Things I don't give a sh*t about.. what's your list?

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sports of any type or reason, just nope

anime and spiky hair jeez cant stand it

I don't care about influence's, they never have anything worthy to influence about.

I don't know, Hasanabi's been doing a pretty good job of influencing opinions on the Israel conflict. s**t, even Piers Morgan is starting to concede that Israel's actions are genocidal in nature.

Maybe you're just familiar with the wrong ones?

I do not give a sh!t about what others do as long as they are not harming others nor infringing on others rights. Everyone should live & let live instead of trying to control & manipulate others.

I don't give a s**t about the present. I never did and I never will. I was born old.

I was just going to say that but you beat me to the punch.

Some of them might say the occasional influential thing that's worth considering, but the general idea of influencers fills me with suspicion. I'd rather influence myself by finding out about whatever question I'm interested in than follow a guru who tells people what to think and do.

Sport, music and fashion.

"A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months!" Oscar Wilde

Samuel Pepys mentioned once in his diary that long coats were not fashionable any more and he needed to buy a short one - but who even gives a s**t about it after so maaaaany years? Maybe only fashion historians. And it will be like that with our miserable "fashions" many centuries later.

I do not give a sh!t about people who turn to me for help or to rant to after they've gotten themselves in trouble because they refused to listen to my previous advice. My girlfriend is an exception.

I don't care about dress codes. I don't mind people dressing a certain way as a positive thing if they want to, but when they start penalising people for not doing it, I see that as oppressive. I'm also OK with laws and rules about indecent exposure but then you have to define where to draw the line, and that can get complicated.

I don't care if some hippies want to smoke a bit of dope, and I resent my taxes being wasted on busting them for it when they could be used to stop serious crime.

I hate dress codes. Like some stores or restaurants that don't allow hoodies, or nightclubs that don't allow trainers. As if it's really going to make a difference to their profits.

I don't mind dressing a certain way to certain events as a common courtesy thing, but when it comes a written rule it gets on my nerves and feels restrictive to freedom of expression.

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I don't even get why it's supposed to be courtesy really. I don't mind an awful lot as long as the clothes are comfortable, but jeans and a t-shirt never offended me in the slightest, whatever the occasion, so I don't see why anybody should take offense. I've heard that Americans are more into these things than the British.

But I guess there are limits, because even I wouldn't want to turn up to a funeral in a fluorescent onesie and a dickie bow that spins round and lights up.

That's what I meant, but I prefer dress code to be an unwritten rule rather than a written rule. In other words, nobody should be turned away by staff just because they're wearing jeans or a hoodie.

Right.

I don't know why so many people think a suit makes a man more respectful or a school uniform makes a kid less of a rogue. Mine certainly didn't.

I hate this as well partly because of sensory issues with certain clothing. I think a uniform policy is partly about being able to quickly identify who belongs like who's an actual student at a school instead of some random person who might show up to cause harm, which person is an authority figure like a police officer, who's an employee at a store or business, & who's on which sports team. Society expects people to conform to certain molds to be at various places & positions & this includes looking the part.

I don't mind uniforms, as they can be necessary. Also I do admire men in suits (a bit like a lot of men admire women with make-up).

But if I ran a restaurant or some other business like that I wouldn't have dress codes. As long as people are wearing clothes and are satisfied with my service and my business is getting its profit, that'd be all that matters.

I can see the thing about being able to identify certain people, though I've noticed that some of the police have the full formal kit while others just have baseball hats and something like a donkey jacket with POLICE written on the back, and I don't know what decides which type they wear. I guess it's a matter of practical considerations being considered more important than formality in some situations. Sports teams obviously have to have some way of knowing which side is which, though I think the sports authorities are over-prescriptive.

I'm happy for individuals to admire whatever attire floats their boats, and I personally think the Nazi uniforms looked great, but I'm wary of even saying that these days. It's not an admiration of the ideology they represent, it's the way they fit so well, i.e. an artistic and aesthetic thing, not political at all. Similarly I like Victorian frock coats when they fit nicely and I feel that men's formal attire has never looked as good since the late 19th century. But those are my views and the idea of my imposing that on other people is laughable, so I feel justified in laughing at people who seek to impose their standards on others.

I suppose these restaurants and clubs that insist on dress codes think their more conventional customers might stop going if they had to be among people whose clothes they didn't feel were appropriate, though I have trouble understanding how they could possibly be so uptight - I'm strongly welded to practicality and have never yet felt the faintest objection to the guy next to me not wearing a suit, under any circumstances.

I was surprised and glad to see the tellers in Dutch banks actually wore jeans and t-shirts, and I wonder why that relaxed attitude has never spread to the UK and USA. A lot of people in those latter 2 countries seem to feel that there's something trustworthy or otherwise superior or acceptable about a bloke in a suit or a woman in whatever passes off as "professional clothing" for them. I absolutely don't understand that. Anybody can dress like that and then rip you off or let you down just as easily as anybody else, and I'm surprised that not everybody has noticed that.

Back in the 1960s I did hope that the young generation were going to blow the dress code thing away forever, but conformity for the sake of it still pervades many walks of life. It seems to be about group cohesion and the idea that if everybody does the same rituals then the group's individuals will be less likely to have ideas and behaviour that doesn't toe the party line. That might be the core reason why I feel differently to these things than "society" does. I'm just not very geared up to patriotic or civic sentiments, and tend to ignore the notion that people act as groups, particularly large groups such as countries, and I tend to see a group as being just a bunch of different people who happen to be in the same place. Observation seems to bear this out. Two border control officers may have identical clothes and jobs but one is friendly and puts me at ease while the other is sullen and obstructive. The uniform means little to me but the person inside it is real.