Things you're supposed to give a shit about, but you don't.

[BrickTraybake]

You know those little things in life that people like to morally police and make you feel guilty about but you just can't muster up the shit to give?

This is a confession thread. I'll start.

I don't give a shit that you supposedly shouldn't feed bread to ducks. I don't care. Don't eat it then. People have been feeding them bread for decades and now we're supposed to bring them organic bloody walnuts or something? Or some other crap they don't want that doesn't float?
They can have my slightly mouldy bread and be grateful.

Over to you.

I've just seen a post from 'Brummy Mummy' on Insta and the sad sack is sat in her dressing gown weeping and wailing because her youngest is leaving Primary this summer. Get over yourself woman! It is so boring!!! It just proves that these people don't have lives or anything to look forward to.

While I appreciate the points you make in the first part of the post, the last two sentences I find really off putting. The mention of the sisterhood makes me feel like caring less quite frankly.

Ah yes, because all women must only think one way so if we don’t agree with your view, we must be mean? Rightio.

Ooh another one I have, unless it is from parents or my children which I love handmade ones and their messages. I really don't care about receiving cards! I could tell you what they are going to say before even opening them, To bla bla bla Happy Christmas Love bla bla bla. Fabulous. Let's put them up and have them all falling and flapping everytime the door opens

yup-kmikazi ducks...pure askin for it.lol

Yes- status cars on finance!!! The road is packed with enormous hulks of flashy metal where there are no way this many people genuinely affording these. Vanity!!! All the tiny run down houses with these huge things parked up outside..get your priorities right!

The mention of the sisterhood makes me feel like caring less quite frankly

Whenever anyone mentions sisterhood, I pretty much tune out. I don't have to agree with you just because you're a woman.

God so many people missing the point of this thread. Mine are:

• leaving my engine running while I’m not driving I.e school pick up
• speeding
• not emptying recycling before I put it in the bin
• not paying for bags at a self checkout
• other peoples kids
• the nhs
• processed foods
• puppy farms and designer breeds

Hmmm, I don't know. There must have been generations of ducks which have had bread as a staple. At what point does it become part of their diet?

We used to live near a river, and had tens of ducks wandering round our street. They would quack outside people's houses, and eat any table scraps they had - toast, ham, nuts, noodles, pizza, marzipan... on one occasion (and this genuinely was an accident), duck....

The point is though, they did thrive. They came back year after year (yes, definitely the same ones), had babies, the babies grew to adulthood and brought their own ducklings along and so on. Never seemed to do them any harm.

Instagram!!

This is a great story, thank you!!
Did he have a name?
I'm so happy for him 💓

Christmas...couldn't give a fat rat's crack about any of it. Adults posting "only X more sleeps...." need to seek help.

To be fair I do this and you are right, I probably do need help 😂

‘Mean’ 🤣 Are you 5?

I don’t think I’d quite call disagreeing with men using women’s toilets mean… sensible, protective, head screwed on, comes to mind.

Adults who think others need to seek help for enjoying something they don’t need to seek help themselves to find out why they are so desperately unhappy they are miserly at others’ joy.

My one would be pelvic floor excersizes. I've had two babies (albeit c sections), and have never done a pelvic floor excersize. I'm sure cavewomen didn't and were for the most part fine. I have great bladder control, and have never had any complaints re the tightness or whatever of my fanny. It really is a non issue, calm down.

Performative grieving, where people post the anniversary of their late parents death/ heavenly birthday, on Facebook for some unfathomable reason.

So ducks are capable of rational thought?
There will be one wanting gluten free bread
One will want flour-free bread
One will want it toasted
Where's the Marmite?
The level of not-knowing animal physiology and duck critical thinking skills is amazing in this one.

I’d forgotten that this is on my list, too. I have inadvertently stolen twice from a supermarket. I was worried when I realised but I didn’t feel guilty.

Statistically more women die in road accidents than by volunteering to be the assistant to a trainee knife thrower. But numbers are not all we take into account when we decide what risks we are happy to take with our safety. The ability to make an informed risk assessment based on the situation we are confronted with rather than the theory, and the cost/benefit to ourselves (who, we are surely entitled to prioritise over the wishes of the knife thrower to practice his niche hobby, for example) of permitting the risk are important too.

I’m not 100% sure, but given the fact the topic was about men in women’s toilets and the poster was accused of being a man for not caring about it, I’m guessing ‘mean’ was in fact supposed to say ‘men’

What's a silent disco?

People who get angry about old statues. Slavery was and is abhorrent but a getting your knickers in a twist about long dead slave traders is really meh. The people who are suffering the abuse and deprivation of racism have more important matters to attend to than a statue.

Of course. So in that instance just don’t use the toilet when out. If you’ve decided it’s so unsafe based on your own warped sense of risk

When you give grapes to ducks how small do they need to be chopped up? (The grapes... not the ducks...)