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

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BrickTraybake · 31/05/2024 22:49

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.

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TheGoldSnake · 01/06/2024 11:47

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This has been deleted by MNHQ for breaking our Talk Guidelines - previously banned poster.

AliceAbsolum · 01/06/2024 11:47

Locking my front door. We have household insurance if we get burgled I'll just claim. Nothing to steal anyway
Cba.

RunAwayTurnAwayRunAwayTurnAway · 01/06/2024 11:48

ParrotsAteThemAll · 01/06/2024 09:35

There’s an alternative universe somewhere with ducks feeding humans chocolates. Right now on Hensnet there’s an argument going on with posters saying they love feeding humans chocolate and the humans love it, but angry human conservationists are saying the ducks are killing out the humans just because they like fat squishy humans. They say the ducks should be throwing cut up sprouts to the humans, one poster argues they try this but some selfish ducker always comes along with a large bar of Dairy Milk.

😂😂😂😂😂 I LOVE this!

SinnerBoy · 01/06/2024 11:48

babymoosey · Today 11:33

I couldn't agree more. I even went to china to see them and it was then that I realised what stupid animals they are. You can't help those that don't want to be helped, let them go!

They breed in the wild, but the females like to roam around and find a male that they like, they don't just mate with the first one they find. Can you imagine aliens trying to breed humans?

Dump a random woman in a cage with a random man.
"Hoo hoo! Ello darling, gizza shag!"
"Aarghh! Fuck off you fat sweaty weirdo!"

"Well Zorb, these humans are pathetic, aren't they? They just won't mate, let's leave them to die out."
"I couldn't agree more, Tharg, they're pathetic and deserve to die out."

betterangels · 01/06/2024 11:48

I have a serious medical condition but it’s for me to deal with, I’m not under the impression others are in the slightest bit interested

Same and I couldn't agree more.

Bring your whole self to work I fucking hate it. It's work. Keep your whole self for your private life.

Outliers · 01/06/2024 11:48

I think people that feed bread to birds are weirdos.

(Before anyone retorts; idc what strangers on the Internet think).

LoveSandbanks · 01/06/2024 11:49

RaverQuavers · 31/05/2024 23:00

I don’t care about men in women’s toilets

Nope, me neither. I don’t give a shit about the genitals of the person in the cubicle next to me. They’re called privates for a reason.

Purplecatshopaholic · 01/06/2024 11:50

Blimey, this has taken a bit of a turn hasn’t it! For the record I don’t give a shit about football, reality shows and the people in them, the royals, that Eamonn and Ruth are getting divorced, or other peoples opinion of me. (I do care about ducks, dogs and pandas though)…

Cherrysoup · 01/06/2024 11:51

Other people’s pets, could not give a crap and sometimes have to go back and comment on a post if I don’t want them thinking I’m an uncaring sociopath. Other people’s kids, ditto (different if I teach them, I genuinely want them to succeed and be happy).

Idiots eg the Kardashians, pop ‘stars’ and their love lives.

NotInvolved · 01/06/2024 11:51

My husband's extended family. Not that I wish them any harm but they are not my family and I really don't care about the minutiae of their day to day lives. I'm glad his nephews and nieces are well but I won't be filling the house with pictures of them and I don't give a toss about their school reports.

MotherFeministWoman · 01/06/2024 11:52

AliceAbsolum · 01/06/2024 11:47

Locking my front door. We have household insurance if we get burgled I'll just claim. Nothing to steal anyway
Cba.

Pretty sure not locking up negates the insurance.

CellophaneFlower · 01/06/2024 11:54

MotherFeministWoman · 01/06/2024 11:52

Pretty sure not locking up negates the insurance.

It does and regardless of having nothing to steal, who would want some arsehole rummaging through their stuff?

EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 01/06/2024 11:54

I don’t give a shit that the OP feeds bread to ducks. In a general way I care. Like let’s try and look after the wildlife and their environment but will I be marching up to the OP by the side of a pond and giving her a bollocking about the bread in her hand? No I won’t, I honestly can’t be arsed in contributing to the ethos of trying to ‘educate’ the public.

Other things I don’t care about are celebrities private jets and how many kilometres/miles they travel per month. I understand it’s a useful way to shame them and punish them for being rich, but I honestly couldn’t give a shit.

