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

― Know how Roo feel (LocalGarda), Thursday, 4 October 2012 14:24 (46 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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43. Any of this shit.

44. Any of your shit.

45. what goes on a pizza

46. online gaming

haha, this one came out of nowhere for me

it's just nice to have a good old stupid celeb story rather than you know what 24/7

Of all the things I just don't care about this might be the thing I just care about the most, er, the least...

It is again that time of year I have to mute all my movie forums because people who should know better insist on caring about the Oscars (big ups to ILX for keeping that stuff contained to its thread).

Whaddya talkin' about? Millionaires-giving-each-other-trophies season is the most wonderful time of the year!

It is again that time of year I have to mute all my movie forums because people who should know better insist on caring about the Oscars (big ups to ILX for keeping that stuff contained to its thread).

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, January 22, 2026

Why should we know better?

I don't give one shit about professional or college sports and don't gamble. I care about books, film, and music. The Oscars acknowledges on occasion some of my favorite movies of the year. No need to get smug about your disdain.

I no longer care passionately about the Oscars, like I did when I was young, nor do I instinctively loathe them, as I did during the surlier years of my 20s and early 30s. Which is to say, I glanced at the noms this morning and likely won't think about them again until Oscar night, when I may or may not remember to watch the ceremony.

I don't even watch the ceremony anymore, actually; it goes on too late.

i don't even own a Oscar

Nice.

I did. My mom didn't even bother burying him in a pet cemetary.

Why should we know better?

That was hyperbolic grouchiness, not an actual moral stance. I find the ceremony unwatchable and the discourse about what shoulda won exhausting - why would we give the Academy enough respect to care what they think - plus one of the reasons I love films, books and music like you do is that unlike sports they're not supposed to be a competition.

She didn't want him to live his life again. (xp)

I disagree -- it's always a competition, especially if you're creating them. xpost

I enjoy the compilations of the bits, and the clothes; it's much better in YouTube precis form.

If I watch the ceremony, after 90 mins I get claustrophobic, like when you stay in a shopping mall too long

Thing I actually don't care about: St Vincent

professional and college sport

I dunno, I don't want to irritate you again but that mentality is absolutely alien to how I think of culture. There are so many delights, so much that mutually intersects and reinforces, "which is the best one?" feels besides the point. On a naked capitalistic level of course yeah it's competition - time you spend watching one film is time spent not watching another - but I'd hate to reduce art to that.

As to "if you're creating them", that may or may not be true, I don't - but it's not filmmakers that are responsible for my oscar overexposure complaint.

I make many lists and I stress that they're not hierarchical. They're an attempt to think about the art a second or third time and to introduce my audience to them; they're also just fun in themselves, because readers will make their own picks which often poke me into reassessing this or that.

When art is on the marketplace it competes for limited funds in a crowded space. Pulitzers, Bookers, and Nobles are as much rocket flares to remind me of something of potential interest as they are remunerative for the artists. I know Adorno would disagree.

I make many lists and I stress that they're not hierarchical. They're an attempt to think about the art a second or third time and to introduce my audience to them; they're also just fun in themselves, because readers will make their own picks which often poke me into reassessing this or that.

So do I! But an individual's list is surely not comparable to the Oscars; we are not talking about lists but a hierarchy of winners and losers with pretensions to objectivity.

When art is on the marketplace it competes for limited funds in a crowded space.

Yes, as I said, this is undeniable, but viewing our own personal relationships to art within this framework I find neither rewarding nor necessary.

Pulitzers, Bookers, and Nobles are as much rocket flares to remind me of something of potential interest as they are remunerative for the artists.

Yes, I accept those as necessary evils and have even been taken to task on here for viewing the Nobel as basically a tool to shine a light on a neglected author and nothing else. But "oh wow haven't heard of that movie, guess I'll check it out" is not something I have ever heard in an Oscars conversation amongst movie buffs.

I know Adorno would disagree.

I haven't read Adorno, outside of some old ilx threads explaining why he is bad and hated.

Never cared much about the Oscars unless something freaky happens in the ceremony. It does have a habit of producing a lot of memorable car crash content to wake up to, and its been fun watching other ppl comment through it on twitter.

And, as I live for content.

Tue films? It gave Parasite the best film once right? That was cool.

when he was a baby, Adorno's parents used to call him "Theodor Adorable"

(may not be true)

When his parents saw how well he'd arranged his closet they called him Adornable.

I am with Daniel Rf here, unsurprisingly perhaps.

