The History Book Club discussion

Things I couldn't care less about...

Anything on prime-time television the past two decades. ;)

It is harder to find good TV out there, Eric, that's for sure. Many choices, a lot of work, phew.

Kees-jan wrote: "Advertisement,gossips about the rich and famous. Prime-time television. Trends,social-media..."

I'm dizzy.

Bryan wrote: "It is harder to find good TV out there, Eric, that's for sure. Many choices, a lot of work, phew."

I only have over-the-air broadcast TV in my house, but I'm enjoying all the secondary digital channels that broadcast 50s, 60s, and 70s programs and even older movies. If it's B&W, I'll watch it. Love that old stuff... back when actors really acted.

Oh, and I watch a lot of PBS. Tampa is fortunate enough to have two PBS affiliated stations.

I couldn't care less for philosophy. No matter how much I'm trying to force myself, it just doesn't work. No matter whether it's the ideas of Plato, or Kant, or current postmodernism, reading books on philosophy seems just like a painful waste of time and most of the cases I drop even before I get started.

The only philosophy I care about is my own. ;)

The expression is 'I couldn't care less'. I could care less about that.

I understand your grief Nrtashi. I was a philosophy major in college, so I read all the guys you mentioned. It was really hard. I liked it, but it was not easy. Well, phenomenology was something I cared less about...

I couldn't care less about those phrases that find their way into the media and won't go away......two that particularly irritate me are: "boots on the ground" and "at the end of the day".

"Like" being used for - like - no reason at all.

and Assange - live, as a hologram with or without beard or goatee telling the world that maybe he'd be stuck in the embassy a little longer. Then again, maybe not...

Reality tv.

Sarah wrote: "Reality tv."
Exactly, although there is little real in the reality TV :)

Venelin wrote: "Sarah wrote: "Reality tv."
Exactly, although there is little real in the reality TV :)"

Gets to questions, what makes it a reality when most is scripted? I'm talking about everything reality even Whose Line is it anyway?. I have to say though that I do care about that tv show, since it's funny. British version as well.

Celebrity...anything. I enjoy movies and music and authors and it might be great to meet some of those people one day, but the celeb gossip and that garbage just gives me a headache. Literally. And yes, I do mean literally. If I read it or see it for more than a few minutes on TV or online, my head starts to hurt.

Sarah, I like that show "Whose Line," too. Yeah, it is shocking that many reality shows are scripted. Sad, really.

John wrote: "Celebrity...anything. I enjoy movies and music and authors and it might be great to meet some of those people one day, but the celeb gossip and that garbage just gives me a headache. Literally. A..."

I try to put that stuff low on the radar, because it gets crazy. I think the Clooney wedding wasn't too bad a spectacle, but man, they ran that one for days, it seems.

for me, the Clooney wedding was a single post on facebook by a friend who adores him. That was it.

Yeah, I didn't remember a huge run up to it, which was nice. The day of the wedding, we saw a bunch of pictures that ran for some days, but overall, much better than many other star weddings.

"Celebrities" shilling for diets and the expensive food you can order to lose millions of pounds. You could make the same food in your own kitchen if you want to lose weight and at half the cost.

American football and the Super Bowl

Betsy I am not a big Super Bowl fanatic either - love going to sports events but not so much on television.

Since television is my only option for the sports I love, I have no problem with that. I just do not like American football.

Soccer
Indian TV series
Personal lives of celebrities
Facebook
Biased Indian media (we call them presstitutes)

Let us see:

Sean Hannity
Piers Morgan
Kellyann Conway
Scott Pruitt
Anthony Scaramucci
I could add a few more but it would not be politically correct

It's hard to think about things you can't care about to come up with.
the Kardashians ?

Bentley, we are in the age of Trump, Putin, Modi and Netanyahu. There is no need to be politically correct.

I believe that we all should seek higher ground and not be brought down by others.

Here is another thing I am not interested in:

Ben Carson's dining room set

And one related to one listed in message 174
Scott Pruitt's sound proof telephone booth - yes he really paid for one. Crackers.

Bentley wrote: "Let us see:

Sean Hannity
Piers Morgan
Kellyann Conway
Scott Pruitt
Anthony Scaramucci
I could add a few more but it would not be politically correct"

Hi Bentley,
I like your list. I think I would add Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter.

Thanks Nance - thanks for adding yours.