Going without The News

[Cycleops]

I would have thought That Grauniad was the worst offender.

 

[slowmotion]

I would have thought That Grauniad was the worst offender.

It's like Viz compared to The Observer, if I remember correctly.

 

[Hyslop]

The invasion force has been well encamped for a long time.

Boris just spotted in the pub at Burgh-by- Sands,taking his ease after viewing the enemy shore(his enemy,not mine).Remember the fate of Edward 1st,Boris,and leave us alone

 

[Vantage]

I gave up telly, radio and news years ago when my depression was at its peak. The crap around the world was doing me no favours.
These days the only news I know of is either through the tinterweb (bike forums/faceachebook) or family who still insist on waffling on about it.
An odd choice of words given my condition, but I've never been happier

 

[Profpointy]

As a wise friend of mine once said, "it's strange there's always an hour's worth of news each day" Surely some days should just be 5 minutes whilst other days they could talk all day

 

[HertzvanRental]

I have "The Week" every Friday. Keeps me up to speed on the major topics. No t.v., rely on this forum and BBC sport for general stuff. Not sure I miss out on a lot!

 

[NorthernDave]

"No news is good news"?

My sister often says that but it doesn't make sense to me ... If a crazed lunatic kidnapped all your family members and you never heard from them again, I wouldn't call that good news***!

*** I suppose it depends on how you get on with your family members!

You've not met my family, have you?

As annoying as the news is, I think it prudent to be ready for the forthcoming nuke strike.

Would there be any advantage to knowing?

Mind you, if I hear the 3 minute warning I'm off to stand in the back yard to watch the fireworks (5 miles from the city centre, 1 mile from a former Royal Ordnance factory and 10 miles from a former RAF base, both of which are almost certainly still programmed into some aging Russian targeting system). Better to go out with a bang than the long, painful, lingering end a nuclear winter would bring.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

[QUOTE 4779190, member: 9609"]yes, get the bike somewhere safe, and let the air out of the tyres, apparently if they are fully inflated the shock wave can damage the rims - also elcectronc gps bollox computers things probably won't work so you will need to have a traditional milometer at the ready to be fitted.[/QUOTE]
With luck, the sound of the explosion will have blown your eardrums to smithereens so you won't have to listen to that click-click-click-click-fer-click's-sake-click-click.

 

[Flick of the Elbow]

I no longer trust news editors. I source my own news direct from the internet, so I get to hear what I think I need to know not what some news editor thinks I need to know. And in the mornings I'm listening to Radio 2 rather than watching tv breakfast news.

 

[screenman]

Nessie has been found.

 

[marshmella]

With luck, the sound of the explosion will have blown your eardrums to smithereens so you won't have to listen to that click-click-click-click-fer-click's-sake-click-click.

When i first got into this cycling lark i went and bought some ridiculously puncture proof tyres called Dutch perfect,i'm convinced they would have withstood a nuclear holocaust , mind they've long since been binned although to their credit nothing ever penetrated them.

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

I havenae bought a newspaper for years*, and usually only catch snippets on radio of what is deemed by the mainstream media as "news"

* other than a newspaper in Belfast when the Giro d'Italia was there and a couple of 'papers when I was at Ronde van Vlaanderen in 2015 and 2017, I read none of them but have them as souvenirs

 

[screenman]

My SIL worries about having nothing to worry about the two newspapers a day and three on Sunday's I feel may not be helpful.

 

[slowmotion]

I was spending £14 a week on my bad news habit. I must have been bonkers. The only disadvantage of not buying a newspaper is that you have nothing on which to clean paintbrushes. Fortunately, the shop on the corner gives away free copies of The Evening Standard.

 

[Shut Up Legs]

I gave up buying newspapers 15 months ago and I'm never going back. Here's an article from the Guardian about the pernicious effect on one's mental wellbeing of allowing yourself to be exposed to an endless stream of bad news.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Ironic.