Things Others Care Deeply About That You Don't Give A Rat Doot About, Frankly

These are things you hear others talking about, even debating with great passion, and think “Huh. There’s something I don’t give a shit about.” I’m interested to hear what sorts of things are on others’ lists. This is not an invitation to criticize others’ lists or to defend the value of your personal favorite thing because it appears on someone else’s list.** So relax, it’s all in fun, jeez. I’ll go first:

Attack of the Clones

Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Professional wrestling

The World Cup

Healthcare reform

Wine

Traffic

Enron

Organic farming

Video games/roll playing games

Um, that’s all I can think of now.

I’m game, even though my beloved Buffy appeared on your list. :stuck_out_tongue:

Sports! And my husband is one who keeps starting hockey threads here as well.

Uh, that’s mostly it. Name your sport. Car racing. Football. Basketball. Whatever. It’s all crap to me.

Oh, whoa, wait. One more. Cars. My husband starts explaining all about different cars to me, and all I hear is “Blah blah blah Lola”. Kind of like when the adults talk on Peanuts.

Tennis

Golf

Pro Football

Working Out

Frank Herbert’s books

Fashion

Bloody Mary Recipes

Seafood

Coffee

sportscars

NASCAR (actually, most sports except for soccer and gymnastics)

General car discussions

Makeup

Star Trek/Star Wars

I’ve never seen Buffy or The West Wing so I guess I can’t comment about them. Wait… I just did.

Survivor
The World or Stanley Cup
Basketball
Dale Earnhart
Hanging chad
Miracle diets
Martha Stewart
Pam Anderson
Porn
Soaps
Feng Shui

Sports.

Politics.

Other people’s sex lives.

Sports (any/all, unless some one I personally care about is playing in the game)

BuffyVPS
West Wing
Any medical show on TV
Religion
Chocolate
Cars
Wrestling
Fashion
Nail polish
Shoes/Shoe shopping
other people’s sexual events
anyone’s digestive tract
Damn. Wonder what I find to talk about?

Figure skating
Survivor
Name brands of clothing or make-up

Sports

Religion (Really, if it wasn’t for religious organizations casting gay people as evil and wrong, it just wouldn’t show up on my radar.)

Beanie Babies

Anime

Politics
Sports
Cars
Cats
bodily excretions/fluids
the weather in general

I’m sure as soon as I hit the send buttom I’ll have ten more come to mind

OK, see, I thought this thread was going to be about BIG political issues as opposed to, say, people’s passion for Buffy or a good Cabernet.

So I was all prepared to come in with the big guns about Major Issues about which I’m juuuuuuuuust now starting to give a flying hoot, like:

[ul] a) Politics. Sure, I found local politics remotely interesting, because our City Council is a freak show (complete with childish pranks and antics that could rival a 13-year-old on his best day). But I didn’t really follow national politics, which means ditto for issues like

b) The Environment. I suppose I cared in a remote way, like “Damn shame about all of those dead seagulls”, but only recently have I cared to the extent of going to more expense/inconvenience, like eschewing fabric softener and dryer sheets, buying (more expensive) environmentally friendly household items, or making my own floor cleaner out of vinegar and vegetable oil instead of dropping a bottle of Pine Sol into my cart on my next trip to the store. This goes the same for

c) Labor Practices. While one of my best friends was picketing in front of her local GAP store, I was furtively buying GAP items online, and hiding my J.Crew catalogs when she came to my house (usually loaded down with clothes she’d bought for me at the Salvation Army in an attempt to get me to stop shopping at the blacklisted stores). The shit was cute, looked good on me, and I could get it delivered right to my door. Now it may just be a handy coincidence that I can’t really afford to clothes shop anymore, but I can pawn it off as protest… [/ul]

…or stuff about which I don’t yet give a hoot, for example:

[ul]d) Although my job entails staffing a volunteer council that advocates for the needs and rights of local senior citizens (and even though my beloved mother is a senior, and I myself will likely be one someday), I don’t really give a hoot about most of the stuff they talk about at the meetings. I talk a good game, but when it comes right down to it, I consider it my job to offer technical and administrative assistance to these people, not to join them in lobbying against budget cuts during the Legislative session.[/ul]

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not like the guy who thinks seniors should be killed off Soylent Green-style or exiled to a remote island. So far, however, charity in this arena is still “at home” for me. In other words, if MY mother goes into a nursing home and doesn’t get adequate care, hell yeah I’m gonna be up in arms. But right now I just don’t feel any passion about senior issues as a whole. Perhaps that’s because I associate them with WORK…?

Survivor
The Real World (I watched the first season 10 years ago and part of The Real World - California, but I haven’t been interested since)
Computer Programming or Networking
Religion
Politics to a certain extent - I have my issues but as a whole I’m not interested
The Sopranos (Don’t even have HBO)
Sex in the City (see above parenthetical notation)
Spiderman
Scooby Doo

“Professional” sports
Politics
Celebrity causes (unless they can prove they had said causes BEFORE they became celebrities)

Television programs
Movies
Role-playing games
Most sports
Dale Earnhardt (although I’m game for almost all other NASCAR discussion)
Politics
Labor issues, as auntie em said above

sports

what others think about me

Beer.
Professional basketball (unless it’s the Philadelphia 76ers, in which I’d develop a minor curiosity out of city loyalty).
The Beatles. Hate 'em, actually.
Turning the clock back to the 1950s to make the world a better place.

NASCAR
Star Trek
Most Network TV
Pro Wrestling
the NBA
Doing my homework in these last 4 weeks of grad school :smiley:

Well, there was a time when Buffy would be on top of my list. Now I’m obsessed and I want my life back goddamnit!

Anywho:
The Sopranos
Sex and the City
Shoot, every TV show except Buffy, The West wing, and The Shield.)
Politics
Monty Python
Anime

Sports
Sports
Sports

Sports
TV
Movies
Art
Fashion
Wine
Most political issues
Most celebrities, esp. those famous for being famous ala Zsa Zsa
Electronic gadgets apart from computers
Interior decorating
Finance
Gardening