Come on chaps …. this is a thread for being reasonably or unreasonably curmudgeonly (and possibly let off a bit of steam) rather than for reasoned discussion.
Let’s accept that one person’s reason to be curmudgeonly may not be the same as another person’s and leave it at that.
No need for anyone to have the last word … it’s not a debate 😊
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
After yesterday’s escapades with the weeding, my thigh muscles have seized up so no weeding today, was getting on so well, trouble with me, and quite a few people I think, we don’t know when to stop.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
The media can’t win with this. In large parts of the country fuel shortages were, and to some extent still are, a massive problem. It is news. It needs to be reported because it is affecting millions of people but, in the very act of reporting, the situation will be exacerbated.
What, therefore, are news editors supposed to do? Say nothing, though others undoubtedly will. Or report it because reporting news is their job? I accept that in some circumstances such as a kidnapping when delicate negotiations are in process a news blackout makes sense. But the fuel crisis was very different; it could not be hidden because we all knew about it.
I also have a lot of sympathy for folk who joined the petrol queues when there was no pressing need to do so. If I had a quarter tank, good perhaps for 5 or so days but knew I had some pressing commitments in a week’s time which required more petrol, I would be looking to source petrol on day 1 and not hoping the situation would be better on day 6 but fearing it would be very much worse and my visit to the hospital/my sick relative or whatever could be severely jeopardised.
And, for what it is worth, I last filled up with petrol in mid September and won’t have need to do so again for at least a fortnight.
Come on chaps …. this is a thread for being reasonably or unreasonably curmudgeonly (and possibly let off a bit of steam) rather than for reasoned discussion.
Let’s accept that one person’s reason to be curmudgeonly may not be the same as another person’s and leave it at that.
No need for anyone to have the last word … it’s not a debate 😊
Does that excuse uncalled for and unnecessary personal insults?
A friend is constantly amazed that our government has so little control over our press and consequently the government cannot influence the way news items are reported and the way the public respond.
She says that things were, and still are managed very differently where she grew up and lived until she was 30.
Where was that?
The USSR and then Russia.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was certainly a fuel shortage round here - and right across the central belt, where the majority of the population lives and works. I should have been going somewhere at the weekend, but I'd have had to find a garage that had diesel in order to get there. I wasn't going to prevent those who genuinely needed fuel [like my daughter] in order to get to their jobs. It was the selfish folk putting tuppence halfpenny in to their cars when they didn't need it, that caused most of the problem IMO.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Many people were putting tuppence worth of petrol in their cars because they were responding to the media reports and perceived a bigger and wider problem than it really was.
The problem with newspapers and TV news is that they've been "upstaged" now by social media, so are less in demand.
To get the public to buy their papers or watch the news they have to "sensationalise" some it far more than necessary.
Much of what you read or hear is now "opinion."
There was no reason why they shouldn't have reported petrol supply difficulties in some areas, but they knew they'd be creating another "toilet roll shortage situation," by "headlining it" but they just didn't care.
The public didn't help, petrol wasn't a problem several decades ago as parents walked their kids to school. Now some take them by car even if it's only a mile away, so a petrol shortage is a "catastrophe."
If you really want to know, there's two kinds of incontinence : stress incontinence and urge incontinence. Stress can be cured by pelvic floor exercises and urge by training the bladder to be less sensitive.
Hmm - I might start training mine then. Could you adapt something like a Dog training course for this purpose ? Never had the need for one of those but I'm thinking "Stop" and "Sit" comes into it somewhere. I do have a lamp post just over the road so that could be a bonus
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You've certainly not changed since you left the forum last time.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What, therefore, are news editors supposed to do? Say nothing, though others undoubtedly will. Or report it because reporting news is their job? I accept that in some circumstances such as a kidnapping when delicate negotiations are in process a news blackout makes sense. But the fuel crisis was very different; it could not be hidden because we all knew about it.
I also have a lot of sympathy for folk who joined the petrol queues when there was no pressing need to do so. If I had a quarter tank, good perhaps for 5 or so days but knew I had some pressing commitments in a week’s time which required more petrol, I would be looking to source petrol on day 1 and not hoping the situation would be better on day 6 but fearing it would be very much worse and my visit to the hospital/my sick relative or whatever could be severely jeopardised.
And, for what it is worth, I last filled up with petrol in mid September and won’t have need to do so again for at least a fortnight.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
There was certainly a fuel shortage round here - and right across the central belt, where the majority of the population lives and works. I should have been going somewhere at the weekend, but I'd have had to find a garage that had diesel in order to get there.
I wasn't going to prevent those who genuinely needed fuel [like my daughter] in order to get to their jobs.
It was the selfish folk putting tuppence halfpenny in to their cars when they didn't need it, that caused most of the problem IMO.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...