Hatrack River Forum: The Apathy Thread

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Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

There may never be another Star Trek TV show, because one of them just ended or something.

And I don't care!

Paris Hilton... did something, but I don't know what it was because -

I don't care!

Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :

Paris Hilton did someone.....

And I don't care.

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

The real apathetics won't bother to post here.

I'm just a jaded poser.

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

And I don't care!

[Wink]

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

She's always doing something, and usually it's very boring.

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

I'd post but...

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

But I'm with you on the Start Trek snews and Paris' latest belt-notch--since when did just being rich, boring and slutty become reason enough for fame?

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

Jane Fonda... wwho am I kidding? Nobody cares.

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

I'm surprised a vet would say that, Olivetta. [Razz]

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

So?

--j_k

Posted by Wowbagger the Infinitely Prolonged (Member # 7476) on :

I'd post something complaining about stuff, but what's the point?

Posted by Synesthesia (Member # 4774) on :

Meh

Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :

Jimmy crack corn and I don't care
Jimmy crack corn and I don't care

Posted by Morbo (Member # 5309) on :

Wow, you're right: stuff sucks.

Posted by Joldo (Member # 6991) on :

I'm coming down with the flu, but who really gives a damn?

Posted by Procrastination (Member # 4821) on :

You know, I've always been meaning to form an opinion on Jimmy cracking corn. I guess I'll just use yours, though, until I can come up with my own.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

If nobody cares that Jimmy crack corn, why's everyone singing about it?

(I could give proper credit for that joke... meh.)

Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :

Dennis Miller had a good one-liner about "Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care."

Something like: "Now what the hell kind of attitude is that!"

Posted by CaySedai (Member # 6459) on :

I like the Smothers Brothers routine - they are singing the song and Tom continues, "I don't care, I don't care, I don't care ... "

Dick says, "that's not how the song goes."

Tom: "I don't care."

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

quote:

Don't care was made to care
Don't care was tried

John Entwistle
RIP

fixed to cut down to just a line or two per our Moose-like Janitor.

[ May 14, 2005, 04:08 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

quote:
Really don't mind if you sit this one out.
My words but a whisper, your deafness a shout.

Jethro Tull

quote:

There's nothing you can do that can't be done,
there's nothing you can sing that can't be sung

Lennon & McCartney

[ May 14, 2005, 10:06 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]

Posted by dkw (Member # 3264) on :

quote:

I don't care
I don't care
I really, really, really, really, really don't care
It's the same old sad story the whole world around
We build up our heroes wherever they're found
Then spend the rest of their lives tearing them down
I don't care

-- John McCutchen (full lyrics here.)

[ May 14, 2005, 04:20 PM: Message edited by: dkw ]

Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :

I'd point out that our host strongly discourages posting lyrics you don't own the copyrights to. But really, I don't care if you get in trouble for it. [Dont Know]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Oh? I thought the restriction was posting huge chunks or the whole thing of a lyric.

I remember something like that from the lyric thread...

I'll go check and delete the above if I was incorrect.

Thanks for the warning.

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Why do you even post here? I'm only posting here because I know that you do care about caring, otherwise you wouldn't post here. So I'm notifying you empathic, mellow slugs about this.

You know what? I don't give a bloody damn! Post all you damn well like!

JH

Posted by Papa Janitor (Member # 7795) on :

If the song is copyrighted, one line -- two max. Please.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Oh. Sorry. I was going by the Ophelia rule (which was sort of loose, now that I look at it:

Sixt post

[ May 14, 2005, 04:25 PM: Message edited by: Bob_Scopatz ]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Moose...question, I really couldn't bring myself to cut down to less in the Beatle one. It'd lose all sense of the quotation.

It's only 4 lines.

But is that too many? Should that kind of thing just not be used?

Oh, yeah...
not that I care

Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :

I was just playing along with the apathy thing. I didn't mean to cause trouble. [Embarrassed]

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Now it's a DOBIE!

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

Dobies? Meh.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

quote:

Am I doin' you wrong?
Am I treatin' you badly?
Am I hurtin' you somehow?
Makin' you sad?

Am I treatin' you badly?
Am I doin' you wrong?
Am I hurtin' you somehow?
Well what too you so long
To
Find out
That I...
Don't care about you
I don't care about you
I don't care about you
At...all...

Bob_Scopatz
not copyrighted.
use it as you wish.

(My first (and last) country song).

[Big Grin]

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Not that I care . . . but . . . It's "country" because . . . you lopped off the Gs? Lost a K? Repeated yourself?

Posted by Satan (Member # 529) on :

Apathy is one of my tools.

Posted by Eruve Nandiriel (Member # 5677) on :

"Frankly my Dear, I don't give a damn."

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

rivka.

Nothing so obvious.

It's set to a country tune.

[Wink]

(and I lied, I wrote another one)

Posted by Peter (Member # 4373) on :

It just amuses me that people who dont care cared enough to make a thread about not caring

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Bob_Scopatz:
rivka.

Nothing so obvious.

It's set to a country tune.

(and I lied, I wrote another one)

And it's a country tune because it . . . has lots of guitar? twangs a lot?

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

*musters enthusiiasm for Country music*

*fails miserably*

Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :

I'm not sure if this is true apathy, or just staying-up-too-late-two-days-ago blues.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

rivka...

So...um, do you happen to LIKE country music? Why are you giving me all this grief. It's a frequin' country song because I said it is!

Sheesh.

I'll add a line about losing my dog and my truck or something.

Gimme a break!

PS: I don't care.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

I really should be doing my paper. But I don't care.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Bob, yes. You got a problem with that?

And songs with trucks and/or dogs are SO thirty years ago!

. . . not that I care, of course.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

This thread slipped to the 3rd page, and that doesn't bother me one bit.

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

People can be really mean, but I'm determined not to care.

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

meh.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

P.Diddy is changing his name

This seemed like a more appropriate place for that bit of news.

--Enigmatic

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

Yeah. I was skimming the threads... and realized I really don't care.

So I bumped the Apathy thread.

Not that I care or anything.*_*

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

Anyone mind if I post?...didn't think so

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

Go ahead. I couldn't care less.

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

Tante,
Wow, I just noticed that you registered after I did, and you have a few more posts than I do.(about 1,740 more) But that's okay, because I don't care about that kind of stuff, and I doubt now and especially here would be a good time to start caring.

Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :

They're jackhammering outside my house, but no I don't care.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

Does it matter to anyone that this thread made it to the second page?

--Enigmatic

Posted by camus (Member # 8052) on :

Yes, because that makes it the Official Apathy Thread.

Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :

You didn't actually have to answer that, I wasn't really interested.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

I care not for your officiousness.

Posted by Will B (Member # 7931) on :

Being totally bored with everything is cool, or so I've heard. So I should be too bored with this thread to post. But I'm posting anyway. Everybody will know I'm not cool. Like I even care.

So am I apathetic? Whatever.

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

We have fighter jets flying around downtown Chicago this weekend, but I don't care...

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

I haven't a care in the world. I'm footloose and fancy free.

Yikes! My foot just came loose!

Anyone care to tighten it back up for me?

Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :

Sorry, Tante, I don't care that your foot came loose. Come to think of it, I'm not sorry, that would imply empathy...

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

I heard that the governmenty was planning to outlaw apathy. [Mad]

What do you think of that?

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

Oh, crap. Typo.

Whatever.

Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :

I thought about reading this thread.

Then I realized I didn't care.

Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :

My brain is tired.

But I don't really care.

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Zzzzzz