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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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DuchessNope · 31/05/2024 23:33

I don’t care about male ballerinas when there are female ballerinas on stage.

Thats interesting - are you a ballet fan generally?

Ohhhthedrama · 31/05/2024 23:33

Screen time, fresh air, and healthy eating at the weekend/ school holidays. Some weekends, I barely see my kids except when I take food up to them or they come down searching for food or to collect the order from the delivery person ( we get take out every Friday & Saturday night). They can happily spend a whole weekend lounging in the bedroom on phones, tablets, and Playstation.

EarringsandLipstick · 31/05/2024 23:34

Like your opinion

I dont give a shit about it

Ok 🤷🏻‍♀️

Stop replying to my posts so 🙄

Demonhunter · 31/05/2024 23:34
Come On Reaction GIF by MOODMAN

Why would you start a thread by announcing you enjoy harming animals, will continue and don't care? Weird.

EarringsandLipstick · 31/05/2024 23:35

SocksHeeler · 31/05/2024 23:27

Wildlife biologist here.

Bread to ducks and swans is like chocolate to us. Small amount fine, loads not fine. It makes them full so they don't then eat their natural diet if fed in large quantities. Can cause nutritional deficiency and also not good to encourage large flocks of wild birds to come together which facilitates disease spread.

They love it because it is nice and they will eat it over anything else offered if given the option.

So it's OK in small quantities (ideally wholegrain rather than white) but not loads.

Sorry didn't see this before my reply.

Exactly so. Hopefully it clears it up for @Lilacbluebells now

StormingNorman · 31/05/2024 23:35

I thought this was going to be a fun thread 😂🤣

KentInAutumn · 31/05/2024 23:35

Other people’s holidays/gap year/travelling.

Yawn.

I actually feel bored and tired just thinking about a time I was forced to listen to an anecdote from a colleague who backpacked in East Asia.

EarringsandLipstick · 31/05/2024 23:36

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Divilabit · 31/05/2024 23:36

ReggaetonLente · 31/05/2024 23:01

Pandas.

They aren’t that bothered about continuing their own species so why should we care. They refuse to have sex with each other and have to eat about four times their own body weight per day. It’s unsustainable! Let them go extinct!

Yes, I agree with you. I think of pandas as kind of like the royal family — needlessly fetishised, anachronistic, undeserving of the attention lavished on them. Obviously they’re cuter, though.

Toetouchingtitties · 31/05/2024 23:36

I don’t care who is running the government. They’re all a bunch of self serving fannies and at the end of the day the country will keep running to some level, because civil servants.

Pootyloots · 31/05/2024 23:36

I don’t care about:-
sports
nails
coffee
handbags (and basically any designer names)
what my mother’s friend’s children are doing with their lives.

jackandy · 31/05/2024 23:36

DuchessNope · 31/05/2024 23:33

I don’t care about male ballerinas when there are female ballerinas on stage.

Thats interesting - are you a ballet fan generally?

This is true for me too. I love ballet and female ballerinas, even though I am aware of the health issues such as bad feet and eating disorders for them.

Male dancers prancing around with the outline of their tackle on display for all to see? Meh! They don't ever have to go on point (imagine the whingeing if they did) and they look like they're constantly showing off.

And yet the rational side of me tells me they also work extremely hard.

Justcats · 31/05/2024 23:37

StormingNorman · 31/05/2024 23:35

I thought this was going to be a fun thread 😂🤣

The duck defenders are having none of it. 🤣

The outrage is making me laugh though.

Lilacbluebells · 31/05/2024 23:39

EarringsandLipstick · 31/05/2024 23:35

Sorry didn't see this before my reply.

Exactly so. Hopefully it clears it up for @Lilacbluebells now

And this isn’t a snide remark at all 😂

ManilowBarry · 31/05/2024 23:39

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Things you're supposed to give a shit about, but you don't.
LightSpeeds · 31/05/2024 23:40

ReggaetonLente · 31/05/2024 23:01

Pandas.

They aren’t that bothered about continuing their own species so why should we care. They refuse to have sex with each other and have to eat about four times their own body weight per day. It’s unsustainable! Let them go extinct!

They make funny videos though...

Tunefultwix · 31/05/2024 23:41

I have duck food or Quaker oats to feed ducks. I find it hilarious that anyone could do anything with their nails other than bite them or use them to open things sometimes, I mean eh, who has the time, who cares, don't they get muddy and chocolatey anyway?! But I do care very much if bastards turn up near me with contagious illnesses ffs.

I don't care about Eurovision or football and I don't care whether coffee is instant or decaff or whatever.

DontBiteTheCat · 31/05/2024 23:41

EthnoBotanist · 31/05/2024 23:15

Nails. I keep mine clean and neat by washing regularly and cleaning. I don’t understand at all why going to a nail parlour to have them gelled or faffed about with is in any way a grooming essential yet alone ‘attractive’

I am a researcher. I started an academic study about this. I had over 150 participants ( 90 female and 60 male). Majority of women thought that nail grooming was an important part of female attractiveness and defined this a regular (once a month or more) nail shaping and polishing. 0 % of men considered this as an important part of grooming. In fact we redesigned the study to see if men noticed this aspect of female grooming at all. We asked 279 men what they identified as attractive in a woman, using photos with manicured/un manicured women. Not one man noticed or cared what women’s nails looked like. None.

My nails are always cleaned and shaped but the idea that ‘manicured’ nails are attractive is totally constructed to gain customers. In RL men are not in the least interested or attracted to women who fuss about their nails.

I get my nails done because I like them. I couldn’t give a shit what men think about their “attractiveness”.

Justcats · 31/05/2024 23:42
ducks GIF

Did someone say bread?

toothhurty22 · 31/05/2024 23:42

Ohhhthedrama · 31/05/2024 23:33

Screen time, fresh air, and healthy eating at the weekend/ school holidays. Some weekends, I barely see my kids except when I take food up to them or they come down searching for food or to collect the order from the delivery person ( we get take out every Friday & Saturday night). They can happily spend a whole weekend lounging in the bedroom on phones, tablets, and Playstation.

This has made me feel a lot better about our half term 😂

Lilacbluebells · 31/05/2024 23:43

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Not picking an argument at all, are you? 😂

The whole thread has been you telling people why they are bad, bad people for not caring about what you think they should care about, then when anyone disagrees with you you promptly get all wounded and hurt, accuse them of making snide remarks and starting arguments whilst making snide remarks and starting arguments. It isn’t just you but in fairness you have probably been the most persistent in trying to make sure everyone knows your outrage at ducks being fed bread, and it doesn’t make you look like a really good, moral person, it’s just tedious to be honest: tedious and boring.

feelingalittlehorse · 31/05/2024 23:43

Who wins the election 🤷🏽‍♀️

They are all absolute wet blankets, zero percent of them give a shiny shit about ‘the people’- all politicians care about, regardless of party, is their own backsides and how well their own pockets are lined.

It’s like asking me would I rather roll in that turd on the left, or the one on the right.

thecrispfiend · 31/05/2024 23:43

Having a "career". Give my best at work but I am hapoy with a job which doesn't take up too much headspace and finishes when I clock off, not interested in promotion.

MrsBobtonTrent · 31/05/2024 23:44

Royal family. If we ignore them, they will go away. Attention only encourages them. Same applies to other non-celebrities.

giddy90 · 31/05/2024 23:44

Other peoples children

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