Things you are supposed to care about, but you don't really care about

The musical - and any revival - of FOLLIES.

Jeffrey Epstein

the supposed “Gay Erasure”

The generations following the millennial generation.

The opinions of DL-ers on what isn't worth caring about.

Children

Having a career

The heartbreak of psoriasis.

Trends. It seems important to a lot of people but I just don't give a shit.

Related thread.

Nepobabies. Parents have been helping their children since the caveman days.

Climate change. I believe it's real, but I don't care. I won't be around when it becomes a major problem and it's not like I have any heirs to worry about.

COVID. I got my vaccines so I stopped caring about it about 3 years ago.

Politics other than local. I really don’t feel like my voice counts at all on the federal level

Sport-ball of any flavor

My former field and what happens to it.

The legal status of immigrants. They are hard working and far less criminal than the home growns, so why are we pretending it is some huge problem?

Carbon footprints.

Bitcoin currency.

“Wicked.”

Cars, careers, holidays, Christmas.

Wars in other countries. With everything going on now in the USA, I don’t have the energy to be concerned about the conflicts in the Middle East or Russia and Ukraine.

Parties

My cousins who treated my mother and our aunts and uncles like shit but were angry when th were wills left thrm nothing.

The middle east, I have no use for religious fanatics of any stripe.

Gave up being interested in anything to do with the middle east 40 or more years ago. Things haven't changed there since. If you drill down to the basis of the whole thing, it's just a bunch of intolerant people who hate each other.

Clothes.

Recycling.

Socializing. I do get lonely, but 75% of people are horrible to interact with.

Roof solar cells and household batteries to store the extra energy. I don’t give a fuck about being green at that cost as I don’t have kids and would rather spend that money on booze and coke.

Well, Broadway don’t go for booze an’ coke.

R1 is really taking his role to extremes in this thread.

Whales. They are big. So what? I wish them no harm, but I can't see why they are more intriguing than any other animal. (Same goes retrospectively for dinosaurs.)

Whales are intriguing not because they are big but because they are very smart. I’d love to get an elephant a whale a pig and an octopus all in one room and see what they come up with.

Wine

I’d like to get at least one comma.

The Oscars, Emmys, Tonys, Grammys, Golden Globes, etc.

Broadway musicals - BOOOOOORING. It's always the same basic formula with different dialog and songs that sound like the same person wrote regardless of the show.

Gaza.

I mean, it's horrible.

But Hamas started it by slaughtering Israelis. What did they expect was going to happen? War is horrible.

The sheer volume of performative hand-wringing on Instagram — my thumb is callused from hitting "mute."

Celebrities

The cheaters from the Coldplay concert. Sure it made for a funny meme, but why the fuck do I care if some rich straight assholes are having an affair? I'd never even heard of Astronomer before all this.

Wordle and all NYT puzzles.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Mamie

Free speech crackdowns on (elite) college campuses. Free speech should not be free of consequences when you express hatred/wish for the annihilation of another group or bullying/harassing the opposition.

In addition to almost all of the above:

Recycling, political correctness, pronouns, the ongoing battle against #47 there seems to be way more talk and finger pointing, and pearl clutching than any actual action to correct his madness.

Which Golden Age of Hollywood starlet is deemed most beautiful by DL eldergays

Professional development

Weightlifting

The White Lotus

Avocado toast.

Missing white girls.

Non-event toast.

"Free speech crackdowns on (elite) college campuses. Free speech should not be free of consequences when you express hatred/wish for the annihilation of another group or bullying/harassing the opposition."

As long as you have the same consequences for Jews who hate Palestinians as you do for Palestinians who hate Jews. I work on a college campus, and both sides do the same thing.

Palestinians/Gaza.

Weight and the weight loss industry. Why should I care if someone has gained or lost 100 pounds? Why should I care if they're on Ozempic? If I have to sit next to someone who weighs 500 pounds on a plane, maybe I should have paid for a first-class seat.

The same goes for plastic surgery. If an actor has had face work done, how does that affect my day-to-day life?

"I own my own business"

People who look at you like your criminal for turning down wine at a dinner party and tell them you had an edible when you arrived. Its perfectly legal in my country, and I don't turn myself in to a potato when I dose for a light buzz.

Availability of “queer spaces”

R49 I am also over the obsession with other people’s body size. That may be the only thing I like about Gen Z—they would also like everyone to get over it.

