Chipperdini said:One year in elementary school, a friend and I decided to do something about our "apathy." If/When either of us said "I don't care," the offender had to say "I care" five times. For "Who cares," the punishment was doubled to ten times.
So WDWHound, HTH, vettechick99, DaffyDuuuck... that's 5 apiece.
dcentity2000... you've 10 due.
J/K.
Not that anyone cares , but thanks for evoking an old, albeit silly memory.
Chipperdini said:One year in elementary school, a friend and I decided to do something about our "apathy." If/When either of us said "I don't care," the offender had to say "I care" five times. For "Who cares," the punishment was doubled to ten times.
So WDWHound, HTH, vettechick99, DaffyDuuuck... that's 5 apiece.
Apathy (Ap"a*thy) (#), n.; pl. Apathies (#).
[L. apathia, Gr. ¿; ¿ priv. + ¿, fr. ¿, ¿, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See Pathos.]
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. "A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course." Prescott. "According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason." Fleming.
^ In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns.
Synonyms -- Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness.