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I just don't give a ****. Does anyone else just not give a ****?

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    #92
    Fourier
    Registered Users Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Gerry G wrote: »
    No, climate change will not end the human species, that is exactly the kind of scaremongering and bull**** that I referred to in my original post.
    Note I do agree with you on this. What's in the news is basically gloom and doom with little scientific support. I am talking solely about what the science actually says.


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    #93
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,097 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    I actually agreed with the OP, when you are constantly bombarded with crises 24/7 year after year after year then eventually it is only natural to stop giving a **** about them. "Who is preaching at me today, oh, its some privileged little scrote who never had to worry about paying bills, great, throw her on the pile with all the other sanctimonious twats".

    But then it turned out the OP isn't just tired of all that, he is actually a climate change denier, so I'm going to back away quietly.


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    #94
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    I actually agreed with the OP, when you are constantly bombarded with crises 24/7 year after year after year then eventually it is only natural to stop giving a **** about them. "Who is preaching at me today, oh, its some privileged little scrote who never had to worry about paying bills, great, throw her on the pile with all the other sanctimonious twats".

    But then it turned out the OP isn't just tired of all that, he is actually a climate change denier, so I'm going to back away quietly.

    I never denied that the climate was changing, I'm fact I stayed that the climate changes all the time. Read what you will though and keep on backing away quietly.....


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    #95
    Mr. teddywinkles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,962 ✭✭✭Mr. teddywinkles


    Gerry G wrote: »
    There were rapid climate changes in the past, have we any idea what caused those rapid changes? It certainly wasn't the plastic straws that mc donalds have gotten rid of and replaced with those pesky paper ones. It also wasn't caused by jet emissions or factory emissions or any other emission for that matter. Climate change is bandied about by every government the world over and guess what the outcome is? Yep, more tax money for said governments. Where does all this extra tax money go? Nobody knows

    Throw a 100 mill at some such ****e then another 200 there. Oh wait Jaysus were running low. Increase taxes there Pascal.


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    #96
    dubstepper
    Registered Users Posts: 592 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    I can understand not caring about certain things, celebrity stuff for instance or even taxes on smokes, but there are things which affect all mankind which you should care about.


    If you have children or relations you probably should care about the erosion of civil liberties and democracy. The erosion of these can lead to a police state in which people can end up being locked up for no good reason. Lots of examples of that around the world.


    Likewise the environment. Your quote below shows a level of ignorance about it. If everyone thought like you and just voted for their own current self interest the world would be in serious trouble in your children's life times.


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Nope, climate change has been happening since the beginning of time and will continue until the end of time. Why would I worry or care about it. Nothing can be done to stop or alter the change so instead I just get on with my life.


    This is categorically not true. We can try limit the gases we put into our air which are heating up our environment. Nobody says it will be easy but if we don't try it will lead to extreme weather events which in turn can cause the deaths on innocent people. Just because you don't know someone who dies doesn't take away the fact that they were a person that someone loved.


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    #97
    Taylor365
    Registered Users Posts: 2,994 ✭✭✭Taylor365


    Fourier wrote: »
    I didn't mention taking chauffeured vehicles anywhere. That's just a complete non-sequitur.
    I don't recall mentioning that you did.


    The point is industry and big business will keep polluting the planet while the average Joe tries to save it.




    But i recycle.


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    #98
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users Posts: 4,973 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    Gerry G wrote: »
    There are so many people who care so much about all of the above as if it's the most important thing in the whole world but honestly I just don't give a **** about any of it. I know I probably should but I just don't. I feel completely unaffected by all the bull****. Anyone else feel the same?

    Some people are disillusioned with life and as religion is no longer a player in the western world they are desperate for something to believe in, things like climate change fill that emptiness.


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    #99
    Fourier
    Registered Users Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Taylor365 wrote: »
    I don't recall mentioning that you did.


    The point is industry and big business will keep polluting the planet while the average Joe tries to save it.




    But i recycle.
    Oh sorry, I thought it was directed at me.

    I agree that as such our efforts are swamped by industry and big business. However the same was true of CFCs and the ozone hole and that was reversed with political action against the interests of big business, so I don't think it's a lost cause.


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    #100
    Somedaythefire
    Registered Users Posts: 758 ✭✭✭Somedaythefire


    Sounds like you really do give a f OP.


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    #101
    realitykeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Religion? Not a single gram of **** given.

    And on faith, where do you stand? Surely you could give a wisp. You are correct on one point. You should.


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    #102
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    realitykeeper wrote: »
    And on faith, where do you stand? Surely you could give a wisp. You are correct on one point. You should.

    Don't have any faith either, it's a false hope. I don't begrudge anyone who has faith though. If it gets you through the day the so be it


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    #103
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Somedaythefire wrote: »
    Sounds like you really do give a f OP.

    Nope, I care about my family and close friends. After that, the "problems" of the world mean nothing to me


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    #104
    Fourier
    Registered Users Posts: 10,558 ✭✭✭✭Fourier


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Nope, I care about my family and close friends. After that, the "problems" of the world mean nothing to me
    The question though is more about when the problems of the world might affect your family, either now or in the future. I don't think a clean division like this is always possible.


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    #105
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Climate change? Don't give a ****
    50c extra for fags? Don't give a ****
    Some young autistic girl sails around the world in a boat? Don't give a ****
    Brexit? Don't give a ****
    Some pseudo celebrity is angry about some **** or other on Twitter? Guess what, don't give a **** about that either.
    Religion? Not a single gram of **** given.

    There are so many people who care so much about all of the above as if it's the most important thing in the whole world but honestly I just don't give a **** about any of it. I know I probably should but I just don't. I feel completely unaffected by all the bull****. Anyone else feel the same?

    Btw, I could write a full short novel on all the things I don't give a **** about.....

    I like you Gerry G... that's why I'm going to kill you last.


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    #106
    Keyzer
    Registered Users Posts: 4,331 ✭✭✭Keyzer


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    I actually agreed with the OP, when you are constantly bombarded with crises 24/7 year after year after year then eventually it is only natural to stop giving a **** about them. "Who is preaching at me today, oh, its some privileged little scrote who never had to worry about paying bills, great, throw her on the pile with all the other sanctimonious twats".

    But then it turned out the OP isn't just tired of all that, he is actually a climate change denier, so I'm going to back away quietly.

    He didn't deny climate change, he just doesn't give a fúck about it.

    MASSIVE DIFFERENCE.


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    #107
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,097 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Keyzer wrote: »
    He didn't deny climate change, he just doesn't give a fúck about it.

    MASSIVE DIFFERENCE.
    Nope. He is a denier of man made climate change, both its causes and effects. Read his posts.
    Gerry G wrote: »
    The only thing about climate change that is affecting my kids is the carbon taxes that the government keep levying on us all. Apart from that, the vast vast majority of the world is wholly unaffected by climate change
    Gerry G wrote: »
    Nope, climate change has been happening since the beginning of time and will continue until the end of time. Why would I worry or care about it. Nothing can be done to stop or alter the change so instead I just get on with my life.
    Gerry G wrote: »
    There were rapid climate changes in the past, have we any idea what caused those rapid changes? It certainly wasn't the plastic straws that mc donalds have gotten rid of and replaced with those pesky paper ones. It also wasn't caused by jet emissions or factory emissions or any other emission for that matter. Climate change is bandied about by every government the world over and guess what the outcome is? Yep, more tax money for said governments. Where does all this extra tax money go? Nobody knows
    Gerry G wrote: »
    No two climate changes have been the same, hence why this one is also different. The next one in a another couple of hundred years will be different again. See what I'm getting at? Climates change all the time for one reason or another, nothing we do will stop that so why stress about it?
    Gerry G wrote: »
    How has our actions been proven to help the current climate situation. What has changed for the better with our actions. We are continually told that things are getting worse and worse so what is actually getting better?
    Gerry G wrote: »
    No, climate change will not end the human species, that is exactly the kind of scaremongering and bull**** that I referred to in my original post.


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    #108
    Church on Tuesday
    Registered Users Posts: 3,858 ✭✭✭Church on Tuesday


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Climate change? Don't give a ****
    50c extra for fags? Don't give a ****
    Some young autistic girl sails around the world in a boat? Don't give a ****
    Brexit? Don't give a ****
    Some pseudo celebrity is angry about some **** or other on Twitter? Guess what, don't give a **** about that either.
    Religion? Not a single gram of **** given.

    There are so many people who care so much about all of the above as if it's the most important thing in the whole world but honestly I just don't give a **** about any of it. I know I probably should but I just don't. I feel completely unaffected by all the bull****. Anyone else feel the same?

    Btw, I could write a full short novel on all the things I don't give a **** about.....