Economics, wealth, Harry and Meghan, superhero movies.

Claude Daigle's death.

Why should I feel sorry? It was Claude Daigle who got drowned, not me!

R29!! LOL!

The random outrage!

r29 = Captain Ahab

Nah. He was more intrigued than anyone, R57.

I'm more like the crew of the Pequod.

R29 = Justin Hartley

Kiddos. Doggos. Puppers. Jesus fucking Christ on a Cracker: talk like adults. Oh? And 'sandos', too. I don't care what they say in Japan.

[quote] Kiddos. Doggos. Puppers.

Veggies.

Fruit and veg.

Overpriced restaurants, takeout, and taxis. I go to restaurants only when obliged, I never order takeout, and I very rarely need a taxi.

R60 reminds me of this one.

The children. The god-damned, mother fucking children. The world is supposed to stop for the care and feeding of "the children"

I miss those days in the 70s and 80s when our parents just let us run wild. Now everything is about the children. Little monsters. You can't even have a part with just adults, because parents don't trust 14 year olds to babysit their kids any longer.

Definitely the Middle East - as others have pointed out.

Cars? I have the money now to upgrade (and getting something like a small SUV with a hatch would be very helpful), but my 9-year old Camry is paid off with 110k miles. I just can't motivate myself to get something different until I have to.

Basketball, March Madness, and basketball players

Melania Trump...who gives a shit whether or not she fulfills a role? Worry about what the imbecile she's married to is doing.

People losing their beach homes to hurricanes. You built homes on the beach, which is stupid. Deal with it.

Americans who travel to dangerous parts of the world for the adventure, get in trouble there, and expect the US Government to bail them out. You took the risk.

Here's an old one...Steve Irwin...What did the guy expect when you poke wild animals in the eye? They will hit back.

Star Wars. I haven't seen a Star Wars movie since the second one.

Who "should have" gotten an Oscar in some year. Who cares? They didn't.

How much money a movie makes.

Age gaps in relationships between consenting adults.

My coworkers' children.

Harry Potter.

In any form or incarnation.

SNL.

Anything that says "I'm rich." And I feel like a pretentious twat even saying it, like "I'm too spiritual for this," cause, no, I really ain't.

But seriously, all that shit: brand name clothing, expensive watches, stupidly expensive cars and houses, five-star hotels, VIP anything, luxury this or that, just ALL that shit, I truly don't get it and never will get why anybody even wants that fuckery. Just don't get it.

Real housewives

Man I'm gonna get tomatoes thrown at me for this one--and it's against my better judgement to even post it. The other day I attempted to watch One Night in Idaho on Amazon about the Moscow college students who were murdered. I didn't last 20 minutes because I quickly determined through all of the cellphone footage and IG photos of the Gen Z victims that they irked me and therefore I really didn't care what happened to them. Even their parents were vapid, using words like "adulting." I had to abort.

I felt the same way when I watched the Netflix documentary about Chris Watts. His wife was so annoying that it was hard for me to feel bad for her.

I'll see myself out now.

Yeah, it’s hard to muster up any support for Israel vs Gaza. That’s been going on since 1948. Everyone else should stay out of it. On the other hand, I do pay attention to the news about Ukraine. Probably more so because Putin’s behind it and he’s fucked up the US with Trump. One man! How hard is it to take him out? Mossad could probably do it but then we’re back where we started.

Protests

Whether or not Audra's voice was suited for Mama Rose.

I got some results this week which indicate that I might be quite ill, and it has been rather liberating. Right now, the only things I care about are stopping my sister from finding out about my health (because semi-hysterical, loving, helicoptering concern would currently be a bit much) and spending some cash on my delightful nephews and nieces.

Among the things I couldn’t give the tiniest shit about are Brexit (you reap what you sow), Trump (you reap what you sow), household tasks, my overdraft, my job, pronouns, any letter after LGB, mowing my lawn, global warming (you reap what you sow), the weather, my noisy neighbours and my general lack of organisation.

Oh, and Israel and Gaza! That’s a good one. I’m afraid I don’t care.

Any attempt to mitigate climate change/global warming. It would've been effective starting in 1880 or 1900, but I think it's too late.

Oh, and my upcoming performance review at work!

