10 Things I Don’t Give A Fuck About
1. Whether people breast or bottle fed/feed their children. As long as they feed them something I think they’re pretty good parents.
2. What car you drive. Nope, sorry, just don’t care. Have no interest in cars and couldn’t care less how many whatsits to the gallon it gets, fancy gizmos or cup holders it sports. Yawn.
3. Celebrities. Who they are, who they are shagging, or not shagging, what they wear, what their houses look like, nothing, none of it, zip, nada.
4. Whether you think I am too fat, too thin, to tall, too short, to young, too old. These things are all your issues, not mine and I refuse to let you make them mine.
5. What pathetic excuses you come up with for thinking its acceptable to open a sentence with ‘I’m not racist, but’.
6. Whether you think my 3.5 year old ought to be out of nappies at night. She’s not. Deal with it.
7. Same goes for drinking out of a sippy cup at home. Her, not me.
8. And her being naked all the time. Again her, not me. You don’t like naked, don’t come to our house.
9. What the Daily Mail says.
10. Whether you think my aspirations to make money from my writing and blogging are stupid or misplaced. I don’t care any more, I’m so over it.
What has pissed you off recently? What do you just not give a fuck about?
I'm Heather, an ex expat, now back in blighty and living in Lancashire. Which is just like Lapland only less snowy...and stuff.
I could raise my glass and holler hear hear to everyone f-ing one of those! Well done you. You know what I don’t give a flying eff if I’m on the Top Tots 100. Yeah!!!!
(ok maybe just a little bit….)
Spot on!
Quite right!
That vlog thing – I’m anonymous, so I’m trying to think of a way around it. Either it could be a film of my hands doing something, or I could do another cartoon. What do you think? And when is the deadline again, because otherwise I may just have to be crap and join the next one.
xxx
I hear you on all counts, except my 3.5 year old is a very willful boy.
Well written lady!
Im in your club by default. This is a good list. Looking forward to that Daily Mail post…
I will think of more for the rest of today, like a song that won’t go away… this is in my head now!
Loved this post, Heather. Most of your points, actually all of them, are just me too. Cars, breastfeeding, body weight & appearance, who cares indeed. Or who should care. It’s just another sign of judging and that’s something I really don’t like very much. The nakedness I can deal with too (although not in a sauna!!). I especially don’t give a fuck about the ignorant twats who continue to judge my daughter and her behaviour because she is disabled. That’s their problem, and they need to get over it.
CJ xx
Love this post! And just totally agree with you! If you saw my blog yesterday your see something I read in that horrid daily mail just really pissed me off! I never normally let anything I read get my back up and I know people are entitled to there own views on things but GRRRRHHH – Getting annoyed now at just thinking about it!!!
Well I never! I, for one, care deeply about breastfeeding in my special edition hybrid (the one just like Kate Winslet’s — though I think she’s a bit too thin these days, don’t you?). I’m not racist, but I just can’t bear taking the bus with all those bottle-feeding brown immigrants that I’m always reading about in the Daily Mail. I mean, it’s nearly as bad as those horrid money-obsessed mummy bloggers who let their 3.5 year-olds run around naked, drinking from sippy cups and soiling themselves at night. What is this country coming to?!
So glay you said ‘her not me’ or i’d have visions of you running around naked drinking from a sippy cup
Although, I wouldn’t give a fuck if you did.
This was a great post, thanks for sharing.
Beki xxx
ha ha, well, yeah me too, a bit. some. well you know, quite a lot. cough cough.
thank you my dear.
the dead line is Tuesday midnight to have it posted on your blog and the url emailed to us. you can totally do just your hands, or stand behind the camera and show us stuff
thank you my love. Was just in one of those pissed off moods this morning, you know?
You know, if you want to drink out of a sippy cup at home (or on the run) Heather, then that’s your choice. You don’t have to tell us it’s the three year old!
Well said that woman! Why do people think we should give a shit about their own issues with judging people?
Look I will make an agreement with you, you get someone to give me a flip and I will do a VLOG for you. A real flip not a pretend one and one I can keep! Hows that for a challenge!
oh no, i’ve turned michelloui into a raging wall of anger! Oops. Looking forward to your list though.
I know, i know! Makes me seeth with rage. But am not caring any more, not me, no sireebob…ahem.
Back in my day, you know, you didn’t see any of this coming onto peoples blogs and leaving comments about what other people write, these days people think they can just go round willy nilly giving their opinion like anyone is interested. Must be something those dirty foreigners, not that i have anything against them mind, brought in with them.
If i ever do i promise to vlog it!
