Things that you don't give a $hit about.

Huntergonzo

wiggle16 wrote: »

My brother, his wife and their kid were made homeless three months ago when the shíthole they were living in was condemned.
I had to move home a couple of years ago and have not been able to get out since.

All of us work full time.

So I'm sure you can sleep soundly at night, knowing there is no housing crisis in Ireland and all is right with the world.

You can go and swing.

I'm sorry to hear that, never nice to see people in those sort of circumstances. I hope you and your family can get back on your feet soon.

I worked along side and assisted a homeless department in a Local Authority for several years in the recent past. Unfortunately honesty is often at an absolute premium when people are declaring their homeless circumstances.

Now undoubtedly there were some legitimate, unfortunate cases (eg abusive relationships, repossessions etc), but in my experience the vast majority of people who found themselves 'homeless' fell into at least one of the following 4 categories:

1. Living in their parents house, having as many children as possible to use as collateral for a council house.

2. Have drug or alcohol problems and got kicked out. They were usually living with friends or a partner, but denied this vehemently.

3. Are travellers, not too many of them looking for mortgages or legitimate work.

4. Are looking for Homeless HAP rather than regular HAP as the rates are better.

Pac1Man

Politics

73bc61lyohr0mu

My existence...

Airyfairy12

Hearing about other people and whats going on in their lives - Gossip, I dont give a **** about it and I wish people would stop telling me about whats going on in the lives of people that I dont know or care about.

I also dont care about people who have gone travelling, they put it on all their social media, tell everyone they come into contact with, no one cares, the only person that cares that they went travelling, is themselves, no one else gives a ****.

NIMAN

To be honest, the more I watch the news these days, the more I realise that so much of it has no bearing on most people's lives.

OK so Brexit, Irish matters etc are important to us to a degree, but topics getting huge coverage, like the HK anti-extradition protests, I could care less about. I won't be flying to HK so the airport could be blocked for the next decade and I'll survive.

M.T. Cranium

THAT GIRL THAT MARRIED THAT PRINCE

THAT PRINCE THAT MARRIED THAT GIRL

THE MARRIAGE OF THE GIRL AND THE PRINCE

TERRIBLE THINGS THEY SAID ABOUT EACH OTHER (THE GIRLS WHO MARRIED THE PRINCES)

STOIC ENDURANCE OF THE GRANDMOTHER

STUFF ON THE NEWS

STUFF ON THAT PROGRAM AFTER THE NEWS THAT PRETENDS TO BE NEWS BUT IS JUST DROSS

PEOPLE WHO MAKE SNIDE COMMENTS ABOUT CAPLOCKS

Graces7

SAMTALK wrote: »

The row going on between posters about landlords !

reminds me of the show song re the rancher and the cowman not being friends!

whisky_galore

Misery porn radio.

Phone-in public whining on about vandals or potholes or bins.

Rare disease of the week slot, a regular feature of Irish talk radio.

retalivity

How meat eating/airplanes are destroying the world.
Other peoples children.
Dogs and pets.
The honelessness "crisis"

Iseedeadpixels

Greyfox wrote: »

Social media - Just a massive waste of time

Driving - If you live in the city its riddiculously expensive, definitely not worth it

PC's or Mac's - no need for them anymore

Playing online - Single player games are way better

Reality TV and anything on RTE

Getting a free mobile upgrade - So many eejits fall for this and pay triple the price

The so called great works or literature and Poetry

Brexit, Trump & Golf

Expensive Food, clothes & alcohol - It never feels worth the extra €'s

Going to gigs - the music doesnt actually sound better than at home

Are you me :eek:

retalivity

Actually going to festivals is another one. I dont care how amazing electric shindig or the music at all tomorrow now was unreal, you still spent 300+ quid for a couple of days standing in a field and sleeping in a tent

whisky_galore

retalivity wrote: »

Actually going to festivals is another one. I dont care how amazing electric shindig or the music at all tomorrow now was unreal, you still spent 300+ quid for a couple of days standing in a field and sleeping in a tent

That would be my idea of hell, I don't get the appeal.
Moreso if it rains and the place turns into a WW1 battlefield. You couldn't pay me to go.