No, I have not met the poorly defined, unachievable targets you unilaterally imposed upon me, and I have no intention of attempting to do so.

I’m sorry r75

Oh for God's sake just die, r75/r76/r78!

I refuse to walk towards the light, r80, but I may decide to drag you into a grease fire with me.

Any topic followed by "justice."

I don't know that I agree with all that at r75, but honestly I can see why you wouldn't give a shit at this point. Also, I must admit I'd like to see your performance review, and your response when they give you a bunch of corporate bullshit to answer to.

R75 if you don't want your sister to know, then don't tell her and don't tell anyone who will tell her.

R84, there is still a chance that things will be fine, so I won’t tell anyone anything for the moment, I don’t like keeping stuff from my sister though: she is a wonderful woman, but she quite a lot older than me and worries about me far too much!

However, after this week, I am determined not to spend my time worrying about shit I can’t control.

Anyway, I don’t want to hijack an interesting thread with my own issues, so D/L do resume the list of stuff not worth worrying about!

Artificial intelligence.

Female empowerment.

Money.

Misogynist gays

Overall, with the exception of a very few outliers, this is a very legitimate list of things not to care about ( …or, if you insist, of things about which not to care;)…( or, things of which not to give a fuck)…!

Serious discussion of comic book movies.

LIFE....

I don’t care that much about traveling the world.

Travel is always so stressful, I get almost no enjoyment from it even though I am curious and like visiting places— once I’m there.

But the stress of travel just ruins it for me.

The harm posed by the internet to children. Be a better parent.

The presence of dyes in food. Don't eat junk.

Seed oils. Better that than lard and tallow.

I feel the same r93. Especially air travel.

95 posts and not one of you thirsty bottoms have said 'dick-size'!

[quote] 95 posts and not one of you thirsty bottoms have said 'dick-size'!

I'm not a fan of dick, so I don't care about dick size or whether they're cut or uncut. I am an ass man and don't like "hole" either.

Women

The box office of a comic book movie, always obsessively discussed on Datalounge.

[quote]On the other hand, I do pay attention to the news about Ukraine. Probably more so because Putin’s behind it and he’s fucked up the US with Trump. One man! How hard is it to take him out? Mossad could probably do it but then we’re back where we started.

Maybe on one of those long walks through the Kremlin, Putin will miss a step and find himself falling out of a window in the same fashion as the other Russians who cross him.

Don't care about NYC mayoral run. At the end of October, I'll pay attention to who's still wants to be head Honcho.

The plight of parents who can't be arsed to keep track of whether their child is broiling in the back seat.

We need alarms! We need the daycare to call us! We need —

No, you need to do your fucking job.

trans and use of pronouns

[quote]Anything that says "I'm rich." And I feel like a pretentious twat even saying it, like "I'm too spiritual for this," cause, no, I really ain't.

[quote]But seriously, all that shit: brand name clothing, expensive watches, stupidly expensive cars and houses, five-star hotels, VIP anything, luxury this or that, just ALL that shit, I truly don't get it and never will get why anybody even wants that fuckery. Just don't get it.

R69 SO with you on this. Its not cos I'm spiritual, its cos I dont give a shit. I'm happy driving a 25 year old car and wearing Kmart clothes

R9 I agree with strongly, I havent kept up with whatever the current trends are for decades, no fucks given

Agree with pretty much everything on this list, some more so than others, although I do enjoy travel

Rattlesnakes

[quote]I am determined not to spend my time worrying about shit I can’t control.

That's me as well, r85, though thankfully not for your reasons. I just have limited resources and energy. I still do what I can (volunteering, working in a community garden/coop), I think globally, act locally. If I can't do anything about it, I try not to think about it too much.

Lord of the Rings

[quote]Women

Men.

Babies. Or pregnancy announcements. Or gender reveals.

As a man, I don’t give a shit about working on cars or knowing all the ends and outs of how they run. My interest with any vehicle begins and ends with how it looks and how it handles. Yes I can change a tire, change my oil, etc. but I can’t fathom what other dudes get out of constantly tinkering and tuning.

My smell. I shower at least once a day, sometimes twice. My dick is circumcised. No Peccorino ripeness. My ass is clean.

When I was young I loved wearing cologne or aftershave. Now I don't even bother with deodorant. If I stink, it's my armpits. Love it or leave it. If it's bad I know enough to wash it off.