Fabulous. Funny. SO true. More power to you! Now, if I could just stop giving a crap…
I agree with all of the above!
Hear, Hear to all of the above. Today, I don’t care if friends think I have become boring, and a social misfit. I am happy. Most of the time.
Oooh I feel like I should be giving you a round of applause now – that was brilliant and soooo true….
GD it Heather – you hit the nail on the head there!
BTW, my 5 year old is still in “nappies” at night as is my 3 1/2 yo (though she probably doesn’t need them) and, of course, the 18 month old. And my 3 1/2 yo would still be using sippy cups if I hadn’t thrown a bunch of the tops out in a fit of plastic fear. In fact, so would my 5 yo!
I think I just might copy this one. I believe you have started a meme here missy!
The only thing on your list I do care about is the darn what other’s think of me. I don’t want to care. But to be honest I do. Working on it, though.
And I’m working on my vlog too!
Frig that, seriously. Listen, the rest of the world doesn’t give a flying leap about your Top Tots 100 list. I found your blogs because they’re good not because they’re on some list somewhere.
Of course if there were some top 100 list here in Canada I would probably want to be on it too.
Damn, you saw through that, huh?
ummm, ‘kay.. Runs off to find out what a Flip is…
It’s so hard to stop giving a crap what others think isn’t it? today however I feel i have beaten it. tomorrow, is a whole other day tho…
Well, thank you very much my dear, good to know I’m in sound company.
Hear hear to that!
thank you! Feels much better to have gotten that off my chest.
Today i don’t give a shit, tomorrow I may slip, but i shall keep trying not to…that’s the best we can do!
Take a bow, Lapland Lady. Great idea – I don’t think I can resist the urge to use it for inspiration.
Love it! And couldn’t agree more!
i don’t want to care about the celebs but I just get sucked in… and the more I have to do (and the more serious it is, the more I read it). But love the attitude, especially about not caring what other people think of you. Must embrace it more myself! x
I agree with every single one of your points. Every single one (apart from my Heat addiction of course, but I don’t actually CARE, am just mildly entertained). My 5.5 yr old has only just graduated out of nighttime nappies and the only reason I’m a teensy bit worried about the 3.5 yr old is that I don’t want to carry a sackload of nappies in my rucksack. My 7 yr old once spent an entire naked afternoon in our local playground, apart from a string of pearls. Luckily it was a hot day, otherwise I’d probably have had social services investigating me. Should really write my own post on this issue. Shall stop clogging up your comments now…
Bravo darling, Bravo. Am with you on all of them.
Wow! Good for you. I wish I didn’t care what people think….it would make life so much easier. :0) xx
I try not to care. today i’m having a good day, today i don’t give a shit.
tomorrow is another day.
brilliant Couldnt Give a Fuck attitude
I seriously couldnt give a fuck about the Daily Mail & the trash it spins out either…cant wait to see you stick it to ‘em!
oh God yeah, those backpacks are going to be mighty full of nappies! Can’t
wait to read the post on the naked playground incident!
thank you! good to know i’m in good company!
On the days when it works and i really don’t care it does make life easier.
the daily mail are just irritating fuck heads that should all be taken
outside and…well…given a stern talking to, shall we say.
I second all of these. Nothing I hated more than people telling me that my children should be dressed when they’re home.
An attitude we would all benefit from. Great post, I may write my own.
The older I get the more I don’t give a stuff – I am what I am (there’s a song there somewhere!). I admire your balls – say it like it is lady!
It’s good to rant
Fab.
(Although am I allowed to confess at this point that I used to have a guilty addiction to celebrity mags, which I am slowly weaning myself off)
ha ha, yeah. i know i know.
Feel free! Would love to see other peoples rants.
thank you me dear.
It’s just stupid, isn’t it? and what bloody business is it of theirs anyway?
thank you, i look forward to reading it!
‘xactly!
ha ha, a lot of people are – it’s nothing to be ashamed of, i just don’t have any interest in it personally.
My ‘things’
1. People who think I need to conform
2. The ‘soaps’ (fine if you do though)
3. How tidy my house is and whether my garden is maintained
4. How I look (and dress)
5. How much money I make (or don’t make)
(not giving an ‘f’ still very much in progress though!)
I do envy your carefree attitude. I so wish I didn’t care what others thought. Unfortunately I do, far too much for my own good.
Love it! AHHHH the breast vs battle debate. What a nightmare. So glad that is over. Why do other people always think they know best when it comes to your children. Does being their mother not count for anything?
