Reply to: So glad I don't watch any TV during weekdays

[xoggoth]

You can watch it on iPlayer

Much same thing really. Even the local news was all about Manchester today. The only worse thing was about an art exhibition featuring Tracy Emin's unmade bed.

[quackhandle]

lachrymose - I learnt a new word today.

qh

[SueEllen]

I tend to record the BBC news these days then just skip through all the depressing bits, which is usually most of it. Maybe I should watch news on a commercial channel then I could just watch the adverts.

Seriously, I think fretting, or obsessing as some seem to on here, over all the problems one can't do anything about does not do us any good.

You can watch it on iPlayer

[xoggoth]

I tend to record the BBC news these days then just skip through all the depressing bits, which is usually most of it. Maybe I should watch news on a commercial channel then I could just watch the adverts.

Seriously, I think fretting, or obsessing as some seem to on here, over all the problems one can't do anything about does not do us any good.

[DimPrawn]

In my lodgings I use my TV only to watch films and suchlike (currently watching a DVD of Stressed Eric)

But if I watched BBC news, it would be hour after hour after hour, on the hour every hour, of obsessing and agonizing over the Manchester attack, yet again as always desperately trying to absolve the UK muslim community from any blame.

Ten minutes spent on the victims, the next 6 months analysing why the mass murderer was infact the real victim, of racism, intolerance, poverty, oppression by the well off etc.

The liberal s

[northernladyuk]

Not sure how that bizarre non sequitur conceivably follows from my post, but any excuse to bash a Brexiter I guess.

I was replying to need to test it. So sorry you feel bashed.

[OwlHoot]

I guess some people like owly do enjoy exploiting the mass murder of children for their own entertainment. ...

Not sure how that bizarre non sequitur conceivably follows from my post, but any excuse to bash a Brexiter I guess.

[glebe digital]

I put it on thinking surely the hand-wringing must be over by now....nope, still going!

Oh well back to the hunt for obscure Fluvia Lacerda pics (which is what afternoons were invented for in the first place, of course).

[northernladyuk]

I thought this was going to be about Bargain Hunt being on EVERY day!

Yes I agree. It was terrible, but other things are happening, and there hasn't been very much actual news about Manchester. Just the same story being repeated. I turned on The Daily Politics earlier and they were talking about it too.

Psychocandy is usually on Jeremy Kyle if anyone fancies a change.

[VectraMan]

I thought this was going to be about Bargain Hunt being on EVERY day!

Yes I agree. It was terrible, but other things are happening, and there hasn't been very much actual news about Manchester. Just the same story being repeated. I turned on The Daily Politics earlier and they were talking about it too.

[northernladyuk]

Owlhoot clicks on Post New Thread.

He doesn't have to wait long....

I guess some people like owly do enjoy exploiting the mass murder of children for their own entertainment.

[I just need to test it]

Owlhoot clicks on Post New Thread.

He doesn't have to wait long....

[northernladyuk]

In my lodgings I use my TV only to watch films and suchlike (currently watching a DVD of Stressed Eric)

But if I watched BBC news, it would be hour after hour after hour, on the hour every hour, of obsessing and agonizing over the Manchester attack, yet again as always desperately trying to absolve the UK muslim community from any blame.

An interesting article here for anyone with a modicum of intelligence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_responsibility

[OwlHoot]

And people lining up to show they're more upset than the next person.

I do find it rather narcissistic (not people who have been directly affected, of course, but the usual assortment of 'slebs and their lachrymous outpourings).

especially celebs who say "we must stand firm", "this won't change us", etc, but then promptly cancel their gigs!

[Pip in a Poke]

In my lodgings I use my TV only to watch films and suchlike (currently watching a DVD of Stressed Eric)

But if I watched BBC news, it would be hour after hour after hour, on the hour every hour, of obsessing and agonizing over the Manchester attack, yet again as always desperately trying to absolve the UK muslim community from any blame.

And people lining up to show they're more upset than the next person.

I do find it rather narcissistic (not people who have been directly affected, of course, but the usual assortment of 'slebs and their lachrymous outpourings).