it. i'm a little worried about it tbh. for one there's nothing to talk about when i meet up with certain people.
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
There’s so much content out there. I find it’s rare to meet someone who is watching the same shows I am, and most people seem to prefer to talk about what they’re watching than hear about something they haven’t seen. While I enjoy discussing certain shows-in-common with certain close friends, I usually start glancing at the clock when the conversation lands on “what shows are you into?”
― beard papa, Monday, 7 February 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
i'm into watching train cab videos on youtube they're pretty how about you?
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:46 (two years ago) link
the reason I don't like talking about shows is that most people I know that talk about the show will then tell me what it's about (which is fine, I discover shows that way), but then give me an endless summary of shit that happens on the show, as well as funny/noteworthy quotes from the show. and then someone else will be nearby who watches it and they go into a quote/reminiscence fest and I'll be like "cool, remember when I was part of this conversation?".
it's just like one of my good friends, who will prattle on about opera for over an hour, which I do know very little about, am somewhat interested in, and am fine listening to for a few minutes, but once you've gone on for ten or more minutes about something i know littel about and have no entry point to discuss, I'm just nodding and adding "filler words" for a while. that's dull. he means well, and I try to steer the convo back to mutual ground (of which we have a LOT, which is why these detours are so frustrating). it's just...I can only fake it for so long!
there's a reason I don't approach my average non-metal listening friend and go "YO MAN DID U HEAR THE LATEST BATHTUB SHITTER ALBUM", I mean....I believe in knowing thy audience.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:52 (two years ago) link
the one thing I do find amusing though is when a friend will go on an enthusiastic rant about one moment of a show, to the point where it's built up in my mind as this big, amazing moment, and it lands with a dull thud when I actually see it.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Monday, 7 February 2022 21:55 (two years ago) link
talking vs. listening vs. waiting to talk
― Bill Kristol Meth (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:42 (two years ago) link
OTM
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:47 (two years ago) link
Some people have the ability to gently inform another person about a subject they know little about, but I wish I knew where a lot of them went in recent years. Many people will just steamroller over you with whatever their take is, either going into excruciating wordbuilding detail, or getting into the loudness war about how much they like it, they really, really like it!
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vAuXP4hIoo
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:51 (two years ago) link
I had a good friend at my old job who was really good at communicating efficiently and he made an observation once, I wish I could remember the exact wording, about people whose idea of conversation is to just wait unti the other person stops talking and say whatever they are going to say.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:53 (two years ago) link
I mean everybody does that to some extent but shouldn't be the whole shebang.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 00:54 (two years ago) link
That stupid word game
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:19 (two years ago) link
Starting not to remember whether I did that game or not on a given day.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:41 (two years ago) link
people who can bring people along with them in a conversation are truly marvelous
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:48 (two years ago) link
sometimes i feel like i'm doing that but then my fantasy is deflated because inevitably someone's eyes glaze over or they ask a question that's basically like "what are you talking about again?"
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:53 (two years ago) link
something to do with my tone of voice and delivery i think, it gets vague and/or hectoring too easily
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 02:54 (two years ago) link
I can more often than not capture people’s attention when I am ceded the floor, but in many other situations there seems to usually be some anxious blowhard who must have to hear the sound of their own voice every few seconds or they will die which tends to mean game over.
― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 03:05 (two years ago) link
I also don't care what people are watching, for similar reasons mentioned. There are some shows that I watch/binge obsessively, others that I go through slowly, and still others where I am not committed enough to move through them in an expedient way.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:09 (two years ago) link
Also generally, tho, I haven't seen many of the shows that people talk about a lot— never seen an episode of The Sopranos, nor Mad Men...watched one season of Breaking Bad. I just don't find even the idea of these shows compelling enough to want to watch them. I have books to read, my man.
― we need outrage! we need dicks!! (the table is the table), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:11 (two years ago) link
Here's one: Podcasts
I don't care about them, at all. I don't listen to them and don't care to.
i have one friend that gets upset that I don't watch shows she suggests, and I'm like....do I *have* to watch the shows you like? Like, why is it important that we watch exactly the same things? we have plenty of things to bond over.
and frankly, it feels like homework at that point.
― he's very big in the region of my butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:18 (two years ago) link
All of the "business" aspects of sports. Don't care about trades or, worse yet, POSSIBLE trades, don't care about someone's contract, TV ratings/contracts. Seems like this shit gets discussed way more than the actual games, strategy, etc.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link
the "skin color" of thumbs up emojis
Some white people may choose 👍 because it feels neutral — but some academics argue opting out of 👍🏻 signals a lack of awareness about white privilege, akin to society associating whiteness with being raceless.https://t.co/9g3rochT0K— NPR (@NPR) February 9, 2022
― Nedlene Grendel as Basenji Holmo (map), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 21:38 (two years ago) link
wow i really hate this, i wish i did not know about it
― towards fungal computer (harbl), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:18 (two years ago) link
lol, cmon now
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link
Every Simpson <thumbs up> now
― kinder, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:38 (two years ago) link
I just pick a different color every time.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:52 (two years ago) link
how come the palms are all the same color as the rest of the hand.
― pplains, Thursday, 10 February 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
― Alba, Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:29 (two years ago) link
some footballer and his cat
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 10 February 2022 11:41 (two years ago) link
some cat and his footballer
― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 February 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
death of the author
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
Depends which author.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:49 (two years ago) link
Tom Clancy
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 17:55 (two years ago) link
I guess there have been some good ones - Aeschlyus and Francis Bacon spring to mind.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
corporate logos and product packaging designs becoming increasingly soulless and minimalist. ymmv, but my quality of life hasn't declined noticeably since Frito-Lay reduced Chester Cheetah to an abstract orange and black swoosh with sunglasses
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/MbwCQyg.jpg
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:22 (two years ago) link
He's going for a Tony Levin look.
― jmm, Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:23 (two years ago) link
lol
― in walked airbud (unregistered), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:25 (two years ago) link
now available in Sour Cream and Onion and Chapman Stick flavors
― sorry Mario, but our princess is in another butthole (Neanderthal), Thursday, 17 February 2022 18:31 (two years ago) link
I am aggressively not caring about the Lakers movie
― brimstead, Friday, 4 March 2022 22:01 (two years ago) link
when films/TV set in the past have anachronistic music on the soundtrack
― rob, Tuesday, 8 March 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
increasingly, dune
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 12 March 2022 06:07 (two years ago) link
bono poem
― STOCK FIST-PUMPER BRAD (BradNelson), Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link
otm.
― mark e, Thursday, 17 March 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link
FOBO
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Monday, 21 March 2022 00:24 (two years ago) link
Chris Rock / Will Smith beef
Also, sorry but: future of Foo Fighters
Like, there are lots of things out there that may be sad, bad, etc., but are not my business and I don't think I am obligated to formulate an exhaustively researched opinion on every one of them
― So's your imam (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 28 March 2022 17:42 (two years ago) link
The Oscars, Grammys, award shows in general are at the top of my Dont Care list. It makes me a little sad that they get such massive coverage.
― tobo73, Monday, 28 March 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link