Pheremones........

^as my mom used to tell me - by the time you start smelling yourself, people have been smelling you for hours.

All the ends and outs?

I'll be beside you in hell, R71, as I don't care about out them either. I think its terrible that they were murdered, and no one deserves what happened to them, but beyond that, I simply don't care.

I watched the documentary and couldn't stop myself from thinking that if I'd have gone to school with that lot, I would have had zero interest in hanging with or being friends with any of them. I probably would have hated being around them at all.

Who's in the Epstein files - is anyone really going to do anything about it, if Trump is in it? They haven't done anything else about him other than to re-elect him.

Meghan and Harry

Talk show cancellation and host controversy , talk shows in general

Trends and stupidly popular stuff

TikTok and Instagram

Gaza vs Israel

AI and how it's affecting schools. You knew this coming, you jerks. Writing papers isn't the only way to check knowledge and you did this to yourselves.

[quote] I felt the same way when I watched the Netflix documentary about Chris Watts. His wife was so annoying that it was hard for me to feel bad for her.

I'll see myself out now.

[quote] I'll be beside you in hell, [R71], as I don't care about out them either.

R71 and R114, have you seen some of the old threads about the Watts family?

Love Island All of Bravo

R110 - related, but I don't give a rat's ass about how a manual/stick is so much more efficient and gives you more power and control, blah blah blah.

I'm using my car to go from point A to point B as easily as possible. I'm not on a racetrack. I don't need to constantly down-shift and up shift every 5 minutes for every light and stop sign.

It's absurd. There is no energy-efficiency difference with the new automatic engines and city traffic is just not designed for manual.

"The rest of the world drives stick" - I really don't give a fuck. They're stupid and need to get with the times. It's one area that I think America got right.

labalus

Human rights.

Real Housewives of anywhere

Here’s the cold hard truth:

Nobody really gives a damn about anything that doesn’t affect them personally. They just pretend to because it’s expected.

R116, I skimmed them as I wasn't overly interested.

R122 - bullshit. It's called compassion and empathy and most of the world has it. Those who don't are uncaring, mean asocial citizens of the world.

You may be only about you - but that's not how a society works and isn't supposed to.

These are getting away from "supposed to care about." I know that's subjective, but a manual stick? That's not something that people are broadly expected to care about now. Maybe 15-20 years ago. The Netflix Idaho Murders doc? WTF?

Reality TV - all of it.

My reputation

That old detective show with the guy with the trench coat and the cigar.

The flood victims.

Angela Lansbury

The 34th revival of Gypsy, starring whoever.

Heartstopper

“My A1C…”

The Blake Lively/Justin Baldoni saga. At first it was interesting, but now it's getting tiresome with all these filings. I'll be interested again in March 2026.

The Menendez Bros. Will they or won't they get paroled? I don't care. I'd rather see Betty Broderick get out.

Royal families

The Golden Girls

Jobless Joe

Tarot

As with some other threads, the responses here get further away from the original concept the longer it goes on.

r139 It's called "thread drift," a phenomenon which became familiar way back in Newsgroup days and is considered pretty normal. Standard response of those who want to return to the thread's original concept would be to post something innocuous on the order of, "This is all very well, but can we get back to talking about . . . "

Influencers

The poor.

Chocolate, gyms, circumcision, mortality.

People and their food issues.

R125 doesn't care about murder victims.

Drug addicts and the mentally ill

The low birth rate “crisis.”

Incels

Just for R144 read, and weep.

What grades anyone got in school. All that matters is that you graduated and did something with your education.

Genealogy. It's interesting to discover 2-3-4 generations back and where they were from if they immigrated. Or to plug up blanks in your history or discover if family stories are actually true.

Otherwise, it's a subjective hunt for something noteworthy or historical that you can talk/boast about - while you ignore the other 99% of your family tree who lived humdrum lives of no importance.

Your family tree grows so wide after 3 generations back, any branch is only a small story and not indicative of who you are today.

Yes - an immigration story and the details are interesting. The decision to uproot your life and move to a foreign country you've never seen is a bold move.

But it usually feels like people trying to attach themselves and their being to some point of historical significance or prominence for their egos.

Gaza...sorry

Honestly, the whole Middle East. A warring shithole for centuries that will never change and could be the death of us all.