You tell em…
*such* a good list.
you probably don’t give a f**k, but i agree wth pretty much all of it
Today I will also be working very hard at not caring. About anything. I won’t succeed, but I’ll do better than if I didn’t try at all – and you list has at least convinced me that not caring is the thing to aim for.
I’m running H it’s been along read today and I’m not nearly finished. Tons of stuff I don’t give a fuck about and yes my vlog is ready…actually I’m already thinking about the next one
I totally agree with you and Etica above. Today I dont’ give a f…. about anything at all as I’ve just lost one of my friends to cancer! Damned!!!!!!!!!
Wow, this post got a lot of comments! I like the idea and may borrow the idea for a lazy Sunday post on my blog one week. I came over to tell you that you were this week’s wordless Wednesday winner on my Chez Aspie blog.
i know what you mean, today i’m having a good day and on’t give a fuck, but tomorrow…well, we’ll see. Great list!
It is, when it works, wonderful. however there are plenty of days when I care too much for my own liking what people think. They are getting less now though. maybe it’s something that comes with age – i certainly care a lot less now than I used to.
Exactly! Why do they think their opinion is more worthy than yours or do they just assume you don’t have one? Grrr
Thank you! it’s always good to hear
I think it’s a pretty good goal to have. It’s not one i manage everyday but more and more often the older I get.
excellent, so pleased to hear the vlogn is done! how exciting! i know what you mean, some days there just seem to be so many posts you want to read and nowhere near enough time. you run on, we’ll catch up later x
Totally agree with all the above and would like to personally add “all the people who don’t get where I’m coming from”. It used to bug me but as when I turned 40 I just thought what the hell, fuck ‘em. It feels great.
Oh Antonella, I’m so sorry! And there’s me with my frivolous shouty list. ((hugs))
Thank you!
you are more than welcome! I won? Really? oh wow! cool!
Dear Noble Savage,
Thank you for giving me a laugh today. I deeply value all the laughs in my life!
I raise my glass of wine to you. Life is so much easier when you just get rid of your ego so nobody has the power to offend it/you/your hair/your life/your everything. So much energy is freed up for more interesting endeavors.
(I kept telling this to my teenage daughters when they agonized over their every hair. They said: You just don’t understand!)
PS: Naked is good.
oh yes! an excellent one! I used to spend ages trying to explain myself or writing long rambling explanations. no more!
I found out last night that I don’t give a fuck if a restaurant was closed down by the health department for a variety of infractions. If I really like the food, i go to it on the first night it is reopened.
Naked is always good. Well, unless it’s really cold and then it’s not the best thing..but hey ho.
It is only something that i have come to accept recently living out here where i rarely wear make up or dress up or any of that stuff and now i don’t even think about it anymore. I think I can genuinely say i don’t care what people think of my appearance. Very easy to say when you’re stuck out here at the ass end of nowhere though.
ha ha ha, and you’re still alive to tell the tale so it can’t be all bad!
Fucking inspired! In fact Number 8 has made me seriously consider a naked rule in my house. At least it would mean less clothes to wash…
That’s an awesome list and I agree with pretty much all of them apart from the Celebs…..I’m such a gossip whore!!! The Daily Mail is horridious and I try not to ever read it!!!!!
it really does! today she took her pj’s off at 8am and refused to put any
clothes on all day! result on the washing front!
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Good to hear more people coming out against the evil that is The Daily Mail
But I was dead serious.
Something the Americans dreamed up, undoubtedly.
We Americans are constantly scheming. Now if you’ll get naked and join me and the laser pointer in the sauna we can discuss this further.
yeah, those Yanks, you can’t trust em.
laser sauna…
Awesome post!!!!
I just found your blog, via my blog and laughed out loud at this post. So well written!
I am so with you on the celebrities.
And thinking about the naked thing (my daughter is also pro-naked) I imagine dealing with that in your weather is a bit harder than in mine (where it is hard enough).
It’s only hard if they want to go out. in the summer they often run around
inside and outside naked but even my crazy kids have come to understand
that -20C is no place to naked!
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Are we twins? 100% with you super lady!
thank you my dear! Good to know we think so alike!
You always make me laugh, you’re so funny. All these are spot on. x
LMAO once again. Having a bad day hun?
Good for you!
Agree with all your list, esp celebrities. Don’t even know who the ones on the covers of the mags are any more (except Brad and Angelina and Jen).
As for the dry at night thing… My oldest wasn’t dry at night till age 8, and my second till age 6. I DID care, because it became very expensive. Pull-ups for older ages were 45p each, so it was nearly a quid a day for a couple of years. 700 quid a year. I bought a couple of different brands of washable pants to try out, as recommended by my health visitor, and they were absolutely hopeless. So that was another 16 pounds wasted…
If I’d been blogging then, maybe I could have got some free samples to review, and some advertising, to help out.