Like, to deny that the reason many of the films chosen for Oscar noms is because they have money behind them in the first place— which is true of much art and many artists— is to actually not understand how the system works.

Money poured into projects begets awards. Those without money can go fuck themselves as far as the market and the award-granting councils are concerned. This goes for most forms of art, even the least remunerative, like poetry.

Who's denying a thing? The predictions are fun.

What you guys don’t understand about awards is that they’re for one group and one group only: the friends and family of the nominees, who get really chuffed about it

#truth

daniel_rf put it very well but i can't not be sympathetic to a glut of glitz and glamor in theory. the problem is that definitely isn't the oscars.

friends and family of the nominees, who get really chuffed about it

well yeah. it sorta translates into "they made it and aren't a wannabe anymore." and not gonna lie it would be fun some day to utter the words "give me that oscar award winning ass."

I haven't read Adorno, outside of some old ilx threads explaining why he is bad and hated.

― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, January 22, 2026 10:41 AM (yesterday)

sounds like someone who has already succumbed to the pitiless seductions of Donald Duck, alas

ftr I think Adorno is not bad, his infamous and overly belaboured aesthetic (mis)judgements aside. Also, there is some irony in Adorno being a borad joek, when said borad nowadays dedicates the majority of its discussions to trying to figure out why people love authoritarianism

I love Adorno, I read bits of Minima Moralia on the loo all the time.

I have read Donald Duck, and also the academic papers explaining why he is bad and hated (are the Donaldisten known in English speaking spaces?).

D.O.N.A.L.D. (Deutsche Organisation nichtkommerzieller Anhänger des lauteren Donaldismus or the German Organization of Non-commercial Devotees of Pure Donaldism) is the Donaldistic society of Germany. Founded by Hans von Storch, it has presented many contributions to donaldistic research through its fanzine Der Donaldist. It also holds several meetings and one congress each year.

Donaldists have risen in rank and are actively infiltrating the culture pages of several important newspapers in Germany, such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where they subtly install quotations easily recognisable to fans of the comics. The German study of Donaldism is decisively influenced by the German translations of Barks's comic books by Erika Fuchs.

I love Adorno, I read bits of Minima Moralia on the loo all the time.

― The Luda of Suburbia (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, January 23, 2026 12:24 PM (fourteen minutes ago)

It was my awake in the middle of the night insomnia reading for a while! I should pull it back out, I find him mordantly hilarious

Donaldism is new to me! Sinister...

The one issue of the Donaldist I read had an essay highlighting Scrooge McDuck's inhumane (induckane?) capitalist treatment of his enpolyees as well as his imperialistic adventuring.

It didn't shock me that much as I already preferred loser Donald and, even more, the slacker Peninha, introduced in the Brazilian comics.

In fact a good amount of my Disney reading came from non-US sources: Danish, Italian, Brazilian.

Walt Disney of course hated Donald Duck and loved Mickey - he couldn't understand why audiences gravitated towards a non-heroic figure.

I'm sure Adorno would have much to say about this, I might read him yet.

Adorno’s own music given his bluster is pretty fun(ny) to listen to

People climbing skyscrapers without ropes and similar feats of daring.

that bbc television show that everyone loves at the moment

xp I heard about that climber on BBC 2 news at midday today, who said (and I went back to check I hadn't misheard) that a US climber had climbed a "half-meter skyscraper"

we watched honnold go up tge 101 and it was an amazing combination of extremely stressful/intense (what madman would attempt this) while at the same time being super chill (oh it’s him, this is going to be a walk in the park for that guy). Also i have had the good fortune to actually go up to the observation floor in that building and check out the gigantic mass damper inside of it so that made it a little extra fun.

the supposed king of the north.
even as a leeds lad, i just don't care anymore re this small scale pissing contest.
a couple of years ago i was fully invested into his possible comeback,
but now .. nah.
also, f*ck anyone who climbs a skyscraper.
guess i got old.

fwiw, as a climber who follows this stuff, i didn’t watch it because Honnold is widely seen as a total freak, i am uninterested in what he is doing for attention now.

that said, both he and other observers put the grade of that climb at around 5.9 on the YDS. this is not that difficult for someone of his abilities— he has climbed much harder routes both with and without ropes.

pattie gonia and patigonia drama

The Melania movie

kanye west

I care about the Melania movie, but just in terms of seeing how much it bombs.

I only learned this morning that it is directed by Brett Ratner, which is pretty hilarious.

I don't care how much it bombs or does not bomb.