Captain_Crash

I don't care about companies coming here and dodging tax... So what if some big US multi national pays 45c per year... not my problem. If we didn't offer them generous "tax arrangements" then they prob wouldn't be here in the first place anyway. Really it doesn't effect you or me!

Raconteuse

The British royal family. Although I know loads of people don't give a sh1t about them, especially here on Boards, but the obsession with them that does exist is baffling. They seem like fairly nice people mostly - relatively unassuming, and probably also find the hysteria over them baffling (particularly the older generation) and they're the state's figureheads etc, but the forelock tugging adoration - cringe. Particularly from non British folk.

I guess I do give a sh1t about the worshipping of them. :pac:

Music festivals are actually great if you've somewhere comfortable to stay (was lucky enough to stay at a house for a few Electric Picnics) but camping - misery.

lmimmfn

Being "woke"

Raconteuse

Spiders. Harmless lil dudes in this country.

(Yeah I would freak if one with a body the size of a conker appeared but I haven't seen one of those in this country since I was eight).

jcorr

The repeal the eighth and gay marriage referendums.

pgj2015

women getting paid as much as their male counterparts

pgj2015

gay pride parades

garyscargo

Greeting cards.

And any bullsh1t day/event/occasion/invented shyte that harangues me into having to f**king buy a greeting card.  Birthdays, anniversaries, kid/work/health/exam/relationship/whatever-related crap, and the big "V day". If you ever want to see human suffering first hand then just watch the miserable men rollings eyes at each other while moping around the Valentine's day card rack trying to find some ridiculously overpriced POS that will pass muster. 

castletownman

The rugby world cup.

I wonder how many of the goys will be completely out of the loop because the time zone difference will mean that a large chunk of the games will be on before a pub opens.

Junkyard Tom

People, not using. punctuation marks; in the correct! places

Montage of Feck

How many points some gob****e got in their leaving cert.

vriesmays

Charities - they only give about 10% of what they collect to the needy and pocket the rest.

galwayllm

Most of everything said in this thread...


Vegans
Social media
Charities
Feminism

Being the main ones...

Woke Hogan

Captain_Crash wrote: »

I don't care about companies coming here and dodging tax... So what if some big US multi national pays 45c per year... not my problem. If we didn't offer them generous "tax arrangements" then they prob wouldn't be here in the first place anyway. Really it doesn't effect you or me!

Remember that if you ever complain that the government doesn't have enough money in the pot for certain public services.

Junkyard Tom

Space. Just nothing out there but the bitter cold. Boring.

Airyfairy12

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Space. Just nothing out there but the bitter cold. Boring.

Read the Universe in your hand by Christophe Galfard, it proves your statement wrong and no doubt will give you a deep interest in space.
It's so interesting it will melt your brain.

pgj2015

people in Ireland who win the lottery, they always have it on the news, a shop in birr just sold the winning ticket for 10 million euro, I dont know them so couldnt give a $hit, even if i knew them i wouldnt give a $hit.

whisky_galore

pgj2015 wrote: »

people in Ireland who win the lottery, they always have it on the news, a shop in birr just sold the winning ticket for 10 million euro, I dont know them so couldnt give a $hit, even if i knew them i wouldnt give a $hit.

Free advertising for the lottery. I don't indulge and couldn't care less who wins. Don't know why it is even national "news".

NoteAgent

Woke Hogan wrote: »

For nothing as well.

Private landlords are scum.

"For Nothing"
So foregoing spending on holidays, new cars, luxuries, etc. to scrape enough money together to buy an investment property to give a little more security for your future is "nothing" to you? You sound incredibly entitled.

NoteAgent

Irish Rugby/ Rugby in general

NoteAgent

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Instagram models and social media influencers - I have friends who talk about the lives of instagram models they follow like they know them personally. Theres cafes and restaurants that are now offering free meals to people who have over a 1000 followers. What is happening.

This might be the worst. I feel sorry for these influencers when this whole instagram trend dies and they're out on there arse with no income. Where are they going to be when they're 50? But then again these people cant see past the next weekend let alone in 10 years time

Junkyard Tom

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

Read the Universe in your hand by Christophe Galfard, it proves your statement wrong and no doubt will give you a deep interest in space.
It's so interesting it will melt your brain.