Thank you my dear!
I was a bit. lol
That’s a good idea there, you know. If we get to that stage I’ll consider the reviews. £1 day is very expensive, isn’t it?
LOL-duh! Hope today is better!
Yay! Go Heather, go Heather…
I feel all inspired now. Think I might have me a go at this.
oh do, it’s very cathartic!
oh i love this post!!!
I dont give a fuck about snobby horrid people who i have to serve where i work, who throw their money, cards etc at me because i am obviously a low life who works on a checkout. I am on a checkout because my bump is massive and it pays the bills so next time you treat me like shit i will start double scanning your shopping
I’m with you on all of these except the Celebs one. Probably because I’ve spent so many years (20? eek!) reporting on and interviewing them, which makes it hard to switch off completely.
Personally I think ambition is great – and I’m very much looking forward to reading that best-selling book about your experience of living in Lapland x
i think the main thing i don’t give a fuck about which makes a lot of people uncomfortable is i honestly don’t care if people like me or not – i won’t change for anyone and if people don’t like it they can fuck right off.
tbh most people have – i have very few friends – but do i care?
no. i . do. not.
Brilliant. Love it all but especially the Daily Mail. I’m so glad I’m not alone in my dislike. Great post.
Ooops. Just realized that you have a little girl, not boy. Sorry I misunderstood in the vlog with the snow. BTW I’m all for nudity. And both my kids are complete and total nudists. It takes major psychological warfare to get them dressed for almost any occasion. And my older sister even lived in a nudist colony for a while when I was still a kid. And I’m so not into celebrities either. Love your list. You are brilliant and I heart you.
Thank fuck someone said all that! Me? I don’t give a crap that some people think the world might end because my 2.5 year old son *whispers* still drinks from a bottle at bed time. Eek.
If I could have back all the brain space that has been wasted on celebrity gossip, I might actually be able to make some damn money with all this writing/blogging stuff, too.
But as it is: they are so pretty and shiny! I can’t resist!!
thank you, and welcome.
people are so rude, aren’t they?
it must be hard not to care after investing so much time intol the scene through work. a definte exception to the rule there!
ahh, now this one i wish i didnt care about but i do, probably too much. good on you!
oh no, there are swathes of us out there that detest The Mail and all it stands for. what is worrying though is that so many read it…
i have both a girl and a boy. the boy was in the video whilst the girl was inside sulking and probably taking all her clothes off.
your sister lived on a nudist collony?* how cool is that? i would love to go and try it out for a few weeks to see how it felt, how much it changed me.
oh my god! no! not a bottle!
sigh
some people are just tossers arent they? what the hell has it got to do with them anyway?
ha ha, yeah, i know what you mean. I had a phase where i read Heat and the like and actually cared. These days it all seems to foreign and odd to me. It’s probably living out here that does it, cut off from the constant stream of it.
Oh man, I love your list! Not sure I can even add anything right now (too exhausted from cleaning up). But just had to nudge you and ask disreetly behind my hand……. our 3.5yo’s are supposed to be out of night nappies? Er. Right-o. I’ll get right on that *yawns and rolls eyes to the very patient heavens* Seriously.
Hahaha, love it and have to say I am with you on 1-4! And if I was in same situation with my daughter would be with you on the nappies and cup thing too – why do other people think its their place to judge!!
My four year old isn’t out of nappies at night either, nor is she likely to be anytime soon. Hey ho.
According to some they are. I fail to understand why it matters. Sigh.
God only knows. i do wonder about theses people – do they not have enough
to occupy their minds in their own world? Personally I couldn’t give a damn
if your kids wear them into their teens
That’s life isn’t it? no point stressing about it. I don’t get those
people that do – especially when the kids they are stressing about don’t
even belong to them!
Ha! Loved it!
Thank you!
LOL great post. I mean really, who cares about so much of it? Although one thing (as you might have gathered) that’s really pissing me off is the dog shit on the streets.
I also try not to give a fuck about celebrities. I really do. But when I read about their shallow, empty lives I realise how much they need me and that special level of care only I can give
lol, very generous of you to give them your time like that!
Yes, dog poo pisses me off too! Especially when it’s on my kitchen floor at
5am! Grrr
I am coming late to this, but am laughing out loud.
I could have written the very same list, ESPECIALLY the first point to which I could add:
Please, I am SO glad some mothers choose to breastfeed for ages and produce endless streams of milk, just stop shoving it in my face every other minute. TMI and I am JNI (just not interested).
LCM x