Things You Just Don't Care About

1. What other people are ordering at the restaurant. I don't care.

2. Waving my hands in the air.

3. Care Bears (there is an internet community for this, right?)

4. The Jimmy Saville thing that's going on at the moment. I don't care, sorry.

Sport. Got stuck at one of 2 tables people sat at from my course on Monday night and the rest of the table proceeded to talk about hurling.
I sat there thinking it was rude to leave, for several minutes, then got up and moved to other table and instantly found conversation interesting.

Does mean I'm less fit than I should be probably though. Used to dance quite frequently until I moved too far out of town to get home easily from wahtever clubs

I think I have a thing in my brain that just tunes out sport talk the moment it happens. If sport comes up in conversation or on telly all I hear is "blahblahblahblah" MAybe if I didn't have this handy cerebral device I might learn something, but sadly it's there to stay.

music criticism.

5. new radiohead album announced

ill-informed opinions, maybe just opinions
fashion
other people's private lives
most TV
superhero movies

sorry, that was 6-10

there's loads more tbh

11. whether something is real
12. what genre something belongs to

13. what a work of art is about

14. the Beatles and its members

who is president (unless eric b)

16. whether somebody used an apostrophe correctly

17. Straight White Dudes and their Straight White Dude problems.

18.

19. king and queen of country-x visiting your city soon

20. martin scorsese working on several potential future projects with leonardo dicaprio

21. Justin Bieber being sick on stage

22. best chocolate-covered wafer

23. record charts

24. relatively distant family member is having a baby. a babay!

25. what's in fashion

26. this thread

27. meta

28. whining

29. your cynical opinion

30. awesome lifestyle pictures you took with your expensive camera

31. dating website horror stories

32. grizzly bear not rich enough

lolled for truth

33. a list reaching 33, the age that Jesus was allegedly crucified.

34. "Why do YOU care?"

35. people who feel oppressed by things being popular

36. Married people
37. Their fucking spawn.

38. twitter

So?

39. giraffes

that's just wrong

adherence to a rigid midfield formation

european football

40. people moaning about cis-gender stuff, as if it was an inherently bad thing to be. Is it? I dont know.

41. the pathetic howls of my victims

42. foreigners diving

41. the pathetic howls of my victims

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43. Any of this shit.

44. Any of your shit.

45. what goes on a pizza

46. online gaming

xp that’s amazing joygoat.

Walking a tightrope between encouraging interests and exuding the slightest whiff of indifference so they will engage instead of being pushed away by parental excitement.

Otm. It’s tricky! Sometimes it’s such a relief when they find something i don’t enjoy, so I can finally tune it out, instead of accidentally watching e.g. a full season of Phantom Pups

it does however pave the way to your enjoying ghost dog with them a few years down the line

I used to threaten my older brother that if he didn’t treat me nicely, I’d Christmas gift “The Bell Jar” to his tween daughters

hahaha

I remember being at a performance of Stockhausen's Gruppen and a couple had brought their son, who was like 4 or 5, and not being sure whether that was a great idea or not.

I didn’t really receive artistic guidance from my parents, probably for the better because I would have dismissed it, if only unconsciously. Come to think of it, of the small handful of albums my dad exposed me to, most are quite good, but to this day I’ve never bought them for myself. Meanwhile, when my musically savvy older cousin visited us when I was 10, it was groundbreaking. It stuck in ways it wouldn’t have with my parents, probably because it felt like a dispatch from somewhere else. I think a big part of music and cinema and art’s appeal for me in my adolescence is that it felt like discovering something from outside the dissatisfying world around me. I thought I’d do the same for my younger suburban cousins, but when I actually visited them it was just “is this really my job, to ostensibly save them from their suburban lives?” Paternalism backfires for a reason, and parenting/pedagogy that just seeks to reproduce sameness is NAGL.

My 11 year old is going to start drum lessons in the fall. I tried to get her onboard with my music project: Sweet Sister Ray in which the band plays “Sister Ray” for whatever the allotted time is. She was not enthused and I don’t know if we can continue to work together under these conditions, she has absolutely no respect for my genius. Quite frankly, I’m fed up with her and I’m going to find another drummer ASAP

lol

My dad cut off my drum lessons I started around 11, which came without warning or consultation. Although it turned out I have no sense of natural rhythm, it presages a lot of bitter feeling toward him. Make of that what you will

I once read some interview where the artist's mum took him/her to a screening of Salo when they were 18 or so..

I had a few marching drum corps lessons as a child. I retained nothing of them when I started playing drums in my teens. They remain the only music lessons I've ever had (despite playing a bunch of other instruments).

(xp) I think that was Gaspar Noe? I also think he was younger than 18.

xposts cow_art that is very dad_surprises_daughter_with_remain_in_light_lp_the_onion.jpg i love it

I took both the kids to see the Stop Making Sense rerelease in Imax

They liked it!

but some of my best memories of my childhood, particularly my teen years, involved watching movies with my mom,

Me too, but that's because my mam knew that I already had an interest in old movies. She also didn't make a big deal out of them, she would just point to one listed in the paper and say "you should watch this, I think you'll like it" and that's how I saw things like Casablanca and Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. The problem with kids not listening to linear radio or watching linear TV is that they never find stuff like that on their own because it's never just ON. So to some extent you have to steer them towards it if you want them to know about it.

