Lullabelle
Midlands, England
To be honest I find the news very depressing these days.
What will you be watching on TV tonight (2025)?
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To be honest I find the news very depressing these days.
My news consumption hasn’t changed much - I peruse the global headlines first thing in the morning, just to get the gist of things, then that’s it, I’m done for the day.
MrsT is the opposite - she deep-dives into all the most depressing stuff, making her even more upset over things, then wants to talk about it all day.
Barriehie
Veteran
I do like you do. I can't believe that the news outfits can put 8 billion lives in any reasonably organized data stream.
Several years ago, around 2018 or so, MrsT was supposed to complete a sleep study (which she never did).
We went to the doc, who was a real no-shit straight-up tell-it-like-it-is Romanian. During the interview portion, she asked MrsT how she’d grade the quality of her sleep:
“Not very good. I don’t get a lot of sleep.”
“Vie nut? Vaht disturbs your sleep, hmmm?”
“I worry, about everything. Money, health, getting old, the news. Especially the news and everything that’s going on right now.”
“Zah news? Vaht are your news hebbits? How much news in vahn day?”
“I check the news as soon as I get up, and then again at lunch, I scroll through and get updated, then when we’re having dinner, I’ll look through things, and then the last thing before I go to bed. And I have news alerts set up, so I get notifications on certain things all day.”
“Oh god no! Und you, zah husbant, you are zah same?!”
“No…I spend 15 minutes tops, just scanning the headlines, first thing in the morning, and that’s it for me.”
“Right! You! MrsT! Follow your husbant! No more news for you all day, it’s badt for you!”
Did she listen to the doc?…
I start the day with BBC news. Then I look at the Telegraph. Then the Guardian. Then, just for fun, the Daily Mail.
Then I sit back and wonder how many ulcers these journalists have, because WWIII is on the cards, Keir Starmer is negotiating, Elon Musk is being banned from Europe, Trump is applying tariffs to Uruguay and Kanye West has just put his wife out on the doorstep stark naked.
To quote Chas & Dave:
"I don't mind, I don't care,
I don't care if they come round here,
I've got my beer in the sideboard here,
So I don't care if they come round here! "
Then I sit back and wonder how many ulcers these journalists have, because WWIII is on the cards, Keir Starmer is negotiating, Elon Musk is being banned from Europe, Trump is applying tariffs to Uruguay and Kanye West has just put his wife out on the doorstep stark naked.
To quote Chas & Dave:
"I don't mind, I don't care,
I don't care if they come round here,
I've got my beer in the sideboard here,
So I don't care if they come round here! "
JAS_OH1
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Hey SandwichShortOfAPicnic I'm watching Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and they made a gluten free pizza on a flat top grill by making the crust with cheese until crisp, then adding toppings and putting a dome lid over it to cook the toppings. It actually held up pretty well when cut.
SandwichShortOfAPicnic
Forum GOD!
Thank you
I’ve been having great success with the new deglutinated wheat flour and the Ooni gluten free pizza dough recipe.
So much so I can feed them to normies and they love them!
Now that is really good news. No longer any need to fiddle with one flour and another.
Watched 1978 British horror(ish) film The Shout last night, about a mysterious man who moves into a married couple’s home and essentially takes over - the title comes from the man’s professed ability to be able to unleash a deadly “terror shout,” learned from indigenous people during his world travels.
Stars three highly accomplished actors - John Hurt and Susannah York as the married couple, and Alan Bates as the usurper. You can even catch a young(er) Jim Broadbent in a minor role.
Stars three highly accomplished actors - John Hurt and Susannah York as the married couple, and Alan Bates as the usurper. You can even catch a young(er) Jim Broadbent in a minor role.
JAS_OH1
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Yes, and of course I wasn't considering what all that extra cheese might do to your guts...Thank you
I’ve been having great success with the new deglutinated wheat flour and the Ooni gluten free pizza dough recipe.
So much so I can feed them to normies and they love them!
Barriehie
Veteran
Extra cheese??? Is that a thing?
My kitchen scale goes up to 12 lbs. and errored out when I put my cheese drawer on it...
JAS_OH1
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Yours looks like mine. Obviously we don't have lactose issues.
New series: Chess Masters:The Endgame
Sue Perkins challenges rising chess stars to take on the legendary game of psychology, strategy and intensity. It'll take nerves of steel to win the title.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028x4b
Sue Perkins challenges rising chess stars to take on the legendary game of psychology, strategy and intensity. It'll take nerves of steel to win the title.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0028x4b
rascal
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Currently watching white lotus. Today's episode was the willy exposed scene in it.
Episode 4. Pretty much took me back there . Weve been twice.
Watched a few of the diners with guy fieri???? I'm enjoying it as well. That's on a Saturday..
Russ
Episode 4. Pretty much took me back there . Weve been twice.
Watched a few of the diners with guy fieri???? I'm enjoying it as well. That's on a Saturday..
Russ
You ever invest time in a program, and you watch each episode, and you think, “The payoff’s coming! This is really gonna be good!” - and then you watch the final episode and it’s a big load of crap?
Well, that was Grotesquerie for us…we just wrapped up the first (and hopefully only) season of this stupid, stupid show. For those not aware (and count yourselves lucky if you’re not), the whole thing revolves around horrific murders that include some Catholic overtones, all taking place in a town/desert that get more and more surreal as each episode passes, ending with a dud that’s, well, a non-ending - yes, I get that’s a way to boost chances for a second run of episodes, but it’s tacky to me. Give your viewers some kind of resolution, please. You don’t have to wrap everything up, but something!
Also, this thing committed the cardinal sin of a TV show/movie, revealing that
- that’s the cheapest sort of storytelling.
If you’ve not seen this and it’s on your list…run. Run like you’re one of the murder victims about to be done in in the most heinous way. Run like Usain Bolt with his ass on fire. Run like the Flash on amphetamines as far away from this turdiest of turds. Do not be sucked in. You have been warned.
Well, that was Grotesquerie for us…we just wrapped up the first (and hopefully only) season of this stupid, stupid show. For those not aware (and count yourselves lucky if you’re not), the whole thing revolves around horrific murders that include some Catholic overtones, all taking place in a town/desert that get more and more surreal as each episode passes, ending with a dud that’s, well, a non-ending - yes, I get that’s a way to boost chances for a second run of episodes, but it’s tacky to me. Give your viewers some kind of resolution, please. You don’t have to wrap everything up, but something!
Also, this thing committed the cardinal sin of a TV show/movie, revealing that
the first six episodes (out of 10 total) took place inside the mind of a coma patient - none of it was real
If you’ve not seen this and it’s on your list…run. Run like you’re one of the murder victims about to be done in in the most heinous way. Run like Usain Bolt with his ass on fire. Run like the Flash on amphetamines as far away from this turdiest of turds. Do not be sucked in. You have been warned.