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[STEMO]

I don't have to list all the crap that's occurring at the moment, from brexit to the collapse of the high street, from Trumps impending indictment to world trade to climate change. We are, indeed, in the shit.
I worry about this, yet my wife spends most of her time singing to herself and has a permanent, stupid, grin on her face. I thought I must find out her secret.
So......from now on I will not be watching/reading the news, and my new favourite tv programmes will be Emmerdale and Coronation Street. It appears that ignorance is, indeed, bliss. She has no fickin clue what is going on.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Don't worry Uncle STEMO, we'll keep you up to date with our unbiased, impartial commentary. 

[aaronjb]

I don't have to list all the crap that's occurring at the moment, from brexit to the collapse of the high street, from Trumps impending indictment to world trade to climate change. We are, indeed, in the shit.
I worry about this, yet my wife spends most of her time singing to herself and has a permanent, stupid, grin on her face. I thought I must find out her secret.
So......from now on I will not be watching/reading the news, and my new favourite tv programmes will be Emmerdale and Coronation Street. It appears that ignorance is, indeed, bliss. She has no fickin clue what is going on.

You're going to have to stop coming here, then, because discuss the next world-ending, depressing event is all you lot do! 

[Varche]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

The world is always in a parlous state, and we all worry about it, but it just keeps on turning all the same. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Am I the only one that is shocked that STEMO has used a word such as Parlous, he must have bagged a dictionary in on of his recent break and enter visits

[STEMO]

Am I the only one that is shocked that STEMO has used a word such as Parlous, he must have bagged a dictionary in on of his recent break and enter visits

I'll have you know that I'm much more intelligent, better educated and better informed than you lot from the midlands. 

[Kevin Wood]

Am I the only one that is shocked that STEMO has used a word such as Parlous, he must have bagged a dictionary in on of his recent break and enter visits

I'm shocked that someone who's married to him can sport a permanent grin. I'll have whatever she's smoking, please.

[STEMO]

Am I the only one that is shocked that STEMO has used a word such as Parlous, he must have bagged a dictionary in on of his recent break and enter visits

I'm shocked that someone who's married to him can sport a permanent grin. I'll have whatever she's smoking, please.

She seems to wear her headphones a lot. 

[2boxerdogs]

I don't have to list all the crap that's occurring at the moment, from brexit to the collapse of the high street, from Trumps impending indictment to world trade to climate change. We are, indeed, in the shit.
I worry about this, yet my wife spends most of her time singing to herself and has a permanent, stupid, grin on her face. I thought I must find out her secret.
So......from now on I will not be watching/reading the news, and my new favourite tv programmes will be Emmerdale and Coronation Street. It appears that ignorance is, indeed, bliss. She has no fickin clue what is going on.

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. Sounds great to me , I want to be in that world.

[Sir Tigger KC]

..... my wife spends most of her time singing to herself and has a permanent, stupid, grin on her face. I thought I must find out her secret.

She's a very fortunate woman to have you as her husband Uncle STEMO and she clearly know's it! 

So no secret really! 

[BazaJT]

My dad once told me never to lose sleep worrying about things over which I have no control......so I don't! If the world is in a parlous state[although as has been said shit has always happened]then as long as I've done my little bit to try and help I'm happy and if it all hits the fan big style then I'll deal with it best I can,so why worry.

[STEMO]

Emmerdale is on! 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Emmerdale is on! 

Who's murdering who this week? 

[STEMO]

Emmerdale is on! 

Who's murdering who this week? 

Bit boring. No mass murders, no kidnappings, not even a bit of incest. Pah!

[Sir Tigger KC]

Emmerdale is on! 

Who's murdering who this week? 

Bit boring. No mass murders, no kidnappings, not even a bit of incest. Pah!

It used to be a gentle tale of simple country folk admiring their neighbours wives and lusting after their sheep. 

[STEMO]

Emmerdale is on! 

Who's murdering who this week? 

Bit boring. No mass murders, no kidnappings, not even a bit of incest. Pah!

It used to be a gentle tale of simple country folk admiring their neighbours wives and lusting after their sheep. 

Aye. And all the conjecture about Henry Wilkes and Amos Brierley living together in the pub. Nudge, nudge, wink wink. 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

[STEMO]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

[Lizzie Zoom]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable and safe year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

[STEMO]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

[Lizzie Zoom]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

Cannot disagree with that sentiment; our generation have been bloody lucky!

[2boxerdogs]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

. 




You're damn right Stemo we in our 60s have had the best years life was so simple then could plan ahead & with a bit of hard graft & commonsense could achieve more or less whatever you desired.Best music throughout those years as well in my opinion.😎

[Olympia5776]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

C'mon son ,one episode of Emmerdale and yer away navel gazing.....

[STEMO]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

C'mon son ,one episode of Emmerdale and yer away navel gazing.....

Introversion is merely a form of escapism, Don, and don't we all need some of that.

[pscocoa]

Must admit I am so tired of the news and the way the media look for the worse things about life and country. Worse is the fact that programmes like East Enders and Emmerdale exist - my wife watches these and goes for catch up during the day when I am out. These programmes are just drivel and feeding story lines and life styles that show the worst in family life. I put much of this tiredness as being age related and everything seems to be a bit of a battle - and yet in reality I have nothing to be disgruntled about all things considered and yes very lucky in many ways.

TV and media and the pathetic politicians makes me agree with Steve but I draw the line at the soaps.

[Olympia5776]

Putting aside the tv soaps, does the team reallythink the world is in a parlous state?

I would suggest it is no worse than at other times. E.g. Vietnam war, Pol Pot kmer rouge killings.. pick a time and bad things were happening somewhere on the globe. Anyone that thinks  Brexit is parlous   State needs a dose of reality. E.g. the millions at any one time starving on the planet.

The problem is down to the hiysteria that the media whips up over all news reporting. Each days news report has to be more hard hitting and shocking than the previous day.

The big plus is we have made enormous progress in medicine and technology. Shame it isnt shared equally yet.

Yes indeed Varche.  80 years ago our grandparents were listening to the march of fascism and in particular the seemingly unstoppable rise of Hitler and the Nazis, which by now had passed the Munich crisis and was obviously shaping up to be another European / World War in the making.  Within the year that would become a reality.

Brexit is nothing on that scale, and even with Putin huffing and puffing over Ukraine, the World is relatively quiet for us, but of course as ever, never for the Middle East.

World electronic driven media does magnify everything.  in 1938 it was all down to Goebbels propaganda.

Do you ever wish you were born in a different era, Lizzie? 

That is the strange thing STEMO.  I would love to have witnessed so many moments of history as they happened, but never to have actually been there!!  . Give me the relatively comfortable year of 2018 with my Omega any day!!

We, me and thee, have had the best years that history had to offer in this country, in my opinion. We were born in the year that food rationing ended and things were on the up. The 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's were, relatively, very prosperous and liberal.
Things before we were born were bad, and things look as if they are going downhill again. I consider myself very lucky indeed.

C'mon son ,one episode of Emmerdale and yer away navel gazing.....

Introversion is merely a form of escapism, Don, and don't we all need some of that.

Were they talking Nietzche in the Woolpack tonight...