The Retirement Thread

[numbnuts]

Sorry
Numb nuts

It's numbnuts

 

[Dave7]

It's numbnuts

ITS Numbnuts
Or
THEY are numbnuts,

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Talking about taking a break, I find it's not so much places like Cyclechat I need a break from as you can pick and choose what you want to read or participate in, but media in general can get a bit overwhelming and depressing at times and sometimes think it's best avoided for a while. I can't help feel the likes of the BBC seem to almost revel in tragedies and sad stories these days. When did we last get some good news stories?

I could double like this post.

The Media dramatisation of everything does me no good.

It's a long time since I watched any News on TV - and despite its World renown even the Beeb has become dumbed down, sensationalist and partisan.

Just a quick flick online does me these days.

 

[Dirk]

I think what Dirk maybe meant, and I feel the same to be honest, is the way racist this and black that are thrown at us day after day. It does get a bit irritating!

Exactly....almost.
I meant that it seems the fashionable thing to have, these days, is 'mental issues'.
Nobody just has a bit of bother and then just gets on with life.

 

[gavroche]

I don't mind the news in small doses. It's all the lies that newspapers throw around that gets on my errr nerves.

I hardly watch the news nowadays and never read newspapers anymore as the news are always depressing and I don't trust newspapers.

 

[welsh dragon]

I have tidied the house and done some washing which is now outside drying in the sun

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I hardly watch the news nowadays and never read newspapers anymore as the news are always depressing and I don't trust newspapers.

It’s an interesting point - is there such a thing as a trustworthy News source?

Probably not imo.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Today's quandary..

Should it be News or news?

I tend to capitalise the N but maybe I'm in the minority or totally out on a limb dumb.

***

In other News (haha) we cba to get out of bed and are saving ourselves for our first party night (albeit abbreviated and no booze for me) since I got poorly way back in January.

 

[numbnuts]

I've been here for 14 years on cyclechat

 

[SpokeyDokey]

I've been here for 14 years on cyclechat

It sure flies by... 🙂

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Good morning all. It's a beautiful day in Lancashire. I've just popped in to say I won't be popping in again for a while. I'm OK, no one has upset me, I'm not flouncing but I do need a break from all things related to cycling.

I hope you all keep well and take care. Cheers.

That's a shame - you talk a lot of sense in your thoughtful posts.

See you soon. 👍

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Exactly....almost.
I meant that it seems the fashionable thing to have, these days, is 'mental issues'.
Nobody just has a bit of bother and then just gets on with life.

I know from experience that mental health issues, I hate that phrase, are nasty for the sufferer and those round them, but looking at social media it seems that a lot don't understand it and some seem to think its something fashionable.

 

[Dave7]

Exactly....almost.
I meant that it seems the fashionable thing to have, these days, is 'mental issues'.
Nobody just has a bit of bother and then just gets on with life.

Like when something trivial happens at a school.....the counselors come in.
Did we ever see.... even hear of.. ...a counselor.
I stress, I am talking of trivial things not serious issues.

 

[Dave7]

I have tidied the house and done some washing which is now outside drying in the sun

aaahhhh I can lie down now thinking of your washing on the line. Pure bliss

 

[BoldonLad]

Good morning all. It's a beautiful day in Lancashire. I've just popped in to say I won't be popping in again for a while. I'm OK, no one has upset me, I'm not flouncing but I do need a break from all things related to cycling.

I hope you all keep well and take care. Cheers.

Take care, see you soon.

One small point, what has this thread got to do with cycling?