Love this thread. My eldest kid isn't that into music yet.
My youngest has mini obsessions and has been earnestly creating playlists of computer game music to wake up to. Different orders for different days. He LOVED the Mario sheet music book I got them for the piano. Even when he was like 5 he wanted to play a Mario tune on his toy keyboard for the school talent show, so had to learn the notes and write them down (it was the Ghost House music from SMB). It was so cute.

things i don't care about in the utah outdoors:

arches
slot canyons and "canyoneering"

both in the category of "if you've seen one you've seen em all" imo.

what about buttes and mesas

I like big buttes and I cannot lie

(xp) I think that was Gaspar Noe? I also think he was younger than 18.
― Tom D, focussed with getting on with the job (Tom D.)

My parents introduced me to lots of cool stuff but frankly the 90's media onslaught of "of course you don't like YOUR PARENT'S STUFF" felt much more oppressive to contrarian me at the time than any pushiness they could have mustered.

what about buttes and mesas

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, May 19, 2026 11:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

buttes and mesas are easy to appreciate as part of ecosystems imo.

arches = "derp there's a hole in the rock". at the expense of seeing and appreciating the entire erosion mechanism at micro and macro scale. idk they just don't do anything for me anymore. if i happen to see one i'll appreciate but i don't go out of my way, and where there's an arch there are usually like 20 other people at least.

slot canyons. i just think they're one of those places that people really shouldn't enter. maybe as some kind of ritual. really narrow slot canyons are death traps, devoid of life. to spend all day spelunking in one just doesn't do a lot for me. i like narrow canyons that harbor life though, so the virgin river and paria river narrows are cool in my book. you can see how water erosion works over and down into sandstone well enough in those.

A celeb renting out an Italian city for their wedding at the weekend.

UK defence spending.

oh i care, just in the opposite way to the war boner posse

UK military is mostly nothing to do with defence, more to do with a centuries long fascist vanity project for the ghoulish war-mongering brit ruling classes. I get very animated and pissed about this shit, genuinely wish I didn't care tbh!

Russia to invade by 2030 lol

you might not care, but boneheaded killers paid for by the arms industry take it very seriously indeed.

there should be a Trumpian rebranding of the MOD, something like "Ministry of Genocide and Neo-colonial meddling in Africa and West Asia" because them cunts are not defending anything other than UK elites plundering and weapons of death interests.

The bad news for them is that most young people don't give a fuck about their preposterous, unsustainable proxy war against Russia or whatever bullshit they want to come up with next. The conditions of dying for these cunts requires a social contract and a level of faith in the UK democratic system that has whittled away post 1979 to non-existent.

I forgot add Zionism, yes, they will defend Zionism and the foul Zionist entity, in a manner prioritised well over the interests of UK citizens, human rights, human decency.. honestly the UK military is already way too expensive for a island nation much smaller than Japan. That bald orc resigning because Kieth won't sign off on mountains of dead disabled people for an extra £40 bn. That shit makes my blood boil. Some hack was describing him as "honourable" yesterday, in other words the bald cunt is owned by BAE

Jimothy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8TjTEb3h_U

better than Jedward

I really hope people leave the raccoon alone.

Work friend called me Jimothy the other day and I thought they were just being cutesy with my name which tbf they might have been

The Odyssey

What absolutely anyone in the world has to say about The Stone Temple Pilots

So you’re saying that time’s a wasted go?

These conversations kill

Been trying to rewrite "Jeremy" as "Jimothy" all week but haven't really gotten anywhere.

At home
Eating garbage

and the dead lay in pools of racoon below

At home
Eating garbage

Trash mountaintops
With trash on top
Lemon yellow bun

The Tour de France

Love bikes and cycling, and am getting more interested in their cultural history, but competitive cycling just makes my eyes glaze over

same.

Gonna add mine: I know it’s one of the cornerstones of western “culture” and narrative forms but I don’t care about the Odyssey as a film, book, or anything else. In fact, most anything to do with ancient Greece makes my eyes glaze over, and always has.

Or maybe I should qualify this: I find the stories and fables fascinating, but not in their “original” translated forms— like the books of the Bible that just list names, or accounts of the US Civil War that get into the nitty gritty of every little skirmish, I just cannot. Deeply boring, I don’t care!

The Tour de France

Love bikes and cycling, and am getting more interested in their cultural history, but competitive cycling just makes my eyes glaze over

― ed.b, Sunday, 26 July 2026 bookmarkflaglink

There is a type of London person that has the 'olympic' gear and when they pedal their bikes it looks like they will run over an old lady if they don't get out of the way.

Wonder if they have Tour de France visions.

xp Tables you could steal a joke from the internet: Odyssey? You odyssey deez nuts.