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
Forum GOD!
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
Forum GOD!
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...