Things You Just Don't Care About

wait til the TikTok generation discovers Don't Give Up

The Nations League. I don't even know what it's for, does someone win it or something?

the most otm comment I read on this was someone saying they are stuck between finding it hilarious that RoI are beating Scotland 3-0 and anger at them for clearly trying too hard to win a Nations League fixture.

The USMNT page was celebrating a 5-0 win over #169 ranked Grenada and it was a bit funny

Golf, golfers, golfing, golf tournaments.

Top Gun, Top Gun 2

Who the showrunner is.

UAP

You'd think there was nothing else happening in the world but some old song by Kate Bush becoming a hit.

The song is now a No. 1 in the UK, so we've had another week of this shite making the national news when there's a cost of living crisis, rail strikes, political resignations, the UK trying to dump refugees in the middle of Africa, Northern Ireland about to go tits up, a war in Europe etc.

The UK media is full of "men of a certain age", of course.

Kate Bush news has pushed all other news off the airwaves? Damn.

Yeah, it’s really too bad that people can’t possibly think about more than one thing at a time, or enjoy a song while keeping informed on the situation in Ukraine.

Watching the TV news in the UK are you?

No, didn't think so.

seeing old wankers on Murdoch/BBC media programs where the entertainment coverage is always dismal and they are doing 5 minute reports on this and bluffing that they are both massive Kate Bush fans and they absolutely love the awful netflix show as well is quite annoying tbh. Especially after 5th or 6th time.

Indeed. But we only live here and have seen the coverage so what do we know?

Yeah, it’s really too bad that people can’t possibly think about more than one thing at a time, or enjoy a song while keeping informed on the situation in Ukraine.

You need more compassion for people whose main form of entertainment on a Saturday evening is British tv.

Good thing you don't live in America where the BBC World service is about as good as tv news gets and items on local/regional news shows might include what's new on the menu at Dunkin Donuts or now streaming on Disney Plus.

Live & Let Die is on ITV now, so not all bad. And on BBC2 there's uh a two hour Stereophonics live show? What?

xp

BBC WS still occasionally has some decent programs and reports from other parts of the world, but I switch over when they broadcast either NPR shite or news reports on the oh so exciting commercial synergy between Kate Bush and some fucking shite netflix series.

Yeah, it’s really too bad that people can’t possibly think about more than one thing at a time, or enjoy a song while keeping informed on the situation in Ukraine.

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, so I don't know why it's been posted again? It still makes no sense.

tbf I overheard the Kate Bush segment on BBC World News last night while puttering around, it went on seemingly forever and included an interview with the music supervisor on Stranger Things. I figured it would be a 10-15 second bit and was a little taken aback myself.

Neither does your first post.

It doesn't mean what you seem to think it means. But, fuck it, life's too short.

this thread is exhibiting dangerous levels of seeming to care

Tom D's post makes sense though I am in the UK and don't watch news on TV anymore so don't get the exposure. I think that's a plus for twitter where I get a sense of all the actual crises while keeping fluff like this to a minimum.

jan 6 hearings

hiss!

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Glastonbury.

I have positive thoughts for Glastonbury itself - I just can’t abide the media coverage (newspapers not tv).

TV coverage is unbearable and there's far too much of it.

... not talking about the event itself but the preamble to it.

The TV coverage has been bad since it moved to the BBC from Channel 4.

(Makes mental note to make sure I’m doing something on Saturday evening, so I’m not reducing to the dire fate of watching other people sing along to Hey Jude)

I'd rather watch live footage of a cholera outbreak, but that does put me way outside "the things you don't care about" remit! But the idea of being in a field with 200000 people makes me feel physically ill. My brother went once and came back boasting that he spent an hour chatting with Timothy Mallett at a bar there, imagine boasting about that.

he spent an hour chatting with Timothy Mallet

did he pause or hesitate or repeat a word?

just give us a minute

BBC coverage of Glastonbury just makes me feel like i'm being buttonholed at work by some sad old cunt who thinks [INSERT OBVIOUS WHITE DAD SCHMINDIE BAND HERE] are the pinnacle of recorded sound

no scratch that it's like being woke up on a sunday morning by Jehovah's Witnesses For Classic Rock

they've even had a big screen video message from the pope Zelensky yesterday, it's peaked too early!

Zelensky: "I am not a Nazi, just like Glastonbury ledge David Bowie. And now ladies and gentlemen give it up for The Idles"

lol!

seconded

I thought Zelinsky’s ‘James Dean Bradfield in 1994’ look was really getting in the spirit of things tbf

he spent an hour chatting with Timothy Mallet

did he pause or hesitate or repeat a word?

Bleh!

VHS, the VHS 'look', VHS nostalgia, VHS editing filters/plug-in software, VHS

Be kind, Rewind

Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury. Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Dave Grohl. Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Bruce Springsteen. Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen.

What Steve Coogan thinks about Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury. What Steve Coogan thinks about Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Dave Grohl. What Steve Coogan thinks about Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Bruce Springsteen. What Steve Coogan thinks about Paul McCartney playing at Glastonbury with Dave Grohl and Bruce Springsteen.

What Jess Phillips thinks about Glastonbury. What Jess Phillips thinks. Jess Phillips.