Ellaelle · 01/06/2024 11:55

There's a really stauch bunch of royalists on here (they refer to themselves as the pedantics) who literally have a melt down and start pearl clutching if I say princess Meghan or princess Kate apparently I'm supposed to address meghan as hrh duchessof Sussex (comma) Meghan and Kate is supposed to be her Majesty the princess of Wales (comma) Katherine. But I always throw caution to the wind when I say princess Meghan or princess Kate they evidently must know who I am referencing (cue horror and burst blood vessels from the pedantics) lol

YetAnotherSpartacus · 01/06/2024 11:55

A minority of women feeling unsafe doesn’t trump trans women and trans men feeling unsafe.

A majority of women feel unsafe where they are forced to share toilets with biological males.

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/toilet-provision-for-men-and-women-call-for-evidence/toilet-provision-for-men-and-women-call-for-evidence

There are more biological women than there are transwomen.

Transmen are welcome to use facilities for biological women.

Toilet provision for men and women: call for evidence (now closed)

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/toilet-provision-for-men-and-women-call-for-evidence/toilet-provision-for-men-and-women-call-for-evidence

squirrelnutkin10 · 01/06/2024 11:55

Trans issues...l am so damn tired of hearing about others sexuality l could scream...l genuinely DO NOT CARE who you want to sleep with, or who you identify as, l REALLY DON'T WANT TO HEAR ABOUT IT ENDLESSLY....

I am happy to meet and accept people as they present themselves but stop banging on about it......l am sure you don't want to hear about my straight sex life/identity/journey/blah blah blah....so what make you so important..

Divilabit · 01/06/2024 11:55

SinnerBoy · 01/06/2024 11:43

Garlicker · Today 11:25

And please DON'T bring your whole self to work!

Why do they always misinterpret it as "Bring your arse 'ole self to work"?

In my experience, it’s more ‘Bring your Emo Inner Child to work’. I don’t want to meet that one either. And I certainly don’t want to run a department with it.

Garlicker · 01/06/2024 11:57

SinnerBoy · 01/06/2024 11:43

Garlicker · Today 11:25

And please DON'T bring your whole self to work!

Why do they always misinterpret it as "Bring your arse 'ole self to work"?

😂

annaak · 01/06/2024 11:57

I can’t stop thinking about things I don’t care about now - animals and grandparents, and I especially don’t care when those things die.

luckylavender · 01/06/2024 11:57

I don't care about XL Bully dogs. I wish they didn't exist.

BrickTraybake · 01/06/2024 12:00

Purplebunnie · 01/06/2024 10:09

The bread the Victorians fed to ducks wasn't full of bloody preservatives and all the other shit they put in our supermarket loaf

No, it was way, way worse and full of chalk and all other kinds of crap

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EvangelicalAboutButteredToast · 01/06/2024 12:01

I don’t care about my colleagues holidays nor what her children are doing. I actively walk in the other direction as I can’t bare the hear about the minutiae of her life. It makes me want to euthanise myself.

TeabySea · 01/06/2024 12:03

I don't like bread for ducks. Ducks might like it but it does pollute the water and it does encourage rats. Both of the latter are things that tend to piss people off more than feeding bread to ducks - at least in my local park.
There should be enough for them to eat anyway so they don't need organic pumpkin seeds or lightly steamed tofu most of the time.

What I can't stand is peoples dogs. "Oh, he's just being friendly" as it jumps up at me and covers me in mud. "She's just playful" as the dog circles my child or runs off with child's toy.
If your dog doesn't have recall, keep it on the lead. Or take it somewhere that is dedicated to dogs.
Last week I saw someone throwing sticks for their dog into a large duck pond. The pond was busy with ducks and newly-hatched ducklings. By the time I'd got to where they were, they'd moved on. The ducks and ducklings were terrified and I'm not sure all of them survived the shock of being chased by a boisterous dog that the owner couldn't control.

luckylavender · 01/06/2024 12:05

Whycantiwinmillionsandsquillions · 01/06/2024 07:19

I’m another one who cannot get excited about the mens football World Cup.
Fine if you want to watch it but I don’t and don’t want to see or hear about it.

It's not the World Cup

5128gap · 01/06/2024 12:09

LoveSandbanks · 01/06/2024 11:49

Nope, me neither. I don’t give a shit about the genitals of the person in the cubicle next to me. They’re called privates for a reason.

If only the men who insist on using women's toilets felt the same way as you! Imagine if they stopped kicking up fuss about not wanting to use toilets with people with the SAME genitals as themselves! What a lot of trouble it would save.

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