    That all kinda reads like a particularly sassy Beyonce song.


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    #109
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Church on Tuesday wrote: »
    That all kinda reads like a particularly sassy Beyonce song.

    If you can supply the music is be happy to sell you the lyrics ðŸ˜


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    #110
    stoneill
    Registered Users Posts: 3,610 ✭✭✭stoneill


    I was going to reply, but I couldn't give a sh1t


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    #111
    debok
    Closed Accounts Posts: 814 ✭✭✭debok


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Climate change? Don't give a ****
    50c extra for fags? Don't give a ****
    Some young autistic girl sails around the world in a boat? Don't give a ****
    Brexit? Don't give a ****
    Some pseudo celebrity is angry about some **** or other on Twitter? Guess what, don't give a **** about that either.
    Religion? Not a single gram of **** given.

    There are so many people who care so much about all of the above as if it's the most important thing in the whole world but honestly I just don't give a **** about any of it. I know I probably should but I just don't. I feel completely unaffected by all the bull****. Anyone else feel the same?

    Btw, I could write a full short novel on all the things I don't give a **** about.....

    Don't worry someone else will give a **** on your behalf. Or get offended on your behalf


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    #112
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    stoneill wrote: »
    I was going to reply, but I couldn't give a sh1t

    Ehhhhhhhh, but you just replied dude. Some of the posters on here would call that ironic or insinuate that you were in denial about some **** or other and they would read in to your reply completely wrong and when the can't figure you out they would call you a denier or some other bull**** term that's new nowadays


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    #113
    faceman
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    Fourier wrote: »
    The question though is more about when the problems of the world might affect your family, either now or in the future. I don't think a clean division like this is always possible.

    He’s too blinded by his ego to his the logic of your argument.


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    #114
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    faceman wrote: »
    He’s too blinded by his ego to his the logic of your argument.

    Ego schmego


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    #115
    realitykeeper
    Registered Users Posts: 4,138 ✭✭✭realitykeeper


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Don't have any faith either, it's a false hope. I don't begrudge anyone who has faith though. If it gets you through the day the so be it

    What about faith in yourself? Would you study for a degree? Would you rise to a challenge?


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    #116
    Wayne Jarvis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,076 ✭✭✭Wayne Jarvis


    This thread is funny to me. Someone says he only cares about things related to his life and the lives of his family and friends (which I agree with because I am the same) and he can't understand why people get so worked up about things they have no control over or that don't affect their lives at all. Then at least half the posts in the thread are from people getting worked up at him for having that opinion despite them having no control over that opinion and it not affecting their lives at all!
    Those posts are the funniest ones in the thread.


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    #117
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Some young lad in America was videoed having an altercation with an American Indian a few months ago and the internet was up in arms about it even though they had no clue what they were watching. There were even celebrities trying to get his address to do God knows what to him.

    Look at this c-list moron threatening teenagers on the internet. What a brave man he is. He got over 2,000 retweets and 6,400 likes.

    https://twitter.com/michaelrapaport/status/1086701428645650432?lang=en

    Now the same people who made a 16 or 17 year old boys life a misery are crying "leave the poor child alone" when someone criticises a girl who is about the same age. Suddenly something that was perfectly acceptable in January is now child abuse.

    It's hard to keep track of what I'm supposed to care about.


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    #118
    nthclare
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,316 ✭✭✭nthclare


    I don't give a ****, couldn't give a bollox, **** me if I care.


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    #119
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Guy Person wrote: »
    This thread is funny to me. Someone says he only cares about things related to his life and the lives of his family and friends (which I agree with because I am the same) and he can't understand why people get so worked up about things they have no control over or that don't affect their lives at all. Then at least half the posts in the thread are from people getting worked up at him for having that opinion despite them having no control over that opinion and it not affecting their lives at all!
    Those posts are the funniest ones in the thread.

    And the other half are people who have never met me, telling me that I should care about stuff and if I don't then I'm egotistical. I think they fail to realise that the absolute biggest thing I couldn't give a **** about is what people think of me. Never have and never will


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    #120
    Blueshoe
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    Gerry G wrote: »
    And the other half are people who have never met me, telling me that I should care about stuff and if I don't then I'm egotistical. I think they fail to realise that the absolute biggest thing I couldn't give a **** about is what people think of me. Never have and never will

    The more they complain the less reason to care.


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    Loafing Oaf
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