Rant of the day.

[S-Westerly]

3 hours ago, Mawsley said:

I like trees, forests and woods are my dogs favourite types of walks. I’m no tree hater. But it’s like when Diana died and all these people who’d never met her were gnashing and wailing and rending their clothes. Not for the first time, I’m looking around and wondering how I missed the memo.

I'm with you on Diana. Could not get my head round that at all. What happened to our famous stiff upper lip and all that? 

[Yorky]

9 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

I'm with you on Diana. Could not get my head round that at all. What happened to our famous stiff upper lip and all that? 

It went the same way as the "Great" in Great Britain

[Mississippi Bullfrog]

21 hours ago, S-Westerly said:

I'm with you on Diana. Could not get my head round that at all. What happened to our famous stiff upper lip and all that? 

Newspapers is what happened.

 

The same tabloids that hounded her private life to feed the public desire for scandal then turned to peddling mawkish grief to placate the public guilt. 

 

And of course the public appetite for both drives what the media will sell.  

[S-Westerly]

13 minutes ago, Mississippi Bullfrog said:

Newspapers is what happened.

 

The same tabloids that hounded her private life to feed the public desire for scandal then turned to peddling mawkish grief to placate the public guilt. 

 

And of course the public appetite for both drives what the media will sell.  

I can't disagree with that. What drives the news is sometimes quite revolting. We haven't really moved that far from gladiatorial blood sports except now we do it vicariously through the media which more often than not is now online.