Things You Just Don't Care About

So obvious it's hardly worth mentioning but Nigel Farage's bank account or lack of one.

amazing we have to hear about that for the rest of recorded time, he even wangled an apology out of the hapless BBC, which naturally has given the non-story extra legs

still don't care about Barbie/Oppenheimer and now add Lizzo to the heap of things going on right now that I do not care about.

When people put up Christmas lights

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Shoot on sight anyone wearing sandals and socks

Sounds like you care a lot

My wife has strong opinions about when Christmas lights should come down.

Some of our neighbors' are still up from December. I'll accept that trade-off for not living in an HOA. In the past, my wife has tried to blur the lines by putting up strings of lights for other holidays - red for Valentine's, green for spring, red white and blue for the 4th, orange for Halloween.

i definitely don't care about robbie robertson's huge impact on music. or The Band. i'm pretty sure that impact resulted in really bad beer commercial music and the late-blooming beer commercial music of steve winwood not to mention the 80s beer commercial guitar of robbie robertson. it was a revolution. it was...woodstock!

ILU scott

how dare you dismiss the great art of beer commercials outright

Taste the yuppie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4lkkYO3TXY

roll with it robbie. we will never forget you. and you can leave your hat on at the pearly gates just like joe cocker said to the lady when he was channeling that disney troll in that one beer song video that one time. rest in power. #gutted #likeafish #ohcanada

just pulled this out of a box to price. when a beer record was a beer record!

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Damn, Scott. Harsh.

oh i am not for the faint of heart.

why are there 300 separate news articles profiling that rich weirdo who's trying to "age backwards" by taking 150 pills a day and eating dinner at 11 AM and injecting himself with his son's blood? why are we supposed to care about this? what kind of deranged son of a bitch wants to actually live that way? who are these "experts" saying he's gonna live until he's 200? give me a fucking break, this dude's legacy is destined to be to have some brand new thyroid disease named after him

probably belongs on the hated words thread, but 'biohacking' is one of mine

why are there 300 separate news articles profiling that rich weirdo who's trying to "age backwards" by taking 150 pills a day and eating dinner at 11 AM and injecting himself with his son's blood?

Are you familiar with the concept and role of publicists? Journalists, particularly when it comes to "this rich guy who's written a half-million-dollar check to our PR company" stuff, are so easily led around they might as well have rings in their noses like cows.

what is biohacking, a way to optimize your shit and piss?

From The Atlantic: Biohacking has become a marketing buzzword used to sell unregulated “dietary supplements” and to repackage old products

that backward-aging guy is terrible. reminds me of that couple who met on reddit who were into all sorts of pseudo-eugenics crap that were in multiple articles. it turns out they met on reddit in my little pony fandom or something.

worst part about it is the media's insistence that this guy actually looks 19 or some shit. having him pose next to his son like "CAN YOU BELIEVE THEY ARE NOT BROTHERS??" he looks like any other dude in his 40s who works out and uses hair dye

he looks anemic

They are interested because he's an idiot who will die in 6 years, not 600.

I am backwards-educating right now. I got a respectable degree in English and philosophy 30 years ago and I am steadily endumbening myself.

Dorian Graybro

Brojamin Button

Jordan Peterson

I'm going to take your words on not caring about this and not look this joker up.

just to torture myself i watched about...7 minutes of jordan peterson and bill maher(!!) on bill maher's podcast show on youtube. a show which is supposed to be edgy because its in bill maher's basement and he takes an excruciatingly long time to smoke pot and get high on it. i had watched some of the show-biz episodes because i am a sucker for olde-tyme stories about late-70s and early-80s stand up comedians.

dude - peterson - can barely talk. there is something wrong with him. it made me a little queasy. and yes bill maher has episodes with kid rock and even that awful gutfeld guy from fox because politically incorrect you can't tell me who to have on my show blah blah uhhhhggggg.

maybe it has gotten to the point where bill maher's basement is a highlight publicity-wise for peterson. but maybe that's wishful thinking and he's still huge out there. i don't know.

bill maher will go off on "woke kids" at the drop of a hat. it doesn't even have to have anything to do with the discussion. he just brings it up. he's obsessed with those woke kids. they are ruining the nation apparently. (and yet he was warning people about trump before trump was president. he even said that trump wouldn't leave office or accept defeat before trump was president. so, he's on the ball every five years or so.)

Scott, I cannot believe how perfect this parody of that show is for you, and it literally came out yesterday(!). Please watch, based on your description and reaction I think you'll really enjoy it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ha6D1LQGD4

OMG, thank you!! will watch in a bit. hahaha, i'm already laughing.

BTW to clarify, "Office Hours" is Tim's actual show, and with this he's pretending he changed the format going forward but it's really just to do this parody. He did the same thing about Rogan's show a while ago - also worth checking out.

"But you can't do that anymore..."

"Well we don't do the show anymore"

"Right and I know why. I know exactly the fuck why"

"We just decided to stop..."

"I think someone said...nuh-uh...you are poking the bear"

"No...no one ever said that"

"Yeah but they don't have to! They don't have to, Fred! Come on!"

Fred Armisen doing his level best to play it straight is quite a feat

Bill Maher is a reactionary bigot, always has been

My wife has strong opinions about when Christmas lights should come down.

― Halfway there but for you

not "when", but "if"

(answer: "no")

I am backwards-educating right now. I got a respectable degree in English and philosophy 30 years ago and I am steadily endumbening myself.

― Bonobo Vox (Ye Mad Puffin)

i'm backwards-masking right now

hail satan

anybody who is interested in watching bill maher or jordan peterson or joe rogan should just watch this instead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTRT794IQBg

it's longer than "office hours" but it's transer and bleaker

idk, it's interesting, at this point rogan, maher, hell, even _walsh_ are people i've chosen to just not care about. their bigotry and malicious lies are hurting people who belong to the same marginalized group as me and are making life way harder for all of us, and for a while i was really upset about that, but my being upset about that didn't actually help anything. all i managed to do was fuck up my own life worrying about shit i had no actual control over. i'm outsourcing that, too, allies, y'all can be upset about this shit on our behalf, ok? i'm just gonna try and live my best life here. i'm busy being upset about how the people who are supposed to be processing my FMLA paperwork are shitty and incompetent and keep losing the paperwork.

otmfm. not the fmla people.

the crooked pub

Agree except I'd love to see the horrible couple who bought it clapped in irons.

it's not that I don't want all horrible rich property developers round up and executed with all the landlords. I'm just not a fan of over the top English quirkiness so don't care about the stupid pub.

it was a nice pub. property developer arsonists, landlords and people who close pubs all need a good long gulaging

the og gulag party bulldozed down loads of old revered buildings during their 5 yr plan, although this was churches rather than pubs! What lesson these locals need to take in from this experience is never vote for an MP of any party who has received donations from property developers. That would be a start at least and would be the end of Babs parliamentary career.

the EPL

Taylor Swift gigs