I dunno. They pointed a telescope at a blank part of the sky to see if there was anything of interest there, here's the pic:

https://assets.newatlas.com/dims4/default/e0518ce/2147483647/strip/true/crop/661x441+70+0/resize/1160x774!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.newatlas.com%2Farchive%2Fhubble-ultraviolet-image.png

... nothing new, same as the rest of the sky.

greencap

- Farmers or what they want.
- All of Africa.
- All of the middle east.
- All of rural Ireland.
- My neighbors.
- Me too. Womens issues.
- Any advert for absolutely anything on the radio.
- ''celebrity news''...all of it without exception .... negative shts are given.
- 97.2% of general sports news.
- 100% of Irish sports news.
- American bi-partisan shyte.
- Designer clothes.
- Concerts and festivals.
- What women over 30 want.
- Anyones exam results.
- When you are watching a music video, what age you are when watching a music video, whether your comment was first.
- Any film with the rock, vin diesel or especially will smith.
- Parent+child parking spaces.

Dual wheels

Blacks

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

This thread mostly consists of people complaining about things they clearly do give a **** about.

freshpopcorn

pgj2015 wrote: »

people in Ireland who win the lottery, they always have it on the news, a shop in birr just sold the winning ticket for 10 million euro, I dont know them so couldnt give a $hit, even if i knew them i wouldnt give a $hit.

I have seen the lotto wins being reported on international news before so I doubt it's an Irish thing.
I do feel sorry for the staff tough having to act all excited about the shop selling the winning ticker for the media.

Graces7

the weather. ie folk acting as if rain was a life threatening disaster. it is just..... rain. nothing to curse about or freak out about.

phew. I needed to say that!

Ubbquittious

freshpopcorn wrote: »

I have seen the lotto wins being reported on international news before so I doubt it's an Irish thing.
I do feel sorry for the staff tough having to act all excited about the shop selling the winning ticker for the media.

The shops usually get a few quid as well when there's a big win

freshpopcorn

Ubbquittious wrote: »

The shops usually get a few quid as well when there's a big win

Yes, I think the owners get €15000.
However the staff might be lucky to get a night out. I'd just feel like a wally jumping around the place if I worked in the shop!

Vic_08

Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »

This thread mostly consists of people complaining about things they clearly do give a **** about.

Competition was needed for the "Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?" thread.

Mad_maxx

vriesmays wrote: »

Charities - they only give about 10% of what they collect to the needy and pocket the rest.

The only charity I contribute to is the capuchin centre, no left wing agenda like Simon or fr Peter McVerry

Edgware

Palestinians, fcuk em. Started all that plane hijacking ****e and despised by their "Arab brothers"

StereoSound

People screaming at other people that they are racist for every little thing. If I fart and it sounds foreign then I'm destined to be beaten with the racist stick ! Stick your racist accusation rant up your crack ! I don't care much at all for people looking to make a big deal out of something that had no negative intentions to begin with.. People translate things in their own little minds and it's usually negative.

Lewis_Benson

Politics,
I dont care who's running the country.

They are going to do what they like, and unfortunately we cant do anything about it, theres too much money in brown envelopes being passed around for anything to ever change.

I dont care about Brexit.

The news.
I just dont listen to it.

Celebrities,
I dont care about them, and I dont need to know what their kids names are or what they had for dinner.
I dont care about who's married to who, I dont need to know.

Local gossip.
Just not interested in what Mary down the road is up to this sunday.

"The Football"
I've no interest in what Brazilian or Portuguese player has recently signed for liverpool or Manchester United, and no I didnt see the games over the weekend.

GAA,
I dont care about hurling/Gaelic football

A United Ireland,
I dont care about how much you hate the brits and want ireland back, the people living in Northern Ireland today havnt done anything to you.
It's too far in the past now and it's time we just got on with our lives.

Chart music,
I dont class it as good music, so no, I'm not interested in what's going to number one in the Irish charts.

Rugby, soccer, all American sports, who wins what Oscar, most chart music and how much anyone has paid for their house/car/shoes/whatever.

Redneck Reject

I don't care about hurling. To me it is a cross between hockey and baseball.

LenWoods

The GAA

LenWoods

Inter county hills have eyes football matches