Note: I just read this word the other day. First time in my 62 years of being on this planet... Irish
insouciance
Insouciance is a feeling of careless indifference. There's a
certain amount of lightheartedness in insouciance, but rather than merely being
cheerful, someone with insouciance truly couldn't care less.
Insouciance has roots in the French in, meaning
"not," and se soucier, meaning "to care," giving the
English word its "uncaring" meaning. Insouciance can be a positive
state — like the childlike insouciance you feel when you are watching cartoons
instead of paying your bills. However, insouciance is not always so sunny.
Young voters are often accused of treating the right to vote with insouciance,
meaning they just can't be bothered.
I don't give a Fuck.
ReplyDeleteIn other words: Doesn't give a fuck about being out of fucks to give.
ReplyDeleteIt hurts to know the French came up with a word to describe me...
ReplyDeleteThe Fench were okay at one point in history. There were just too many wars where young men were sacrificed leaving the next generation to be raised by women. The problem the French have is that no Frenchman has been taught what it means to be a man -- for generations.
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ReplyDeleteInsouciance?
ReplyDeleteI ain't got no insouciance!
We don't need any stinkin' insouciance!
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Paul Craig Roberts uses it all the time to describe most Americans which in this case, is a problem.
ReplyDeleteMy wife is named Sue. Some resemblance there. She has serious insouciance. And I'd stay out of her way, if I was you.
ReplyDeleteI encountered it as a kid in the 50s. People were more literate then.
ReplyDeleteHummmm...
ReplyDeletePerhaps a new tat coming?
Not something you want to misspell though.......
DeleteDefinitely not. I would be strapping and the tat artist would know in no uncertain terms that he damn sure better "measure twice, cut once".
DeleteSpeaking of cartoons, Tubi has a cartoon special covering three years worth of cartoon shows. I haven't watched it yet, but it's on the list of "when there's nothing else to watch".
ReplyDeleteNemo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXLlRzkIRqU
ReplyDeleteusually seen it used applied to some upper class male in his late teens to lower thirties in response to some situation
ReplyDeletee.g. just being informed he is the father of his wife's sister's unborn child
"Eh? so let her take care of bastard, one way or another; not my problem."
I think the French are the original DGAF.
ReplyDeleteVC
Most of the time; insouciance
ReplyDeleteOk then does souciance mean I DO give a fcuk?
ReplyDeletePaul Craig Roberts uses the word routinely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Craig_Roberts
ReplyDeleteWe have a word for that in the US. The word is done.
ReplyDeleteUsed in a sentence:
I am done with funding any form of elected representation and or government that is not a constitutional republic and or can no longer define a woman correctly.
Pretty much how I am with everything I see, read, and hear which is a lot less these days. Long ago I decided to measure it as entertainment value, until it’s time to roll.
ReplyDeleteBe Samuel Whittmore when that time comes.
62 here as well. I am that way for a lot of things but never for "me and mine" (which can encompass many things). Jeff C in NC
ReplyDeleteI still like the expression from the Pirates movie…..”I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request”. Don’t get to use that very often.
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