That said, my inner Judge Judy wants to say, "Hamas, give back the hostages. If you don't, you can starve. Israel, quit bombing. If you don't, not one more penny from the United States. That's all. You can leave."

Having a social media 'presence', including on LinkedIn. Why do I need to post inane things about my life or comment about others posts?

I would hope people grow out of this after their 20s - but nope. I don't care - and somehow I'm 'weird' that I don't have an Instagram account with more than a 1000 followers.

Kids suffering the horror of ARFID.

I'm with R150 about genealogy. Unless it turns out some ancestor left me millions in gold that has been sitting in a safe deposit box for decades, I don't give a fuck who I'm related to beyond the family I grew up with.

That genealogy thing is getting me a Canadian passport, under a brand new legal process. Works for me…

That lump under my right boob.

When you see video of a child starved to death in Gaza and you say you don't care about it, I have to wonder if you're a sociopath.

Blueberries.

RuPaul and Drag Queens in general. So over it.

They used to be rare and special, and talented. Now it's like the thing for every gay queen to do if they are just slightly fem and want attention.

[quote]My reputation

Zodiac

r160. Yes! Drag has become waaaaay too main stream.

Trans athletes in high school sports.

Oh, wait. Only Fox News says I'm supposed to care about that.

Tsunami alerts.

Skylines

R165 My MAGA sister in flyover country, who is fed a 24-hour diet of Fox News, called me in a panic telling me to get to high ground because the tsunami was coming. I told her that our local authorities said they weren't expecting massive waves - if any - and that people are only being cautioned to stay away from the beaches at this point.

She then proceeded to tell me that the liberal media was lying to me and that I need to go to my rooftop because Fox said a massive tsunami was heading toward California.

Sigh.

It must be embarrassing to have mental illness in your family, r167

Other people. Fuck ‘em.

Earrings

Caftans!

Food insecurity. I've never seen a person in the US that was actually dying of starvation, unless it was deliberate. The poor people who complain that their welfare checks don't cover their food bills are usually morbidly obese.

Trans,

Muslims,

Palestinians,

the Ukraine, they hate gays and jews,

sports

Netflix

action/comic book movies-has there been any other kind for years?

revivals of any Sondheim or Jerry Herman shows

Beer

R162 the tupical SNAP monthly payment is ~$180 per person. Let’s see you eat off that.

R172^

Ozzy Osbourne and family

R172 Hortense the MAGAt has joined the conversation.

Starvation and malnutrition due to lack of calories and essential foods are very much real things here in the good ol' USA, with roughly 20,000 people dying each year.

R172 In NY, people with food stamps spend them on pints of Haagen Daz to sell to bodegas so they can sell it to the public. That and laundry detergent. Then they use the money for alcohol and/or drugs.

R178 Therefore, not a single person in NY is experiencing food insecurity.

Try harder, Hortense.

R178, is that de facto true?

R180 No, that's shit Hortense just made up.

Reboots of film franchises and anything with a "multiverse."

Wether you use a top sheet or a duvet, or both.

R173 - The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, is Jewish. He was born in 1978 in Kryvyi Rih (then Ukrainian SSR) to Jewish parents (father a computer scientist and mother an engineer) and grew up in a secular Soviet Jewish household.

According to WHO and CDC data, malnutrition-related deaths in the U.S. are roughly 1-2,000. Where did you get a 20k figure?

Earrings, caftans

Dubai chocolate.

Every photograph I see of it shows a chocolate bar broken open to reveal what looks like green, moldy crap. Not having it!

R186, see R170 and R171.

Land acknowledgments.

“We recognize that we meet today on the sacred land of the Suckalotacockamee Peoples… “

Voting.

Sidney Sweeney.

Influencers (con artists); screaming trans (attention whores): proud MAGAs (exposed racists); new pronoun usage (don't tell me how to speak the language reinvented by 1% of the population.)

[quote]“We recognize that we meet today on the sacred land of the Suckalotacockamee Peoples… “

This is the first time I've heard of the Suckalotacockamee people. Their homeland has to be somewhere in Florida with a name like that.

[quote]This is the first time I've heard of the Suckalotacockamee people.

They wear jingle caftans, drink a lot of Absolut Firewater, and do a rain mince.

Awards shows, nominations or the nominees. Nor the latter’s personal or political opinions.